IndianaSconnie90

I'm betting it's either Stevens or it isnt. You don't get anything but the opportunity to bet on your gut feeling

I'll bet whoever

The thing is, Ole Miss has already taken that "hit" for everybody. Will there be a small contingent of IU fans and certainly beat writers *cough* Gregg Doyel, that aren't pleased? Sure. **** em, I want to see winning. Beard having the success albeit not massive success at Ole Miss looks more impressive to me given the fact that Ole Miss ISN'T a basketball school. For all the talk about McDermott or McCollum being able to see success given our resources, it's safe to say that Beard would be equally, if not more successful given the same resources. If Brownell is the hire, I won't immediately cut off or stop watching the games, but picking him over someone like Beard will definitely shorten my attention span for that program

Incredible, we're staring down the barrel of a potential Brad Brownell hiring and Beard, the only guy who's been widely known to want this job, is basically out on an island. This ******* program i tell you. I guarantee you that 90% of the fanbase would rather see Beard than Brownell.

Noticed you typed confirm first. Must've been a a sub conscious slip

No it isn't lol

Check it losers. You wanna watch me win this whole god damn BTT with more crackers than a saltine warehouse? Millions of dollars in NIL? Please. All i had to do was promise these guys giftcards to Starbucks and the GAP. -Fran

Someone was wearing an "I'm with stupid" t shirt. -Fran

Why would it take him a decade to leave NW -Fran

The odds aren't surprising. Given the slow bleed of information regarding the "top tier" coaches not interested, McDermott and McCollum were the likely candidates out of the rest. Thought it was hilarious that Stevens wasn't even on that list. Kind of like he's not been that close all along. Looks like I'm watching Drake and Creighton from here on out fellas. -Fran

My first guess would be that this success was at Division 2 Northwest Missouri State lol

I'd love to hear the reccomendations those search firms came up with for the last 2 hires lol

Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE it if Stevens were coming. However, like @Ghost of Rick Majerus stated, it makes no logical sense for IU to employ a search firm if he were already the guy. Odds are that he was out when Goodman first posted about it.

No, hes not. Don't kid yourself. He's not leaving a cushy job leading one of the NBAs top teams until retirement to go to IU and rebuild this program

Chances are good that we're looking at a list of McDermott and McCollum with Beard as a kicker

You're not wrong. However, I've never believed Pearl or Drew were ever leaving their current positions for this job. Doesn't take a "braketologist" or Jeff Goodman to understand the obvious. Regardless of the "chatter", Stevens was never a realistic option along with Drew or Pearl. But Chris Collins lol the man is steeped in average and seems as content as a pig in ****. Give me McCollum at that point

Only IU fans are capable of looking at that resume and believing that he's got tremendous untapped potential. Why on earth would he stay at Northwestern if this is the best he could hope for lol Better yet, if teams like IU or some relevant program thought he was better than this they'd have swooped in and offered him a contract that Northwestern couldn't match.

So you can say that Goodman is mistaken...at some point we're going to find out who's more full of ****

I don't know that they dropped anything new though, similar innuendo that we've been hearing for almost a month. If it's Stevens I'd be surprised if they waited much longer to start dropping real info. I just can't wrap my head around the idea that he has yet to sign an extension with the Celtics, that has to mean something, right?

Quick, somebody at the game quickly run to his office and scrape his name off the door!!

Probably need to win the 1st game in the BTT to feel good about getting in even with a win here

I don't think I've seen Ballo hit a shot outside of 3 ft lol aside from FTs. I didn't think big men like that existed in basketball still

I'm just not on the McCollum wagon yet