General Coach Candidate News

[iubb 4,634]

Just now, JHoosier914 said:

I honestly can't keep up anymore

lets have a drinking game..

 

take a chug every time we get tied to some new coach

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5 minutes ago, GP711 said:

I predicted it would be the mystery candidate, I was wrong. I apologize to all.

I say this not to start an argument but to try and bury this whole p!ssing match I’ve been as guilty of participating in as anyone…

You don’t need to apologize for being wrong at all! That’s not why I and others have given you flak. It’s the engagement farming by dangling something everyone wants. I don’t doubt you guys were hearing stuff from people at all but you get yourself in hot water by alluding to your info being better than anyone else’s in the first place. When everyone shares what they hear plainly, without alluding to definitive knowledge or connections in high places, the posting community can just decide for themselves who to listen to about what and to what degree.

Anywho... My attempt to bury the hatchet. Excited to support the new coach. Go IU

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1 minute ago, RoadToZion said:

Again, fake news from Trilly.

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1 minute ago, RoadToZion said:

Again, fake news from Trilly.

Interesting. 

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8 minutes ago, FrenchConnection said:

Let me say how I think it went down and you can tell me if I'm way off-base:

1. Swung big for Stevens again because boosters demand it. This went on for a while and it got really close again, but in the end he decided to stay in Boston.
2. Then took a temperature check with some other people, and struck out again. 
3. Started conducting a regular college basketball coaching search. 

There is no shame in striking out. In fact, you want him taking those swings. But getting someone from the NBA or out of a broadcast job is pretty tough when the money is similar and the job is easier. I'm actually pretty happy to have made a regular coaching hire this time instead of reaching into the NBA so I think it all might have worked out. I like getting a young guy who has something to prove instead of a guy at the end of his career. 

That was my worry all along. For those of you who are older. I had the worry of a Fred Akers at Purdue type of situation. 

I know that some older guys can work out, but I was far from sold on a coach like Jay Wright. He was a great coach at Villanova. Do you really think that he is still the same coach at 62 (or whatever age he is) after being out of the game for a few years? By that I mean, do you think that he's interested in grinding the same way that he did when he was 42? Of doing the extra 10 or 15 percent that it takes to be the best anymore? 

Maybe he would, but I would wonder. I would honestly wonder the same thing about Stevens and I even articulated that on here. He's not coached at all in a while and not in college in forever. Would he have the same fire at all to do the grunt work required anymore to really be successful anymore? I wonder...

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1 minute ago, RoadToZion said:

Again, fake news from Trilly.

I’m all ears. Let’s hear who it really is. No DM’s post it on the board for everyone to see. 

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13 minutes ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

You could argue we did better than Louisville did last cycle, and just as good as UK when they pulled Pope. 
This is the landscape of the sport now. Sitting P5 coaches don’t need to leave their programs as often. 

I suppose. But both of those schools also have natty banners hanging, sorta, in the rafters within the last 10-15 years or so.  We're in a viscous cycle of mediocrity.

[DChoosier 9,417]

This is one of the first days that I have been unable to keep up with the posts but based on quickly reading a few, with Devries name a number of times, I assume that means we somehow got him to agree to be Brads assistant. Awesome !

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4 minutes ago, FrenchConnection said:

Let me say how I think it went down and you can tell me if I'm way off-base:

1. Swung big for Stevens again because boosters demand it. This went on for a while and it got really close again, but in the end he decided to stay in Boston.
2. Then took a temperature check with some other people, and struck out again. 
3. Started conducting a regular college basketball coaching search. 

There is no shame in striking out. In fact, you want him taking those swings. But getting someone from the NBA or out of a broadcast job is pretty tough when the money is similar and the job is easier. I'm actually pretty happy to have made a regular coaching hire this time instead of reaching into the NBA so I think it all might have worked out. I like getting a young guy who has something to prove instead of a guy at the end of his career. 

You are very close. I think Scott believed or was led to believe he had him this time. I haven’t gotten the whole story yet but I think he was told last minute as in Saturday that he either changed his mind or was a no go. I think we had already told a lot of coaches we had our guy. Then had to turning everything into overdrive. I’m sure Jerry will be able to explain it better.

[JaybobHoosier 12,890]

Is DeVries the final smokescreen? We will see….

[Hoosierfanyuh 4,937]

Already talked myself into liking DvD so if it’s someone that would be seen as better than him (not BM) I’ll be elated

[iubb 4,634]

Just now, JaybobHoosier said:

Is DeVries the final smokescreen? We will see….

 

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18 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Also comparing Devries to Woodson this year doesn’t really make sense to me since his best player was out. They were ranked before Tucker went out. Take woodys best player away from him and we may not win a game

The other element there is the West Virginia deal he took over was dead broken. They won 9 games the year before and returned no rotation guys at all. So he took their ok, but certainly no IU, NIL and rebuilt an entire roster from scratch to the point that he beat Tommy Lloyd, Mark Few, TJ Otzelberger and Bill Self, Otzelberger and Self without his best player. 

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4 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

Again, fake news from Trilly.

 

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I guess I'm hesitant to get excited if he's the guy because I feel like I'd have to talk myself into liking him and thinking he'd win here. I talked myself into Kelvin Sampson. I talked myself into Tom Crean. I talked myself into Archie Miller and Mike Woodson. I'm not sure I can keep doing this. 

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5 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

Again, fake news from Trilly.

 

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Not convinced until we get Rabby’s soft bread crumb chatter tidbits with shreds of morsel sprinkle whispers.  
 

Announcement could be today, sometime before the tourney or right after the beginning of the tourney and wouldn’t be surprised if it’s tomorrow or during the tourney.  

[Magnanimous 5,341]

Dolson has been at this for over a month. And our next coach is…the guy who 48 hours ago got screwed out of the NCAAT by the UNC AD, so he just happens to now be hanging around this week, then flies to Iowa and then gets hired by IU later that afternoon? Talk about some terrible fan fiction.

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5 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

Again, fake news from Trilly.

OUR HERO IS BACK!!!!

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