IndyResident16

Like your grammar? If those schools want to make a minor league hire let them. First time in awhile IU has been better than both Michigan and Ohio State. I'd like to keep it that way.

A Michigan fan-site wants to hire Dusty May!! I stopped reading once I saw Jay Wright's name mentioned, should tell you all you need to know about the validity of the source.

I wasn't aware any of those jobs were open? And if one of those schools wants to hire Dusty May, let them.

I'm not sure you understand what viable means.

If Dusty May was a student manager at any other B10 school he's not even a candidate for this job. Fact.

Letting morals get in the way of hiring the best basketball coach is the exact reason why Indiana is a has been program. It doesn't make any sense.

He's won literally everywhere he's been and it doesn't take him 5 years to get the ball rolling. Don't overthink this chief.

Neither of those schools have anywhere CLOSE to the expectations as Indiana. X's and O's is only a fraction of what it takes to succeed in Bloomington.

Now list literally the 200-300 up and comers/assistants the last 20 years who have flamed out before year 5 at a bigger school. You listed the exceptions to the rule, not the norm.

And he's taking a team that won 12 games last year to the NCAAT. IU's tournament bubble burst before the start of the calendar year.

Viable alternative? I've come back to the same candidate for the last month. Chris Beard is only an unrealistic candidate by the grace of choice.

Then let someone like Florida State or West Virginia hire him and if in 5-6 years down the road IU is looking for a new coach and he's proven his worth at a P5 school, then offer him the job.

I've been saying it for 3 weeks. Chris Beard would be the one and only candidate if I were in charge of the athletics department. And if I was handcuffed by the IU president and BoT I'd tell them not only are you going to have to find a new basketball coach on your own, you're going to have to find a new AD while you're at it.

I'll ask the same question I asked on the other board a few weeks ago: If you were Scott Dolson or simply the IU AD and your livelihood (job status) was dependent on the success of the next basketball hire, is Dusty May your guy? Would you bet your job on Dusty May elevating IU's basketball program? If your answer is yes then you're lying to yourself.

Because his resume/experience doesn't warrant a job of Indiana's magnitude, fluke F4 run be damned.