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They would have given UConn everything they wanted had Shead not gotten hurt in the S16 against Duke last year.

Sampson is 34-4 in the B12 since Houston came over. Many doubted Houston being an American conference member. His run the last 7-8 seasons at Houston is remarkable.

A St. John's/Houston national title game would be epic (assuming IU is eliminated of course)

A real jack of all trades

Probably the only coach who could take your 5 and beat you with them. Dude doesn't care about stars or rankings, just recruits dogs who aren't afraid to compete.

He's the best coach in college basketball

And Sean Miller was caught on the same FBI wire tap talking to the same FBI subject (Christian Dawkins) facilitating payments to DeAndre Ayton. But since Will Wade was a mid-30’s, up and comer at a non-basketball school…the NCAA had to bury somebody.

Perhaps “made an example of” triggers you less?

He didn’t cooperate with the NCAA because he was being railroaded while guys like Bill Self and Sean Miller got off Scot-free

WTF?

It's still an above average job with blue blood expectations. Your feet are held to the fire the second you step foot on campus and you're burned alive at the stake by year 3 if desired levels of success aren't achieved. That downside far outweighs having money to buy a new roster every year, which doesn't guarantee anything.

I mean he's had a top 20 KenPom team the last two seasons and has decade plus worth of experience coaching P5 basketball. Would he be a candidate at Duke or Kansas? Probably not, but Indiana isn't close to Duke or Kansas right now.

I'd hire DeVries over McCollum too given the choice between either and assuming both were available and interested. Very rarely do schools get their top choice however.

I don't believe Dolson put all his eggs in one basketball on this one, despite what we've been told. I do believe he made an obligatory call to Stevens once Woodson's retirement was announced but don't believe it went much further than that. Poaching somebody like May, Drew, or Otzelberger was always going to be an uphill battle given the state of the program. Any other school that has missed the tournament more times than they've made it the last quarter century would be thrilled with a candidate list that included Brownell, McCollum, Collins, etc

Would DeVries take the Iowa job? He'd seem like a logical replacement for McDermott here whom I can't see coaching forever.

Hamilton was absolutely persuaded to step down and retire. They’ve been awful the last three years and he’s currently being sued by nearly a dozen former players over NIL issues. Obviously he earned a lot more grace than Woodson, but he was absolutely told his time was up. Either way, it’s all irrelevant. A coach hasn’t been announced because one hasn’t been hired, not because IU is doing Woodson a favor.

Who cares? Leonard Hamilton, who has been at Florida State a hell of a lot longer than Woodson has at IU, announced his retirement a month ago and Florida State hired and announced their new coach within 2 weeks. The reason nobody has been announced is because nobody has been hired.

This search is no different than any other search. Whoever IU is hiring is still coaching at another school and it won’t be announced until both IU’s season and whoever the new coach season has ended. Pretty standard stuff. Every job that has been filled so far has been with non-sitting head coaches. If BS was the guy and has been the guy all along it would have been leaked, if not outright confirmed. What does IU stand to gain by waiting to announce their coach if in fact they have one locked up?

With that crew…I’d probably join him.

Same minus the Kirkwood part, maybe. Don't need to be riling up any co-eds.

And if that's the case I would definitely explore Schertz down the road if the job happens to be open in the next couple of years. But 18-13, 11-7 in the A-10 doesn't scream "hire me". Had he done what he did at ISU last year at SLU then I probably change my mind. They will lose the programs all-time leading scorer in Jimmerson and I wouldn't be shocked if Swope and/or Avila explored some better NIL opportunities for their senior season.

Wade will be the biggest name hired this cycle.

I'm saying 18-13 at SLU isn't some novel success story. Rick Majerus won there. Jim Crews won 27 and 28 games there. Travis Ford won 20+ games 4 times in 8 years there. If Schertz can put together a couple of seasons where he's pushing 30 wins and winning A-10 titles, I'd move him up on my list if the job opens up 4-5 years down the road.

My brother, Chris Beard isn't coaching IU and I am fully confident in that based on what I shared the other day. He is a dirt bag and that's really the last thing I'm going to say about Chris Beard.

Will Wade and we won't have any issues for the next 20+ years.