General Coach Candidate News

[Class of '66 Old Fart 91,135]

42 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Woodson got “retired”. He was fired 

[IU Prof 2,370]

13 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

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

Fixed it for you...

[JSHoosier 22,229]

1 minute ago, IUrocker said:

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. 

Possible PR speak to avoid distractions, ala Calipari or Saban, because he still has a job to do. I'm NOT saying that's what it is. 

If you want to keep something quiet, keep the circle small and deny it to anyone doesn't need to know. It's what I'd do in this situation. You can't really control what those in the know say or who they say it to but you could ask them to do the same.

I think it was ap who said Dolson is using smokescreens, maybe the insiders here actually heard what they shared but they themselves were given a smokescreen.

I'm not saying any of that is what's happening, just spitballing.

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 843]

8 hours ago, AH1971 said:

Two degrees (lol) and still can’t formulate a sentence.

Classic.

Why are you on this board? Do you just enjoy talking down to people? If that’s the case then that’s fine you should just admit it and own up to it. You say you want to talk about the job search yet 90% of your posts are immaturely talking about other people’s education levels and making fun of them for choosing to believe in something. You say you’re just being a realist yet aren’t admitting that you’re just here to be a troll and not have honest conversations and give your opinion. I know this is going to sound mind blowing but we are adults and can give our opinion without talking down to others. I am not sure if you have kids or not but can you imagine if your kids read how you talked down to other people on this site because I would be absolutely embarrassed if I wrote what you’ve written lately and had them read it. If you genuinely want to start having conversations about this coaching search then let’s do it but until then I hope you take this conversation into consideration and take it to heart. Go Hoosiers!

[Class of '66 Old Fart 91,135]

41 minutes ago, iu-dl said:

I need to figure out how to start a thread with the people I believe/trust and weed out some of the stragglers, trolls and pessimists. 

Well, it will be an easy board to monitor with just the 2 of you!    (I'm kidding.)

[Scotty R 3,765]

47 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

How about a Stevens only thread for the crazies. Then the rest of us can discuss legitimate candidates.

Then start a new thread then

 Nobody is wanting them banned because of their views on Stevens but it was them being a prick.

[Uspshoosier 54,534]

6 minutes ago, IUrocker said:

Why couldn’t he have just flat out said he wasn’t interested in the IU job and wouldn’t be coming? 

Because with his job title he doesn’t have to face the press like sitting coaches would have to.  Last time he was the coach of the Celtics so the press could ask away.  He is in a position where he doesn’t have to answer questions if he doesn’t want to would be my guess 

[Ryno6284 4,476]

6 minutes ago, kottke said:

Question for those who understand this better than me: How do we navigate the transfer portal window if we don’t have a coach in place by then?

I could be wrong, but it think it is when you have to have your name in the portal by.

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 12,096]

2 minutes ago, Juwan Moye said:

If Crean had made a Final Four he'd have been given A LOT more leeway. That said, I was curious about your claim and Cronin's 6 years have absolutely been better than Crean. Here's how the first 6 years of Cronin compare to the last 6 of UCLA when looking at KenPom ratings as well as how the season finished.

So marginally? Idk why anyone would look at those results from Cronin, at UCLA, and say "sign me up" 

To each their own, but I think Cronin is an above average coach, at best, and we can do measurably better. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 91,135]

31 minutes ago, IUBtown said:

I don't think its some conspiracy of those for Woodson wanted to stick it to anyone.  It was noticing last years roster had its deficiencies at guard, give him the ability to bring in talent so they're not canning an IU legend without giving him talent and a legit chance to succeed.  He got his players and it would either work or it didn't and it obviously didn't.  

A hearty welcome to btb.

[Scotty R 3,765]

48 minutes ago, Josh said:

****, my dog is too.  No reason to talk about my dog though.

I still think we're focusing on the wrong things in this search.  Find the best candidate regardless of Midwest ties.  And eliminate Cronin

Last time I checked UCLA isn't in the Midwest 

[Lebowski 3,387]

13 hours ago, Sobchak_Security said:

I’m perfectly calm dude….

Yeah, waving the effin' gun around!

[MikeRoberts 7,996]

18 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

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

I enjoy your posts. But I did reply to a post shutting down talk about a coach that wasn’t Brad where it said not to bring that coach up. That isn’t the only post of that nature.

it wasn’t my post that was being shut down but I do understand the frustration of many here around this topic. I strongly believe based on info that was shared with me that the original search 4 years ago was botched in many ways and it wasn’t the BOT like many here claim it to be.

those same people from 4 years ago are pushing the same thing again and folks are able to buy into that again but all signs again point to us needing to look elsewhere and I would like to have those discussions here.

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 843]

2 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

So marginally? Idk why anyone would look at those results from Cronin, at UCLA, and say "sign me up" 

To each their own, but I think Cronin is an above average coach, at best, and we can do measurably better. 

I 1000% agree! Hes been to a final 4 but so has Mike Davis. Yes he’s been to the tournament a ton but was in a lower conference that he could dominate and yet he is 1 game above .500 in the tournament which to me isn’t the home run hire we need. I think you have to try for May if that’s who your backup plan is and let’s be honest they can back channel to his agent and find out for certain if he wants the job and if he says no you go to your next candidate in the back channels. But I’d think and hope they have what’s equal to an NFL Draft board and give each candidates their draft grade and then rank them based on such. 

[Ryno6284 4,476]

5 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I could be wrong, but it think it is when you have to have your name in the portal by.

opens march 24- April 22. So if our next coach is still coaching in the tourney, we will have to get him as soon as his team is eliminated…or wins the whole thing! lol

[Josh 13,233]

7 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

Last time I checked UCLA isn't in the Midwest 

Check again please

[Home Jersey 16,307]

1 minute ago, MikeRoberts said:

I enjoy your posts. But I did reply to a post shutting down talk about a coach that wasn’t Brad where it said not to bring that coach up. That isn’t the only post of that nature.

it wasn’t my post that was being shut down but I do understand the frustration of many here around this topic. I strongly believe based on info that was shared with me that the original search 4 years ago was botched in many ways and it wasn’t the BOT like many here claim it to be.

those same people from 4 years ago are pushing the same thing again and folks are able to buy into that again but all signs again point to us needing to look elsewhere and I would like to have those discussions here.

Hopefully once the initial disappointment passes for some (probably after all star weekend lol) this chapter will be entirely behind us and we can all look forward. I just hope that Dolson and other people in this process are laser focused on viable targets. If anything I’m pleased Brad let us all down in mid February so there’s, you’d assume, plenty of time to be prioritizing people who actually want to be here and can make us successful consistently again. That should have been the case all along I hope, and expect. The good news IMO, is that there are plenty of viable candidates this cycle who I think can do that for us. I am very eager to get the official announcement ideally as soon as our new coach is done with his current CBB team’s season. 

[go iu bb 9,758]

10 hours ago, AH1971 said:

An ounce of common sense, not to mention any semblance of optics, made it pretty clear Brad Stevens wasn’t going to be the next coach.

1. Left college in 2014

2. Walked away from coaching altogether in 2021

3. Assembled a championship winning franchise 

4. Has the best roster in the NBA secured for the foreseeable future 

1+1 usually equals 2.

Whatever equation signals Brad Stevens coaching IU is why statistics is still an extremely tough course to pass.

Sometimes 1+1=10. It's about perspective, so what's wrong if some people view Stevens as a possibility? How does that affect you?

[ronzo4IU 432]

Maybe BS got cold feet and scared of the challenge or maybe he is comfortable being a behind the scenes office boy in Boston. 
anyways, I just hope we hire somebody that is fairly youthful and has a lot of passion and BB IQ!!

[Josh 13,233]

Could you guys keep it down in here?  I'm trying to take my company's anti-harassment course online in another tab.  I'm starting to wonder what harassment is really