General Coach Candidate News

[Unexpectedflash 1,068]

At this point I think we should offer 5.5 million to Drew, Beard, Musselman, and Oats. If they turn us down no harm no foul. Maybe we get lucky and one of them comes. 

Check in on Mattas back. If we’re this low on the list, just offer Fife and build the best staff in the country around him. We’d have money to spare. I’d rather take a chance on him than some of the others being discussed that have proven to be mediocre in the past. 

I still have faith in Dolson to get this right and it’s his job to convince whoever he thinks is the best candidate to come. It’s just kind of scary to go from thinking we’d get Brad to not knowing who’s even on the list.

[Chris007 44,066]

9 minutes ago, ziggyiu said:

What I don't understand about any interest in Enfield is two-fold:

1. He hasn't done much at USC. He's never gotten out of the second round of the tournament in eight years at USC. No conference titles of any variety at USC either. 

2. His USC program was one of the handful of programs most prominently noted for buying players during the FBI investigation. 

They won the conference this year. If you take out his first year at USC he has a pretty good winning percentage. He’s a shooting coach specialist, has NBA experience, runs a fun offense, hot wife. 
 

Beard is my 1st choice after we ask Brad 2 more times :-). Then Musselman maybe but I don’t mind Enfield with a Lewis.

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Just now, Chris007 said:

They won the conference this year. If you take out his first year at USC he has a pretty good winning percentage. He’s a shooting coach specialist, has NBA experience, runs a fun offense, hot wife. 
 

Beard is my 1st choice after we ask Brad 2 more times :-). Then Musselman maybe but I don’t mind Enfield with a Lewis.

It helps having Evan Mobley on the team who is in the running for number one draft pick. I think that really skews this year especially since Mobley’s dad is an assistant coach. I doubt that he’d be able to get that talent otherwise. If he’s getting a top 3 high school recruit in the country each year then sign me up but I don’t think this year is the norm.

[IUHAHN81 2,184]

Yeah, news hasn't broke about Brad's restraining order against us yet so we keep pestering him I'd say ;)

[Hardwood83 4,774]

4 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

At this point I think we should offer 5.5 million to Drew, Beard, Musselman, and Oats. If they turn us down no harm no foul. Maybe we get lucky and one of them comes. 

Check in on Mattas back. If we’re this low on the list, just offer Fife and build the best staff in the country around him. We’d have money to spare. I’d rather take a chance on him than some of the others being discussed that have proven to be mediocre in the past. 

I still have faith in Dolson to get this right and it’s his job to convince whoever he thinks is the best candidate to come. It’s just kind of scary to go from thinking we’d get Brad to not knowing who’s even on the list.

If this process ends with Fife, Alford or anyone without successful P5 HC experience then labeling it "debacle"  "fiasco" "nightmare scenario" "program killer" & "catastrophe" will all be in order. IU is well past the stage of taking a flyer on the lowest common denominator. 

As you mentioned, Dolson' appears serious, as pursuing Stevens shows. So I don't expect him to settle for anyone with a pulse and and Indiana diploma. 

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2 minutes ago, Hardwood83 said:

If this process ends with Fife, Alford or anyone without successful P5 HC experience then labeling it "debacle"  "fiasco" "nightmare scenario" "program killer" & "catastrophe" will all be in order. IU is well past the stage of taking a flyer on the lowest common denominator. 

As you mentioned, Dolson' appears serious, as pursuing Stevens shows. So I don't expect him to settle for anyone with a pulse and and Indiana diploma. 

Fife is definitely not my first choice or even fifth but if we’re getting that low on the list I’d rather take a chance on him than like Enfield. Just feels like there’s a stink on the program and we won’t be able to get an established coach. I could just be feeling this way since no real rumors have come out about who we’re making a run at next.

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22 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

They won the conference this year. If you take out his first year at USC he has a pretty good winning percentage. He’s a shooting coach specialist, has NBA experience, runs a fun offense, hot wife. 
 

Beard is my 1st choice after we ask Brad 2 more times :-). Then Musselman maybe but I don’t mind Enfield with a Lewis.

BRAD ******** STEVENS

Ok, I’m done hahahaha

[IUHAHN81 2,184]

All eyes on u Scotty! 

[MikeRoberts 7,023]

Beard vs musselman has been a good one

musselman’s wife not quite Mrs. Enfield but not bad either. 

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I just saw Musselman held up signs on the sideline. 
 

thats a no for me, dog. 

[IU Scott 2,375]

Well Beard is now available to interview

[str8baller 5,261]

16 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

Beard vs musselman has been a good one

musselman’s wife not quite Mrs. Enfield but not bad either. 

Entertaining game. Both teams defend hard. Didn’t see anything offensively that gets me real jazzed about either guy. Ball screen, drive and kick. Same thing every other coach runs. 

[cthomas 6,479]

Honestly didn't see either coach make outstanding decisions down the stretch.

[Golfman25 5,447]

11 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

Well Beard is now available to interview

Ok, here's where you don't let him out of Indiana.  

[TheDarkKnight69 328]

Any Chance we could get Mike White?

[T White 299]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

 

Beard is my 1st choice after we ask Brad 2 more times :-). Then Musselman maybe but I don’t mind Enfield with a Lewis.

I just watched the Arkansas vs. Texas Tech game and I wonder why either coach would want to leave their current team. Both teams are pretty darned good.

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Just now, TheDarkKnight69 said:

Any Chance we could get Mike White?

If you look at his record besides that one run it is not impressive

[HoosierBoiler 236]

If everyone is gonna play the same then it comes down to recruiting.

im a broken record but UCLA’s game has was fun to watch.

[Hardwood83 4,774]

1 minute ago, TheDarkKnight69 said:

Any Chance we could get Mike White?

I think the bloom is mostly off that rose. A couple yrs ago he was heir apparent at Duke (I think his dad is an Asst AD or something there)

now he's not even the hottest up and comer in the SEC! 

[TheDarkKnight69 328]

This may be the wrong thread, but I’m too young to remember. Who else was a candidate when we hired Sampson and when we hired Crean? I remember Beilein and Bennett but that’s about it