General Coach Candidate News

[CSP]

Just now, Hoosierfan1901 said:

GM should be Tom Crean

on board 

[TadQueasy]

the correct answer to the GM is whoever the hell Brad wants.  

[IsaacTor]

Thing about Chris Beard is his teams always choke 

[Artie86]

2 hours ago, ap2345 said:

You have to. This can't go on forever.

....Brad is a professional, a smart man and knows that a decision needs to be made one way or another. At the end of the day, it's buisness.

[theriverpilot]

1 minute ago, IsaacTor said:

Thing about Chris Beard is his teams always choke 

Ba dum, tiss!

[Hoosier987]

4 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

GM should be Tom Crean

NO thanks. 

[steubenhoosier]

So, just for giggles I looked it up and February 26th is National Carpe Diem Day. Hopefully, Scott and Brad do so and seize the day by announcing that we have our next head coach.

Unfortunately, it's also National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, so there's that.

As far as the GM role, assuming it would only be for basketball, football would have their own if needed? If so, this might be a good spot for Fife. He seemed to have great recruiting connections, and would bring him back into the program as a potential successor when Stevens decides to step down.

[CrossboneIU22]

1 minute ago, steubenhoosier said:

So, just for giggles I looked it up and February 26th is National Carpe Diem Day. Hopefully, Scott and Brad do so and seize the day by announcing that we have our next head coach.

Unfortunately, it's also National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, so there's that.

As far as the GM role, assuming it would only be for basketball, football would have their own if needed? If so, this might be a good spot for Fife. He seemed to have great recruiting connections, and would bring him back into the program as a potential successor when Stevens decides to step down.

Except he hates the NIL stuff.  Have to have a GM that embraces it I would think.

[CSP]

1 minute ago, steubenhoosier said:

So, just for giggles I looked it up and February 26th is National Carpe Diem Day. Hopefully, Scott and Brad do so and seize the day by announcing that we have our next head coach.

Unfortunately, it's also National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, so there's that.

As far as the GM role, assuming it would only be for basketball, football would have their own if needed? If so, this might be a good spot for Fife. He seemed to have great recruiting connections, and would bring him back into the program as a potential successor when Stevens decides to step down.

if Fife wanted Jack Benter, I'd let him interview

[iubb]

 

[hper50]

7 minutes ago, maharkn said:

Brad Stevens

Chris Mathews for Shooting 

Austin Ainge for GM/ Recruiting

Lethal Shooter!!!

[mamasa]

3 hours ago, mdn82 said:

HoosierReb was truly one of a kind.

For years, whenever I'd try to text anything with Hoosier in it, HoosierReb tried to auto-populate lol

[maharkn]

1 minute ago, hper50 said:

Lethal Shooter!!!

He can be an assistant to just to sweeten the pot. Might get some shooters willing to come play 

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

18 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

The GM is basically a recruiting coordinator with a bigger title. The do all the things the HC doesn't want to do and the assistants don't have time to do. 

Has any names leaked of who Brad would want his GM to be? I could see him bringing someone from Boston with him or someone from one of his Butler teams that’s a great basketball mind.

Edited February 13, 2025 by IvanRenkosillegitimatechild

[lillurk]

I think @ap2345 already answered the questions about a GM but I’d add that as C’s coach, BS had input on player decisions but Danny Ainge made the call.

Now BS is where the buck stops as president of basketball ops, but the Cs have a GM, and surely Mazzulla has input on player personnel too. There’s a division of labor and there always has been in college, too, albeit with different titles.

My guess is that recruits with NBA aspirations like the NBA-style titles, among other things.

[theriverpilot]

3 minutes ago, steubenhoosier said:

So, just for giggles I looked it up and February 26th is National Carpe Diem Day. Hopefully, Scott and Brad do so and seize the day by announcing that we have our next head coach.

Unfortunately, it's also National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, so there's that.

As far as the GM role, assuming it would only be for basketball, football would have their own if needed? If so, this might be a good spot for Fife. He seemed to have great recruiting connections, and would bring him back into the program as a potential successor when Stevens decides to step down.

Well those two bolded days pretty much describe the two camps concerning Brad Stevens on this board.

[HoosierHuddle]

The AAU call is really difficult for me to understand UNLESS there was extreme confidence from Scott Dolson that Brad Stevens was going to be the new head coach. If Scott Dolson actually said some version of "we have our top target, he's not currently a college head coach and he has two weeks to decide" to leading AAU figures in the state, clearly alluding to Brad Stevens, there can only be a couple of logical explanations: 

First, Stevens is all but signed and they are just working out small-picture contract details and begin working with the Celtics to figure out succession plans. Of course, those plans would be very short-term due to the pending ownership change. Stevens knows how important the relationship with Indiana Elite and others would be so he has Scott not-so-vaguely let them know what is likely coming. That seems like a stretch to me but this call apparently happened so...maybe this is not crazy?

The second option is that conversations have been had with Brad Stevens, Dolson is hopeful and confident but nothing is really close to set in stone. He knows Dusty May is getting approached for a new contract with Michigan so time is ticking and he has this call to apply a very unsubtle timeline to Brad Stevens. This seems like a serious overplaying of his hand and looks a bit foolish to leading AAU figures if Brad Stevens is not the guy. I find this second option even more unrealistic and it seems like something Scott Dolson would not even consider doing. 

I am extremely hesitant to get my hopes up but that is getting more difficult by the day. 

[ap2345]

Just now, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

Has any names leaked of who Brad would want his GM to be? I could see him bringing someone from Boston with him or someone from one of his Butler teams that’s a great basketball mind.

Possibly Austin Ainge

[ap2345]

1 minute ago, HoosierHuddle said:

The AAU call is really difficult for me to understand UNLESS there was extreme confidence from Scott Dolson that Brad Stevens was going to be the new head coach. If Scott Dolson actually said some version of "we have our top target, he's not currently a college head coach and he has two weeks to decide" to leading AAU figures in the state, clearly alluding to Brad Stevens, there can only be a couple of logical explanations: 

First, Stevens is all but signed and they are just working out small-picture contract details and begin working with the Celtics to figure out succession plans. Of course, those plans would be very short-term due to the pending ownership change. Stevens knows how important the relationship with Indiana Elite and others would be so he has Scott not-so-vaguely let them know what is likely coming. That seems like a stretch to me but this call apparently happened so...maybe this is not crazy?

The second option is that conversations have been had with Brad Stevens, Dolson is hopeful and confident but nothing is really close to set in stone. He knows Dusty May is getting approached for a new contract with Michigan so time is ticking and he has this call to apply a very unsubtle timeline to Brad Stevens. This seems like a serious overplaying of his hand and looks a bit foolish to leading AAU figures if Brad Stevens is not the guy. I find this second option even more unrealistic and it seems like something Scott Dolson would not even consider doing. 

I am extremely hesitant to get my hopes up but that is getting more difficult by the day. 

Scott's not stupid. If that happened you don't do that without having a good understanding of what the situation is. It's not just that. IU is also scheduling non conference games which is odd without a HC 

[CSP]

1 minute ago, HoosierHuddle said:

The AAU call is really difficult for me to understand UNLESS there was extreme confidence from Scott Dolson that Brad Stevens was going to be the new head coach. If Scott Dolson actually said some version of "we have our top target, he's not currently a college head coach and he has two weeks to decide" to leading AAU figures in the state, clearly alluding to Brad Stevens, there can only be a couple of logical explanations: 

First, Stevens is all but signed and they are just working out small-picture contract details and begin working with the Celtics to figure out succession plans. Of course, those plans would be very short-term due to the pending ownership change. Stevens knows how important the relationship with Indiana Elite and others would be so he has Scott not-so-vaguely let them know what is likely coming. That seems like a stretch to me but this call apparently happened so...maybe this is not crazy?

The second option is that conversations have been had with Brad Stevens, Dolson is hopeful and confident but nothing is really close to set in stone. He knows Dusty May is getting approached for a new contract with Michigan so time is ticking and he has this call to apply a very unsubtle timeline to Brad Stevens. This seems like a serious overplaying of his hand and looks a bit foolish to leading AAU figures if Brad Stevens is not the guy. I find this second option even more unrealistic and it seems like something Scott Dolson would not even consider doing. 

I am extremely hesitant to get my hopes up but that is getting more difficult by the day. 

I agree, I'm hesitant on this info, but it was on Trilly, which I hold in higher regard than certain avenues. 

My question about the whole "AAU" thing is why? It's not to put pressure on BS, sorry, but I don't believe that. And as a coach, that would turn me off..

Now.... there is one pretty massive in-state recruit that played for Indiana Elite (hmmmmmmmmm) .... like maybe that was strategically done by BS because he's, in an indirect way, telling Mullins pump the brakes young fella.