General Coach Candidate News

[Motley's 679]

14 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

Not liking the recruiting game would be great for him now. Basically gets to keep being a GM. 
 

Not that I think this is happening 

I don't think any NBA GM would be happy with all of his players being free agents every year. Watch what Brad's been doing in Boston. Signing all of his players to contract extensions.

[str8baller 7,797]

McCasland is an interesting dark horse. Hard to pull a fellow P5 coach out of a job but sometimes if you get them early before they put down roots it happens. Bill Self, Brad Underwood, etc…

[Motley's 679]

1 hour ago, str8baller said:

McCasland is an interesting dark horse. Hard to pull a fellow P5 coach out of a job but sometimes if you get them early before they put down roots it happens. Bill Self, Brad Underwood, etc…

He'd be great, but that would be a tough get. Former asst with master's from TX Tech. Wife is a TX Tech grad. If anything, he'll be the next TX coach.

[OliviaPope40 7,506]

I see you all and I raise you one.

[Muskie plays the four 737]

The next coach really should look up that Luke Brown kid . Heard he can really shoot it.

[Lebowski 3,763]

Brad Stevens isn't coming to IUBB. He's the puppet master of THE most storied basketball program on the planet. Please move on from him folks. 

Dolson should take the gloves off and take a wrecking ball to any walls on the next hire. If he doesn't get any takers from the big fish go straight after Ben McCollum. 

Coaching matters. 

[Dave from Dayton 4,092]

I cannot imagine that Dolson will announce a new separation agreement with Coach W before the women's game tonight.  I also cannot imagine that Dolson will announce any such agreement before the end of the regular season.  I would not complain if that happened, though.

If it happened before the Michigan game, and if Dusty May has given the nod....which I don't think will happen...it would be extremely bad form for both schools to announce Dusty May as the chosen one....before the Michigan game.

Somehow, I can kind of see that happening./s

Back to a semblance of reality...two things really give me hope...1. the Cignetti hire sure sets the standard/template for hiring a head coach at IU.  2.  Woody is toast.  

I hope IU wins out.  If it happens, it would be because Coach Woodson was thunderstruck and changed a lot relative to the coaching and game planning and starting five and substitutions and...yeah, right.  After 4 years of not doing it he has 10 epiphanies? 

Dolson had his shorts jerked by whomever overruled his choice last time.  It ain't gonna happen again.  

 

[mdn82 26,344]

Just let Dolson pick his guy without admin, alum, or booster interference or sabotage.  He needs to point at Cignetti and say you hired me to do a job, and I am pretty damn good at it.  Stay out of my way and I make you look good.  Whoever he picks if he was allowed to do that?  I am on board with.  Just know, that scenario has not played out that way since 1971, so I am not holding my breath. 

[Dalton26 17,208]

Stevens, May, Beard.

That’s the order for me. I don’t think there’s any shot Steven’s happened however.
 

Edit: on second thought Beard may be ahead of May for me. 

[schoosier 3,745]

2 hours ago, Lebowski said:

Brad Stevens isn't coming to IUBB. He's the puppet master of THE most storied basketball program on the planet. Please move on from him folks. 

Dolson should take the gloves off and take a wrecking ball to any walls on the next hire. If he doesn't get any takers from the big fish go straight after Ben McCollum. 

Coaching matters. 

I didn’t know Brad coached the Hickory Huskers. Now, let’s get Beard!

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,787]

If we are gonna get the brinks truck for Stevens and he’s a No, then keep the Brinks truck and get Nate Oats.


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[BlueDevil 9,556]

Give me one of Brad, Pearl, Beard, Oats. Few, and IU will be in a final four in no time.

[BA47591 1,095]

45 minutes ago, BlueDevil said:

Give me one of Brad, Pearl, Beard, Oats. Few, and IU will be in a final four in no time.

If I knew one of your first 3 was our guy, I'd be pretty pleased. Beard referenced RMK at half time of his UK win. I might be reaching but the timing was interesting. 

[BtownStrength 1,490]

2 hours ago, BA47591 said:

If I knew one of your first 3 was our guy, I'd be pretty pleased. Beard referenced RMK at half time of his UK win. I might be reaching but the timing was interesting. 

Bro wants the job bad. 

[rcbowla 8,282]

10 hours ago, Muskie plays the four said:

The next coach really should look up that Luke Brown kid . Heard he can really shoot it.

What's this board's deal with Luke Brown? What'd he do to anybody to warrant being the butt of so many jokes/off-handed comments? Leave the kid alone. Also given his ability to shoot I'd be willing to bet he'd be welcomed to our last 8 years of absolute misery in terms of shooting. I just don't get it.

[Ghost of Rick Majerus 2,016]

1 hour ago, rcbowla said:

What's this board's deal with Luke Brown? What'd he do to anybody to warrant being the butt of so many jokes/off-handed comments? Leave the kid alone. Also given his ability to shoot I'd be willing to bet he'd be welcomed to our last 8 years of absolute misery in terms of shooting. I just don't get it.

It's an inside joke geared towards a former poster and not Luke Brown. The former poster started a thread called something like "Luke Brown is the next Damon Bailey" and posted on it at nauseam. I believe he was a relative or someone close to the family. 

[schoosier 3,745]

"That's Bob Knight. Victory favors the most aggressive team, and the team that makes the fewest mistakes," he told ESPN.
 

Beard would leave today for Bloomington and we could only be so lucky. Hope Dolson hires this coach and we start giving the middle finger back to the basketball world only as the General could do. Let’s go!

[TheWatShot 15,628]

I'm having a hard time believing that Mark Few is actually interested in the job. He's been at Gonzaga forever and has had countless opportunities to move on. 

[Demo 24,638]

24 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I'm having a hard time believing that Mark Few is actually interested in the job. He's been at Gonzaga forever and has had countless opportunities to move on. 

Trilly said at 1 point that the plan was for him to coach Gonzaga for the 1st year in the PAC-whatever it is and then retire. That makes perfect sense. Moving on from the only school he’s ever coached to take on a rebuilding job 2,500 miles from home does not.

[rcbowla 8,282]

7 hours ago, Ghost of Rick Majerus said:

It's an inside joke geared towards a former poster and not Luke Brown. The former poster started a thread called something like "Luke Brown is the next Damon Bailey" and posted on it at nauseam. I believe he was a relative or someone close to the family. 

IU/Butler/ND guy. Yeah he was certainly over the top. Still though