Todd Parker!

We just hired Mike Woodson. I’m allowed to be pissed and hyperbolic in my expression as such.

I won't give Mike Woodson a chance. I won't give him a chance because he doesn't give Indiana a chance. To be good at college basketball. Ever. So long as he is the coach here. F my LIFE if it's him

If it's Mike Woodson I'm done with this program. Pathetic. Terrible.

Okay Seth Davis. I love how a national media guy throws down his expectation on the hire, stating it as if his expectation were based on any legitimate information he has, rather than the reality that his "expectation" is a front for "baseless opinion, pulled from his @$$"

100% this. Couldn't agree more. Only difference being, I was pulling for Oregon State either way. The Beavers Associate Athletic Director is a fellow class of 2002 Indiana University graduate and one of my bestest buds; a friendship that formed right off the bat, day 1 frosh year together at IU. I just shot him a text thanking him for helping squelch that shine from Moser in the off chance Indiana began to have any funny ideas about Moser. Anyhow, he says "you're welcome fellow Hoosiers".

Porter Moser. We hardly knew ya. GTFOH. Ha! Fire up the Wayne Tinkle thread. Kidding. Don't do that either.

So then Stevens fielded calls from....Tom Crean and Kelvin Sampson?? Because if so, I'm conflicted on the plausibility in regards to the prospects of that. On one hand, it is true that both Crean and Sampson can indeed speak on the chance of becoming a legend at Indiana. Because failing miserably at the whole legend component doesn't make either any less qualified to speak on the chance of it all if one were to coach here. I'm sure both Sir Claps-a-Lot and K-Samp could provide wonderful insight on the opportunity of becoming a legend at IU. But on the other hand...who on God's green earth would give out their real, actual phone number to Tom Crean!? Sampson I can understand; as he knows a thing or two about impermissible phone calls. If Kelvin Sampson wants to get a hold of you, Kelvin Sampson is going to get a hold of you whether you ask him to or not. That's reality. But Crean?? No way, uh-uh, had to be someone else. It couldn't have been Knight, since I can't imagine his rotary phone is even compatible with an active phone jack, let alone functional. So that leaves, who...Mike Davis? Yeah, must've been Davis. Anyhow, this is all besides the point. I'm damn happy to have Stevens at IU. I like that guy. Good coach. Young. Spry. Should do well here.

I feel the exact same way. I fire it up every year just before the national championship game, 15 years running....as well as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, 4th of July, New Years, ML King Day, Canada’s Boxing Day, and St. Patty’s day if I remember to get to it before I black out.

Goddamnit. Not gonna lie, this is bad. Say it ain't so Muss! I hated Tom Crean with every fiber of my body. This hits too close to home. Over the last several days I had moved Musselman all the way up to number 2 after Stevens on my wishlist, but this a permanently bannable offense from my top 5, let alone top 3. However, that said, as bad as that Musselman pre-gamer was, nothing -- and I mean nothing -- will ever top this one right here. The single most cringe inducing moment in the history of sports or otherwise. Never before nor since, had a man's pregame speech singlehandedly lost a game for his team before they had even taken the floor. This was first and only time. Only, this wasn't any old game, no sir. What you're about to witness here was just moments before his team was set to take the floor for a game with a natty on the line. Yes folks, that's right: this Icelandic abortion of a pregame pep-talk was delivered just ahead of the 2005 National Championship game. Viewer discretion advised (although something tells me everyone around here, myself included, will find this one rather enjoyable)

I’m a frequenter of the Rivals site. You are correct. He’s admittedly not plugged in..like at all. He’s upfront about that and is not even pretending to pretend to really know anything. Which means, anything that guy lists or says or whatever, is simply a regurgitation of face value, publicly known, meaningless factual information. The extent of factual, for example, is that someone from Indiana met in some capacity at some unknown location for an unknown amount of time, with a Calbert Cheaney; to discuss what, we don’t know. But since Calbert is one of only a couple guys (and to be honest, it might not even have been that many yet) that so far have been able to have been confirmed to have had a discussion in some sort of capacity — that makes Cheaney, by default, at this juncture, one of the “top candidates” for the job at this time. In other words, utterly worthless, meaningless information that allows one to extrapolate exactly nothing. So pay no attention to that guy. He practically insists that you don’t.

What a legend! STUD. Oh what could have never been.

It’s too bad Cem Dinc wound up playing those 12 collective minutes on the floor, spread out over those 3 unforgettable games back in ‘05-‘06. Most incredible 3 total career points these eyes have ever seen. If not for those 3 games/12 minutes/3 points - Cem Dinc would be the headliner of this group for sure. I mean, Larry Bird was great and all, and he went on to have a fantastic career and everything, but I’m sorry, he just did not possess Dinc’s length. I’d have Bird as a close second to Dinc in this alternate universe where Cem Dinc never makes it onto the floor for cream & crimson.

I hear Phil Jackson is looking for a new challenge. PROS: A good amount of head coaching experience; pretty solid results with said experience; solid name recognition; at one time sported a world class mustache (think Magnum P.I., only taller) CONS: 75 years old; hasn’t spent a single moment — not a day, not an hour, not a minute, not even a second — of his life with any involvement in any capacity in the college game whatsoever: has since replaced world class mustache with a friggin’ soul patch Still though, regardless what you think of him, seeing that Phil has yet to explicitly state that he has no interest in the job, nor even anything of the sort, the prospects of Phil trying his hand at the college game down in Bloomington — unless/until it’s officially confirmed otherwise — Phil Jackson to IU remains a non-zero chance. Therefore, we should build a Phill Jackson coaching thread. So, do I hear a “I’m right on top of it Rose” or what?!? Too soon? And due to this being only my second ever post around these parts, even though this is probably unnecessary for me to do, but just so there isn’t even a modicum of a chance that someone gets the wrong impression here, I feel compelled to mention.....No I am not serious. Yes, I am totally fu*king around.

So you're Brad Stevens and you just described what you're doing tomorrow after you catch a little shut eye tonight?...yes, yes?