BluegrassHoosier859

You can have 5. We only had 4 last season

Anybody know anything about him?

I don’t think you can be sure he will have recruiting success at Iowa just because D1 players are more talented than D2. He built his D2 program into a power house that the top D2 guys were attracted to. I’d imagine at the D2 level that program was recruiting itself. Relative to the talent he is now playing against it is a far from a given that he will be able to replicate that success. Maybe he will maybe he won’t but there’s no reason to expect that to be the likely outcome.

I bet this is it. Go to WVU and play behind Small, or go back home and start?

I dont care about McCollum but in regards to IU I mostly agree with everything you said. I do think the way this roster was put together they had to perform at or right near their best for 100% of the game to win against most in the league at thats a big ask for a 20 game conf schedule in the best conference in cbb. I think they did that more often at the start of the year and won some games. After a few blowouts when the pressure really ramped up to win to make it to the tourney I think they didnt get close to playing their best. Who knows the exact reason why. There are not a lot of teams that play to their absolute best night in and night out. This team had zero room for error this year, and they were small and unathletic. The roster is the coaches doing for sure, but im not ready to say Devries cant coach. Im far more concerned about landing the talent we need than his ability to coach that talent up if we get it.

The second paragraph is 100% right. Coaching gets easier as the roster gets better. Get the talent, coach them up, win a bunch of games. Not saying it wasn't a problem because it clearly was, but to your point "we are tossing the ball around the top of the arc waiting for someone to chuck a late shot clock 3 lol" - that was kind of the option this year based on the roster. Would you rather Tucker/Lamar taking a chance on a contested 3 or Enright/Bailey finishing at the rim?

I'm not the original poster but I think there are enough things you can point to as reasons why this season went the way it did and they should be fairly easily fixable. Devries has acknowledged that this roster wasnt good enough and appears to know what he needs to do to fix it. With the resources we have he should be able to get more talent with a full off season and staff in place despite missing the tourney in year 1. Im hoping the red flags that popped up this year are direct results of a deficient roster that took too long to come together because devries was trying to assemble a killer staff. Once he whiffed on the staff he was left scrambling and put together an extremely experienced albeit not very talented roster. I think he realized most of the talent was already committed elsewhere by the time he had his staff in place and tried to compensate by having the most experience. It didnt work, but at least it was a plan. He has an awesome resume as an assistant and a pretty good one as a head coach. I think he'll be fine. I think after year 1 you could just as easily find reasons why it will work as you could why it wouldnt. It just depends on how you want to see it. Im still choosing to be optimistic.

I dont know if you really are but I hate the McCollum Cig comparisons. Cig built up multiple programs! McCollum dominated D2 with a team that won the conference the year before he started then was great at Drake the one year he was there. And Drake was already built up and running strong from DeVries when McCollum took over!

Yeah watching Iowa this year has made me glad we didn’t go with him

Was a lot more optimistic before Purdue went on the run to end the half

I’ll start by saying I’ve never heard of this young man or seen him play. But a 6’7” kid that cant/wont shoot 3s and can’t make ft’s does not sound like someone that would be successful in a P4 conference.

UK is so lucky. Barely squeak by Santa Clara then likely to play an Iowa St. team without their best player.

If you throw out his first 3 years he was still barely above .500 in the conference. If youre going to be a coach that operates only in Highs and Lows the highs have to be higher than S16 appearances.

Crean deserves a lot of love and appreciation from IU fans for his time here. But it was time to move on. The future of the program wasnt bright as he had really screwed up recruiting towards the end. Not to mention there were off the court issues during his time here that crean lovers forget to mention. It was the right call and his time at UGA proved it. If you think crean deserved to be the coach at iu solely becuase he won multiple (2) conference championships in 9 years unless Billy Donovan or Brad Stephens came knocking then I dont know what to tell you.

At the time Archie was viewed as a home run hire. The young up and comer with success that was highly sought after from a family of successful coaches. Everyone thought it was a no brainer. It obviously didnt work out but to act like there was no plan after firing crean i think is a bit unfair.