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You guys are all over it Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Double check minus? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

A lot safer bet this time to say Brad is staying lol. All about getting that cred. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Agreed. I’ll be honest, I watched less this year than ever before. Like maybe parts of 1/4 of all games. If he’s back, I’ll watch even less next year. I feel like that’s a common theme with every IU fan I know. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

We’re gonna need you to drink whatever Hoosier Guy is having! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Chris, I think you had mentioned that the Stevens camp was at least listening this time? Not getting my hopes up, but that at least is more encouraging than last time. Have you heard anything else on that front? Thanks for the info you share! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I’m so impressed with Illinois right now. A little salt in the wound to think about Underwood being hired same time as Archie and I think he’s got a team that will be my pick to win it all. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I shouldn’t even be entertaining these thought, but can you imagine with the transfer rule, the kind of team Stevens could put on the floor next year? Or any high-profile coach, for that matter. It’s a perfect time to speed up the process of being competitive. Get the right guy, and you awaken a fan base that is largely asleep and growing apathetic, or keep the same coach, and lose even more on the program next year. It really doesn’t seem like a tough call. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2019/03/12/the-most-valuable-college-basketball-teams/amp/ I wanted to share this article I remembered, from about 2 years ago. Maybe someone else has an interest in this as well, but every time I think about IU taking the “cheap” way out, compared to what we could pay a coach, I get annoyed. Maybe this has changed a lot in 2 years, and if so, maybe someone could share an update. My point is that IU is 3rd on this list regarding revenue the men’s bball team brings in. I averaged the salaries of the top 10 coaches on that list and came up with $4.7 million/annually. If you average the top 5? It’s $6.5 million. It just confirms what others have said before- we’re a top-tier program when it comes to $$$, but we don’t actually pay the coach like it. It’s easy for me to say that Dolson should throw top money at someone (like Stevens), but to me, this says it should be feasible. Come on, Scott. Do it for the glory of old IU! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Agreed. And I don’t know as much about this as some who can comment, but if Mcrobbie really is part of the problem, isn’t it a little obnoxious that we have to go through this again, at the very end of his presidency? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I gotta say, this thread is a little slower than I anticipated it would be tonight. Like others have said, I’m excited for a coaching search, anxious and don’t honestly have much faith that they’ll get the new hire right, and just ready for a new era. That being said, still pretty depressed we even got to this point. I think I really like Archie the person and his background. Wish it had worked out, for so many reasons. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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Exactly. You get it! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

For the naysayers...just let me have this. I saw earlier that Stevens’ salary is about $3.6 million annually? Is that right? Just a tick above what we pay Archie. By the way, Archie’s salary is good for 20th in CBB. Even with the losses and Covid and such, you can’t tell me they couldn’t throw a much bigger number at him. Make him top 5 or top 3 paid in college! As others have said, can’t tell me he wouldn’t rake in the cash for them. Less travel than NBA, closer to family, away from Boston (my wife lived there and personally, as small town Indiana kids, we’d never live there again-winters are brutal), and better pay? You can’t tell me that wouldn’t be attractive! Just let me have this, guys... Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

“Kyle I’ve been thinking a lot about what kind of car you’d look good in. Been thinking about it a whole lot...” Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Intentionally not watching and being a bad fan again, for obvious reasons...was the in memoriam video tribute for Race nice? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

You guys are more loyal than me. Have been intentionally skipping the games for the first season in my life because I’m just so worn out with the same, mostly bad, product. Most I’ve been doing is checking this thread periodically. Know several in my family haven’t been watching either. Never thought I’d see the day... Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I’m gonna turn over a new leaf and look for the positive...the guards are remaining aggressive in dribble penetration and shooting so far, like at Iowa. I’m liking the offense much better, overall. If we can stop them hitting everything, we’ll be fine. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Every team besides IU shoots 75% in Assembly Hall Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Yeah, he was on the bench with street clothes on. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

When you hang your hat on defense being your foundation and identity, but you give up ridiculous percentages from 3 to your opponent, and your guys can’t even hit HORSE shots, you get a thread like this with everyone wanting to find your replacement. Case in point, we made Purdue look like world-beaters...they are 2/19 from 3 against PSU and up 1 at half [emoji849] Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Slightly off topic but not really...WHY, WHY does every coach in the BIG seem better than ours right now? Even Pitino Jr has his team playing lights-out. Surely Dolson and the donors can see we are light years behind. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I would jump aboard the Thad Matta train with both feet. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Agreed. I think it’s possible, just a lot tougher than it used to be. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

For anyone interested, Texas Tech and Baylor today ought to be a good one and involves two coaches of interest. I’d rather watch games I’m less emotionally involved with haha. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners