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General Coach Candidate News

By JaybobHoosier, in Indiana Men's Basketball

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str8baller    7,393

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4 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

I'd essentially make him the OC and help with development.

Offense and defense are too connected in basketball to have a football type coordinator for one side of the ball. 
 

Also, Creans offenses were very mediocre in the half court when a team could take transition away.  In his first two Zeller teams he’s lucky he only played Wisconsin in the regular season once each year, but then got eliminated by them in the BTT both years anyways.  In four games vs them Indiana only scored more than 60 points once.  
 

Crean shouldn’t have anything to do with the program besides cheerleader on tv. 

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go iu bb    9,268

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2 hours ago, Juwan Moye said:

The longer it goes without him getting an extension the more interesting it gets for us.

If he signs an extension during the season with the IU position open, then he never really had much interest in the IU job. In this case, I would say that keeping Woodson another year probably didn't cost us May.

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croneleoni    325

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I've talked to some family and some family friends but have not gotten any read whatsoever. Knowing Dusty pretty well many years ago, I think he would listen. I think he is torn that he feels loyal to Michigan working there, but also loves IU and Bloomington
I know someone who is close friends with Dusty. He was a former manager with Dusty at IU, and he gets invited to sit behind the bench for the Michigan games. I see him regularly, but he keeps a tight lip on the situation. Also, I really don't push for information because it would feel weird. Personally, I think Dusty is the right fit because of his demeanor and age. This one year at Michigan has shown he can do it at the highest level.

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BBTB    74

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All I can hope is that Dolson  can  give us a basketball coach  that is as good as the one he got us for football . I guess I am punishing  myself reading every news article or watching every  video about the coach search .Its wild because we aren't the only team needing a coach I can think of at least 2 others Virginia and Florida ST .  

Everyone's list is so and so is to old or not gonna move from or not good enough 

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HoosierHoopster    8,181

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Pretty good article from the HT / Indy Star on Dolson and the new coach search. Don't think this is behind a paywall.

How Mike Woodson stepped down. Indiana basketball coach search details

Some of the points:

What will Scott Dolson look for in hiring next Indiana basketball coach?

If Dolson’s intention through discussions over Woodson’s stepping down was to respect his coach, his remit now is discretion.

No successful coaching search plays out in public, until it is over. Equally, Dolson is keen not to distract unnecessarily from a season that’s not yet over. It’s why he’s refrained from talking with players about the future with games left on the schedule. 

That radio silence doesn’t mean there isn’t any concrete information available about what his process might look like. The most instructive details are available for fans willing to revisit Dolson’s last major search. 

When Dolson was invited to speak to the Bloomington Rotary Club last March, he wasn't sure what he was going to talk about. The organization gave him an open platform to address members as a guest speaker at their regular weekly meeting. 

He touched hot-button topics including name, image and likeness, and the Big Ten's then-upcoming expansion. But with spring football in full swing he closed his speech offering those in attendance a peek behind the curtain into the search that led IU to Curt Cignetti. 

Dolson spoke at length about a study members of his staff produced at the time that became instrumental in the hiring process. 

He directed his team to analyze the last three decades of Indiana football to identify areas of consistency when the Hoosiers were successful. The group asked the same questions about like-programs — including North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, Purdue and Illinois — to see what common factors were present when they were winning.

Dolson leaned on that research to come up with an initial pool of candidates that included Cignetti. 

The athletic department also hired prominent search firm TurnkeyZRG to assist them. Dolson has gone on record describing them as “invaluable” to the process in the past. At that Rotary Club meeting, he said the firm worked off criteria he provided them, criteria which came directly from that study, to identify candidates.

Indiana will follow a similar blueprint in the coming weeks, as it seeks Woodson's replacement.

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IU President Pam Whitten has since her first days in her job been an aggressive and enthusiastic supporter of athletics. Her support empowered Dolson both politically and financially to be able to make the move from Tom Allen to Cignetti, one that returning immense and immediate success. 

Cignetti has responded in kind, repeatedly thanking both his president and his AD for the support necessary to keep his staff together, and his roster competitive, after a historic season. 

Whitten and Dolson regularly attend IU athletics events together. They have publicly traded praise for successes realized by the department’s many programs. And they are broadly believed to be in lockstep on the level of commitment — in all ways — necessary to flourish in an ever-changing landscape.

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