General Coach Candidate News

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,854]

5 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Depends on what you consider championship level. I’d say his final 4 team was the worst in the 3 year stretch from 20-23. His team this year is also top 25 by every metric. So that’s 4 in 6 years of teams id be happy with 

No shot 4 of those teams were championship level, maybe 1.5. 

The FF team wasn't his best team, at all. 

The one championship level team he had was excellent, I enjoyed watching them.. but his 6 years at UCLA look about like Creans last 6 years. It's just not enough at UCLA and Indiana. 

[OKHOOSIER 4,420]

3 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

It’s the opposite though. This is the general coach candidate news thread and it is dominated by talk about 1 non candidate and attempts for others to have other discussions are being shut down.

i haven’t criticized anyone on here, i just have empathy for those that come here to get general coach candidate news and aren’t able to do that because of the Stevens army that has developed and wanted to snuff out all other talk.

 

To be fair, the trolls drive more round and round about the Stevens topic, it’s much less them trying to discuss other coaches as it is dunking on people. So it is self defeating and drives more Stevens nonsense. We’ve had plenty of discussions about other coaches. Nobody is snuffing out talk of other coaches, they’re snuffing out condescending snark. Huge difference IMO. 

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,407]

Feel like I should do myself a favor and not check the board til Monday but it’s hard not looking for updates haha

[IUBtown 7]

1 hour ago, coonhounds said:

Why is Cronin talking like we fired woodson? He is retiring our coaching search isn't the same as firing someone mid season!

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Sounds more like its out of respect that Woodson is currently still the head coach, its his team.  Kinda like screwing around with someones wife despite well known marital issues.

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6 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

It’s the opposite though. This is the general coach candidate news thread and it is dominated by talk about 1 non candidate and attempts for others to have other discussions are being shut down.

i haven’t criticized anyone on here, i just have empathy for those that come here to get general coach candidate news and aren’t able to do that because of the Stevens army that has developed and wanted to snuff out all other talk.

 

I have not seen other discussions being shut down in this thread, plenty of good back and forths about other candidates. No gripes with your posts at all, didn’t mean to come off that way. We have the threads with polls on 40 other coaches. Because of the nature of this Stevens infatuation, it’s easier to contain the non-Stevens talk IMO… either way this should all be going out like a wet fart soon. 6 more weeks til an announcement hopefully

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9 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I don’t think May leaves UM after 1 year, so I’m going with McDermott or McCollum!  Let’s get a winner and never look back!

I’m high on McCollum also. I like McDermott but my preference is a younger guy.

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1 minute ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Feel like I should do myself a favor and not check the board til Monday but it’s hard not looking for updates haha

Don’t join the Discord. It’s like crack lol.

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1 minute ago, Juwan Moye said:

In 4 seasons:

1 final 4

2 sweet 16s

 

I remove the Covid year, he’d have made the tourney then. 

Which is the baseline at UCLA. Not impressed. He would not elevate us at all.... plus his offense is boring. 

[Unexpectedflash 1,247]

3 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

No shot 4 of those teams were championship level, maybe 1.5. 

The FF team wasn't his best team, at all. 

The one championship level team he had was excellent, I enjoyed watching them.. but his 6 years at UCLA look about like Creans last 6 years. It's just not enough at UCLA and Indiana. 

I consider a championship team top 30 in offense and defense efficiency rating because that is what you need to win a title. In 23-24 they were third overall in kenpom with top 20 both. That’s championship level. In 22-23 they were number 11 in kenpom with 12 and 16 efficiency ratings respectively.  Championship level to me

[AZ Hoosier 8,869]

2 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

FYI, 

What Cronin said last night about potentially being a candidate at IU (and don't worry; this comes from a free site -- I didn't pirate it). 

 

“I just think it's tough to do that stuff during the season. But actually, you know, the whole thing's gotten so crazy because we had a couple coaches that did it. Tony [Bennett] and coach [Jim] Larranaga. They did it. Leonard [Hamilton]. The coach I replaced, it happened to him during the season. I don't like to see that.

"As far as me, I would never comment on a coaching situation. It would be wildly inappropriate because I’m the son of a coach, and the way I look at it is that Mike Woodson’s the coach at Indiana. Now, that man’s coaching his basketball team, and he was a national champion. I happen to know him. I know Kenya Hunter on his staff extremely well for many years and have tremendous respect for their kids and their team.

"To me, nobody should say anything that distracts anything with them with that. So I just think it would be wildly inappropriate, mostly for what I said, my respect for coach Woodson. He’s over there coaching his team. That’s all that anybody needs to – I understand you guys gotta do your job and ask. That’s my stance on that stuff.”

Cross him off... he claimed that Woodson was "a national champion"... if you want to coach here, you have to know the history. Woodson played at Indiana between the 1976 and 1981 championship teams. (Missed it by >|  |< that much).

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Just now, AZ Hoosier said:

he was a national champion

 

[FartsMcGee 48]

My top 5 at the moment if BS is out:

1. May

2. McDermott 

3. Mcasland 

 4. Cronin

 5. Jimmy Calhoun

[Unexpectedflash 1,247]

After 8 years of terrible basketball i don’t know if we’re in a position to turn our nose up at some of these coaches that would have us in a very good position 

[AZ Hoosier 8,869]

3 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

Are you The King of B-town Banners??? Come to get us over the hump??? 

According to last night's presser, the hurdle is now "the finish line"... apparently he's finally conquered "the hump".

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1 minute ago, bodsbums said:

Exactly this. I’m a long time lurker and very rare poster.  i’m a huge IU fan that lives out of state so I have no information to contribute. This thread has jumped the shark though. I will be moving on until we actually hire a coach.  I trust the A.D. and we should let him do his job and support him. 
 

For my parting advice, if there are posters that you don’t like, block them and don’t reply to them that’s tempting as it is. They tend to go away when they don’t get the attention they want. Go Hoosiers!
 

You can give your opinion which is as valid as anyone else’s on the board. I don’t see this thread as only for inside information, I see it as a place for posters to express their opinions about coaching options and provide reasons why we should or shouldn’t select that coach. I don’t mind the trolls that much, and I believe our new coach is one of the coaches being discussed in this thread, I feel like we will all know a lot more about that coach when he is chosen because of this thread. I think it is a great thread!

[JaybobHoosier 12,323]

So, assuming the Stevens ship has fully sailed and it’s not a smokescreen, what’s everyone’s top 3? These are mine:

- Dusty May

- Chris Beard (if fully vetted and IU feels he can succeed off the court. I’m fully aware this is an extreme long shot, but still in my top 3 if IU thinks he’s the guy)

- Bruce Pearl

I can see the Pearl ship sailing, but I think he would help make IU a national relevant program again before retiring. I think May is the most realistic of the top candidates, but we will see. I think he will do great things at IU, but curious to see how this all unfolds.

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Brad didn’t say he wasn’t coming. Why couldn’t he have just flat out said he wasn’t interested in the IU job and wouldn’t be coming? Although I’m not too sure what’s going on, still can’t completely rule it out. Just an odd thing. If not Brad, I really hope we get Dusty. 

[#1fanofafrin 39]

Beard then May.  But I don't see Beard turning us down.

[OKHOOSIER 4,420]

This could be fun, Give me some odds of who you think it will be, I’ll go first:

May—I’d say 60%, and the most likely option. I hope his only one year at current job doesn’t matter.

McDermott—10%, you have to check here if Dusty is a no IMO
 

Mcasaland—5%, wish it was higher he’s my favorite of the field options, but I don’t think he leaves the state of Texas. 
 

Cronin/Buzz/Beard—5% each. Likely doesn’t get this far IMO

McCollum—6% chance. Unlikely, but better than the Cronin crew I think. 
 

Stevens—4% for the haterz. 

 

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3 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

I consider a championship team top 30 in offense and defense efficiency rating because that is what you need to win a title. In 23-24 they were third overall in kenpom with top 20 both. That’s championship level. In 22-23 they were number 11 in kenpom with 12 and 16 efficiency ratings respectively.  Championship level to me

You have your seasons off... 23-24 gets your fired at IU, ask Tom Crean. 

22-23 they were excellent. I said that, 21-22 pretty good too..  

20-21--- they were 21-10. Idc where they are ranked KenPom, I'm not getting excited about that.