General Coach Candidate News

[str8baller 7,146]

3 minutes ago, VFury said:

The reaction to this hire is exactly why i was so against the people pushing the Stevens delusion. We just pulled a sitting power 5 head coach who had no reason to leave his current job to come to IU and people don't like it. Unreal

Kentucky made a similar hire last year, and we’ve been mocking them for striking out with all their top candidates. There’s a hundred posts about it in this thread. 
 

Nothing to do with Stevens. Its a solid B+ hire. After Archie some people will be slow to jump on board. 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,622]

6 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

To all the insiders pumping Brad Stevens rumors for the last 6 weeks:

No one to blame but the people who were fooled. I have no doubt they shared what they heard. It isn't their fault people didn't take what they said with a grain of salt and made the follish mistake of believing they were 100% correct this time.

[NVFalcons1990 443]

10 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Devries didn’t have a winning conference record either this year. Fwiw

Yeah, he lost his son, who was their leading scorer and best 3-point shooter.  He is an NBA-ready talent, that West Virginia lost after game #8 of the season and his dad still found a way to win 19 games!!!!

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 500]

6 minutes ago, NVFalcons1990 said:

Just look at Drake's 6 seasons, prior to Devries getting there.  Then he rattles off 6 straight years winning at least 21 games every year at Drake.  Turns around a West Virginia team that was 9-23 last year in his first year!  This guy can flat out coach and could be locked in for the next 20 years.

Also in Devries defense he didn’t have his best player 90% of the season. He probably has a winning conference record and makes the tournament with Tucker

[mark1981 1,427]

1 minute ago, TheWatShot said:

So Thursday, we hired McCollum. Friday, we hired Brownell. Sunday, we hired Brownell again. Today, it's DeVries. Who are we hiring tomorrow? 

The one who can't be named

[brandct 675]

2 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

Drake's roster was empty when McCollum took over. 

Exactly and still pulled a better record then this guy ever did

[HinnyHoosier 6,371]

2 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

Drake's roster was empty when McCollum took over. 

Then why can't they both be good? WV was ugly when DD got there, too. He's 2/2.

[Stuhoo 87,680]

8 minutes ago, brandct said:

West Virginia is not IU

 

Dolson just put his job on the line

The Big12 is the Big Ten.

[go iu bb 8,640]

6 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Theres a smoke screens and then there's a flat out lie. 

Osterman didn't lie. He said that all the noise was coming from outside of IU, i.e. agents. Rabby just said basically the same thing, that agents are pumping confidence that it's DeVries.

[HinnyHoosier 6,371]

2 minutes ago, Zcorey92 said:

Well I’ll see you guys again in four more years

Later.

[OGIUAndy 1,004]

2 minutes ago, mdiu28 said:

Totally forgot Tom Ostrom is on staff at WVU. That'll be interesting. 

Not the only familiar name 

[Hoosier1984 1,628]

[hoosierhoo 321]

5 minutes ago, Rookie33 said:

Too early to start the Fire DvD Thread? (just kidding).... 

How in the world do you come up with DvD as an abbreviation?

[hoosiersoxfan 684]

1 minute ago, brandct said:

Exactly and still pulled a better record then this guy ever did

I like McCollum a lot too but The Valley was also way worse this year than it has been.  Will be interesting to see how McCollum does if he takes the Iowa job, got a feeling he will do quite well.

[go iu bb 8,640]

5 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

This is just per Trilly?  He could be right, but nothing from Thamel or Osterman yet?

Yeah, I'm waiting for someone else to say the same thing before I think it's done.

[Lebowski 3,216]

1 minute ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Then why can't they both be good? WV was ugly when DD got there, too. He's 2/2.

McCollum has an overall better resume in my opinion. Both can be good but someone is always better. 

[jimsorgi 1,092]

4 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

I'm guessing each of those NCAA appearances were due to winning their conference tournament? So that would be 5/6 years finishing top 2 in conference regular season plus 3 times winning the conference tournament. So even though he has 0 NCAA wins, he does have some postseason success in that regard.

2021 was an at large bid. 

[HinnyHoosier 6,371]

3 minutes ago, brandct said:

Exactly and still pulled a better record then this guy ever did

Kleenex. Be sure to get the extra soft because it seems like you've used a lot already.

[Jeff Flabjohns 2,464]

He’s got a top 25 class coming into WVU next year. Let’s poach one or two :):):)

[brandct 675]

Just now, hoosiersoxfan said:

I like McCollum a lot too but The Valley was also way worse this year than it has been.  Will be interesting to see how McCollum does if he takes the Iowa job, got a feeling he will do quite well.

Got a feeling we will feel the effects of it for a long time to come