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I'm trying to give Dolson the benefit of the doubt after the Cignetti hire but I can understand people looking at his history and seeing possible red flags. I'm hoping for the best but also wouldn't be at all surprised by a dud hire. There is only 1 name mentioned that I would be shocked to find out is IU's next coach and it's not the guys like Brownell or Collins who are pretty meh. He was the AD when Woodson was hired and also gave him the raise. That's true. It looks like his hand was forced and I hope that's true because, if not, then I'd give up hope on this search. It was rumored he wanted to hire Pat Fitzgerald but got turned down by Whitten. That wouldn't have been an inspiring hire, so if this is true that would be a red flag. We ended up with Cignetti which looks great for Dolson and the search firm, which is the same as used for this hire. It's unclear if he was a name Dolson already had on his list or if the search firm recommended him, but we ended up with him so the process worked either way. Overall, since we ended up with Cignetti there is reason for optimism. It's clear that the criteria of what to look for was solid. I will say that a lot of the names that are being thrown around I'd be very happy with. Stevens, Drew, Otzelberger at the top of the list but I'd be ok with someone like Cronin or McDermott. So I'm trying to be optimistic but I can totally understand how others are more skeptical.

I'm all for it as long as they don't think they can take the Woodson route. During the season, it's a lot of hours so no losing a game then hanging with your buddies drinking wine and smoking cigars. HS recruiting is still important so the HC needs to put some effort in there whether it's talking/texting recruits or going to watch them play. I don't want it to be a team made up almost completely of transfer portal players that gets turned over every year. As you pointed out, having someone that can do a lot of the scouting and watching during the summer could make a huge difference. The HC does need to still be somewhat involved, maybe not as much as is required now.

Billy D ready to return to college? I doubt the work is less though. Whether the coaches think so or not remains to be seen. The successful college coaches put in crazy hours.

We'd probably have to offer Murray $1M+ to even get him to think about it. He's making $750K at UConn. Assuming he doesn't take a HC job somewhere, of course.

That does seem excessive for him. I could see that for him plus assistants being allocated $10M though. Maybe a GM in there, too.

We must have different definitions of winning in major conferences. I see meh in the Big East following by mostly failing in the B1G and SEC. Definitely don't need TC.

Looks like Goode had an issue with an official, too. That official started going after him. Whatever Goode said must've really pissed him off. lol I hope IU doesn't have this crew again this year.

After 4 years with Woodson I kept waiting for the "but" followed by throwing the players under the bus. Good for him on accepting the blame.

BGleas is a mod on another IU message board. You think that would happen if he wasn't an IU fan? Laughable.

I think the word you're looking for is "minority." Minority. Person of color would also have been accepted.

So you're saying Stevens is going to replace Shrewsberry at the end of the season?

Agree to disagree. Every time he's mentioned as a possible candidate in an article it gets mentioned. You're in denial if you think it wouldn't get mentioned in the very, very, very unlikely case that he gets hired so if they don't know about it now, they will. You're also wrong about how many would overlook domestic violence. But he won't be hired so we won't find out.

One of the few most would support would be Beard? He is likely the most divisive hire IU could make. People seem to feel very strongly about him one way or the other. So I'm pretty sure you're wrong that most would support him.

Has the bolded been heard from anyone not named KathywithaC? I don't trust that poster since he/she sometimes displays very trollish tendencies.

For anyone who's wondering, Rabby still has no idea. Just says everyone is saying something different.

It's getting interesting.

Apparently, it drops to $10M at the end of the month. Still very high. I don't buy the whole possible loophole thing.

I personally think he'd fit in well on rivals.

Extinction Level Event? That seems a bit extreme. lol, what does ELE stand for?

Well, if yours are really saying that Facial Hair is being seriously considered, I don't believe yours. I just don't see IU going anywhere near him.

That's a smokescreen.

I heard he's big into worm farming these days.

The problem is that they were at the end of the season instead of the beginning. It's unlikely that he'll get another year. This is one thing the NCAA has actually been consistent on.