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Definitely hard to be patient when we are all anxious for some information, but it will all come together in due time as shown in this tweet.

Apparently, that's where you go to rehabilitate yourself to get a better job LOL

Doesnt seem like many will come with him from the WVU roster at this point.

I live in the area and actually my wife knew the mother in hs. He really never materialized at ND. He did have a great high school career but never really played at ND. I know (wife follows mother on fb) they were torn whether to stay last year but I think they thought he may get a better shake for playing time with Shrews. I dont know if the brother Chase is any better than JR was. I think JR may have had better hs stats. Good kids and good family by all accounts.

McCollum is very impressive. He will be successful wherever he ends up. I kind of hope he stays at Drake for now lol

I hope he’s retained. It appeared his work with Ballo (and I’m sure others) was valuable.

Good press conference. Things that stuck out to me: Building a team not just bringing a roster of players. Process oriented...Cig all the way Confident, happy to be here, and really relaxed better when he started talking about ball. I was happy with him as the hire but he won me over even more after listening to him talk.

I follow him on X...saw what he was saying but as with all things took it with a grain of salt. I guess he was the one with the correct information vs what all the others were being fed. I believe anyone here posting was passing along the info they were given. Scott did a hell of a job keeping it quiet.

Excellent post. I don't really understand how anybody that watched the UK/UL hires last year thought IU was any different. Those are both great jobs and none of the top coaches were going there either. Why? Not because those are bad jobs but because they don't have to in the world of NIL anymore. If Oats/Pearl/Drew et al are happy where they are at, have an established program that is rolling, they do not need UK or IU. They have money and can get top recruits. Dolson isn't a failure for hiring DeVries. He swung for the fences like he should have and as expected he ended up with a young, hungry coach (like Pope and Kelsey) from a P5 program. The sky is not falling and IU basketball isn't doomed. This is exactly what the landscape of college basketball coaching hires are today, and we could have done far, far worse than we did.

Well between this thread and the coaching hire thread trying to catch up, I’ve literally done nothing but read my phone all night lol Good hire. Much of what I expected. Never bought into the Stevens/Pearl/Wright et al hype. McCollum was my top choice but I’m excited to see what DD can do. Looking forward to seeing Tucker light it up from deep in AH. Time to focus on staff and roster. Appreciated being here for the search. I hope to stick around and post more now.

I am curious what other big fish hire you think we were getting? Repeating what the other poster said...if you paid attention to UK/UL searches this shouldn't be unexpected or different IMO. Now if we did get someone big great for Dolson but I don't expect it nor will I be disappointed when it doesn't happen.

Because he’s the flavor of the day. Nobody knows who we are pursuing at this point. But hopefully it’s not Brownell lol

This…I think some are going to be disappointed if/when the name isn’t Stevens, Pearl, Wright. If anyone paid attention to UK/UL search last year, then nobody should be expecting too much different. Scott should absolutely swing for the fences with top coaches but when we hire a McCollum/DeVries/McMillan it shouldn’t be a surprise. We aren’t hiring Beard or Wade unfortunately.

What if McCollum turned us down? He was choosy when he left D2 for Drake. By all accounts he was approached many times before going to Drake. Just looking at another perspective.

Todays candidate du jour

2500…finally. Now what’s the next goal lol

I could get on board with him. McCollum would be my choice between the two but we could do a lot worse. He has some good talent he could bring with him too.

Yea isn’t his buyout higher?

Because Wade has too much in his background that doesn’t align with our holier than thou morals. I agree wholeheartedly. At some point we have to stop passing on the Rick Pitino’s for the Archie Millers because we need a choir boy as our coach.

Rightfully so. Dolson likely doesn’t survive the 4 year cycle if he hires Brownell.

Let’s hope not because that would be the most underwhelming hire we could make.

For real. It would be hell.

Worst decision to keep Woody. This could have been IU and Dusty. But it’s just one in a long line of bad decisions that we continue making about our basketball program. That’s why hiring Brownell won’t surprise me. It’s just what we do.

Makes sense. Dusty I’m sure had no guarantees from IU though so don’t think you can pass up a P4 job to wait on an opportunity that may never come. Ready to turn the page and be done with the search. I want to be excited about the program again. I’ve been so apathetic for so long, it’s depressing.

I’m more of a ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ kind of fan given the last 25 years. I’m not in the camp that believes Stevens is coming. I’ll be ecstatic to be wrong but I just don’t buy it.