HoosierDevils

There's a ton of Will Wade noise right now, in general, for open jobs that both exist (NC State) and those that don't at least yet (Texas). I think a lot of P5 fanbases see him as the unicorn coach w/ mid major success, P5 success, top level recruits, and whose only transgressions are moot given NIL and other recruitment rule changes. I would have no doubt that every fan base has diehard Will Wade fans and that his agency firm is happy to see how many $$$'s they can collect this cycle (which they should as it is their job and basis for income)

Zach Osterman describes these mid major coaches: Jerrod Calhoun (Utah St), Alan Huss (High Point), Ben McCollum (Drake), Bucky McMillan (Samford), Niko Medved (Col St), and Ryan Odom (VCU). I will say I was not terribly familiar with Medved but cool that he basically built three programs -- Furman from scratch, Drake was 7-24 the season before he arrived, and now basically from scratch at CSU. The crux of the article, though, is pretty basic -- there's some very good mid major coaches but the question mark for all is can you handle expectations, donors, alums, preferences for recruitment & style of play, big personalities, etc.

Really wish @IsaacTor would come back for one last troll

And Jai Lucas officially left Duke to join Miami the day after the Duke-UNC game to get started on portal & NIL related stuff: With Duke on Sat: https://x.com/JMannsTakes/status/1898572698885792241 Press on Mon: https://x.com/CaneSport/status/1899147350406234272

For example the memes are too easy already:

So you and @BehindTheBench differ by 1 day!

Are you and @Chris007 still all in on Brad or switching over team TJ?

It likely has a separability clause

Looks like another coaching search has wrapped up: https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/1897690186122690851

I think they still need another quad 1 win and maintain not having any Q2 or below losses which likely would require beating OSU, taking care of business in the first round of the BTT, and then winning another. The noncon schedule and performance was just so poor. Also worry about bid stealers if the resume isn’t great going into the conference tournament

You may be right but I don’t think ITH doing a profile is what would indicate that - they’ve done one on everybody discussed on this board and will continue to put out profiles of coaches people are talking about broadly speaking

Seemed to be pushing for Woodson around March 21 2021. Could see some connection to CMW with how they were pushing for him. So I don’t think they’re trolling us but also don’t fully buy the quality of info they’re getting. The timeline just doesn’t add up for me. If things heated up over the weekend and well after the team left for PNW, I don’t see CMW just being so connected to the search (and hearing BS and SD talks went nowhere which is counter to the other info people have gathered) and then calling buddies back in Btown about it between games.

Thanks! Was thinking it would be weird for Woodson to just be chatting up a mutual friend back in Btown about a coaching search he’s not really involved in and on bad terms with the AD staff during a “win and in” stretch in the PNW

Does this info align or conflict with what you’ve been hearing?

This may be a topic for another thread — or until they have another game — but I wonder your take on Archie Miller’s performance at URI?

And people seriously considering Brownell as legit for his top 3 finish in a mid major level conference

I think them being 2nd overall is an acknowledgment of the talent on their team. They def do not deserve #1 overall in light of what Auburn has put together this season. Just don’t have the volume of Q1 wins in the ACC and when they started in November the freshmen played like freshmen, so lost games late to UK and KU — both of whom I think they’d beat pretty easily now.

Def a real down year for the ACC but hard to ignore beating Illinois by 43 in late Feb and are still playing without Maliq Brown

Duke on a 34-9 run to make it 81-47

I guess this is the last two hours we have with Isaac posting

Michigan is playing like Dusty May just told them he’s leaving

Michigan getting boat raced to a team Duke beat by 43 a week ago

For those who were speculating about Zeller’s presence yesterday: https://x.com/codyzeller/status/1896258876674355215?s=46&t=Fcw6K8fSPVNFaq5-eOwH9w

Narrative is that Woody is doing this punitively (not talking to IU media), but alternatively and albeit very charitably it could also help the assistants get exposure for their next jobs. I for one have actually enjoyed listening to Yasir Rosemond in particular. I felt he has a grip on what’s going on, and is able to express it tactfully. Probably have enjoyed and learned more from his chats with Fisch than I ever did with Woody. Hope he finds some low major or D2 HC gig after the coaching change and maybe he can work his way up. I feel games he’s scouted have also been some of our best

Lol no. They are guessing who the two people in the poll referenced are