Jeff Flabjohns

We made a decently big splash last year. One Top 25 guy (TDV lol), another top 50, another top 75 and two more around 100 (Dorn, Conerway)—this is all per 247. All that got us exactly one vote in the AP poll. 1-3% chance we do enough to get ranked preseason. Would need to get like 3 top 30 guys. No guarantee that works. Miami was nowhere near the top 25 and I’m watching them on my screen right now

Malik has looked rough in the early going

I’d have questioned his judgement if he left Michigan after one year (and the success they had and NIL improvements that afforded him) to come to IU. Duh? This is about 2024. Again, Good to great coaches are not scared away by a ‘toxic’ fanbase/admin that wants to cut bait on a subpar coach early. These coaches know their worth and are supremely confident in their abilities when promisedtop-tier fan engagement and resources. Like CIG! Keep blaming the fans.

Good hire for them. Syracuse NIL infrastructure must be bootycheeks. Maybe Hodgson turned down Syracuse because they canned their coach after only 3 years?! Just don’t check how long English was at Providence…

I don’t know why I take the bait. Guy is never changing his opinion, he’ll just double down further when he’s proven wrong again and again.

Besides May those names ARE delusional. Almost no brand in this day and age can pull a sitting natty winning coach. Kentucky just went through this. They were unlikely to go to any University, especially with NIL where more teams are equivalent. Did some fans want us to make the call? Sure, but no school is good enough to move for those names. I’m sorry this hurt your feelings. May would have been here if we acted like any other serious program and discarded Woodson after year 3. IU guy making the move up to P4. Instead we were stuck with bottom quartile coaches for 8 years. Good to great coaches are not scared away by a ‘toxic’ fanbase/admin that wants to cut bait on a subpar coach early. These coaches know their worth and are supremely confident in their abilities when promised top-tier fan engagement and resources. Like CIG! Keep blaming the fans. Every other school serious about basketball (P4 conference, tradition, massive/invested fanbase, top-20 NIL) knows the value of having the right guy. Coaching acumen, relationship building, talent evaluation all matter more than ever. 3 years is enough to know if your current guy has what it takes.

The Caleb Wilson injury obviously crushed their season. UNC is saying—we’re investing top 5 money into this program and we need see results commensurate to that. Like consistently making second weekends. A few more missed tourneys and we’ll be doing the same

Respecting their ball-knowing, passionate, massive fanbase by moving on from a subpar coach. They know the value of their base to the overall brand and success. Good for them. We kept a guy who antagonized the fans and turned players against us.

He’s done pretty well there. A national final and another S16 in five years. No tourney wins in a few years and they’re ready to bail. “The fanbase is the problem!” I can’t fault em if they think it’s time and hire an upgrade. Knowledgable, passionate fanbase. They’re a serious program, top 5 job, so UNC will cut bait after 2-3 years if they hire the wrong one.

Yaxel and Mara taking over. So damn good. Dusty will forever be a destination for uber-talented bigs, at a discount too.

Awesome game thus far

No use arguing with the guy. He spent all last year blaming us, and fans at large, that pushing out Woody was why no good coach would come here. During the first half of last year, he compared Dusty repeatedly to Crean because of their perceived common faults. Cited FT shooting, blowing late leads, and “incompetent in game management”. Became awfully quiet on both these fronts once Dusty continued to kill it and Woody’s tenure ended in a toxic whimper coupled with us upgrading at coach. Dusty May would’ve been in Bloomington if we let Woodson go after year 3. He was as obvious of a great coach as there’s been in years. Pushing out bad coaches ‘early’ doesn’t prevent great ones from being available to you at IU.

Come on Clemson, get it together

Firing Hubert Davis would be pretty interesting. He’s won 70% of his games there in five years. Same rate in conference too. Made that national final year 1 and then S16 two years ago. 4 tourneys. Fine record against Duke during his time. If they think they deserve better, go for it. The standard is the standard there. Should be no shortage of qualified applicants

As smug as they come. Thankfully your truth is yet again far from actual reality

lol. Willard in the mid-half interview answers how he’s going to contain USU in the paint, “I’m going to fire my staff. They’ve scored 8 points on out-of-bounds plays so I’m going to get a whole new staff”.

If I squint hard enough, Elamin for USU looks like Dybantsa. He’s playing like him thus far

Odom, Sean Miller, Bucky all with wins in this tournament

Awful action these last two possessions for SCU. ****

Damn. SCU going to blow this

WOW

I believe it. Kid was an obvious 1A talent for any team. Kentucky is exceedingly desperate for a title. UK boards seem to believe it, and they’re calling their program dead because he chose May over Pope+$$$. If they’re dead what are we? Yaxel: “I was thinking long term. What if I mess up my career because I chased the money instead of a future? Another big reason why I went with Dusty was he didn’t talk about money at all. It was all about making me better and helping me achieve my goals.” Dusty is really a 15 year younger version of Cig. Damn

He said the same kinda thing about Acuff a few weeks ago. I love it

This is my first look at Dybantsa all year. Holy. Cow.

I think that’s about right. Down to 2 now