Nail hits head. It's not the fact that we're losing it is why we are losing. Everyone knew this was poorly constructed roster at the time. We all knew you need size in the B1G to have a chance and called it out at the time. Everyone except Darian DeVries of course. It was a catastrophic mistake and one that will be very difficult for him to recover from.
You could build an Indiana basketball roster through the portal 100 times and this shouldn't happen once. But DD thought you could play small ball in the B1G and win. He was dead wrong and he's the one getting paid $5M a year. Inexcusable.
Pope, Kelsey, Dusty, likely McCollum, etc can all make the tournament year 1 but at Indiana it's always a 4 year rebuild. Maybe our administration consistently hiring crap coaches is the problem.
He needs to do more than just make the tournament. Needs to be a really good season. A bubble team with a first weekend exit almost certainly equals an inevitable firing after year 3.
Not sure how he accomplishes much more than that unless he gets extremely lucky or Dolson can find him a lot more $.
Because they already had great gigs when we pursued them. The time to get Dusty was when he was at FAU. Same for Matta at Xavier or Brad at Butler. Or all the other schools wanting Cignetti. The time to strike was when he was at JMU not when he has IU on top of the world.
IMO he's gonna need $15-20M this spring to have a prayer to turn it around. I don't know where that money comes from. Gonna have to over pay to get some real dudes.