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[hoosierbannerd 2,449]

Please welcome Brad to this thread..he will accept all praise, worship, seances,  genuflection, or idolatry as tribute to land our man at IU.. He tells me 10 years/100 million is enticing..

but has to be approved by Kathy of course... 

[Trish 12,605]

Alright folks, Woodson gone. Any Billy Donavan or Brad Steven’s sightings on Kirkwood yet? 

[ap2345 9,823]

9 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Scott asked him last March if he was ready. He said not until they won the championship or had to break up the team. They won.

Just kept talking to him, his family, his dad who played football at IU. Stayed in touch as a friend. Then picked back up the conversation around Thanksgiving all the way up to now. He wanted some assurances about NIL, which we gave. Plus a 10 year deal means their set up for future.

Now it just needs to come to fruition. 

[HoosierPapi4 114]

9 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Scott asked him last March if he was ready. He said not until they won the championship or had to break up the team. They won.

Just kept talking to him, his family, his dad who played football at IU. Stayed in touch as a friend. Then picked back up the conversation around Thanksgiving all the way up to now. He wanted some assurances about NIL, which we gave. Plus a 10 year deal means their set up for future.

So ready to be hurt again

[iubb 3,447]

Sweet Jesus 

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[IUHAHN81 2,830]

9 minutes ago, hoosierbannerd said:

Please welcome Brad to this thread..he will accept all praise, worship, seances,  genuflection, or idolatry as tribute to land our man at IU.. He tells me 10 years/100 million is enticing..

but has to be approved by Kathy of course... 

My idol!!!!!

[mdiu28 2,336]

[BleedCubbieBlue 1,634]

9 minutes ago, Trish said:

Remember when Stevens called into local Boston sports radio show saying he’s not interested in the Indiana job but was flattered?

That was a horrible day. 

That was my Pearl Harbor.

Translation for Bostonians:

Dat wuzmy Pahrl Habah.

[steubenhoosier 1,490]

18 minutes ago, Trish said:

Remember when Stevens called into local Boston sports radio show saying he’s not interested in the Indiana job but was flattered?

That was a horrible day. 

Remember when…

[RoadRage 2,604]

16 minutes ago, Trish said:

Remember when Stevens called into local Boston sports radio show saying he’s not interested in the Indiana job but was flattered?

That was a horrible day. 

I can see Celtics fans being upset over a coach or player leaving, but I find it hard to believe they would lose much sleep over someone from upper management leaving to coach a college team!

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,534]

4 minutes ago, mdiu28 said:

I said this in the other thread but I’m at like 90% confidence it’s Xavier Johnson. He joins all of the Twitter lives (hysterics and Tony Adragna today)

[lillurk 4,266]

17 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Scott asked him last March if he was ready. He said not until they won the championship or had to break up the team. They won.

Just kept talking to him, his family, his dad who played football at IU. Stayed in touch as a friend. Then picked back up the conversation around Thanksgiving all the way up to now. He wanted some assurances about NIL, which we gave. Plus a 10 year deal means their set up for future.

If this happens after the football hire and the season we just had, we need to discuss the height of the Scott Dolson statue. The seated Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in DC is 19’ tall, we should start there and work our way up.

[JaybobHoosier 12,373]

51 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

$100 million is the number. 

Stop spreading rumors here for the sake of it or else…….

That really irked me that mod did that on HSN. As someone who founded that original site, very, very upsetting. Makes you wonder why they have a lot less posters over there?! 

[iubb 3,447]

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[BleedCubbieBlue 1,634]

3 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

I can see Celtics fans being upset over a coach or player leaving, but I find it hard to believe they would lose much sleep over someone from upper management leaving to coach a college team!

They burn couches when they win championships. I don’t think we want to try to predict their behavior in a given circumstance.

[JerryYeagley23 4,939]

1 hour ago, mdiu28 said:

@Chris007 @JerryYeagley23

Which has better odds? 

Woody leading this disaster to a Final Four? OR Brad coming to IU?

Pass. 

[HoosierHoopster 7,531]

7 minutes ago, JaybobHoosier said:

Stop spreading rumors here for the sake of it or else…….

That really irked me that mod did that on HSN. As someone who founded that original site, very, very upsetting. Makes you wonder why they have a lot less posters over there?! 

As another former mod there, yup

[IUHoosierJoe 1,685]

10 minutes ago, JaybobHoosier said:

Stop spreading rumors here for the sake of it or else…….

That really irked me that mod did that on HSN. As someone who founded that original site, very, very upsetting. Makes you wonder why they have a lot less posters over there?! 

That was unbelievable.  Especially coming right after he (and a couple others) gave us the info on the Woodson “retirement” a day before it was announced.

[Pagoda 2,305]

27 minutes ago, mdiu28 said:

Dude continues to crave attention.

He is wounded after his boy Woody failed and now he wants this hire to go poorly to get back at the fans he hates so much.

[MikeRoberts 7,526]

31 minutes ago, HoosierPapi4 said:

Appreciate it! I didn’t mean to be hostile if that’s how I came off. I am open to other options but he is choice 1 2 3 4 and 5 for me. After that we can call Dusty or whoever else may be involved. Mark Few wouldn’t be a bad consolation prize either.

Yes welcome, seems this board has grown a ton in the last few days.

look, I’m fine with Stevens if that is who we end up with but I think the obsession with Stevens by some is one, manifested by the fact that many have stated that he is Dolson’s top target and he might be in play and two, that human nature loves a good chase and he has been our chase for a while regardless of whether it still makes sense to or not.

Indiana continues to fight doing the obvious and that has led us down the wrong paths over and over again. You don’t always have to outthink the room. When Pitino, Calipari, Stevens etc wanted to come here ages ago we should have moved but we didn’t. When May, Pearl etc wanted to come here we should have jumped and we didn’t. When Beard and Few want to come here we should jump but we won’t.

Stevens hasn’t coached in college since recruits were in pre-school. As soon as his core left butler his winning tapered off and he bolted. He won early in the nba and then winnning tapered off and he bolted. He has used us as a bargaining chip now each time his contract is in doubt. Maybe he comes and is wildly successful but I have my doubts on both coming and being wildly successful, meanwhile watching coaches like Pearl, Few Beard compete for national championships elsewhere.