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It doesn't compute like that for me. He could've jumped to a better job then Drake after the 38-0 team. He had several good players obviously that could've came with him then. He wasn't interested then he when he does jump it's Drake Iowa to make a one year spring board to the ultimate nut cracker us. I'm not saying you're wrong, it seems like it's an odd plan for a guy up to now that's been very particular.

McCollum strikes as more Coach K. I still don't think he's gonna jump at money for us? Wade is Pitino and Beard is Sampson. Bucky McMillan might be Pearl.

Very well stated and I agree on almost everything you've said. Two Missouri Valley Tourney Championships and one regular season Championship. In 6 years. Has he won a NCAA tournament game? Was he better than Josh Schertz last year? This would stack up right beside the Archie hire.

DeVries doesn't sound like the "Dolson has his guy" 3 weeks ago rumor. He sounds more like, "I gave a list of traits to a search firm and they spit out 6 names and I've been turned down 3 times." This sounds like maybe Quinn didn't hijack the hire in 2021, maybe he really did have to jump in and pull Woody out of his a55 at the last second. Nope, I'm still expecting James Bond late this week.

Extensions mean nothing and a buyout under 10m is no obstacle if both parties want it to happen. He signed an extension at FAU then took meetings with at least 2 schools we know of. If he wants to be our coach he will be. I don't think he's ever implied it was a career dream of his to coach IU.

That was sane and uplifting. AND on my 2500th page of some of the craziest sh7t I've ever read. Thank you all. Now let's all try to manifest Jay Wright into existence. Shalom

Who's going to put me over 2500?

Exactly!!! A binomial weird pronoun porn.

How about, Jay Wright makes the front of my pants tight? lol lol

Some of the coaches on "the list" look like they are more likely to have a profile on grinder.

6 years at a mid-major, to 7 years of mediocre results as an nba coach to 11+m a year as the architect of the world championship Celtics. That's biblically miraculous in terms of a career trajectory. If he woke up from his current job to find out it was a dream and he was really about to be the coach at IU he would blow his brains out. To leave his current job without divorce papers would be equally as miraculous as getting the job in the first place. They'll have to fire him and drag him outta that building. The perks he gets.....AND 11+m base salary. That's quantum physics money. We cant wrap our minds around his quality of life. Jay Wright was in a final 4, what 3 years ago and might make one million at CBS. That's wet dream money for me but the 70x 7 we offered Brad is another story. That would be hard to turn down for a rugged, handsome, swashbuckling basketball HOFer with impeccable taste in clothing. Get off the Brad train and on the Wright track! Lol lol lol

That is the part that makes me believe he won't want any part of IU. I don't think he passed on numerous other offers the last 4 years to settle on home state Drake to set himself up for anything like IU. I may have to eat crow on this but I'm convinced we aren't in his plans after one year of getting his feet wet. He's a great coach though.

Wright would definitely shoot me way past giddy. I would have to change my shorts. Pitino or baby Pitino(Will Wade) would make me giddy. The one whoms name cannot be spoken(Beard) would be great. Then I'm uninspired.

We're going over 2500 tonight, I'm excited.

This would fit the description of Dolson already having his guy, currently not coaching that's an elite hire. The resume, capable of being the face of the university, no dirt under his nails. With the money we tried to give to Bradley in 2021, I've heard crazier things.

He couldn't deal with being the face of IU. Nor can 98% of every names mentioned every day. Of that 98%, the smart ones know it and won't waste their time or ours.

I really appropriate your Westhead reference. But I have to dig into you a bit. If I was irrational I would say "f the university and students I want to win" but of course that's ridiculous. I will say from witnessing the job at the low starting points of college coaching, it's nasty. We can go down a list that starts at the top. Self, Sampson, Pitino, Pearl,,,,etc on and on. You look at a guy like Drew or Brad or a Jon Scheyer. These guys didn't start in the trenches and have divorce number 2 and functional alcoholism to deal with. We have 1971-1995 to hang our hat on and for all the reasons most people fail to mention about RMK that were awesome and I love, every year starting in 1977 he became a little bit more out of his mind. He never succumbed to cheating though. The great John Wooden tried it. He was the Ben McCollum/Brad Stevens/Dusty of his time. Super successful at ISU for 2 years, went to UCLA and finally gave up trying to beat Pete Newell and handed recruiting over to Sam Gilbert and was the most successful and dirtiest coach of all time. We really aren't much to talk about if you take 1971-1995 out of the story. You have to go back to before the rotary phone. There may not be the coach that returns us to that greatness that hasn't or isn't capable of pushing it too far.

I'm afraid instead of b.i.n.g.o it's going to be b.u.n.g.h.o is our name-o and I'm going to have to buy a bunch of St. John's gear to keep my sanity.

I have really taken advantage of the fast food fish sandwich deals.

This kid can play. Like Rice, Carlyle and a lot of the portal players that turned us down, if you are a downhill player that excels in space or God forbid play off the ball out of weekside movement and a ball reversal, IU can make you look pretty bad. There were plenty of schools, like a St. John's or Michigan St where he would've fit right in.

This makes a lot of sense to me. A name that's currently not coaching. That would be a homerun: Jay Wright would definitely be a homerun

Jay Wright is wearing a red pocket square. There you go.

They stay close and eventually break your will to compete. I hope we can get a St John's vs Houston championship.

Houston is holding up their end of the deal without Robert's.

If we had a team that played as hard as Houston or St. John's, assembly hall couldn't keep a roof on.