General Coach Candidate News

[WRSMick55]

Copied this from ‘ Hoosier Review’ on X AND AGREE.

“ Dolson has certainly grown and evolved in his approach.  He will have his criteria, and he will get someone as close to that criteria as possible.  He knows what has failed at IU, and what is needed to succeed at the current Indiana.  The Cignetti hire will have strengthened that resolve.”

It was said he was going to do the same analysis he did for football and identify winning characteristics. I’ll believe whoever he hires will have those qualities. Andy hope they are successful.

 

Edited March 18 by WRSMick55
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[Silat Player]

4 minutes ago, PartyintheVillas said:

I think Tom Crean would have been really good at Indiana with NIL and the transfer portal, too.

The Syracuse zone showed some Xs and Os weakness in Crean. 

[JSHoosier]

1 minute ago, southernindianahoosier2 said:

Did we hire devries? 
 

Someone tell IU he once farted in class, they'll forget he exists.

[southernindianahoosier2]

Just now, iubb said:

and that was all Pre NIL... Archie and Crean tenures end way differntly if NIL was legal then 

Ya, Archie gets fired in 2 years and Crean gets fired after 4

[8bucks]

13 minutes ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

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

This part nudged him ahead of McCollum for me. Shows he can recruit at this level too

[pumpfake]

Not gonna lie.  This hire doesn't excite me.  Not that DD couldn't do quite well, but my enthusiasm for IU basketball has been on a steep decline and is now hanging by a thread.  I needed more than this to rekindle the joy.  It is not rekindled.

I will casually observe what transpires and maybe change my mind, but until we look like a tough team to beat and actually fight at the top of the BT, I'm not going to be invested.

I hoped this hire would do that.  It hasn't.

Good Luck to CDD and all the true fans. After 50 plus years, I'm retired.

[Silat Player]

1 minute ago, jimsorgi said:

No you aren't allowed to have multiple people who can shoot on one team. 

Well, it's not the coach's job to get the players shots, so... LOL

[Jeff Flabjohns]

:):):):)

[Hoosierfanyuh]

1 minute ago, 8bucks said:

This part nudged him ahead of McCollum for me. Shows he can recruit at this level too

Beat out a lot of people for Javon Small last year, he can portal recruit too 

[JSHoosier]

2 minutes ago, iubb said:

and that was all Pre NIL... Archie and Crean tenures end way differntly if NIL was legal then 

Crean maybe. I'm not sure that'd help Miller.

[lillurk]

Using Torvik, two top 40 offenses at Drake. Two top 40 defenses (top 10 this year at WVU and one at Drake).

Teams are pretty good at shooting and avoiding TOs. Very good at defensive rebounding, looks like he typically eschews the offensive glass. Has twice had top 30 eFG% defenses. 

Four of his six Drake teams were top 50 in FT%.

They’re gonna shoot lots of 3s, thank God (44th in 3P rate this year, and recent DDV teams have shot 39% or more of field goals from deep).

[Hoosierfanyuh]

1 minute ago, pumpfake said:

Not gonna lie.  This hire doesn't excite me.  Not that DD could do quite well, but my enthusiasm for IU basketball has been on a steep decline and is now hanging by a thread.  I needed more than this to rekindle the joy.  It is not rekindled.

I will casually observe what transpires and maybe change my mind, but until we look like a tough team to beat and actually fight at the top of the BT, I'm not going to be invested.

I hoped this hire would do that.  It hasn't.

Good Luck to CDD and all the true fans. After 50 plus years, I'm retired.

Then no realistic hire would excite you. 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

I’m so thrilled with this. He’s set up to succeed immediately with talent he can bring over, but it just feels good to have an actual CBB coach again. Someone who loves this sport like we all do. 

[BehindTheBench]

Trading one coach who didn't make the tournament for another who didn't make the tournament. Hate the hire, but have no choice but to support the guy I guess. Hopefully he can turn the program around, and quickly. 

[Unexpectedflash]

Compare this to the pope and kelsey hires from last year and it feels similar. Devries probably has had more success than Kelsey and maybe less than Pope by a smidge. It's hard to pull successful coaches away from their teams. That is just the nature of college basketball. I would love to have gotten Lloyd or Drew or someone of that nature but it just isn't the name of the game anymore. I would wager to guess the people that thought we had no shot at Stevens will be lauding this as a great hire 

[Hoosierfanyuh]

Just now, Jeff Flabjohns said:

I’m so thrilled with this. He’s set up to succeed immediately with talent he can bring over, but it just feels good to have an actual CBB coach again. Someone who loves this sport like we all do. 

This!!

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

This part nudged him ahead of McCollum for me. Shows he can recruit at this level too

He also has a guaran-dam-teed first team All-B1G player coming with him that will immediately help set the locker room culture.

[HoosierReb01]

Well, not the hire I was looking for, but I can get more enthusiastic about this one than many of the names that were thrown about. 

[AZ Hoosier]

9 minutes ago, PartyintheVillas said:

I think Tom Crean would have been really good at Indiana with NIL and the transfer portal, too.

Still needs a suit that fits...

[Hippopotamo]

9 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Anyone know about his personality? I just want a normal human after the last three lol 

I want a coach who has an edge. It’d be fun to be hated