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But it’s not nearly as depressing as talking about Ben McCollum or Brad Brownell. Lord have mercy on either of their souls if they get hired here.

Breaking an NCAA rule isn’t a crime. I thought you were a lawyer? Ouch.

UK’s analytic measures aren’t nearly as good as some make them out to be. They’re a subpar defensive team that’s over-reliant on the 3 point line, a recipe for disaster in the tournament. That and Mark Pope has been a disaster in the tournament.

What crimes has Will Wade ever been charged with, let alone been exonerated from? Your character assassination of Will Wade for breaking an NCAA rule that is no longer a rule is frankly disgusting. Grow up.

And as far as being a contrarian? Nahh, I’m just being a realist. To succeed at IU as a coach, you need: a) high level basketball acumen b) the personality, the chops, the demeanor to handle the noise. You need both, you aren’t goin to succeed with just one. Will Wade, in my opinion, has both…that’s why he’s my top choice as he is one of the few coaches with A and B who actually take this job. And I’m not saying there isn’t a mid-major out there who doesn’t have it, but there are few and far in-between. It’s a crapshoot.

lol. Pope’s 15-5. Guess who was 15-5 ranked in the top 10 in the country at this juncture last year? Yeah, that’s right the guy whose head UK fans wanted on a platter last year. That’s why they ended up with Pope. As always is the case with Kentucky, it comes down to March. We’ll see how UK fans view Pope heading into next season will they inevitably bow out in the R32 here next month. As far as Pat Kelsey goes, he’s done an admirable job so far. Good for him. There was literally nowhere to go but up for that program. He seems like a good dude, we’ll see if he can build and sustain any type of success.

We can revisit Kelsey and Pope 3-4 years from now, especially Pope. Declaring coaches successful 20 games in is effectively silly.

I’m all for getting a “good” coach. Who might that be? I thought Crean was “good” at IU, all things considered. Archie was a “good” coach when he was hired. There’s a large sect of this fan base who thinks IU still has the draw to hire whoever they want, when they want. IU is going to end up hiring some up and coming coach because that’s all they can get (unless they want to drop the holier than thou card and hire Beard or Wade) and he’s going to get boo’d off campus sometime in year 2 or 3 because he doesn’t have the chops to handle a powder keg.

Who is the right guy? Crazy that Crean is the only one to make it past year 4.

Those guys weren’t fired from their jobs. And they moved up or laterally at best (Williams). What Crean did at a football school in the SEC after essentially winning the B10 twice and going to three S16’s in 6 years doesn’t mean anything to me. It doesn’t change or negate what he did in Bloomington. If the next guy has half the success of Crean, I’ll be pleasantly surprised. But as history suggests, we’ll likely be looking for his replacement 4-5 years from now.

Ha

A brick wall would elicit more thoughtful replies than half the nonsense that’s spewed here.

I guarantee you if IU hires Ben McCollum and says you better win 20 games and make the tournament in year 1 or you’re going to be on the hot seat going into year 2, he’s not bringing over half his Drake team. Expectations have everything to do within the timeline you’re able to do things you’re way.

What he did at Georgia is irrelevant. Look what Les Miles did at Kanas after he left LSU.

There’s literally ZERO expectations for Indiana football. Zero. Not comparable.

There was a small(ish) sect of Purdue fans who wanted Painter fired. I think every fan base has those types of fans at any given juncture. But they certainly didn’t have Purdue media publications writing hit pieces about him or declaring the entire team was transferring or board “insiders” hammering home that the administration had deals in place with sitting HoF caliber coaches all while in-season. A little bit different.

Like I said, I don’t know what that means. What is HSN?

I don’t know what the means

Don’t read it and then certainly don’t respond to it.

Crean’s tenure had two parts. Part 1: years 1-3 Complete and total rebuild while dream boy Stevens was winning up the road Part 2: years 4-9 two B10 titles, three S16’s, two missed tourney’s (one after best player got hurt middle of the year sitting at 13-6) He was never forgiven for losing to Syracuse.

Our own worst enemy

Nothing to do with Mike Woodson.

The sting happened the year prior. The news broke just before that season happened.

Matt Painter had his worst 4 year stretch chasing “stars”. Missed two straight tournaments and lost in the first round in excruciating fashion the next two years. And instead of kicking him to the curb, he got support and was given time to change his approach and the rest is history.

I don’t particularly care what he did at Georgia. We decided we were too good for S16’s and regular season B10 titles and haven’t sniffed either since.