General Coach Candidate News

[IsaacTor 1,030]

Brad will hold off on telling Boston staff he is leaving until IU is out of tournament. Dolson and brad agreed it's not fair to the current players to make a distraction during the run. As I said earlier day after we are out we will make the announcement the following morning. Brad will also be in person for announcement. My guess is it gets leaked to shams night or early morning and he will release to public assuming dolson doesn't leak it before then. For those who love flight tracking look for flights to the night or very early am after we lose. 

[ziggyiu 782]

1 minute ago, HoosierBoiler said:

This has been discussed I’m sure but if it’s gonna be a 3rd tier coach why not just Hire Alford? I’m sure he has great connections in Indiana high school coaching circles.I know he has been a pretty Average coach for the most part but I do think he could succeed at IU. I’m gonna get blasted I’m sure. I want to be clear he wouldn’t be my 1-3 choice. 

The tier 3 coaches, like Huss, still have something to prove.

Afford has already proven he can't sustain high-level success at a high-level institution. 

It's kind of like when IU hired Woodson. Look around. No one else wanted to hire him. Same with Alford. There's a reason he landed at Nevada after UCLA. 

[AH1971 2,738]

13 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Give it a rest... go beat you Wade drums some place else... 

Like I said two weeks ago, this place will be yearning for a Will Wade or Mick Cronin once this search has run its course. 

[RaceToTheTop 30,064]

21 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Hot take 

 

if Schertz and his whole team stayed together for this year instead of leaving  and ISU ran through the MVC then Schertz would of been the favorite to replace Woody 

Probably but if schertz had stayed I doubt he would have Venn able to keep the team tigether

[lillurk 4,906]

Hypothetically, if Scott Dolson had fostered a relationship with someone not currently coaching over years, had a deal or framework in place with that candidate, hired a search firm for cover/private comms/backups etc., and the candidate’s agent was his wife, it would probably look a lot like this search has.

I’m not positive that’s the case. But until some of our best-connected posters change their tunes, I think it’s still in play.

[JPCIVOP 687]

1 minute ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad will hold off on telling Boston staff he is leaving until IU is out of tournament. Dolson and brad agreed it's not fair to the current players to make a distraction during the run. As I said earlier day after we are out we will make the announcement the following morning. Brad will also be in person for announcement. My guess is it gets leaked to shams night or early morning and he will release to public assuming dolson doesn't leak it before then. For those who love flight tracking look for flights to the night or very early am after we lose. 

Is the Whale Stevens... or IsaacTor?!

[monskisprodigy 2,266]

1 minute ago, Home Jersey said:

I have some experience in Media Relations, albeit not in college sports. Depends how you're defining "kick-back" 

Definitely not financial IMO... at least not in my experience. Trust is their currency.

Kick-back in the sense of, "you scratch my back on this, I'll scratch your back down the line" ... 100%

Goodman must still be waiting for his back to be scratched with all of those misses he's had that Tyme posted haha. 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,636]

Brownell would be equal to hiring Alford. We don't need that

[Uspshoosier 53,270]

Just now, RaceToTheTop said:

Probably but if schertz had stayed I doubt he would have Venn able to keep the team tigether

Not even close to being able to keep them however if they all stayed he would be at the top of the hot board if they had a year like they had the year before.  He had to move on as well.  ISU can’t pay what everyone that left ended up getting 

[Home Jersey 15,097]

2 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad will hold off on telling Boston staff he is leaving until IU is out of tournament. Dolson and brad agreed it's not fair to the current players to make a distraction during the run. As I said earlier day after we are out we will make the announcement the following morning. Brad will also be in person for announcement. My guess is it gets leaked to shams night or early morning and he will release to public assuming dolson doesn't leak it before then. For those who love flight tracking look for flights to the night or very early am after we lose. 

Why has he not been banned yet? Lol... I guess trolling does make the board more entertaining...

[Class of '66 Old Fart 89,255]

1 minute ago, AH1971 said:

Like I said two weeks ago, this place will be yearning for a Will Wade or Mick Cronin once this search has run its course. 

Hate to throw water on the Wade fire but seeing reports this afternoon he's having a second meeting with the NC State AD.  Absolutely no idea if it's fact or fiction, but that news is getting circulated.

[IU5355 808]

Seems like Mccollum most likely ends up at Iowa. They may pursue Devries. But what can they offer him that West Virginia can't? Unless he just really wants to go home. 

[SlammySammy 1,685]

Cronin over Brownell.....if we are at that point.....

[AH1971 2,738]

1 minute ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Hate to throw water on the Wade fire but seeing reports this afternoon he's having a second meeting with the NC State AD.  Absolutely no idea if it's fact or fiction, but that news is getting circulated.

Good for NC State if true.

[Uspshoosier 53,270]

4 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Like I said two weeks ago, this place will be yearning for a Will Wade or Mick Cronin once this search has run its course. 

Maybe some would however others like myself can just sit back and watch it unfold without yearning for anyone because IU will be hiring an actual college basketball coach this cycle 

[Trish 14,378]

2 minutes ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

Brownell would be equal to hiring Alford. We don't need that

I rather have Fife than Brownell. 

[8bucks 7,404]

3 hours ago, Chris007 said:

Haha. I know my wife does too and she gets on me a lot with my grammar. She even put Grammarly on my computer at work but I guess I don't use it as much as I should. :-)

Of course you are not using your work computer to comment on message boards

and neither am i..

[lillurk 4,906]

Just now, IU5355 said:

Seems like Mccollum most likely ends up at Iowa. They may pursue Devries. But what can they offer him that West Virginia can't? Unless he just really wants to go home. 

DeVries is an Iowa native like McCollum and has spent much of his career there or nearby — no insight about his preference to return but I think that’s the theory, regardless of relative job quality in a vacuum.

[Mr. Hoosier Pride 1,543]

4 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad will hold off on telling Boston staff he is leaving until IU is out of tournament. Dolson and brad agreed it's not fair to the current players to make a distraction during the run. As I said earlier day after we are out we will make the announcement the following morning. Brad will also be in person for announcement. My guess is it gets leaked to shams night or early morning and he will release to public assuming dolson doesn't leak it before then. For those who love flight tracking look for flights to the night or very early am after we lose. 

Isaac, I'd love this to be true....but man, you've burned yourself.  You're not credible anymore.  I wish you were but you're not.  That's not me attacking you, it's "The Boy Who Cried Stevens" .... there was the March 2 @ 3pm, there was "Osterman is about to break the news" followed by "just kidding" ..... 

I would love for this to be true, but your money's no good here anymore.  

[Kentuckysucks 4,331]

5 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

I have some experience in Media Relations, albeit not in college sports. Depends how you're defining "kick-back" 

Definitely not financial IMO... at least not in my experience. Trust is their currency.

Kick-back in the sense of, "you scratch my back on this, I'll scratch your back down the line" ... 100%

"You can trust me"