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Post 6 in honor of our coming 6th banner baby!

Agree 100%

I’m picturing that monkey from the lion king saying, “It is time!” and leading Brad Stevens up onto pride rock as the music swells and all us Hoosier animals cheer.

Not rooting for them to lose. After that lackluster performance in the big ten tournament—fueled by coaching —just realizing that is what will happen in the ncaa tournament as well. I’d rather not see the team embarrassed on national tv. Let’s just end this season and move forward.

The first time I’ve ever rooted for Indiana to not be selected.

I’m behind the Michigan bench, 13 rows up. I’ll post if I spot him.

I’m here, lower bowl. I haven’t seen him, but I’m looking. Any description on where he’s supposedly sitting?

Beware the ides of March!

That actually might make sense. Bozich is certain it’s a veteran coach…and Bozich is imbedded in Louisville culture and knows Pitino. In the last few days Pitino made a statement about how the NCAA cleared him of any wrongdoing at Louisville—why talk about that now? And he previously suggested Chris Beard to IU, the only hire with more baggage than Pitino himself. I’d actually be thrilled—we would win that 6th banner.

What would a teterboro flight mean? RTZ said watch flights and someone said ‘she said’ , Kathy gets mentioned again. Is RTZ Kathy? I’m so confused…….

After catching up on the board this morning, I’m convinced SD is hiring Cig to be the basketball coach—veteran guy, out of left field, a name no one knows, looking for a new challenge…and he would still be better than our last guy! :-)

The hire is someone from left field. This left fielder’s name? Why. Well, I just thought I’d ask you. well, I just thought I’d tell you. Then tell me who’s playing left field! I already told you, Who’s on First. I’m not asking you who’s on first, I want to know what’s the left fielder’s name?! What’s on Second. I don’t know! He’s on Third! I’m not asking you who’s on Third Who’s on—- I’ll break your arm if you say who’s on first! this is how I feel after reading this thread. I’ll be so glad when this is over, because I’m getting to the point my opinion about this coaching search is the same as the shortstop’s name!

Please no NIT. Let’s get this over with

If it’s McCollum I pray he’s the next Brad Stevens guy. It’s at least possible . Brownell—no way.

Well, that is discouraging. Chris007 or JerryYeagley can you confirm? Or GP711?

Yes, but it really seems like it almost was a done deal last time. Archie was fired on Sunday the 15th. Everything looked like Brad. Then rumors circulated that Boston had offered him the GM position if he would stay. Friday the 19th was the masshole comment. Then we were in panic mode and ended up with Woodson the next week. I still believe that the GM position was an offer he couldn’t refuse and that came because he was going to go to IU. I even remember it being reported that money was raised to buy out Archie because Dolson thought he had everything locked up with Brad. But when he accepted that GM position , limited time dictated a rush hire of Woodson. I just can’t see anyone committing to coach until Woodson’s is truly out; it may be Brad; but this time Dolson will have a couple solid backups already interviewed that he can turn to right away if option 1 falls through.

And let’s face it. Other than ego, how is 5 million a year that much better than 2. I mean, you can only spend so much money. And in a lot of these deals, you get millions even if you’re a failure and get fired. I just don’t think money matters to anybody making over a million a year.

That would be good to know

Actually, IU is waiting on the BS announcement until this thread hits 2000 pages.

But here’s the thing, for all the talk about how rough IU is on coaches, we probably gave Mike Davis, Tom Crean, Archie Miller, and Mike Woodson twice as long as UK and other elite programs would have. We let guys have at least 4 years, and the expectations aren’t crazy—just get us to the sweet 16 or competitive for conference title 60% of the time, and don’t miss the NCAA multiple years in a row. You actually have to fail pretty spectacularly to get ousted here by just not being competitive.

Exactly. If we’re gonna hire Brownell or someone like him, we might as well just keep Woodson.

Sorry to hear about your uncle.

I think Illinois, Indiana, and Oregon all need one win to be sure to get in the ncaa in case some cinderellas win their conference tournaments. I actually feel better about the Oregon game with us having lost to them rather than if we’d beaten them. Hopefully we’ll come focused. Looks like a great tournament! Anyone on here going?

We hired Pope from UK?

The IU Athletic department has cleared the regular Season. Brad Stevens in Range. You may fire when ready. Commencing Primary Ignition Stand by… Stand by… Of course, at this point in the movie, we would explode in a dazzling ball of flame rather than hitting the target :-(