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Diaz couldn't win in Miami where his family is actual royalty. He'd be terrible here. Now if he wanted to take a lateral position move with a pay decrease, I'm all ears for him as DC!!!

Reportedly offering $70 million to Stevens and then offering less than half of that to a coach that wasn't on a single other programs radar looks exactly how it sounds.

Probably get us Danny O'Neil if that is the case.

Silverfield or Candle may be the hire considering their teams are still playing. Would think Chryst, Lewis, Frye, or Carey could have been named by now. This is just silly if all true.

And was demoted mid-year.

I could live with Candle and talked into Chryst with the right support staff but that's about as underwhelming of a list as it gets if true. Sounds like money is going to be a constraint.

Yikes

If for the HC opening, probably best news I've heard yet in regards to the entire search.

Here’s my issue with a guy like Paul Chryst despite having success and a good run at Wisconsin: he’s never built a program. Chryst was groomed to coach Wisconsin after playing there and previously coaching there before being sent off to Pittsburgh where he was decidedly average. He walked into a good-standing program with a well-established culture, a culture he was all too familiar with and once helped foster. He didn’t run the program into the ground as one poster put it, but Wisconsin’s play certainly leveled off to a degree and the Wisky administration wasn’t going to let it get worse. I have no doubt about Chryst’s ability to coach. But can he build? That I’m not sure. There’s documented instances of Chryst’s disdain for recruiting and inability to be flexible with his offense. For Chryst to work at IU he’s going to have to surround himself with an elite offensive coordinator and one that can recruit. And IU’s going have to pony up the $$$ to either keep that OC or consistently get the hire right. I could get behind a Chryst hire where Sean Lewis (Wisconsin grad) is named OC and Jim Leonhard and Chryst reunite which would mean a strong possibility that Bostad is retained, but I’m not sure IU is committed to that type of pool unless Chryst is taking the job at a discount.

While I agree with the latter that Dolson is incompetent, I do believe Allen deserved some kind of reward for his on-field success. But yes, reward doesn’t equal fully guaranteed buyout.

Yet went with Tayven and lost his job.

You should see South Florida this time of year.

IU is going to lose 40-50 guys via graduation/portal regardless of who is hired. Better hire someone who knows what the hell they are doing. (Dolson in a suit)

Certainly a safe hire. Is Jason candle going to be Matt Campbell or Todd Boeckman? Toss of a coin hiring MAC coaches. Fits Dolson’s pay grade.

@Dave from Dayton

Never met him. He’s incompetent at his job and gets paid a lot of money.

Hopefully Dolson hasn’t commented because his power to hire the next coach has been taken from his hands. I absolutely deplore search committees because if you’re an AD and don’t have the foresight to hire your own guy you don’t deserve to be an AD. But in this instance an outside firm MUST be hired. Dolson doesn’t have a clue. And why should he? He’s a basketball shill who’s never been tasked with evaluating a football applicant pool and is responsible for handing out one of the most reckless college football contracts in the history of the game. He should be left out of any and all discussions assuming IU continues to employ him.

That’s a Fitz recruited team and Fitz record at NU speaks for itself. Fitz at a school with no academic restrictions could be dangerous. Schools like NU and Stanford aren’t going to survive long term in the football world in the portal era.

I’m still discussing potential candidates and buyout ramifications just like the original thread title suggested.

True and true, you should peep the level of respect I get in my PM’s from posters who “welcome” differing opinions.

Pat Ryan funds Northwestern’s athletic department basically out of his own pocket and is as conservative as it gets. He is by far and away their biggest donor and calls the shots.

I’m sorry contrarian views aren’t welcomed on your site. The world we live in I guess.

Ha if that was only my schtick. Willie Fritz age should have zero bearing on his job consideration. Hire the best candidate regardless of age, always.

That 64 year old has been successful every single time he’s coached “up” a level, especially for the first time.

Oh? Enlighten me then.