General Coach Candidate News

[Crazy about IU 300]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:45 PM, iu eyedoc said:

Snippet from  Zach Osterman

Indianapolis Star

Dolson has spent the last month-plus priming the pump, and he’ll want to give his next coach as much time in the portal window as possible to conduct whatever surgery his roster requires.

Indiana fans have spent that same space of time watching patiently. Things that once heated slowly are now beginning to heat fast. Both a season and a coaching search are beginning to approach full boil.

Where is this happening?

Osterman is probably who will get the news on the new coach first. Sounds like this will be over next week. That’s probably good news.

[AZ Hoosier 10,576]

  On 3/15/2025 at 1:50 PM, OliviaPope40 said:

Top left: moon landing for Aldrin and Armstrong

Top right: Kennedy assassination 

Bottom left: Challenger explosion

In summation: where were you when all of these events happened. 

Hinting at a "do you remember where you were when..." moment?

Let's Go!

[Scotty R 3,304]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:51 PM, JF87 said:

Did we ever decipher the Kenya Hunter tweet from last night?  

BNBB

Bring n Back Baby

[Silat Player 1,817]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:40 PM, Home Jersey said:

I’m not saying Scott isn’t pulling off something great behind the scenes right now, but I follow a couple of schools fairly closely and haven’t heard any stories about ADs that even begin to rival half the “fan fiction” written about Scott Dolson over the past two years lol. Not calling every story about him posted here that, but there’s definitely been some of it. We can all admit that right? I say that as someone that wants him to succeed and thinks he will make a good hire (really hope he does anyway).

Yeah, that's kind of where I was going with my gently asked question earlier.

[AZ Hoosier 10,576]

  On 3/15/2025 at 1:57 PM, Chris007 said:

It’s interesting that Brad has seen games in the ACC tournament his kid of course, big East on Thursday night and SEC on Friday night and yet to wear Celtics gear. Wonder where he’ll be tonight 

Indy?

[Pagoda 4,013]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:56 PM, Home Jersey said:

Totally, which is a good thing. We are all just on edge after more than a month of this now basically. The timing was always going to be most likely right after the first weekend finishes and the portal opens IMO. We just gotta leg out the home stretch, almost there… hard not to fill in the blanks with conjecture / speculation in the meanwhile 

Yea.  Due to our history I get rattled when Dusty signs an extension or Goodman tweets whatever or Brownell comes up.  PTSD.

I keep going to back to the fact Scott has been on our side.  He wanted to fire Woody after last season (good call) and this year he got it done midseason (impressive!).  He knew Woody wasn’t the answer a long time ago, probably before most fans — he changed his buyout before year 3, Woody was in good standing with the fanbase back then.

I think he has been prepping for this search for a long time.

[iu eyedoc 4,263]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:57 PM, Crazy about IU said:

Osterman is probably who will get the news on the new coach first. Sounds like this will be over next week. That’s probably good news.

I'll be here.

[OliviaPope40 7,433]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:59 PM, AZ Hoosier said:

Hinting at a "do you remember where you were when..." moment?

Let's Go!

1. 9/11 was in the living room watching the news getting ready for school I was in the third grade

2. IU and UK game pacing around the house with my mom before the final shot

3. Syracuse tournament in the car and United Airlines had lost my luggage spring break trip

[Henryville Hoosier 1,332]

  On 3/15/2025 at 3:00 PM, Scotty R said:

BNBB

Bring n Back Baby

BRAD N BLOOMINGTON BABY!

[Atombaum 35]

You just made my point. No one here is asking anything. Just spending time saying nonsense. I was hoping for news or insight. Not just look at me posts.

[jimsorgi 1,100]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:50 PM, IU Prof said:

This said the bu6out is $8.3 million:

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/college/clemson/2025/03/13/brad-brownell-salary-contract-bonus-clemson-basketball/82350842007/

I think there's a very good chance that the writer misunderstood the contract. 

[AZ Hoosier 10,576]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:16 PM, go iu bb said:

Talk to the mods, they'll get you a refund since you're not pleased with the product.

Thanks for contributing this gem of insight into the coaching search.

They're still running that "double your money back" guarantee for subscribers, right?

[Atombaum 35]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:16 PM, go iu bb said:

Talk to the mods, they'll get you a refund since you're not pleased with the product.

Thanks for contributing this gem of insight into the coaching search.

You just made my point. No one here is asking anything. Just spending time saying nonsense. I was hoping for news or insight. Not just look at me posts.

[cbp4iu 2,273]

Neptune just got fired

[Scotty R 3,304]

  On 3/15/2025 at 3:06 PM, Atombaum said:

You just made my point. No one here is asking anything. Just spending time saying nonsense. I was hoping for news or insight. Not just look at me posts.

Why would you think there will be any concrete news on here. This is a message board and it is for speculation. Nobody on here knows anything so people argue about who they think is the best candidate.

[lillurk 4,906]

  On 3/15/2025 at 3:01 PM, AZ Hoosier said:

Indy?

Totally sensible to me that, adjacent to @8bucks question earlier and adding to @Trish’s answer, you’d have regional scouts camped out at tournaments and execs either popping in to one for a day or maybe catching one near their team. Not sure how normal it would be to go to 3 in 4 days (if this were to happen) even if one of the three was to watch family play. Maybe it is! Seems at least a little atypical to me, not trying to stir the pot though.

 

[lillurk 4,906]

  On 3/15/2025 at 3:08 PM, cbp4iu said:

Neptune just got fired

Seems like Collins will be interested, I think McCollum might be too (just a hunch).

[IU Prof 2,185]

  On 3/15/2025 at 3:08 PM, jimsorgi said:

I think there's a very good chance that the writer misunderstood the contract. 

That could be true.

[BGleas 8,957]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:43 PM, IUHoosierJoe said:

Just briefly, at a certain level of giving, each donor gets assigned a “contact person” in the AD’s office (associate AD, assistant AD, etc.).  If the donor wants info about anything, they go to their contact person.  The names that that been passed along and generally picked up by the “media” (Goodman, etc.) are names that these contacts are giving to the donors.  Unless you believe a name like Beard is actually a candidate, they are false flags.

That makes complete sense. It's similar to the big season ticket holders in the NBA having sales executives at the team that they can call and contact for various things, and the ticket holders often try and get info from them.  

We're probably just talking semantics here, but I don't think those contacts are putting out planned "smokescreens" directed by the organization. 

Those contacts don't really know anything either. They're just trying to schmooze their season ticket holder (donor in this case) and have polite conversation. 

I don't think It's like coordinated misinformation. 

[AZ Hoosier 10,576]

  On 3/15/2025 at 2:22 PM, BlueDevil said:

I just can't wait for this to be over with and get the next chapter started.

Agreed. We're way behind schedule on being underwhelmed and contemplating skydiving without a parachute.