General Coach Candidate News

[EasyEJay]

4 minutes ago, BehindTheBench said:

As neither of those guys are fit to be the Head Basketball Coach at Indiana University, I would be ecstatic. 

I mean I get it and I would say I'm in the camp of wanting to believe its a big name, fish, whale, mammal whatever we are calling it now but their is just absolutely 0 tangible evidence that suggests that's the case.

I was hopefully about today but I think if it was a big name NOT coaching then we would know by now maybe I'll give a little bit more belief till the end of the day tomorrow / Thursday morning but I'm hopping on the realism train. 

[Soulsnipes]

1 minute ago, Artie86 said:

Jerry was told to keep quiet..... I would guess to expect him back tonight or tomorrow with the info. he was talking about.

I don't think there would be as much of a keep quiet if its Devries, not that I'm saying he could be well and capable to coach. Just seeing the noise from all the previous hirings don't see it.

[IU Prof]

Gonna post this one more time, for old time's sake.

[brandct]

5 minutes ago, VFury said:

How much of the DeVries hate has to do with people spending the past 2 months thinking it was gonna be Brad Stevens or somebody equally as unrealistic? He has all the makings of somebody who would be successful here, I don't get the hate.

I don’t think he was on many people’s top 5 list when this search started and he was probably on very few people’s top 10s so I don’t think that is where the hate is coming from. 

[mdn82]

https://x.com/heykayadams/status/1902059188618195143
 

You should all be glad to know that we did not reach out to Crean as part of our search…

[JustWinBaby]

@IUFB on Peegs says it's gonna be the mystery candidate -- not Brad Stevens.

[jermhoosierfan]

3 minutes ago, VFury said:

How much of the DeVries hate has to do with people spending the past 2 months thinking it was gonna be Brad Stevens or somebody equally as unrealistic? He has all the makings of somebody who would be successful here, I don't get the hate.

Exactly, mention some mid-major coaches, "IU has to get a P4 coach!"  DeVries and Brownell are two P4 coaches are mentioned who have done a very good job and are light years above what IU has had for the last 8 years. "Those guys suck!!!" I personally think that Michigan, Louisville, and UK showed last year what was going to happen here.  The fact that IU would get a P4 coach while they didn't should say something.  I say let's sign one of them and LET"S GO BABY!!!!

[Alistair Smash]

If the kids weren’t away on spring break, it might be really cool to announce the new coach in Dunn Meadow on a picture perfect Bloomington spring day. 

[Ron Mexico]

[Iu1973]

7 minutes ago, HoosierSadaseci said:

Maybe there is nothing to update...or they've been told to keep it quiet...

Or maybe they aren’t really “insiders”.  

[Mopladysman]

Just now, Ron Mexico said:

No Ron no

[Alford Bailey]

I just hope the new guy is excited to coach at the University of Indiana 

[Hoosier_Hatchet]

Does it get any better than Pizza X and Brad Stevens?

[RaceToTheTop]

Just now, Alford Bailey said:

I just hope the new guy is excited to coach at the University of Indiana 

And knows the names of players.

[Alford Bailey]

1 minute ago, JustWinBaby said:

@IUFB on Peegs says it's gonna be the mystery candidate -- not Brad Stevens.

Bennett?

[Sandman]

9 minutes ago, VFury said:

How much of the DeVries hate has to do with people spending the past 2 months thinking it was gonna be Brad Stevens or somebody equally as unrealistic? He has all the makings of somebody who would be successful here, I don't get the hate.

I certainly don't hate him but it just isn't an exciting hire. He's a guy that did well at Drake and for a year at WV. Perhaps he'd be great, but there's nothing about him that fires me up.

[Gameface01]

1 minute ago, Iu1973 said:

Or maybe they aren’t really “insiders”.  

Jesus christ, they are this ******* sites insiders. Whiny babies give it a rest. 

[RaceToTheTop]

Just now, Alford Bailey said:

Bennett?

Turgeon? :)

[str8baller]

36 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

It worked well for Bennett at UVA

It works well for a lot of coaches. It’s just funny that it was such a big part of Archie’s image—one of the few things he could communicate about himself—and he was such a miserable failure. 

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, brandct said:

I don’t think he was on many people’s top 5 list when this search started and he was probably on very few people’s top 10s so I don’t think that is where the hate is coming from. 

He wasn’t on many people’s top 5 or 10 because many of us are convinced there’s a real shot of Stevens, Donovan and Jay Wright being viable. So they temper their expectations / hopes with guys like Scott Drew, TJ Otz, and guys in that tier. But those kind of guys probably aren’t leaving. So you start looking at Collins/Cronin/Buzz/Brownells of the world and are unmoved… guys in the next tier were always going to be most realistic. Feeling disappointed about McCollum or DeVries is silly IMO and probably just means people got their hopes way too high for the job this actually is in 2025.