General Coach Candidate News

[Class of '66 Old Fart 88,725]

2 minutes ago, lillurk said:

At the very least this speaks pretty highly of the ath dept staff’s ability to convince them to wait and see. 

Certainly does.  Iowa's already had 3 players announce for the portal.

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 10,959]

4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Indiana definitely has more going for it based on fan support for basketball, $$ and fertile recruiting grounds in state. It’s probably not as dissimilar from the Iowa job as people like to think though. They’ve performed better than IU in recent history. For two guys from Iowa, it’s understandable if they’d prefer to be there than here IMO.

Again, the most popular winter sport in Iowa is WRESTLING. 

[SlammySammy 1,684]

5 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Why are we locked back on devries?

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Brownell turned us down

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 9,184]

Should have just brought Cignetti and Byington over as a combo deal.

[coonhounds 10,455]

Nothing yet unless I’m mistaken

Oh ok. The way everyone was freaking i thought it was soon

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Just now, Home Jersey said:

Nothing yet unless I’m mistaken

Speculation is today, or tomorrow, or Thursday! Lol I’m going noon news drop Thursday, right before tipoff!

[Hoosier Guy 8,306]

5 minutes ago, JimmerNoe said:

I have a very strong inclination that Goodman knows something. He is the person who is pushing a “mystery candidate” and he has been very coy about discussing the Indiana job on his shows. I think he is aware there is something bigger going on but is not going to break it until it’s time. 

I tend to agree.  Goodman mentioned a mystery candidate with the McCollum tweet as well.  It obviously means that DeVries isn’t the mystery candidate since he was mentioned in the newest tweet today.

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1 minute ago, lillurk said:

This, or going from “hire Otz” to “he’s not a candidate” without getting anything on the record

I don't know man. I think this could be a thing. 

I have very much been keeping BS hope alive but trying to avoid putting on a tin foil hat of my own.

Watch Goodman break it and say something like he's "had a feeling this was a possibility for the past week or so" to cover his bases.

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[hoosierpatriot22 149]

Porter Moser chatter starting to heat up 

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Just now, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Again, the most popular winter sport in Iowa is WRESTLING. 

Yup… If you want the limelight, IU is better. If you want to focus on basketball and doing your thing, Iowa is probably the choice for you. If you don’t want the limelight, you shouldn’t be at Indiana… but at a certain point, I think fans might want to consider why our support doesn’t seem to be a draw / positive for coaches… even when we can pay more and have more NIL. I don’t blame the fanbase for the past 25 years but at a certain point perception also becomes reality. We will learn a lot about how coaches think of IU based on who the hire is…

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47 minutes ago, BleedCubbieBlue said:

I am pretty sure this is from “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. I hope this doesn’t mean that we are only left with the bad and the ugly.

Didn't Clint Eastwood's character get the gold in that movie?

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 10,959]

Just now, Jeff_Boy_Ardee said:

 

cmon

[coonhounds 10,455]

If i am devries no way I am taking the iu job. He doesn't have the overall fan support. A year similar to the one he just had will get him so much heat he will be ready to leave bloomington next march. No way I would want that.

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16 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

The more you look into DeVries, the more boxes he checks 

-tutelage under two highly respected basketball coaches (Altman and McDermott)

-Highly successful at the mid-major level, set the standard at Drake

-P5 experience 

-capable of leading overnight rebuilds

-success in the portal

-can bring a roster that should immediately contend in the B10 

- Being a good coach is the most important thing.  Tutelage under 2 good coaches could be beneficial to that but doesn't necessarily mean it rubbed off.

- Good success at the mid-major level is a plus

- P5 experience but with mediocre results in a league not the same level as the Big Ten (not impressed on this bullet point)

- Basketball only has a small number of players (compared to football).  Overnight rebuild shouldn't be that hard in the NIL/portal era

- Sure but I don't think that separates him from the competition

- Hopefully said of most of the coaches we are talking about

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1 minute ago, hoosierpatriot22 said:

Porter Moser chatter starting to heat up 

Is it 2021 again? Am I in a time machine? LOL

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Buzz Williams going to take the interview while sitting next to his team heading for the tourney? Lol

[Rusty Shackleford 818]

Galen Clavio made a good point that nobody has entered the portal yet.

I was shocked we didn't see any names yesterday and am more surprised there haven't been any names today.

I don't think Dolson gave the players a name but one explanation is that he gave them enough to hold off until it's announced.

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4 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Should have just brought Cignetti and Byington over as a combo deal.

We could have received a 10% discount if we bought the combo.

[Home Jersey 14,929]

Goodman mentioning “mystery candidate” sure is peculiar / intriguing…