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Goodman says he just talked to Brad last month, and doesn't think we have a chance.

I assume it's Woody's people leaking to try to get ahead of the story and set the narrative?

Anyone want to set up a GoFundMe to get Jerry one of these?

Fixed it, because otherwise the best candidate wouldn't qualify.

Now I would REALLY like to know what @JerryYeagley23 meant when he said "It's all happening..."

Brad Stevens can speak in the fourth person for all I care...

I won't believe it until Kathy confirms...

I'd think this would also be consistent with Dusty too. I can't imagine we'd have to vet him much beyond what would have been done in conjunction with our purported interest last year...

Here's a hypothetical for you... Say it eventually turns out that Stevens is the guy. Presumably a deal would be in place sometime in, say, the next month or so. When do you announce it? Immediately, to give notice to portal recruits, etc.? Or after IU's season is officially over, to avoid distractions for the current team?

One thought I had was that if Stevens is, indeed, the guy, then you sit on the retirement announcement until after the Celtics' post-trade deadline press conference...

He did like a post suggesting that Dolson wouldn't make an announcement without having a replacement lined up. That could suggest that Dolson has his man. Or it could suggest that no official announcement regarding a retirement is forthcoming. Or it could mean nothing at all!

Woodson retired, Brad Stevens, the whole shebang?

In the hopes of shifting gears:

Yes. I'd sit it out for a year or two until he likely implodes here, sullies the reputation of the program, and is fired for cause.

Same. Never beat up a girl either. Crazy, huh?

No. I just don't care.

This 100X. I'm not unwilling to overlook a variety of past mistakes, especially if the coach has owned up to it and changed his ways. But domestic violence is a different matter, especially for a guy who has (unless I've missed it) displayed no remorse. This is a campus with a student population that is ~50% female. You can't make someone with a background like this the most visible public face of your institution.

Who cares? You don't inflict that level of injury on a woman under any circumstances. And again, if he had any claim to innocence, why didn't he contest a firing that cost him $25 million?

The Duke lacrosse players vigorously fought and denied the charges. Beard walked away from $25 million guaranteed without so much as a whimper. Even you have to see the difference.

If he was innocent, why didn't he put up any fight over a for cause termination that cost him over $25 million? Some of you are such rubes.

If you are really analogizing a speeding ticket to beating the crap out of your fiance, then you really ought to take a long look in the mirror and reevaluate how important being associated with a winning basketball team is to your life. Your moral compass is horribly misaligned. And even if you think that those who object to a candidate that was fired from his previous job -- uncontested -- for beating his fiance are too prudish, the fact that so many Hoosier fans do hold this view ought to disqualify Beard alone, because it shows hiring him would be horribly, and unnecessarily, divisive to the fan base.

I would say: Brad: 40% Dusty: 30% Field: 30% Beard: 0%

Wade has a Sweet 16, so it's not like he's never had any March success. And he comes with considerably less baggage. I get why some would view Beard as a better coach, but if he's a non-starter, then I don't get why there's not more enthusiasm for Wade in the non-Stevens category. He strikes me as a better bet than McCollum, for instance.

Can someone explain why Chris Beard gets so much love while Will Wade does not? Unless I'm missing something, I would think that Wade's issues would be much less concerning than Beard's. And the dude wins everywhere he goes.

I'm not particularly high on McCullom at present, but I do think the tempo criticism may be a bit unfair. He's playing a roster filled with DII transfers. He has to shorten the game to adjust for the talent disparity. You would need to ask him how he expects to adjust his system moving forward to decide how viable he would be at a place like IU.