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Not to mention - South went undefeated in basketball last year, and will currently face CJ Gunn and Lawerence North in the Semi State Game this weekend. Not a bad company for his son to feed into.

Glad to see you’re back!

Update from my original comments - strictly based on what I know and things I’ve heard: The VP of “Charitable Giving” at Cook, who regularly works with Carl Cook and Steve Ferguson on how money should be spent and what organizations they should give to, etc. is close friends with Dolson, and has close ties to my family. This is why we think Dolson’s specifically used the wording “private philanthropic funding”. Carl wanted to use this as a major tax write off and this statement was maybe his way to ensure that he could. I think Dolson has been keeping the Cook family backing in his back pocket for the day he became athletic director. As soon as he took the helm - he knew he was going to change things and he knew who he was going to to do it. I think this can be reaffirmed by his ability to move money around so quickly. A lot of trust in him in the Cook community. Dolson is very much like a lot of [old] IU fans, and he wanted better so (it is rumored) he started making feeler calls as soon as he became athletic director (before this season), and actually fired Archie last Thursday after they lost in the tournament. The team had no idea, Archie was supposed to keep quiet, and it actually leaked from Archie’s side that he was fired - I think he may lose money because of it. Therefore, they would have waited to X point in time to make the announcement rather than have all the cofuffle this week. Maybe the big name that Scott went for (to get that kinda money from Carl Cook) wasn’t Brad. But I feel like it would still have to be a big name who put out a higher level of commitment than a “maybe” when Scott went to get money. Otherwise, what was the point in firing Archie and raising the money to do it? I mean if you’re a true [old] iu guy like Scott, you know there’s only 1 person you have to go get to make the entire fan base happy, so why not have a plan in place to get the guy a year in advance? And like it’s rumored, he clearly did have a plan! I could be entirely wrong about this, but this is all my best guess based on what I know so far.

Whoa. Dolson should have been "the guy" for years... He is a true Hoosier and understands what fans want. He's doing things now that Glass would never do, and it should be known that Dolson didn't agree with a lot of glasses decisions. It's rumored that Dolson's comment "I will not be putting together a search committee" may have been a direct shot at Glass lol. Dolson is a Hoosier through and through.

Counterpoint: Carl Cook, this VP, and Steve Ferguson all work closely together for the purpose of this function. Not saying that the money would have come from this business function directly, but maybe Dolson asked these 3 to come together to discuss his proposal.

There also happens to be a “Charitable Contributions” business function at Cook Medical, and the VP in charge of that business function is very close with Scott Dolson. Merely speculating, but if I had to put my money on a person or group - that’s it right there.

I know everyone thinks “Mark Cuban”, but people forget about the Cook Family and Cindy Simon-Skjodt - the names literally on both Assembly Hall and the training facility “Cook Hall” right next to it.

Lol man. Dolson has stones. He spent money on IU Athletics for the first time EVER. We are paying assistant football coaches like Deland McCullough actual money, Tom Allen is getting paid. And now, it sounds like he has an inside track to an amazing hire because he’s not even putting together a search committee. THANK GOD for Dolson. Glass was soft AF.

A few more Tier 3 Names: 10. Casey Alexander - current head coach for Belmont. Did a great job at Lipscomb, and now at Belmont was26 -7 in his first year, 24-3 this year. 48 years old. 11. Mark Pope - 6’ 10” coach at BYU who played for the nuggets. Great job at Utah Valley, and now at BYU was 24-8 in his first year, 20-6 this year. 48 years old. 12. Wes Miller - UNC Greensboro. Hasn’t stopped winning since 2016. And he’s only 38 YEARS OLD.

Had Craig Smith been brought up before too then?

Oh haha. I’m guessing that’s been said and I’m not supposed to do that.

Good looking out!

All likeliness of interest/chances aside, I feel like this is the hierarchy of coaches to be considered: Dream Scenario (will probably never happen): 1. Brad Stevens 2. Billy Donovan Tier 1: 3. Scott Drew 4. Chris Beard Tier 2: 5. (A lot will disagree with this, BUT): Greg Marshall. Guy did get in trouble, but he’s an amazing coach that we would have never had a shot at before. Very Knight-like. 6. Eric Musselman - Killed it at Nevada - and went 21-5 this year! What a record! Never had less than a 20 win season as a head coach. 7. Craig Smith - Utah State head coach and COY in 3 different conferences. Very impressive record. Have no idea why his name hasn’t been tossed around. He’s like Musselman except 8 years younger. Tier 3: 8. Chris Jans - was under Greg Marshall for a long time. Currently head coach at New Mexico St - several winning seasons under his belt. This year his team somewhat under performed but he has had an impressive career. 9. Dane Fife