OGIUAndy

People had Cig on the list, just not as a favorite when guessing. But people tend to gravitate toward who/what they know best, and all the others were definitely more well known.

Reneau is really good. I would try to keep him.

IUFB was predicted to be a bottom feeder in the conference and got "demolished" by the two teams that played for the championship. I think May is a good coach, but the optics are not great since he signed his contract extension.

I don't have an argument one way or another, but keep in mind he was one of the people pumping Drew and TJ and now he's saying "as expected". So he may have sources, but he doesn't seem to be able to predict interested candidates. Let's see when/if provides concrete evidence on who is actually in the running/interested and how it turns out.

Does this rumor have any real legs? Also "looked into" (ie a possible candidate) and "wanted to hire" is much different. I doubt that it would have gotten so far as to "I want to hire this guy" and Whitten said "no". What he did and the ongoing litigation would have seemingly removed his name from the candidate pool pretty quickly. He's still out there not coaching. So I doubt that a P5 program wanted to hire him but now he can't get a job anywhere?

Recruiting. I think the theory here is you wouldn't have to recruit "as much" with NIL because you'll have an offer on the table that is either acceptable or not and move on if not. So you don't have to keep recruiting certain guys as much? This notion that the NBA is much easier is a bit odd to me. The travel and the length of the season is pretty difficult. Seems to be a lot more older coaches in college than then NBA. With some success, job security is a lot better than the NBA. NBA coaches regularly get fired after one season.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/candid-coaches-which-power-conference-school-made-the-best-coaching-hire/

Yeah, you have to at least give some sort of hint of who or what.

Are you referring to Zeller? Didn't he go to one game or did I miss something?

Like I mentioned the other day, very few former NBA head coaches with no previous college hc experience, coach in college. There are a lot of examples of good to great college coaches doing poorly in the NBA and going back to college. I think some people are confusing former NBA players doing poorly as college head coaches recently.

I wonder what our new coach would do with this team, instead of Woody, considering this topic is about the candidates, not Woody.

One could definitely make the argument that building a college team/program is much more interesting basketball wise.

"I've got my own topic thread yet I'm being talked about in a new coaching thread. I've still got it." -Mike Woodson

He's not the only one though.

Ex-NBA players, not Ex-NBA head coaches. Big difference.

I get people don't like what he says, but at times I think his "perspective" is ok. A lot of what's said isn't backed by actual facts just what people want to believe. His recruiting predictions are bad, but he normally just says Peegs doesn't know ****, and for the most part he's right.

I'd say it's been more the other way around. Former NBA players who think they can coach CBB, maybe. But how many former NBA head coaches go to college? Normally it's college guys who think they can coach the NBA: Rick Pitino, P.J. Carlesimo, John Calipari, John Beilein, Lon Kruger, Fred Hoiberg, Billy Donovan to name a few who were very successful college coaches and not so much in the NBA.

@ap2345 has said multiple times it happened.

TJ for me. One is on is on the way up, the other might be losing some steam a bit.

If and that's a big if, if he were to come to IU I highly doubt he'd bolt quickly afterwards for another NBA gig other than going back to Boston and definitely not for the Butler gig.

IU basketball coach records vs. Purdue since Bob Knight: - Mike Woodson: 4-4 - Archie Miller: 0-7 - Tom Crean: 5-10 (5-5 over last 6 years) - Kelvin Sampson: 2-1 - Mike Davis: 9-2 https://x.com/daily_hoosier/status/1894067565510484340

https://x.com/rachelmlenzi/status/1373301869804675072

Uwe. And yes, he had infamously bad hands. Heard a pretty crazy story about him while in S. Bend for the IU/ND football game. NSFW.

Give us the full scoop here. Who do we think Zeller is working with, Stevens?