Scotty R

I personally would be fine with them, however, I still don't think they make the casual fan excited. We may not be able to get coaches who I think would excite (Stevens, Donovan, Wright, Pearl, Self to a certain degree, etc.). It's just my opinion which doesn't have any influence on the situation whatsoever. What will get fans excited is winning.

I didn't realize Brownell had that big of a buyout. To me there is no way Dolson would pay an 8 million buyout for a guy like Brownell. I can't remember where I heard this but they said the largest buyout a school has paid in basketball was between 4-5 Million

I agree...there are a lot of names that will unite the majority of the fan base, but we need to get a freaking NAME. Gotta make a splash. People bring up Duke, UK, even UL as schools that didn't make a splash hire. We NEED it more than any of them. IU's mediocrity has settled in for too long to make a blah hire. We don't need a name, we need a good coach

That is why I always think these kind of rumors hurt the program because these rumors have no merit. People come on here and start these rumors thinking it is funny but to me it hurts more than it is funny. Since people want IU to be great again they want to believe anything but when it doesn't happen then they blame the administration for not doing their job.

So are you saying we will hear Donovan resignation from the Bulls this weekend and we will hire him Monday LOL!

Today?????

Pretty good watch and at around the 40 minute mark he talks about the coaching search. To the posters who don't want McCollum you will like what Galen says about him. I don't know if he knows much but with him doing a lot of sports media at IU you would think he has some knowledge.

To me those two would be like UK having to hire someone like Mark Pope, damn that is who they hired

What statement could they release. McCollum will not want any of this to get out until after his season is over.

If it is McCollum it won't be announced Monday since his team is still playing

I thought everyone was told to stay quiet and had to sign NDA. If this is the case how are people getting all of these inside info. Face it, no one knows a damn thing.

Both over 20 years ago

How many big fish actually change jobs

I think any coach we hire even Stevens needs a strong support staff to get through all the things college coaches have to go through. A lot of top football programs have a GM plus a lot of support staffs

Totally correct but some just limes to be drama queens

Who was Rabby talking about? McCollum

That's why I am admitting that I don't understand the current college basketball landscape. I'm admitting it's a trend that I don't understand. But I do believe what I said as far as what it communicates to me as a fan and the program I follow. To me these coaches can get paid anywhere and why mess with happiness and winning if you are winning where you are at.

That is total garbage about McCollum needing coordinators. He has been a HC for 15 years and basketball isn't that hard so if you can coach you can do it at any level. Also John Beilein hired an assistant to take over his defense because their defense wasn't good. So if a great coach like that hires a coordinator so to me that isn't a bad thing. What he would need some help with is the NIL and the portal which is why you need to hire a GM. I would say that no matter who the coach is because it is to much work for the HC.

I don't understand the college basketball landscape at all. I don't understand what 9, 10, 11 million per year will get you anymore. If we don't finally just make someone, that is worth it, the highest paid coach in college basketball....I just don't understand at all. It communicates one of three things to me. Either the IU job is just not an attractive job anymore to any top coach, or we aren't serious about turning this around, or both. Pay enough money, and you're going to get the best out there. So I guess the UK job is no longer attractive since they got turned down by top coaches and settled for Pope who.had never won a tournament game.

Some are being drama queens or just don't understand the college basketball landscape Have you actually paid attention to the hires of power conference teams lately. Show me all of these power conference coaches leaving their jobs for another power conference team. You have a guy like Cal who wanted out of UK and UL was ready for a change but you don't see successful coaches leaving. To me UK hiring Pope is the Equivalent of us hiring Brownell. UL hiring Kelsey would he no different than us hiring McCollum.

I think we all need therapy on here because we are losing it. How about let Dolson do his job and not freak out after every tweet that comes out. Also if a guy is hired that you don't like nobody is making you watch IU play so either back the coach or don't watch anymore. I would really hate if we hired Beard but I would have to make a choice and I probably would still support the program.

If it wins I don't care about style. It might be slow but it is very effecicent

What news are you talking about, nobody has been hired yet

Why would you say that. Just because Archie couldn't handle it doesn't mean McCollum can't. It would s all about personality and a belief in yourself and it seems like McCollum has that

I will be very happy with the hire if it is him