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go iu bb

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  1. 2 s at the end of the name. barstooltweetss I think it's fake.
  2. It's back up now. I and a bunch of others are still here. I'll probably end up frequenting both. For now this is the place to be for all the Stevens DL in one place!
  3. Well, Brendan Burns is a stud that can score points in multiple events. He's someone they can build medley relays around like Lanza. At this time not quite as good as Lanza but those guys don't come around often. A few other young, very good swimmers on the team so I can believe it. They've greatly improved the distance swimming group.should be a top 10 team at nationals this year. Hopefully closer to 5.
  4. Yes, both teams have been good. The men really good with a legit chance to win the NC a couple of years ago.
  5. I doubt Cuban is involved at all unless he wants to be accused of tampering.
  6. I think if IU gets to the mid or late April without naming a new coach, everyone would know that it was Stevens. No way they go that long after the NCAA season completely finishes (April 5) without hiring a coach from another university (or unemployed) unless they're waiting on the NBA season to finish. This is, of course, assuming no more leaks than what there are now.
  7. go iu bb

    General Coach Candidate News

    It seems to me you try every avenue before Beilein and Matta. They'll probably still be unemployed so will be available. That means waiting for a definite no from Stevens and any coaches currently in the NCAAT. So it could be a few weeks at least before those can be crossed off the list.
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    General Coach Candidate News

    I agree. After Knight they just handed the job to Davis. Not surprising but it was disappointing. Initially a good coach but wasn't ready to handle all the aspects of a head coaching position, especially not at IU. After that was Sampson. That kind of came out of left field for me and I was disappointed and puzzled because of the trouble he had gotten into previously. That blew up in IU's face. The guy can coach but terrible hire. I was just as surprised by Tom Crean. I wasn't wowed by his history so that hire was disappointing, as well. (See a trend here?) I paid a bit more attention to the coaching search after Crean than I had for the previous two so Miller wasn't as surprising. A bit disappointing as I wanted a big name but at the time it seemed like a solid hire. That proved to be wrong. This time I'd be at least somewhat happy about each name on that list and they all seem like they'd be good hires or better.
  9. I love that there's a swimming thread here but it doesn't look very busy. Thanks for keeping it going @Class of '66 Old Fart. Here's an article on one of the men's commitments. http://www.therepublic.com/2021/03/16/leepeat__north_senior_is_boys_swimmer_of_year_for_second_straight_season/ He'll need to drop some time to be a championship meet point contributor at IU but hopefully he can do that. He did break the school record of Jon Karr in the 100 back. Karr won 3 straight state championships in the backstroke in the 90s. Back in the 90s I swam against Karr and the state champion before him (and state record holder at that time), Dan Schultz from BNL. Between the 2 of them I never had a chance to win sectionals. Lol
  10. Short answer: Yes. Long answer: It's a combination of a lot of things, including some of what you have there. His college HC experience. He took Butler to back to back championship games and was 1 basket from winning 1 of them. This is quite an accomplishment in and of itself. Butler was very bad for a very long time. They were decent when he took over but nowhere near back to back championship games good. He made them better and then repeated the feat to show the first wasn't a fluke. He was able to get his teams to overachieve. His years at Butler were enough to convince an NBA team to hire him. Has 8 years experience as an NBA coach for one of the most prestigious teams in the Celtics. He's been successful there and, while the team this year isn't doing that great, has had some seasons of overachieving. Multiple Eastern Conference Finals so he's had some success in the playoffs but no Finals or championships. Still very good. Grew up an IU fan so he knows all about Hoosier culture. He's young so he can be the coach for a long time. Well known name at this point so that and his NBA experience would really help recruiting. He would also be able to handle the egos of the players as he has plenty of experience with that. His teams tend to play as much greater than the sum of their parts. This is something Miller, Crean, and Davis were never really able to do but Knight and Sampson did. I doubt his time in the NBA will hurt his coaching at the college level at all. If anything, he's more knowledgeable now than he was before and should be able to do even better at the college level with that new knowledge and the more talented players he'd be able to land. Coaching changes are never a sure thing but, to me, this is as close to one as they come.
  11. I also subscribed to peegs for a single year a long time ago. Waste of money.
  12. Free hype that will be seen by every potential recruit. Great timing if it happens.
  13. I hope you're right! Any indication on when it might be announced officially?
  14. I know you get good info but I have a hard time believing this one for several reasons. I hope you and Roberts are both right but I doubt he said that to a recruit. Are they even recruiting now without knowing who the next coach will be and therefore not knowing which players he'd want to recruit? Or are they casting a wide net of maybes? Telling recruits would also make it leak super fast.
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    Candidate Thread: Scott Drew (Baylor)

    Of the names being thrown around, Drew is my choice after Stevens. So you're not alone.
  16. Imagine that conversation. Dolson: We'll give $8M per year. Anything you want. Stevens: It's a deal. For my assistants I'll try to get ____, ____, and ____. Dolson: Yeah... about that. I misspoke. We'll give you the $8M per year and most things you want but we get to select your assistant coaches. So almost anything you want.
  17. Right. I'm guessing $4.5M. Probably in the $4M-5M range.
  18. go iu bb

    General Coach Candidate News

    I'm neither of them but @IUwins0708 said he heard Mrs Stevens was ready to move back to IN.
  19. go iu bb

    General Coach Candidate News

    The first post on page 420 of this thread is a tweet by someone named chronichoosier. Gotta love it.
  20. go iu bb

    General Coach Candidate News

    It's close to back up. But you're right, this is fun.
  21. go iu bb

    General Coach Candidate News

    He would sometimes post on HSN. I think he said before Miller was fired that he didn't have any intel on that so I'm not sure if he has more info than any of us about this.
  22. go iu bb

    General Coach Candidate News

    Right? I was very opposed to Dolson becoming AD and was quite disappointed when it happened. I was wrong. Even if IU doesn't hire Stevens I was wrong. Just getting a donor to pony up $10M to fire Miller and another to help pay any costs for the new coach to fix the dumpster fire the program has been was enough to prove me wrong. If he's going as hard after Stevens as everything seems to indicate, I was very, very wrong and I'm ecstatic that I was.
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    General Coach Candidate News

    Yes, that's the question and an important one at that.
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    General Coach Candidate News

    You make good points about Drew but I look at it like this: He only had 1 year of HC experience before taking over at Baylor so he's been learning on the job as do all coaches. But many of them start low and work there way up with various stops at increasingly difficult competition. Other than the 1 year at Valpo, Drew basically started his coaching career in a tough conference. While his career winning percentage isn't great, you can see steady improvement. Baylor basically has no history in bball to fall back on. I don't remember the exact number, but before him they had been to the NCAAT less than a handful of times in their entire history. He has them at a #1 seed. He took over a complete mess. Worse than what Crean took over at IU. So he's literally built that program from nothing. That will hurt his career numbers. A big one for me, especially after the stubbornness of Miller, is that he's shown a willingness to make big changes to his system. For a long time he primarily used zone defense and they were decent but not great at it. He switched to M2M and they now have an elite defense. Pretty good recruiter. Maybe great considering the school. 31 4* and 5* players in his time at Baylor. He could do even better at IU. Has had talent but not a ton of it in his time there so is able to develop players and put a team on the floor that is greater than the sum of its parts. Last few teams have had elite offense and defense. It took him a while to get there but now he's a more nationally known name with a lot of momentum. I don't think it would take him long at IU to get things turned around. I think he has figured out how to win consistently. But, yes, he is missing Final Fours on his resume but does have 2 Elite Eights and another couple of Sweet 16s. He has an NIT championship but no Big 12 tournament championships. Stevens is my #1-#5 choice but I would be pretty happy with Drew. I'd personally rather have him as coach over Beard. Not a sure thing but I think he could do really well at IU.
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