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Took over a bad West Virginia team. Completely gutted the roster. Was picked to finish at or near the bottom of the B12. Beat Gonzaga and Arizona in the Bahamas (lost to Louisville in OT to go to finals). Far exceeded year 1 expectations despite losing his best player early in the season and was snubbed a tourney bid this year. This all after a great run at Drake for several seasons. DeVries is more enticing to me over someone like McCollum because I believe he’s got a roster he can bring that can win out of the gate. Imperative that whoever coaches IU next year win and ride that momentum or it’s going to be a long 3-4 years.

Maybe he was in Iowa City and just couldn’t agree to Iowa’s terms?

I’d be content with DeVries. Pulled a sitting P5 coach who got screwed out of a tournament bid despite losing his best player to injury 10 games into the season. Has a fairly competent group of kids he could bring over: -Tucker DeVries obviously who has all-league potential -F Armani Hansberry 6’8 240 played freshman year at Illinois avg 10/7 23 mpg. Two years eligibility left -G Sencire Harris who also played his freshman year at Illinois. All B12 defensive team. Two years eligibility left -G Johnathon Powell high school teammate of Gabe Cupps. Averaged 9 points ppg and shot 36% from 3 on over 6 attempts as a true freshman I’d keep an eye on Kevin Overton at Texas Tech who was a starting freshman guard on Drake under DeVries two seasons ago. Also Connor Enright who played his first two seasons at Drake before transferring to DePaul where he averaged 6+ assists per game. DeVries isn’t a sexy hire but honestly IU could do so much worse given the current state of the program.

You’re still doing this lol? Giving me way too much credit.

Brad Stevens should have never been a point of discussion to begin with. These last two months just shows how far out of touch with reality most of this fanbase is. This hire was always going to be closer to a Brad Brownell type than a Brad Stevens type.

Stick to pictography clown. I know what you guys make.

Evidently not. Stevens isn’t coaching IU. If Vegas isn’t going to take Stevens bet I’ll be the house. My condo still hurting from Ian lol.

Shaka is a good coach but doesn’t fit the mold of what we’ve allegedly heard Dolson is looking for. Dude doesn’t use the portal, like at all, and just in the last week told multiple of his players agents to f*** off. https://frontofficesports.com/shaka-smart-marquette-nil-agents/

Thamel or Goodman will break it and then Osterman will confirm it. Rabby will then too, 10 minutes after the fact.

Bingo. There’s absolutely zero reason why we should still be doing this 4 years later.

I think that was largely tied to Fran still being employed. Iowa fans have wanted him gone for years. He told his middle son to transfer out and didn't even bother to recruit his youngest son given the toxicity of the situation. Fran's been waiting on this buyout for a minute. I would think Iowa's NIL picks up to an extent if they were in fact able to hire DeVries away from WVU.

What does Woodson have to do with hiring Brad Brownell?

Why? Because he's made the tournament 5 times in 15 years at Clemson? Very real chance the Brownell experiment ends similarly to our last half dozen experiments.

I mean yeah, what other choice do you have? I'm not sure moving on from Woodson and striking out on everybody just to hire Brownell is the consolation prize you think it is just because he has college basketball experience.

Not all college basketball coaches are created the same, clearly.