JimmerNoe

Today started off with such a bang all of this bickering is just extra annoying. Plz clear the channel so we can hear our secret messages about Brad and decode them appropriately.

At least we can put to bed whether or not we are negotiating with Brad. This makes it obvious to anyone that we have discussed contract with him, issued him an offer, and he is considering it. So please trolls, go back under your bridges. He didn’t tell us no (yet).

HOLY HELL. Two weeks to decide if we are going to have the best coach in college basketball for the next 20 years. I’m sweating.

Portal season has nothing on this. Portal season can get me lying to myself about individual seasons. This gets me lying to myself about my entire middle aged life. Bring me Brad and bring me 20 years of contentment about my sports life.

Wait a sec, did I miss something between finding those flights and now? I thought we were just being hypothetical and didn’t know anything concrete about Miami? Is there for sure some talking today?

Selfish, stingy Stuhoo. Hoarding the goods and making everyone think too much. We are simple creatures. You must be kind to us.

I definitely agree. I do think it would be most telling if Trilly started hearing news of college coaches. I think that would be the first sign Brad might not happening. I personally think it’s a bit weird we aren’t hearing anything at all on that front given how far the search fell last time after Brad turned it down.

Respectfully, the IU administrators and Brad Stevens have no reason to comment on anything currently. There’s been no public update on the search. If they commented on every rumor they’d never get anything done. hopefully Brad ends up here, but I don’t think there is anything to read from official public radio silence.

Do you feel these numbers are significantly different than a few days ago? And if so, moved in which direction?

I shall hold you to that with increasingly invasive reminders every 12 to 15 minutes my friend

Also, I just want to remind everyone here that none of this money is coming from any of our pockets. I don’t care if they pay someone 12 million, a yacht, and a rental property on the moon. If we get our guy we get our guy and the money will be of absolutely no consequence in the long run. Who cares if we have to pay double or triple for someone? This is the benefit we get from being IU and having folks willing to pony up, where other schools may not.

Would this circulating information today be that he is going to listen, or is there more that will come out in due time?

Wondering if he gives any context or breadcrumbs with the hot board. I just always question Rabby’s motives lol I’m sure he is well aware that Brad being at the top of the board creates the most frenzy and traffic. Hopefully it just means that is high mutual interest and that’s why he’s number 1!

I know that Rabjohns is typically more vague and guarded, partially because he has to be but also because it pays to keep people coming back for more, but what has his vibe been about Stevens this time? question for the peegsters I guess but just wondering if he is hearing the same things our insiders are, or if he is giving them and weight.

Oh man what a spin. They claimed incompetence lol

I think you’re right. If we’ve got everyone in the know saying that Beard is ours if we want him, that’s not a bad floor for Scott to rest on while he reaches for much higher. its like those movies where the hot girl tells everyone you’re cute and suddenly everyone else likes you even more. Except in this case our hot girl sometimes nips a little too much whisky and likes to be handsy so we won’t ever really date her.

Other than Beard, I do think it’s interesting that we aren’t getting any early rumors from the big sites about people we’ve reached out to or who have some legs. Unless trilly or peegs have said otherwise and I’ve missed it. i know it’s been two days, but not sure how quickly mid season vs traditional hiring processes go. With a big national spotlight I just figured we would start hearing tons of “rumors” of some sort right out of the gate. Seems like we are only hearing Stevens stuff.

@Chris007 I know that we are all hoping for option 1 and have reasons to be optimistic, but in general how confident are you that Dusty would be a definite yes if it got to him? I know there have been some reports since last year that maybe he wasn’t as locked in for IU as we initially thought, but wondering if you had heard anything suggestive one way or another.

I think if you christen it with some intel it will officially take off on its quest to catch the FMW thread. Hopefully it ends up being a few hundred pages of cheers and congratulations

Any feeling from our esteemed plugged in folks if this statement is an effective immediately or an end of season type of statement?

Not too much, he said he will share more later though. In the meantime, how ya feeling about his strong conviction that we’re getting our guy? I am ready to be hurt again

Wait is this the flight you guys were suspicious of the other day? Is this IU coming back from discussing numbers?

Chris you wield your power irresponsibly! This message just sent 10 posters to their group chats confirming Brad is coming to all their buddies! Lol

If it is real Jerry and he is 85 he may have forgotten and needs continued gentle reminding @JerryYeagley23

Slightly off topic but just to verify, is @JerryYeagley23 on here actually our soccer coach or just an insider who uses that name? It would warm my heart if our soccer coach was a sicko basketball fan like all of us.