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[OKHOOSIER 4,620]

I am really curious if they would even consider announcing someone not currently coaching cough Brad cough before the season was over. After that glowing retirement announcement, it feels like handling Woody with kid gloves would mean Dolson would not and could not make an announcement until he is actually done. If so, as a couple have said, it is gonna be a long wait lol.

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6 minutes ago, PartyintheVillas said:

If he was sincere and not just doing it for a job, and he spent time in women's shelters volunteering, then yes I'm starting to believe he cares about more than himself winning basketball games.

If they're anything like the women's shelters around here, he probably wouldn't be allowed to volunteer there. I volunteered at a shelter for women escaping domestic violence and to be allowed to do so one has to get a fingerprint clearance card, which checks the person's criminal record for disqualifying arrests and charges. In this case, violent offenses. Even though he wasn't prosecuted, he was arrested.

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Nobody cares but my list is
Brad Steven's just to see lol
Chris with the beard not 007



Drew
Few
Dusty
The last ones were put down far for a reason

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[BleedCubbieBlue 1,601]

2 minutes ago, PartyintheVillas said:

If he was sincere and not just doing it for a job, and he spent time in women's shelters volunteering, then yes I'm starting to believe he cares about more than himself winning basketball games.

Thanks. This is the kind of answer I was trying to illicit. I think I must have worded the question poorly. I keep getting answers to why not, I am looking for what it would take for people to be open to it. I can accept that there are people that will never be okay with it, but I also have to believe that most people aren’t beyond redemption. Maybe he doesn’t deserve grace, but it also seems that grace is in short supply these days.

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2 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

I come back and jaybob yells at me for making things up. Then Yeags confirms. Thanks for the warm welcome jaybob! 

Don't sweat it, glad your back.

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4 minutes ago, RoadToZion said:

I come back and jaybob yells at me for making things up. Then Yeags confirms. Thanks for the warm welcome jaybob! 

Did you stop reading after the first line? It looks like Jaybob was actually on your side. The first line looks like a quote or paraphrase of what a mod said to you on HSN.

1 hour 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?! 

 

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1 minute ago, go iu bb said:

Did you stop reading after the first line? It looks like he was actually on your side. The first line looks like a quote or paraphrase of what a mod said to you on HSN.

 

Oh I definitely read it wrong. Will delete. I’m still at 40k feet drinking Vino. Carry on 

[Hornsby 3,064]

I appreciate the comment, but that is not really where I want this to go. I understand your position. I am trying to understand what it would take for the other side to accept him.

They never well they made that very clear a few days ago. There are no second chances for him was what I gathered from them. So assume they would likely quit watching if we hire him. 

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[BleedCubbieBlue 1,601]

34 minutes ago, Demo said:

I’m not straight up opposed because I believe that given how buttoned up this school tends to be on things if they made a move with him it would be with due diligence down to the bone. But this is why he’s not probably top 5 for me despite being an elite coach: 1) He beat a woman. He did that. I don’t care if she refused to testify and they dropped the charges. The police report’s clear. He did it, 2) The alcohol thing is a concern. When a guy literally drinks himself blind at a Christmas fundraising event for freaking boosters, it’s not nothing. 3) The guy deflected UT questions by calling himself “the most honest guy you’ve ever met. If I say I’m not going, I’m not going.” Then he went. 4) Not saying that stuff is prohibitive on its face, but it’s not nothin’ and that stuff happened with much less scrutiny and heat than this job. Human frailty is more likely to arise under heightened scrutiny. 5) Hovadipo made the point elsewhere, and it’s a good one: If you’re Dolson and making as big a hire as you’ll ever make, are you really tieing yourself and your career to a grenade? I might be willing to overlook or talk myself most of that stuff if I thought he was just miles better than anyone else available, but I’m not sure that’s true. 

Okay, so you are not straight-up opposed. I understand why you think it won’t be him, I want to understand what he would have to do for you to accept him as Indiana’s coach?

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1 minute ago, RoadToZion said:

Oh I definitely read it wrong. Will delete. I’m still at 40k feet drinking Vino. Carry on 

You cut me real deep Shrek, cut me real deep! 

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4 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

Did you stop reading after the first line? It looks like Jaybob was actually on your side. The first line looks like a quote or paraphrase of what a mod said to you on HSN.

 

Appreciate the assist on this. I mean, they don’t call me the Boob for nothing, right @Naturalhoosier? 

[Uspshoosier 49,561]

Crazy what a couple years will do for a coaching search.    5 years ago Beard was the guy that was mentioned as a slam dunk to coach a blue blood.   Holtmann was the name to look out for with the Kentucky job since he is from Kentucky.  Last year Schertz was a name that was thrown around as a legitimate chance to go to IU.  Mack was a name that was thrown out as a big time miss by IU the first time around 

underwood was looked at as a lower hire then Holtmann and Miller during that cycle and after a couple of bad seasons (worst in Illinois history) 

Fast forward 5 years and Beard is at Ole Miss(his own doing) and is hoping for a second chance at a big time school 

Holtmann is at DePaul 

Schertz hasn’t been mentioned once on here since the opening was announced

Underwood was the last man standing in the B1G from that cycle he was hired in    
I’m confident that IU will get it right this cycle   Sooner or later water finds its level 

 

[Hoosierfan1901 6,901]

If it ain’t Brad, it ain’t Rad

[RoadRage 2,570]

I think one reason so many of us want Brad Stevens, besides him being a great coach and motivator, is more than anyone else, he brings our fanbase together! The only problem I have with him is my iPad keeps wanting to put an apostrophe in his last name, which would be something I would just have to learn to deal with….

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13 minutes ago, BleedCubbieBlue said:

Thanks. This is the kind of answer I was trying to illicit. I think I must have worded the question poorly. I keep getting answers to why not, I am looking for what it would take for people to be open to it. I can accept that there are people that will never be okay with it, but I also have to believe that most people aren’t beyond redemption. Maybe he doesn’t deserve grace, but it also seems that grace is in short supply these days.

1) Assuming he’s hired this year: begin and end his successful career at IU without incident.  
 

in the alternative: 

2) Spend another 5 years or so where he is at meaningfully rehabilitating himself and again, have zero incidents.  
 

Absent that he’s always going to be seen by some, myself included, as a ticking time bomb waiting to embarrass and/or destroy the program.   
 

You and others are, of course, free to embrace him immediately and wholeheartedly. 

[Stuhoo 84,820]

The more I read a variety of opinions, the more I come back to:

Stevens

May

McCasland

Gates

as the four guys I would 1,000% get behind. And while only two of them would win the press release, all four would win the press conference and all four would win a ton of games at IU.

And all four of them are young enough to be 20 year hires.

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1 hour ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

Respectfully, $92m over 10 years. 

Do you think (if terms were agreed to) this is something that could move quickly and be announced before the end of the season?  Or will this be held off until after the B1G tournament??

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,534]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

The more I read a variety of opinions, the more I come back to:

Stevens

May

McCasland

Gates

as the four guys I would 1,000% get behind. And while only two of them would win the press release, all four would win the press conference and all four would win a ton of games at IU.

And all four of them would be 20 year hires.

Gates?!? Idk if i can support someone who has a season where they didn’t win 1 conference game.

[AZ Hoosier 9,036]

3 hours ago, BleedCubbieBlue said:

I feel like TJ Otzelberger has to be on that list. 
Especially if this is true.

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/top-virginia-head-coach-target-may-have-lower-buyout-estimated/c9190af5e1fbec166cc9e3c0

I personally am very high on Otzelberger... besides the apparently large buyout, there's the family issue.. his wife played volleyball at Iowa State and wants to stay there... maybe Scott can draw them away... Indy is closer to Ames than Virginia...

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5 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Gates?!? Idk if i can support someone who has a season where they didn’t win 1 conference game.

I was like yeah, yeah, yeah, wait what Gates? Seems like he tried to sneak that in. Haha