Truthhurts

This is delusional.

He’s a phenomenal coach and an A+ hire from a basketball perspective. He is also very much not the guy I’d prefer to be the face of the school.

Hiring a guy with just three top 25 teams in 23 years as a D1 head coach - and zero top 15 teams - over a sky-high-upside candidate like McCollum, simply because it feels “safer,” would be so ****** stupid.

I don’t like him either. He’s a tool. But that doesn’t make his info wrong.

Look, I don’t like Goodman any more than the next guy, probably less. But he would not put that out there unless he was certain. I’m maybe a tad surprised TJ is out already, but otherwise, none of these eliminations should be unexpected to any fan thinking dispassionately about the job.

Providing fair and reasonable context around something you assert is a “positive” is not unfairly “discounting it” just because it undermines your assertion.

Possible (though as I’ve said, I can tell you it’s not Brad). But again, if so, why? What would be the reason for such secrecy if it’s someone from the nba world? Maybe you don’t formally announce it, but surely there’d be leaks because keeping it secret doesn’t matter that much when the outgoing coach is already known to be “retiring”. The earlier you can start fundraising off the back of the new guy, the better. The earlier prospexrive transfers know, the better. (This is why the duke assistant is already known to be taking the Miami job and why he’s not even going to stay on duke staff through the tourney. Earlier it’s announced, the better…only reason you wouldn’t is that it’s a current college head coach.)

If you think about it, the only way it makes sense for it to be this quiet is that there is a handshake deal with someone who is a current college head coach, and it’ll get fully worked out when his team is done. If you’re casting a wide net and talking to lots of candidates, there’s gonna be some leaks here and there. If you’ve come to an agreement with anyone involved in the NBA, there’s zero reason for it to be so quiet (you obviously can’t wait for their season to be over, and Woodson and everyone already knows he’s out. So what would be the hold up? Nothing.) Logically, all that makes sense is that we have mostly a handshake deal with a current college head coach and will finalize/announce when his team is done. So who is it? Well, the bigger the name, the more likely there’d be a leak. There’s been nothing. So my guess is it’s a candidate like McCollum or Byington or Devries.

Someone walk me through the logic of flying into McCordsville to meet with IU. (Also, Bedford is not the regional airport closest to Brad’s house.)

Damn. Wouldn’t they wait until Clemson is out to announce?

My current wish list among those with any realistic chance (though admittedly some of these are quite unlikely): 1) Tommy L (by a mile) 2) Ben M 2) Drew (seems *super* unlikely) 3) Otz 4) McCasland 5) DeVries 6) Jans <HUGE GAP> 7) miscellaneous others 8) collins <gap> 9) Brownell Brownell is the disaster scenario in my opinion, and unfortunately it does seem somewhat likely

You don’t leave Arizona or Indiana for Gonzaga. Gonzaga’s an incredible program, but it’s great because they’ve got an elite coach who’s happy there. At the end of the day, it’s still a tiny private school in the middle of nowhere, and that matters from a resources perspective and it won’t be remotely the same level of program when few is gone.

Oh he’d be the home run of home runs. I’d take him over Otz and May in a heartbeat, and any other realistic option I can think of. His teams at AZ have been uniformly outstanding and it’s a fun brand of basketball without question. It’s not crazy if their NIL stinks.

Anyone have any insight into Arizona’s NIL situation? Under pre-NIL landscape, no chance in hell someone leaves a successful run at Arizona for IU, but given they’ve lost a few big name players to the portal in recent years (ballo being an obvious example), I can’t help but wonder if their NIL situation is weak enough that Tommy Lloyd would listen.

It’s Friday, the sun is shining, winter is almost over, and IU is gonna hire super star in the making Ben McCollum. Let’s all have a beer and be happy.