Unexpectedflash

But for two week at least it will be the most excitement we’ve had in 10 years.

I’m ready to be hurt like Billy Donovan all over again

If we’re just throwing candidates out there Chauncey Billups? Could be the next Juwan Howard. Interviewed for a couple of NBA head coaching jobs last year. Everyone knows who he is. Assistant for the Clippers right now. No Indiana ties so it’d be a real out of left field candidate.

Seeing some of the possible candidates for this year makes me sad that we got this hire so wrong during our last search. Looking back, the potential candidates seemed a lot better than the one's that are being thrown out now. Getting one of Drew, Stevens, Musselman, or Oats seems like a pipe dream by the sounds of it. I'm sure I could talk myself into Fife if that's what we end up doing but there is definitely is a lot of risk with him. Would love a more proven candidate since we've been so mediocre for the last 25 years.

Seems like a worse Archie. He's young so that helps but looking at his offensive numbers, he's never had an offense ranked higher than 150 on Kenpom.

Suffering through another year of this would be painful.

Archie ball hurts my eyes

Scott sounds like a giant Hoosiers sports fan just like all of us. Gives me some hope that he'll want to get us back to winning like when he was a manager.

Their two best players entered the transfer portal so something is going on.

The improvement can be directly tied to a change in his defensive system. He's going to have another top 10 team next year most likely. I don't know what other coach we could get that has ever had a three year regular season stretch that good. The tourney is a crap shoot but if you consistently have great teams you'll go deep eventually. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/baylor-was-known-for-its-offense-now-its-winning-with-defense/

I wish we got to see what his team would've done last year since it was his best team. If he had that final four run last year or this year I think there'd be very few questions about him.

I just don’t know if these are the results we’re striving for if we go with a change.

I’m sure Ed Cooley is a great coach but his resume at Providence is worse than Archie’s at Dayton was. I don’t know if there’s anything either advanced stat wise or just w/l record wise that would lead me to believe he’d have sustained high level success here. Feels like a big risk and half the fan base would be unhappy with him before he even coached a game.

Wouldn't winning be the thing that unites the fanbase the most. I think there are many coaches that can win here even if they're not a sexy name.

If people transfer year one that just means the new coach has more roster spots to recruit people he wants years two. I doubt it’d be a mass exodus like when Crean got here.