Bankshot

One similarity between Drake and Indiana back in the day, it seems like even if you know what they’re gonna do and that they’re going to do it, you may still not be able to stop them.

Send to me too please?

Gotcha. Thanks.

Sorry, if I could explain… wasn’t coming at you if it felt like that. Was just trying to share that it might be better to go with what he would like to be called rather than people on a message board coming up with something.

Maybe it would be a good idea to find out what HE wants to be called?

Something I don't think I will quickly be able to forget....who are the idiots & morons who kept us from doing something like this last year? What a colossal waste of time, money, and further damage to the program!

As it pertains to DeVries & McCollum, I hope DeVries kills it here. I just really hope we are not going to be on the wrong side of a historic hire where McCollum goes on to win D1 championships and our guy doesn't. I understand the "proven D1" vs "unproven D1" concern, but McCollum has already won championships...multiple championships.

Thanks for the thoughts and for sharing them. I was focused on basketball but I agree with the perspective regarding football too.

I hope our new basketball coach is wildly successful. But, as an Alum, donor (very small time), longtime fan, and taxpayer, I would like to see a postmortem report on the search. (I’m not saying that it would realistically ever happen.) I think there are important questions that need to be answered regarding our program, the athletics department, and the management and stewardship of all of it. For example: I don’t have a good feel at all for how “well” or how “poorly” the athletic department is being run. - Was Dolson standing in a hole dug for him by his predecessors, and he did the best he could? - Was the search conducted well? Poorly? - Who was interested in the job… who wasn’t? - How was the pool of candidates developed… who was on it? - Who was interviewed…who wasn’t? - How and when was the final selection made? - What were the criteria? Dolson is at least the second A.D. we’ve had that came into the job with zero experience as a D1 AD. Is he doing the job well or not? I can’t really tell. With the exception of maybe the Cignetti hire, I don’t think I see him doing what “good to great” ADs seem to do. And I don’t think our goals for this search were to get a coach that’s “better than Woodson” or to “make it to the tournament next year”. I thought we were looking for a “great to outstanding” coach that would compete for championships. I think the primary question may be “ is this just where this once national championship level program finds itself”, or are we holding ourselves back as we continue to make some of the same mistakes and blunders? I mean it sounds like after several bad basketball hires, we just went through a process (with tons of resources behind it ) where we hired our fifth choice. How exactly did that happen? (If it did). Not at all sure what to think about all of this.

It is this year.

Didn't Clint Eastwood's character get the gold in that movie?

Maybe the Iowa AD doesn’t have fools interfering and is free to do the job?

A suggestion regarding McCollum... adopt the pro sports practice/protocol of someone only being a 'rookie' in their first year, or for just one year. He's been D1 for a year now, he's not a "D2 coach" anymore. Just sayin'

Even if it's just this, it's entertaining...

Well, this is either the boldest bluff I've ever heard or......