General Coach Candidate News

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52 minutes ago, Sandman said:

He'd be ICBM, coming at you like a nuclear missile.

4 yr Interim Coach Ben McCollum?

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Just an interesting tidbit from a Bloomberg story.  

"The Celtics ownership group, Boston Basketball Partners, decided last year to sell the storied franchise and is fielding offers for a majority stake. Sportico has valued the Celtics, the reigning National Basketball Association champions, at more than $5 billion. The current ownership group, led by Wyc Grousbeck and including Stephen Pagliuca, purchased the team for $360 million in 2002 and have benefited from soaring valuations for US sports teams in the past few years.

First round bids have already been made, and the next round is due Friday, Sportico reported earlier."

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6 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Regardless I'm not sold on mccollum that's my bottom line. Somebody you are. I am not.

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I’m not sold on anyone.  No one is a guarantee.  All I know is IU is going to hire an actual college basketball coach this cycle so I will give whoever it is a chance.   Anything will be 200 times better then hiring a coach that had 0 college basketball coaching experience 

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8 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Regardless I'm not sold on mccollum that's my bottom line. Somebody you are. I am not.

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Brownell or McCollum?

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Just now, Uspshoosier said:

I’m not sold on anyone.  No one is a guarantee.  All I know is IU is going to hire an actual college basketball coach this cycle so I will give whoever it is a chance.   Anything will be 200 times better then hiring a coach that had 0 college basketball coaching experience 

You win the thread.  Close it down.

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Brad, Billy, Beard, or Ben 

Medium-High Confidence (85%) in 1 of these 4 getting the job 

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19 minutes ago, monskisprodigy said:

I think I am full steam ahead on the Will Wade train. 

I'm starting to lean towards him potentially being what so many have said is the "mystery guy" it makes sense that Dolson would want to 

A) keep it tight lipped as to avoid the amount that people will be able to talk about the past issues. 

B) The hiring of TurnKey to properly vet him all the way around gives you a safety net 

Think about it if it were to leaked early on that he was the candidate Dolson had zeroed in on then people would have dug into past for more than a month and public opinion or higher ups might soured on the idea.  Now Scott waits till McNeese State is done playing and announces it as a done deal before the portal opens (As long as McNeese doesn't go on a run to the S16) . 

You can tell everyone that TurnKey did there due diligence and you vetted him for more than a month and did your HW and feel good about the decision. You've controlled the story and now its solely about winning 

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4 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

Brownell or McCollum?

The Brownell or McCollum rumor seems like once McCollum is hired, a fanbase uniting, "Thank God it wasn't Brownell rumor."

Well I guess Brownell would unite 95% of the fan base into a therapy group setting.

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1 hour ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

AP did say there’s going to be alot of wild rumors this week 

He certainly has not disappointed...

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1 hour ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

AP did say there’s going to be alot of wild rumors this week 

lol I did indeed 

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Go after Darian Devries at West Virginia and bring his son to play for us if we are moving down the list.

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6 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

Brad, Billy, Beard, or Ben 

Medium-High Confidence (85%) in 1 of these 4 getting the job 

Beard ain't getting it lol 

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Given that we haven't really heard chit, only two possibilities exist at this point.

1)  It is in fact Stevens and they are just waiting for the appropriate time to announce.  Would be pretty simple to keep it quiet as only Stevens, Wife/agent, some big $ boosters would know.  

OR

2)  Dolson hasn't really done squat himself yet.  He's letting the search firm develop the candidate list and he'll pick it up as teams exit the various tournaments.  

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44 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Awesome... now we can't even get Brownell? This is beyond comical...

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Im hungry...

 

Whats for lunch

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43 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Purely FWIW - 

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2025/03/11/indiana-coaching-search-6-mid-major-candidates/82226076007/

paywall...summarize?

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3 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Beard ain't getting it lol 

How do you feel about the other 3

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IF IU is truly at the McCollum/Brownell level, I still think Chris Collins would be the better gamble.  Collins learned under Coach K at duke and has risen Northwestern from obscurity to respectable; which is really saying something give it is . . . well, Northwestern basketball.  When looking back at the most successful teams Collins has built there he certainly has not had the benefit of top recruits.  His best teams were exactly that, TEAMS that share the ball and run the offense Chris asks of them.  I think Chris is a very good X and O guy and given the NIL at IU I think he could do very well and perhaps even surprisingly well.

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2 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Awesome... now we can't even get Brownell? This is beyond comical...

Brownell would take the job in a heartbeat. Let's just hope it doesn't get to that 

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4 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Beard ain't getting it lol