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They have three recruits in their 2025 class, one top-150 and two top-100. https://247sports.com/college/west-virginia/season/2025-basketball/commits/ If it's him, the nature of coaching changes is brutal, but we may take one or two of them too.

A high bar you set Sir...

Give it 48 hours for people to digest and the new coach will have full support.

This is just per Trilly? He could be right, but nothing from Thamel or Osterman yet?

I know this statement about resources gets old, but we've got like 2-3x more for player payroll than Iowa. Would be wild if we wanted Ben and he turned down the chance to spend that much money on the roster because he just loves Iowa. We'll see, but Ben is Cig-like and could still be Scott's pick. I don't know who would be better, Ben or DD, just guessing at the outcome. Of course it may be the old mystery 3rd candidate... Edit: I just saw the DD pack line defense video... I'm shifting my preference to Ben lol.

I get what you're saying. One thing to note is UK hired a guy with zero tourney wins. I kinda doubt it's Devries, I think his agent is using the IU job to get more from WVU. If it's him, that's fine, we'll see how he does!

I wouldn't count out McCollum. That could be who we want and Iowa is left looking.

I've got to say this is a lot of fun.

Finally a legit source!

I’ve heard from a good source the Hysterics aren’t getting access again as long ad Scott is AD. So that’s good news.

Talk about a person with no idea how to cover and report on a coach search…

I’m pretty sure all sorts of click and clout chasers are getting caught up in the agent nonsense. The people who cover IU and CBB the best have filtered this out and so far have seemingly been right in saying no one knows yet.

Yep. One that lasts, I’d love a coach to have a 20 year run here. I’ve already had enough coach searches for a lifetime.

Now that I’ve heard Brownell is almost certainly out and probably never was an option, this is all much more enjoyable again. Though I’d even give Brownell a shot.

Not sure. Sisley would be a tough kid to poach given how much he loves IU, but who knows. Honestly posting about who is following who is fairly embarrassing lol.

This is the angle, who Ben is following. I'll keep saying it though, who knows...

Brad must be the easiest PR firm client of all time.

Story may be more about who McCollum is following... Again, I know this is dumb lol

This is a silly piece of info but I'll post it. Sisley and McCollum just started following each other on X. Update: I confirmed they are following eachother lol.

Could be B1G media rights $ and being in one of the big two stable conferences. Iowa I guess has financial limitations with bball, but their athletic dept revenue is like 40-50% higher than WVU. And he is from Iowa.

Dan is a terrible source. He doesn’t have good contacts, he doesn’t check facts, and he has no problem repeating rumors and lying.

On this note, I've heard that people sometimes ask his kids if their dad would take the IU job -- not surprising. I've heard their response is he would not. Is that the truth? Or the only answer they can give? I don't know. I continue to think Scott will get us a good coach. It's sort of funny, some people get mad at him, but he's probably a bigger IUBB fan than anyone on this board. He's on our side and he has been doing a great job the past few years. And lastly, unless we see someone like an Osterman or Thamel say we are getting close to ending this process, I don't put any stock in these endless donor/agent rumors and "it's done" stuff. A lot of media are not using good judgement to filter out rumors and legit facts. Anyways, I'm still optimistic here down the stretch.

Doesn’t he have Brownell as #2 on his hot board or something like that? Time to update it to version 6.0!

And regardless of what the win/loss record and tournament committee said. Give me a break. Didn’t have to take the job? That’s a new one for the Woody narrative. Good grief.