go iu bb

The goal is to hire a great (or even good) coach. The goalie is the IU fan base. The kickers are IU ADs over the years.

Probably wanted another Florida golfing trip on IU's dime before he leaves.

It doesn't have to be Brownell since I'm sure Alford would take the job if offered. There are plenty of other bad options still available. lol

For those wondering if it really takes him off the board since the buyout went to only $7.5M, after reading this article I'd say yes. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/dusty-may-michigan-agree-to-contract-extension-amid-indiana-basketball-coaching-search/ "I think it makes it obvious: I'm staying at Michigan," May told CBS Sports, adding, "I really wasn't interested in leveraging in negotiating" Other info from the article: CBS Sports can exclusively report on the details of May's new contract terms: A one-year extension on the deal, which now runs through the spring of 2030 An increase of $1 million annually in salary A pay bump across the board for the Michigan men's basketball staff A big increase investment for program resources, including Michigan's NIL war chest A buyout that will rise to $7.5 million

Obviously, IU is not May's dream job as many thought it was. I question whether IU would have gotten him even last year since he rejected UL because it's a fishbowl. Stevens May Who's next up?

Are you being comical today on purpose or is this hypocrisy due to lack of self awareness? Your trashing of our head coach was much more sustained and of a personal nature than people "trashing" poor Beard by pointing out what he is on the record as having done. But you're right, people on this board have no control over who gets hired any more than we had control over Woodson getting fired, err, "retired." People in the know say that Beard has little to no chance of being hired.

I wonder what he thinks now. That was 8 days ago and I think Goodman's tweet was 7 days ago. So that was before the tweet. Only 7 days!? It seems like forever ago. And we're looking at 4-6 weeks until we finally find out who will be the coach. That'll be a looooong month plus.

Just because he wants the IU job doesn't mean he "loves IU." Why do you think he "loves IU"? 54% in P4 conferences isn't really a "proven winner." You'd take that over actual proven winners? Good thing Ole Miss fans love him because no better schools want him. He doesn't love them back because he wants out but has no where to go.

Not really. They take on the burden of doing a lot of the work that AD doesn't have time for. Like @Hovadipo said, they do background checks, PR, logistics. They're a middleman which serves as a point of contact for the agents of interested coaches to go to and they'll reach out to the agents of coaches IU is interested in to gauge interest. They might add a few suggestions based on the school's criteria, but their main purpose it to shoulder the burden of all the leg work that the AD can't do or doesn't want to do. They have the added benefit of when IU reaches a deal with someone, they can say "this was the first guy we went after" with it technically not being a lie.

IU would give him 4 years. Does OSU? I doubt it.

You're complaining about people posting the same thing over and over? lmao

You're assuming the plan was to get rid of Woodson this year. I don't think it was, at least not for those who had the power to keep him last year. So the idea was they stuck with Woodson an extra year to give Stevens time to come around on taking the job or to see how May performed at a high major school is wrong, imo.

That cat looks offended. We need to stop offending the cat.

Ah, good. You're back to ejumicate us.

Nothing to apologize for. You may very well be correct, I just haven't seen the same thing. I'm not sure that I've seen anywhere how it is to be divided amongst a team. It might just be an assumption that on my part that it wouldn't have to be divided equally. I guess we'll find out before too long. I wonder if these will be open for public record requests since they're contracts signed with the schools.

Have you seen that everyone within the same sport will get the same amount? Either from the NCAA/courts or IU? Everything else you said lines up with what I have seen and as I understand it but I don't recall seeing that it would be divided evenly by the team. That would certainly be the most equitable way of dividing the money but I'm not sure that's how it's going to be. I thought it was going to be similar to the way coach controlled NIL is right now - they get a bucket to divide as they see fit. In a way, this makes as much sense as distributing it equally. The starting QB will have a much larger impact than the DB who is 10th on the depth chart and hasn't played a single snap. The elimination of walk-ons is part of the way to more fairly compensate the players low on the depth charts, I'm not sure they'll all get the same amount of rev share. Of course, it could be there and I just missed it.

Yep. Crean pissed off and alienated a bunch of Indiana HS and AAU coaches in his time. Miller didn't have much personality so that probably didn't help mend some of the burned bridges although he did okay at in state recruiting - he actually pulled multiple players from northern IN. Woodson put very little effort into recruiting so he certainly didn't help on that front.

Cronin

Redshirting? Ha, just kidding. Considering he barely saw the floor at South Carolina State (35 games / 7.5 min/game in 4 years), it was expected he wouldn't get PT at IU. His father is Jerome James, who played for the Knicks, so Woodson probably gave the scholarship as a favor.

Would the person who wears this one be a literal a$$hat? At very least they'd have one on their head.

So they had no problem getting body-to-body with them and breathing in their faces the whole game but the hand shake line would've been too much? Umm, ok. I think hand shake lines are kind of dumb and pointless so them not doing one doesn't bother me at all. I never liked them when I was in sports. It was just everyone going through the motions so not really meaningful. These always look pretty much the same. I'm not going to buy that excuse, though.

Disappointing that he's that high.

It's really not worth arguing about at this point. I've stopped. We know he won't be hired and no amount of some people on message boards and social media trying to wish the hire into existence won't be any more effective than everyone trying to wish the Brad Stevens hire into existence. He has the drinking which IU doesn't tolerate (see Kevin Wilson) as well as at least 1 DV incident (unlikely his first, especially considering the severity). Even if they disregard that, they know it would fracture the fanbase. No way IU signs up for that despite some people on the internet thinking it's not a big deal. It is interesting to see who is willing to overlook or, worse, downplay DV in favor of hypothetically winning. I say hypothetically since his record isn't really all that impressive at the P5 level outside of 2 seasons that he hasn't been able to replicate. Coach Facial Hair won't be hired. My advise is to just ignore talk about him.

Grant McCasland

Coaches get "retired" or straight out fired during the season all the time. Almost never do the ADs at those schools already have the replacement already lined up and ready to go. They do it because it calms the fans and lets them get started on the search earlier. It might also salvage a season. Basically, it's what's best for the program without concern for what other schools may or may not do. ADs (and the public in general) already have an idea of which jobs will open up at the end of the season. If they want to extend their current coach, it's not because they're panicking because a school got rid of their coach during the season. Was anyone surprised that Woodson won't be back next year? Other than Woodson, that is. Sometimes coaches turn coaching searches into ways to get raises/extensions. That'll happen regardless of when the other schools' coaches were fired. In other words, I think people are reading too much into the timing behind Woodson's "retirement" announcement. It says nothing about whether IU had someone else ready to take the job or whether they were concerned about May getting an extension. I think in this case, it was partially to save Woodson from himself, to try to preserve some of his legacy. The booing would've just gotten worse.