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Really like his offensive sets fwiw

And Lloyd will never leave the West. Or something…

I think it’s generally assumed within the coaching fraternity that Otz (among other coaches) would drop whatever he’s doing and run to Lawrence if Self retired. I suspect that is why his buyout was substantially reduced in his most recent extension-Kansas job, and maybe Texas job, more than the IU job.

Maybe if IU offered the “ basketball GM” spot to Lloyd’s Director of Player Relations at Arizona that might help persuade Lloyd to come. Jason Gardner, familiar name to a lot of people.

Double-secret probation

Perversely impressive given his record against (for example) Northwestern

I’m onto you now: we’re getting Popovich, aren’t we?

If I’m a mega-donor I’m willing to pitch in for a big buyout IF it’s for an Oats or an Otzelberger but not for a Cronin. Either his buyout would need to be dramatically lowered or I would advocate for hiring someone like McCollum and putting more money into NIL instead.

I like Holloway. Also Claxton fwiw

Neither can football season

Alex Barlow?

If Dolson & company could somehow pull this off, it would be hilarious to see and hear all the “experts” and “analysts” who said it was never going to happen, and that the IU fanbase is toxic and delusional, pivot 180 degrees to talking about how risky the hire is because Brad has been out of college basketball for so long.

That’s pretty much what I was told, which might explain Woody telling Dolson et al 4 years later that they would have to come to New York rather than him coming to Bloomington if they wanted to talk with him etc

That’s pretty much how it was described to me by someone who also added a “prologue” by saying that Woodson might have been led to believe 4 years earlier that the job would be his when Crean was fired. Either led to believe that by Glass himself or by someone else. But it ended up being Archie instead.

Looks like it (if he came to IU). Saw him mentioned by somebody on another site- looks like he’s only got one season left fwiw and I expect the staff’s already familiar with him

Drew Tuazama

Maybe they should’ve tried that approach with Mullins

J Robinson visited USC in the past few days and Bishop Fitzgerald scheduled to do so asap

The staff may not be done with OL recruitment but I think they still need a TE who’s a legitimate receiving threat and another pass-rusher

Also looks like he changed positions due to growth and weight gain but he may have struggled with the transition it might be that the guys the staff are most interested in are Green and Staes

fwiw a TE that Grant Wilson likely played with at ODU is evidently in the portal now: Quan Dunbar (actually a former WR iirc, so presumably has pass-catching skills)

Also from Colorado iirc, so “semi-local”

Hope Cig can still get him but, if not, I really hope Cig has an “option B” in the portal. Not sure who that would be at this point (Walker White?) but somebody.

Kirby probably asking donor(s) for another half-million to outbid Cig welcome to “big boy football” in 2025 and beyond

Looks like Pribula to Mizzou fwiw hmm…..