IndianaSconnie90

Outstanding my dude. Was just thinking the exact same thing on the can earlier. If they don't nail this hire with a proven winner and end up with another Miller situation, I'll be done for sure. They'll have to bulldoze AH to the ground just to remove the stink of IU basketballs rotting carcass if they don't right the ship soon.

Crappy as opposed to whatever the hell IU's program currently is?

Much like Steuben, I believe Beard would fly as straight as humanly possible if hired. I think that's how much he wants this job. Besides, I dont care if he's in a bar drinking or not. If he truly is out in Oxford getting drunk and still turning Ole Miss, of all places, into a top 25 basketball team, more power to him

Well it's a good thing that neither one of those 3 will ever be hanging around Beard lol

This has become very simple with Brad being out of the race. If you want to win now, it's either Beard or May. If you want to maybe win, then there's every other realistic candidate. REALISTIC candidate

That's exactly what we'd expect AH to say on his burner account to try to throw us off his scent

The meth in Indiana must be getting much more potent if you actually believe that IU is going to get Cronin with that buyout number. Not happening folks.

You seem to be dealing in absolutes. So I'm going to need to clarify if you're a sith or if you have some serious connections within the program so I know whether to mentally lightsaber your head off

Haven't you heard? We don't want drinkers

Suddenly I like Cronin a bit more

And yet he's able to maintain a top 25 program in basketball. No I don't see drinking in a bar as an "alcohol problem". Optics problem? Maybe, but only if he's being a belligerent drunk everywhere. You'll have to forgive me, I forgot that the standards at IU, in Bloomington, IN, are so much higher than anywhere else

Define "alcohol problem". Is he out in the streets shouting at little old ladies while drunk or getting hammered at a bar, like everybody else?

The unanswered questions are for Scott D to find the answers to. If the answers satisfy him then by all means, hire Beard. If they concern him further, then don't

Even so

Even so, he's not coming here and I'd put money on it

It's 5 million according to espn

Doesn’t appear that these guys took the "not tough team" remark to heart

Keep in mind, these play by play guys probably don't know the inner workings of what has been going on within the program

I don't play in "could". I play in most likely. Mr. Michigan AD, if you wouldn't mind, I'd love to coach at IU someday soon. With the odds of IU firing Woodson within the next year or so, could we make it easy for me to jump ship in the likely event that they carry out that firing? This conversation/thought process almost certainly didn't take place. It doesn't happen like that, especially within the conference

Great then we're all in agreement. It shouldn't be about whether or not he drinks but whether or not he's going to get into legal trouble of that kind again while drinking. So let's stop hand wringing over the fact that he's probably still drinking

It's laughable that you think THEY negotiated an easy buyout so he could jump ship to IU instead of making it easier for them to can him in the event that he didn't pan out. C'mon now

Hoping for Dusty to jump ship to a conference opponent after only a year at Michigan feels alot like the NFL crowd that actually believes that an NFL team is going to trade for a sought after HC. Just not real likely folks

So if we're going to shy away from "drinkers", nobody on our list will be coaching here

Sweet Jesus

Guys, we're not getting a mid major cat or someone who's not 100% in. It's going to be one of the top tier guys on the list. The basketball program simply can't go through another "hope this works" approach, which is exactly what you get with the guys at the mid major level. And I don't care how much you love them or how great of coaches you think they MIGHT be at the upper level. They can't play that game this go around. I think it's either Stevens or Beard. Dusty is not leaving Michigan after year 1. Michigan wouldn't have signed him if they had any idea he would jump ship that quickly. Those 2 are the ones I believe they're going to make a big push for