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explains the heart attacks...

posted that several dozen pages back...

and progressively worse at each new school... Thank, but no thanks, Tom.

double exclamation point... would CWat be in the loop? #doubtful

I hear you... but the buyout dropped from something over $18M to $4M ($2M if the AD leaves). Serious question: Can you tell me why that would happen?

Indiana University basketball... getting coaches paid... it's what we do.

Bill Frieder didn't coach Michigan in the tournament. Steve Fisher stepped in and got the natty.

so, we're getting either an NBA guy or a loser? :D

Goodbye Columbus 75 Breaking Away 69

First of all, I'd be really surprised if it's Beard... it turns out to be so, the media will be talking about his past and his ongoing alcohol abuse non-stop... so regardless of how informed the fanbase is, the news, the story, the information will be plastered everywhere... It's one thing when the coach of Texas has strong DV allegations and even loses his job over it... but it's quite another when it's the coach at your school.

woof woof!

Thanks for the clarification... and I stand corrected with my earlier post.

I thought Chris had mentioned it here... or in the FMW thread

Personally, I think there were a few of reasons for the timing. The fanbase was getting restless. Woodson had lost 6 of 7, some close, some blowouts (Illinois). Boos were raining down at SSAH. Dusty was still considered a real possibility to replace Woodson, and he was bringing his Michigan team to SSAH. Dolson was trying to head off the real possibility of a toxic situation. Woodson went to Dolson wanting to be assured that he was coming back next year. When Dolson told him that he was done here, Woodson melted down, and started the spin machine. The word on the street is that Dolson would have preferred to handle the whole thing after the season, but the events described above started to unfold and forced his hand.

How about Pope Francis?

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Dude, are you off your meds again?

spoiler alert ... you did.

Nah, he's just Stu's man crush...

Yeah, neither have coached with a damn for at least the past 40 years...

https://www.si.com/college/2017/03/25/indiana-archie-miller-hoosiers-dayton-hire https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2017/03/25/report-archie-miller-new-iu-coach/99618342/ https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-archie-miller-era-begins-at-iu https://www.thegazette.com/basketball/indiana-hires-daytons-archie-miller-as-mens-basketball-coach/ https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-indiana-s-hiring-of-archie-miller

This should spark some debate... https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/44099476/mens-college-basketball-2025-mid-low-major-coaches-power-conference-potential-2025 THE LIST 1. Ryan Odom, VCU Rams This was a fairly unanimous pick for the top spot. He checks nearly every box. He was a high-major assistant at Virginia Tech, led both UMBC and Utah State to the NCAA tournament as a head coach, and has VCU poised to win the Atlantic 10 regular-season championship. He also has an NCAA tournament win under his belt from when he led UMBC to its 16-over-1 upset against Virginia. He has the name, the pedigree and the track record. He has been linked with Virginia and will likely be named as a candidate at Villanova should it open. 2. Alan Huss, High Point Panthers Huss' head coaching résumé isn't nearly as long as Odom's, but he is now 2-for-2 when it comes to winning regular-season championships. He's 53-14 in two seasons at High Point, going 27-5 in the Big South. He has high-major recruiting experience from his time as the head coach at high school powerhouse La Lumiere, as well as six seasons as an assistant at Creighton. High Point does have a resource advantage over the rest of the league, but the two-year dominance is noteworthy. As one agent said, "He's playing with pocket aces, but he's [still] very good." 3. Bucky McMillan, Samford Bulldogs "Bucky Ball" nearly took the country by storm last March, when a blown call against 4-seed Kansas in the first round cost Samford a potential upset win. But the longtime high school coach did lead the Bulldogs to back-to-back SoCon regular-season titles and an NCAA tournament appearance in his first four seasons in charge, before notching his fourth straight 20-win season this year. He plays an up-tempo style, and while some have concerns about whether that can translate to a higher level, those were outweighed by the credit many give him for winning at a place where nobody had won in 25 years. 4. Ben McCollum, Drake Bulldogs McCollum is one of the more fascinating candidates of this coaching cycle, and a name we're already seeing linked to potential vacancies in the Big Ten. He was wildly successful at the Division II level at Northwest Missouri State, winning four national championships before leaving last spring to replace Darian DeVries at Drake. McCollum brought most of his Division II team with him and promptly led the Bulldogs to the Missouri Valley regular-season title and a likely NCAA tournament appearance. The only concern from voters was his lack of Division I recruiting experience. 5. Jerrod Calhoun, Utah State Aggies Losing back-to-back games by a combined 44 points recently wasn't ideal, but Calhoun is likely to take Utah State dancing in his first season at the helm. The Aggies have been an assembly line when it comes to producing high-level coaches the past few years, with Craig Smith, Ryan Odom, Danny Sprinkle and now Calhoun all going to Logan and winning quickly. All that shouldn't necessarily count against Calhoun, given that he won a league title at Youngstown State in 2023 and won 46 games over his last two seasons with the Penguins. 6. Niko Medved, Colorado State Rams Medved has a strong résumé at three different schools: He built up the program at Furman before leaving for Drake, turned things around at Drake for a season and then left for Colorado State, where he has gone to the NCAA tournament in two of the past three seasons. This campaign looked lost after 10 games, but the Rams have won 10 of 12 to get back into tourney consideration. It's Medved's fifth 20-win season in the past six years. 7. Russell Turner, UC Irvine Anteaters Turner was a hot name on the carousel a few years ago but is once again an intriguing option after leading the Anteaters to back-to-back Big West regular-season titles -- while sitting one game back of UC San Diego this season. Irvine has won seven of the past 11 conference titles under Turner and gone to a pair of NCAA tournaments. He also has plenty of high-major assistant experience at Wake Forest and Stanford and was an assistant for the Golden State Warriors for several seasons. 8. Takayo Siddle, UNC Wilmington Seahawks Siddle has yet to get over the final hump and earn a trip to the NCAA tournament, but he has had consistent success at UNCW since taking over in 2020. An assistant under Kevin Keatts at both UNCW and NC State, Siddle struggled in his first season with the Seahawks but has since rattled off four straight 20-win seasons, winning 96 games and one regular-season championship in the process. If Siddle could guide the Seahawks to a CAA tourney title this season, he could be an interesting name to watch. 9. Tony Skinn, George Mason Patriots Skinn was part of the George Mason team that went on a historic Final Four run as an 11-seed in 2006, and after several seasons playing professionally overseas and spending time as an assistant at three different high-major programs, he returned to the Patriots in 2023 when Kim English left for Providence. All he has done in the two seasons since is win 20 games in each and position George Mason in the regular-season title race. 10. Eric Olen, UC San Diego Tritons Olen has been at UCSD since 2004, spending a decade as an assistant coach and then leading the Tritons in the move from Division II to Division I in 2020. In the Tritons' first year of eligibility for the NCAA tournament, they have been one of the best mid-major teams in the country, with Olen guiding them to a 26-4 record, the lead in the Big West and a legitimate chance at an at-large bid. 11. Daniyal Robinson, Cleveland State Vikings A difficult final month cost Cleveland State the Horizon League regular-season title, but Robinson has now won 20-plus games in each of his three seasons in charge and had a pair of top-two finishes. He also has plenty of high-major experience from two different stints as an assistant coach at Iowa State. If he gets to the NCAA tournament, it's not hard to see him getting in the mix. 12. Ross Hodge, North Texas Mean Green Hodge has a tremendous reputation in the coaching industry, even if he has been a Division I head coach for less than two seasons. The Mean Green went to the NIT last season but are on Memphis' heels in the AAC standings this season, winning 15 of their past 18 games entering the week. Hodge doesn't have any high-major experience, but he worked under Grant McCasland at both Arkansas State and North Texas and has strong ties in the Texas area. 13. Matt Langel, Colgate Raiders Had we done this exercise six months ago, Langel likely would have been much higher on the list. One agent still had him in contention for his No. 1 choice. Prior to this season, Langel had guided Colgate to five Patriot League regular-season championships in the past six years, and each of the past five NCAA tournaments. This season, however, the Raiders are just 13-18 overall and 10-8 in the league. With multiple Big 5 schools expected to open this season, Langel could still make a move. But, as one agent said, "He picked a bad year for a bad year." 14. Preston Spradlin, James Madison Dukes Spradlin's trajectory is clearly on the way up. After leading Morehead State to two regular-season Ohio Valley championships and two NCAA tournaments in his final four years with the Eagles, Spradlin replaced Mark Byington at James Madison -- and immediately won a share of the Sun Belt title. "I don't know how the best Spradlin was offered the last few years was James Madison," one agent said. "It's crazy to me." 15. Drew Valentine, Loyola Chicago Ramblers Another name that would have likely been higher on the list had we done this in the preseason, Valentine has actually done a pretty good job this season given the Ramblers' injuries. Entering the week, Loyola Chicago was tied for third in the Atlantic 10, one year after winning a share of the regular-season title. Valentine also led the Ramblers to the NCAA tournament in his first season at the helm in 2022. He has a lot of positives on his résumé, and it seems like only a matter of time before he makes the jump. 16. Eric Henderson, South Dakota State Jackrabbits Scott Nagy and T.J. Otzelberger both had it rolling in Brookings, South Dakota, and Henderson has continued the tradition. In the past five seasons, he has led the Jackrabbits to at least a share of four Summit League titles and two NCAA tournament appearances. They finished third in the standings this season, but it was yet another 20-win season. He has also been linked to high-major jobs in the past. 17. Mike Morrell, UNC Asheville Bulldogs Morrell was a longtime Shaka Smart assistant who made the jump to UNC Asheville in 2018. After going 4-27 in Year 1, Morrell quickly flipped the program and has now rattled off three straight 20-win seasons -- including a regular-season title and NCAA tournament appearance in 2023. The Bulldogs finished tied for second this season, despite losing two-time Player of the Year Drew Pember. "This might have been his best year," one agent said, "to lose Pember and do this." 18. Bryan Hodgson, Arkansas State Red Wolves Hodgson seems well-suited for the modern era of college basketball, excelling at stockpiling talent in the transfer portal. He was an assistant under Nate Oats at Alabama for four seasons, and he has carried over some of the same offensive principles: pace and shooting 3s. Arkansas State made a run to the league title game last season and won a share of the regular-season title this season, also notching a road win at Memphis in December. 19. Mitch Henderson, Princeton Tigers Henderson is another coach who would have likely been higher at this time last year, when Princeton was coming off its third consecutive Ivy League regular-season title, and he was just one year removed from making a Sweet 16 run in the 2023 NCAA tournament as a 15-seed. He's been at Princeton since 2011, and this will be just the second time he has finished lower than third in the league. He spent 11 years at Northwestern as an assistant and could be a name there if Chris Collins ever left. 20. Bob Richey, Furman Paladins Did Richey miss his best chance to jump? That's a popular concern among industry sources after he went to the 2023 NCAA tournament and beat Virginia in the first round -- capping a six-year stretch in which he won at least 22 games five times, earned a share of the 2023 SoCon regular-season title and never finished lower than third in the standings. But he opted to stay at Furman and has now finished fifth in the league in back-to-back seasons. The résumé is still good enough, however. Others receiving mentions: John Griffin, Bucknell; John Becker, Vermont; James Jones, Yale; Brian Wardle, Bradley; Josh Schertz, Saint Louis; Dustin Kerns, App State; Dan Earl, Chattanooga; Darris Nichols, Radford; Brad Korn, Southeast Missouri State; Mark Schmidt, St. Bonaventure; Pat Skerry, Towson; Talvin Hester, Louisiana Tech; Duane Simpkins, American University; Brian Earl, William & Mary; Chris Markwood, Maine; Steve Smiley, Northern Colorado

"We" don't. Woodson does... stupid is as stupid does...

It's a non-issue... because the next coach should have Indiana in the position to always be the higher ranked team ... the #1 ranked team doesn't storm the court when they win any game.