AH1971

Not sure Yigi isn’t “it”, but he’s not a 28-30 mpg B10 player which is what he would be asked to do under the current circumstances. Based on his previous production, Hall would appear to be a massive talent upgrade at the 4. Having Sisley and Yigi as your front court depth pieces would be huge.

Does he have eligibility left or is he suing and daring the NCAA to do something about it?

Brad is ultra-analytical and Brown by the numbers is a net-negative player on the court despite a lot of raw production.

Who is a scared fan? I’ve seen IU win multiple titles. I’m heady enough to know what Bob Knight did at Indiana isn’t replicable and finding his clone isn’t sustainable. Cycling coaches every 3-4 years has made Indiana an undesirable job and it gets worse by the year. Forget the Brad Steven’s or Dusty May’s, there’s a reason why guys like Josh Schertz or Ben McCollum wouldn’t/won’t ever entertain this job

Trashed the program. Cheated without reprieve and recruited literal convicts and gangbangers to the program. Anybody who supports that is a dirtbag.

It isn’t. Sampson trashed the program and ruined what any image IU had left. Your disdain for Woodson is borderline unhealthy…all because he told you to chill out.

The two most successful coaches in college basketball history weren’t “championship caliber coaches” by years 4 or 5. The best coach in college basketball today didn’t win a tournament game until year 5. This lunacy that you have to fire a coach every 2-3 years is exactly why IU will remain a meddling program going forward. There’s no culture, no continuity, no momentum, no nothing. It’s a wasteland job. The statistical probability of winning a college basketball title is already very low. The probability of catching lightning in a bottle and winning a championship in years 1 and 2 is even lower. Your theory makes zero sense.

Of course he could coach, but there was no way he was freely going to get away with how he operated nor should have it been enabled.

IU was a top 15-20 team for the majority of the season in year 2 and lost 2 starters at the beginning of conference season for an extended period of time. Calling that an underachievement based on where IU has been the majority of this century is the exact reason why nobody takes this program seriously.

I’ve never claimed Woodson a good college coach by the way. But the fan base turned on him the second there was some adversity in year 3 despite some moderate success in years 1 and 2 and it was over. It just fuels the reason why this fishbowl job is continually stuck in neutral.

Which coach doesn’t have flaws? There’s X amount of coaches good enough to reach a F4, win multiple B10 championships and consistently recruit/develop first round talent. If that isn’t good enough for IU, well, we’ll be doing this for awhile. How did IU hire Cig? Pure luck. There’s no reason that guy should have been available for IU to hire in the first place.

Hiring Kelvin Sampson was the biggest mistake IU made in the post-Knight era

Mike Woodson made the tournament his first year and was contending for a B10 title in year 2. What do you have for sale if I may ask?

The problem with going the mid-major route…are you going to give that mid-major coach time to get his feet wet and figure it out? This fan base has put this job so high up on a pedestal that simply doesn’t exist. It’s a lose-lose.

Can they? Kentucky was turned down 5 different times? So was UNC this last go around. Mick Cronin was UCLA's 20th choice back when he was hired, they couldn't even pry Jamie Dixon from TCU. Why would someone like Nate Oats want to leave his comfy perch and go coach at Batsh*t Crazy U...just so he can immediately be fired in 2-3 years for not winning a national title? You don’t need to coach at a blue blood to win a national title these days.