General Coach Candidate News

[RoadRage 2,646]

So who got off that jet from Boston this morning?

[IUHAHN81 2,863]

Sometimes it's more than money and a cush position that drives a decision. Ask Jim Harbaugh. Now go get our guy Scott! 

 

[Unexpectedflash 1,259]

12 minutes ago, HOOSIERINJURTLAW said:

Oats is not getting talked about enough…. Why is he not in the list of real possibilities. 

I think he’s honestly more unrealistic than Stevens. Coaches aren’t leaving places they have rolling anymore. Alabama gives him everything he wants and he has them as a top 5 program in the country with a bunch of NIL at his disposal. He doesn’t really have any reason to leave Alabama. Kentucky and Louisville probably checked in last year and he’s still there so i don’t know why it’d be any different for us 

[TrueHoosier62 1,641]

2 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

It’s the white whale 

We're hiring Moby Dick?! Holy shite!

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22 minutes ago, kottke said:

Is that guy Brad or Dusty, or other?

Dusty isn’t negotiating anything with anyone right now 

[Papacap 1,085]

Has his guy as in has identified who his guy is or has him essentially wrapped up to be the next coach? I’m not impatient or anything. Just want to know right now.  Won’t tell anyone else. 

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4 minutes ago, TrueHoosier62 said:

We're hiring Moby Dick?! Holy shite!

Indeed 

[Unexpectedflash 1,259]

I’ve seen people say we wouldn’t be considering dusty if he wasn’t from here but I’d raise that the only reason we have any shot is because he went here. Plus Michigan and Louisville were both fighting for him last year and he didn’t go there so he’s obviously thought highly of. Having watched Michigan this year, they don’t have consistent guard play and that’s why all their games end up being close. Michigan has had the biggest win differential of any team in the country which seems pretty elite to me. Once dusty gets guards in like he had at FAU he is going to have them rolling. He’d be a great fallback option.

If you look at coaching searches the last few years it is very hard to get someone established to leave their programs. Maybe that has changed with NIL but I’ll believe it when I see it. 

[Silat Player 961]

30 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I think we already have our guy.

Randy Wittman? LOL

[IU Prof 1,454]

2 minutes ago, IUHAHN81 said:

Sometimes it's more than money and a cush position that drives a decision. Ask Jim Harbaugh. Now go get our guy Scott! 

 

The Harbaugh-Stevens parallel isn't perfect. Jim went to HS in Ann Arbor and obviously played at UofM, while Brad never lived or played here. Plus Jim, unlike Brad was quickly wearing it his welcome with the 49ers at the time.

All that said, I do think it's nevertheless a really good analogy in terms of media skepticism about how a pro coach would never voluntarily lower himself to return to the college game.

Hopefully the story ends the same way here (without the 9 year roller coaster ride to win a championship, of course).

[Silat Player 961]

6 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

I think he’s honestly more unrealistic than Stevens. Coaches aren’t leaving places they have rolling anymore. Alabama gives him everything he wants and he has them as a top 5 program in the country with a bunch of NIL at his disposal. He doesn’t really have any reason to leave Alabama. Kentucky and Louisville probably checked in last year and he’s still there so i don’t know why it’d be any different for us 

Agree. Why would Oats leave? Alabama has plenty of money. Oats has that program absolutely rolling. 

Oats has no emotional ties to Indiana. 

Why in the world would he leave?

[LIHoosier 27,188]

17 minutes ago, NCHoosier said:

I don’t have many contacts, but I know someone close to the Cronin family. He will not be our guy. He was pissed. 

You could've stopped there. ;)

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1 minute ago, IU Prof said:

The Harbaugh-Stevens parallel isn't perfect. Jim went to HS in Ann Arbor and obviously played at UofM, while Brad never lived or played here. Plus Jim, unlike Brad was quickly wearing it his welcome with the 49ers at the time.

All that said, I do think it's nevertheless a really good analogy in terms of media skepticism about how a pro coach would never voluntarily lower himself to return to the college game.

Hopefully the story ends the same way here (without the 9 year roller coaster ride to win a championship, of course).

There’s more of a comparison that you realize even though Brad didn’t go to IU 

[Silat Player 961]

6 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Dusty isn’t negotiating anything with anyone right now 

Well, maybe Michigan...

[IUHoosierJoe 1,707]

18 minutes ago, NCHoosier said:

I don’t have many contacts, but I know someone close to the Cronin family. He will not be our guy. He was pissed when UCLA joined the B1G as he didn’t like that brand of ball. That was part (not all) of the reason he went west when he was on the market previously. 

That’s very interesting…it seems to me like his brand of ball has been more like the midwest teams than the other west coast teams.  Thank you for passing that along.

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1 minute ago, Silat Player said:

Well, maybe Michigan...

No, he’s not

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2 hours ago, JSHoosier said:

If I were to guess I'd say there's only one person IU would pony up that kind of money for.

Which is a problem. If you’re going to fix it then use the same resources to fix it. 

[Silat Player 961]

1 minute ago, Asha’man said:

Which is a problem. If you’re going to fix it then use the same resources to fix it. 

Yeah, and I hope that's not true. If you don't get 1a, then go for 1b, then 1c and so on down the list. 

Last time, IU missed on 1a and then went to 1zzz. 

Can't skip those steps this time.

[IUHoosierJoe 1,707]

1 minute ago, Asha’man said:

Which is a problem. If you’re going to fix it then use the same resources to fix it. 

All the resources (i.e., donors) may not be available for any other coach.

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Learn about Brad’s ties to IU 

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/2010/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id=504130 

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/n orth-canton/2017/04/21/celtics-coach-has-roots-in/21319891007  

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/03/brad-s tevens-basketball-journey-was-shaped-by-bob-knight-he-was -bigger-than-life/ 

https://youtu.be/ixUrKO918cU?si=NXaQ-QR5hT0izXgx