General Coach Candidate News

[IndyResident16 567]

29 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

Neither is Beard but you and others keep calling for him to get hired.

The only reason Beard wouldn't be a candidate is because of IU's own undoing. It was the other way around with Stevens.

Beard would leave Ole Miss before their season was over if it meant getting the job. He's as realistic as it gets in terms of interest. Ball is totally in IU's court however.

[GoIU8 205]

2 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

If you're Dolson, gotta grow a pair and hand a blank check to Lloyd's agent, Drew's agent, Donovan's agent and ask "what will it take" and work from there. Act like a damned blue blood instead of Northwestern.

Pretty sure this is what UCLA did and they ended up with....Mick Cronin.

[str8baller 5,315]

35 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

This fanbase needs a W on Friday so badly lol. Let's not eat our own! 

 

 

[Stuhoo 81,071]

14 minutes ago, IndyResident16 said:

The only reason Beard wouldn't be a candidate is because of IU's own undoing. It was the other way around with Stevens.

Beard would leave Ole Miss before their season was over if it meant getting the job. He's as realistic as it gets in terms of interest. Ball is totally in IU's court however.

To me Beard feels like such a natural fit as Louisville's first choice.

[southernindianahoosier2 902]

If IU pulled a UCLA, we'd offer every coach who was looking for a raise, hiring our 7th choice lol. My 7th choice would be the Muss Buss, which would make for an interesting few years haha. 

@Chris007 do you think we'd ask B*** S****** again, or would we go straight to May?

[southernindianahoosier2 902]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

To me Beard feels like such a natural fit as Louisville's first choice.

Haha true as he can go straight to the distillery, or just have a whiskey barrel rolled into his home.

If May makes noise in the NCAA's this year, I'm all in for him, if he flames out, I'm all in for Beard. Maybe he can live in the apartments above the tap or at Upland. 

[Kentuckysucks 2,265]

12 minutes ago, GoIU8 said:

Pretty sure this is what UCLA did and they ended up with....Mick Cronin.

And they've gotten a FF and 2 Sweet 16s.

[Kentuckysucks 2,265]

4 minutes ago, southernindianahoosier2 said:

Haha true as he can go straight to the distillery, or just have a whiskey barrel rolled into his home.

If May makes noise in the NCAA's this year, I'm all in for him, if he flames out, I'm all in for Beard. Maybe he can live in the apartments above the tap or at Upland. 

He could just call Kevin Wilson and ask for tips on finding the best watering holes.

[IndyResident16 567]

12 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

To me Beard feels like such a natural fit as Louisville's first choice.

As he should be, good on them. They would be dumb not to hire him. Same goes for anybody with a coaching vacancy.

Just one more revived regional power that we'll have to deal with on a consistent basis. 

 

[Stuhoo 81,071]

5 minutes ago, IndyResident16 said:

As he should be, good on them. They would be dumb not to hire him. Same goes for anybody with a coaching vacancy.

Just one more revived regional power that we'll have to deal with on a consistent basis. 

 

IMO your take is purely from a basketball perspective. On that front I fully agree with you.

But there's more to consider; IU as a university and the IU basketball program have an established brand. Chris Beard does not fit our brand. Dusty May would.

[str8baller 5,315]

7 minutes ago, GoIU8 said:

Pretty sure this is what UCLA did and they ended up with....Mick Cronin.

Man…sometimes I want to laugh at how inept UCLA has been with coaching searches during the same general time frame as us. Then I remember that despite said ineptness, they got a title with Harrick, 3 straight FF’s with Howland, 1 FF with Cronin, and several S16’s or whatever with guys like Alford and freaking Steve Lavin.   
 

You almost have to try hard to be as bad as we have. 

[BtownStrength 1,275]

Does anyone truly believe Woodson is gone after this year (by his own doing or the administration's)? 

I do not but I am interested in the opinion of people more in the loop. 

[IndyResident16 567]

36 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

IMO your take is purely from a basketball perspective. On that front I fully agree with you.

But there's more to consider; IU as a university and the IU basketball program have an established brand. Chris Beard does not fit our brand. Dusty May would.

There's ZERO living college basketball player or recruit who has ever seen Indiana as an elite basketball program. Zilch, none, nada Our established "brand" has lead to nothing but mediocre results the better part of the last two decades. Chris Beard is probably one of two realistic candidates who can return Indiana to the height of that "brand" and he could do it rather quickly.

I don't have anything against Dusty May. I actually like Dusty May. I think he could do very well at IU with emphasis on the word could. I wouldn't bet on it though. There's just as good of a chance as he's the next Archie Miller. If IU wants to be good in basketball again they'll hire Chris Beard (or Bruce Pearl) and they wouldn't have to think twice about it. 

But I get it.

[IndyResident16 567]

1 minute ago, BtownStrength said:

Does anyone truly believe Woodson is gone after this year (by his own doing or the administration's)? 

I do not but I am interested in the opinion of people more in the loop. 

I think if the season goes off the rails there's more than a slim chance he resigns or retires. I think the IU administration could make things a lot better for him if they give him an incentive to retire. But no, I don't think he's going to be fired.

[JSHoosier 20,280]

2 minutes ago, BtownStrength said:

Does anyone truly believe Woodson is gone after this year (by his own doing or the administration's)? 

I do not but I am interested in the opinion of people more in the loop. 

No. They'd probably still bring him back if he lost every remaining game by 50.

[GoIU8 205]

22 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

And they've gotten a FF and 2 Sweet 16s.

A total fluke of a final four. And if you think 2 sweet 16's are noteworthy, Tom Cream had 3 and it wasn't good enough. 

[Hoosier987 1,201]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

Once again you have no idea what you are talking about. 

Stevens to IU was very much in play...practically a done deal until the rug was swept from underneath us. People can convince themselves otherwise, but Stevens was very close to happening.

[Banksyrules 4,814]

I know it's a no but I'm just curious. Jay Wright is also worth Brad Stevens (presuming 10 million a year) money right?

[IndyResident16 567]

3 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

I know it's a no but I'm just curious. Jay Wright is also worth Brad Stevens (presuming 10 million a year) money right?

Worth it, yes. But again, another coach who has no interest in competing in this landscape of college basketball. He retired from the pinnacle of basketball for a reason.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 8,691]

43 minutes ago, GoIU8 said:

Pretty sure this is what UCLA did and they ended up with....Mick Cronin.

UCLA was dumb about theirs. They were trying to go after Calipari.