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And you’d be firing off emails before he landed his first recruit.

He went 18-15 year 1, won the SEC the following year and finished 2nd and 3rd the next two years. Quite praising Brownell just to spite Wade lol.

Brad Brownell….You’re on the clock!

Again, you don’t have the slightest clue as to what you’re talking about. He won the SEC during the 18-19 season, the year prior to the tournament being cancelled.

You don’t have a clue as to what you’re talking about. Wade won the SEC in his 2nd year. He was fired prior to the NCAAT in his 5th season.

Ehh disagree. IU falling further into irrelevancy with each passing year only adds to the desperation and increased noise. We want to try and replace the last 30 years overnight. It’s never going to happen. Better win and better win quick or you don’t have a prayer. It’s a vicious cycle.

JFC. Will Wade has won a conference championship at P5 school. McNeese is a low major school currently 60th in KenPom. Brad Brownell is the epitome of average. If you don’t want to hire Will Wade because of his past transgressions, totally fine although I disagree with you. But somehow trying to paint a picture that Will Wade and Brad Brownell are on the same tier levels of coaching is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.

Disagree. You’d have to actually want the IU job to get hired here.

Is this where I tell you...you need better sources? Or do I need to wait 6 weeks?

I wouldn't have paid for two degrees nor spend the amount of money I do on tickets and travel to watch IU if I didn't care. What kind of question is that? Being a realist doesn't change any of that.

Brad Brownell hasn't won a conference title in almost 20 years. Are we seriously doing this? Brad Brownell has had one fluke tournament run in 15 years at a school with literally zero basketball expectations who would have been fired 3 or 4 times over by now if he coached anywhere that gave a damn. The fact that we're talking about Brad Brownell just to spite Will Wade is flat out ludicrous.

Stick to your Stevens delusions, we're over here in the real world.

Will Wade has won 3 conference titles at 3 different schools and taken 3 different schools to the tournament. He's also 42.

If Will Wade won 25 games his first year here, not one single person would give a sh*t that Will Wade made a strong-@$$ offer 7 years ago on an FBI wiretap. And why would they? It's completely irrelevant in today's game. If our program isn't making strong-@$$ offers to recruits and transfers they aren't fit for the job.

Well we are talking about hiring guys like Brad Brownell so you may have a point.

If you want to defend the actions of the kids Sampson recruited, by all means you're free to do so. Zero interest in seeing that caliber of character in Bloomington ever again.

Forgive me for thinking the guy who has a .500 winning % in-conference at Clemson over the last 15 years wouldn't come storming into Bloomington and kill it overnight. My bad.

You can count on one hand the number of schools whose fans expect their team to win at the level IU fans expect. The only issue is that IU is the one school who hasn't done it in 30+ years.

Solely responsible? Of course not never said that. But if you don't win overnight, you're on the chopping block quick.

Brad Brownell would say all the right things, gush at the opportunity of returning "home", speak the history of basketball in this state to existence, yada yada yada He wouldn't win many basketball games however.

Bud Mackey was and he was convicted of trafficking crack-cocaine...WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL. Eli Holman was and he missed his junior season for punching out a referee mid game and then most of his senior season after getting shot in the head at a gang affiliated party. Sampson was here less than 24 months.

It's only stale because it's been true for so long. Some of these mentioned guys wouldn't have a prayer here.

I'm talking about until we get the Fire Brad Brownell Thread started. Should have clarified. I would take the under on that easy. But yeah, if we're only interested in winning the press conference and not hiring the best basketball coach you'll likely get your wish. We aren't called Revolving Door U for no reason.

Kelvin Sampson recruited drug dealers and gangsters while coaching here. That's the biggest reason.

O/U 2.5 seasons for Brownell here?