General Coach Candidate News

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Just now, str8baller said:

If Indiana wants to get back to the middle of the pack, or slightly ahead, how bout Fran McCaffery? He’s run his course in Iowa. His kids live in Indiana now.  
 

Then Iowa can have McCollum

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Just now, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

We can pull a coach from UCLA but not Baylor?!?! 

Two thoughts on that 1) The Drews are comfortable in Waco by all accounts and enjoy practicing their faith there. They didn’t bite on the UK offer and I’m sure he’s had other chances over the years. Perhaps he covets the IU job enough to go at this stage in his career, but I just don’t see it. Definitely call him, sure. 2) It ain’t the UCLA of old 

[IUHoosierJoe 1,621]

12 minutes ago, Juwan Moye said:

If we could realistically get the top coach in the sport, which Id argue is Nate Oats, then yeah we’d all want that.

I think what you’re seeing is that some of us realize many of these coaches won’t be realistic for us. Example: we’d be happy with Beard but he’s controversial and apparently our current admin wouldn’t even consider him. I’m not saying that’s right or wrong but when you’re looking at the top of the sport, who is actually  realistic hire that puts us in that top 6-7 you mention?

I’m not sure who is realistic.  I don’t have that kind of info.  I mean, Stevens and May would be home runs to me.  Oats, I’d take a big swing at him after that.  Drew.  I’d love Beard if he didn’t have the baggage.  I’m not sure who would excite me a whole lot after that.  I think if you’re going to reach down for a mid major coach, you better absolutely do all your homework as to everything about his approach and absolutely not screw it up this time.

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Cronin reminds me of the little chicken hawk in some of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons.  Small, feisty…”I’m a chicken hawk, see…and I’m gonna eat chicken!”

[lillurk 4,219]

2 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

We can pull a coach from UCLA but not Baylor?!?! 

Baylor has big time cash, not sure UCLA does.

[OKHOOSIER 4,429]

Okay hear me out. Cronin as HC with Tim Crean as OC and we’d win infinity games. Boom. Problem solved. 

[str8baller 6,211]

What’s Tim Floyd doing these days? IU could probably get him

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11 minutes ago, JF87 said:

I'll be angry that Woodson didn't step aside last year so we could have hired Dusty when he was available. 

Dolson tried. QB got in the way again.  
 

Luckily May negotiated his buyout knowing we’d be in the spot we’re in now. 

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3 hours ago, TTT said:

Steve 

Lavin?

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,412]

Someone suggesting Fran?? I need to log off for the day lol

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New and improved priority list of coaches....

1. Brad Stevens

2. Mark Few

3. Bill Self

4. Nate Oats

5. Scott Drew

6. Chris Beard

7. Dusty May

8. Mick Cronin

9. Greg McDermott

10. Penny Hardaway

11. Tom Crean

12. Ben McCollum

13. Will Wade

14. Bryce Drew

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If may says no, call oats just for the hell of it. Then maybe Drew

Then throw as much as you can at McDermott. 

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36 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Got to crawl before you can walk. That’s where some disagree.   Some think IU can skip steps and be in a position to hire a coach that can automatically put them at the head of the table.   Some think it’s going to take a process and the first step is getting a coach to stabilize a middle of the pack mediocre or under (I think IU is 25-30 games under .500 in the B1G over the last 9 years) B1G team.   Maybe it’s good to hire a coach like Cronin first to stabilize and then worrying about games past the sweet 16 later 

That's where youre wrong. Hire Beard and you're head of the table almost immediately. Even May might get you there 

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Just now, IndianaSconnie90 said:

That's where youre wrong. Hire Beard and you're head of the table almost immediately. Even May might get you there 

In your opinion

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Just now, Uspshoosier said:

In your opinion

Based on what they've both put out there for results, but sure, my opinion and all that

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34 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

What is impressive though? 

Not much 

What’s impressive is when you compare Cronin’s results to those of IU over the last 20+ years.

It’s astounding to me that fans of a program as underachieving as IU would be less than thrilled with Mick Cronin results 

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1 hour ago, LamarCheeks said:

Here ya go .. 
 

 

Notice a difference between him our head coach interviews 

[AZ Hoosier 8,884]

We can pull a coach from UCLA but not Baylor?!?! 

The strong Christian/religious tie to Waco cannot be understated. The wife is especially tied to that, and I’ve read that she makes the decisions. Baylor is a good job, pays well and Drew’s had some success.

UCLA is a lot like IU but without the NIL component. Since Wooden and Gilbert (including pay-for-play), what has UCLA actually done to tetain their blue blood status?

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,862]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

What’s impressive is when you compare Cronin’s results to those of IU over the last 20+ years.

It’s astounding to me that fans of a program as underachieving as IU would be less than thrilled with Mick Cronin results 

No titles in 22 years and 1FF looks identical to our results. 

I agree, Cronin will get us to tourney. 

I had hoped we wanted more. 

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Just now, Stuhoo said:

What’s impressive is when you compare Cronin’s results to those of IU over the last 20+ years.

It’s astounding to me that fans of a program as underachieving as IU would be less than thrilled with Mick Cronin results 

Cronin is definitely an upgrade. I'm not arguing that at all. He would be a choice that I wouldn't be upset with. 

With that said, I would hope dolson has gone through about 7 people before it got to him. Also why pay that huge buyout, if you are just throwing money at the problem you might as well go the mid major route again and hope for a hit