General Coach Candidate News

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Regarding Dusty and Greene County: I was born and raised in central Indiana but like most Indiana folk, I was attending H.S. basketball games and running around the top of the gyms before I knew how to dribble a basketball.  Indiana fans know basketball and have a connection to the sport unlike many others.  While I know very little about Greene County, Indiana, like so many others I know the small schools in that county have a reputation for fantastic H.S. basketball coaches/teams.  For those of us who grew up during the one class system in the state, we remember those small schools from Greene county kicking @$$ in the tournament against schools much larger with much greater notoriety year after year.  Dusty was raised in that area and around that basketball atmosphere so I'm not surprised at all that he was successful at FAU.  I think he has the "IT" that IU needs to recruit in state players along with those portal players who he recognizes with the same "Indiana" fight and grit.  I'd take Dusty over any coach IU has hired since Coach Bob Knight any day.

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I know it's gonna come as a huge surprise but the list for me is pretty short.....

1. Brad Stevens 

2. Nonexistent 

3. Nonexistent 

4. You get the point by now 

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1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

Why Gates, he went 0-18 in the conference last year

+1.   Dennis Gates would be a bad hire.  Hopefully we are aiming higher than that.

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4 minutes ago, Eagle’s Rug said:

Pretty exciting that the fallback option could be Few, May, or Beard, should our Lord and Savior deny us a 3rd time.

on that last note to make sure that's not the case, have YOU paid homage to me today? hum???

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12 hours 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. 

This is it in a nutshell for me and the reason I don't think Beard gets a call.

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10 hours ago, JaybobHoosier said:

I don’t watch much Mizzou basketball, but live just SW of St. Louis. Always nice seeing fellow Missourians on here. 

Went to high school in Alton across the river. Military school closed now but still have friends in St.Louis area 

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Sorry Dennis Gates fans I am out on him. He may be a good coach but to not find a way to win 1 sec game for a entire season doesn't give me enough confidence in him

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6 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

+1.   Dennis Gates would be a bad hire.  Hopefully we are aiming higher than that.

LOL

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Is Scott's friendship and talks with Brad more likely to be about consulting Brad about IU's next hire more than they are about Brad actually taking the job? 

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19 minutes ago, Rico said:

LOL

56% career winning percentage.  I sure as hell can't figure why aiming higher than Dennis Gates is funny. 

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18 minutes ago, IUHAHN81 said:

Is Scott's friendship and talks with Brad more likely to be about consulting Brad about IU's next hire more than they are about Brad actually taking the job? 

I would guess it’s both.  If Brad doesn’t want the job, he is still a great source for thoughts on who would do well at IU.  He is the GM of the current NBA Champions… he knows personnel decisions.

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7 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

I would guess it’s both.  If Brad doesn’t want the job, he is still a great source for thoughts on who would do well at IU.  He is the GM of the current NBA Champions… he knows personnel decisions.

Why on earth would we have Stevens consult on our hiring decisions? He hasn’t been around the college game for 12 years. 12 years! This **** is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s

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9 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

56% career winning percentage.  I sure as hell can't figure why aiming higher than Dennis Gates is funny. 

Carry on...

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7 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

56% career winning percentage.  I sure as hell can't figure why aiming higher than Dennis Gates is funny. 

They could hire Gates tomorrow and even with an 0-18 conference record on his resume they would still be in better shape than they have been the last 4 years.    Definitely could aim higher however if he actually was hired they would have hired an actual college basketball coach that is well respected and looked at as a very good young coach.   There is a reason he is getting mentioned by national writers.  It’s not just message board posters pushing it.   In my opinion it doesn’t get down to him but if we ended with Gates I would be on board snd ready to roll.   Probably most would turn their nose up at it and make fun of it 

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48 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

They could hire Gates tomorrow and even with an 0-18 conference record on his resume they would still be in better shape than they have been the last 4 years.    Definitely could aim higher however if he actually was hired they would have hired an actual college basketball coach that is well respected and looked at as a very good young coach.   There is a reason he is getting mentioned by national writers.  It’s not just message board posters pushing it.   In my opinion it doesn’t get down to him but if we ended with Gates I would be on board snd ready to roll.   Probably most would turn their nose up at it and make fun of it 

He is the living, walking, talking embodiment of “losing the press conference but winning a ton basketball games at IU.”

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11 hours ago, 8bucks said:

“What does my drinkin have to do with my knowledge of the game” .. or something like that. If I were convinced he did not have an alcohol problem any more and would not relapse that would help. I would also have to hear more about the event to think the female was the aggressor but that seems a stretch. 
 

Even if he came and had success right away the risk of another drunken problem is not something I would take lightly if I were the AD. Especially if I had Few, May or Pearl as alternatives. 

I really like President Pam, but I don't see her signing off on a coach with DV allegations. Add the alcohol issue and I don't think Beard makes it to the discussion phase.

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4 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

Why on earth would we have Stevens consult on our hiring decisions? He hasn’t been around the college game for 12 years. 12 years! This **** is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s

Like him or not, he is one of the best minds in basketball.

He runs the Boston Celtics and is the NBA Exec of the Year.  It’s not like he only knows NBA bball and can’t understand college bball.  He has done the college thing and he was awesome at that too.

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Beard purely as a coach would be a home run.

But also one more of these videos from a complete implosion.

Dolson needs to tread lightly.

https://x.com/Lubbockisthttps://twitter.com/i/status/1488482798377779203

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I liked Greg McDermott last time and i like him again this time if we strike out on everyone. He’s done a masterful job this year. Only issue is that he’s 60 now but he’d win a lot of games

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8 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Beard purely as a coach would be a home run.

But also one more of these videos from a complete implosion.

Dolson needs to tread lightly.

https://x.com/Lubbockisthttps://twitter.com/i/status/1488482798377779203/status/1488482798377779203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488482798377779203%7Ctwgr%5E6a3ebeafe70ff1e75e3a9e64df748310b7e49193%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkkam.com%2Fdrunk-chris-beard-ruins-texas-tech-fans-christmas%2F

Seems to be very, very inebriated. That was from his time at Texas. Certainly possible that he has gotten help since then.