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31 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

March 2nd 3pm public announcement foxsports

That date sounds suspect. Middle of a west-coast trip seems unlikely.

[AZ Hoosier 11,058]

1 hour ago, go iu bb said:

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.

I disagree. Keeping Woodson another year definitely cost us Dusty... it doesn't matter how badly Dusty wanted the job, there was no way Dolson could hire him with The King of Mediocrity camped out in the chair.

Now, the question is "does Dusty still want it"? That's the answer we will get between now and April.

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8 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

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.

I’m fairly confident we will make a good hire. Side note I met President Whitten last spring and she seems like a very nice down to earth lady.

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42 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I sat courtside Friday night. I was impressed with how fundamentally sound they were but it just seemed OK to me. He would be an OK hire but he isn't going to be anyone who gets the whole fanbase behind him. He going to lose the Beard people really fast, then he will lose the Dusty people. 

Kinda shocked to see him compared to Jay Wright, but it's Tyme, and he's an idiot. 

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1 minute ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Why would he sign during a Celtics game? 

Already on national TV will be doing it at half court in front of all the fans 

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6 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

I disagree. Keeping Woodson another year definitely cost us Dusty... it doesn't matter how badly Dusty wanted the job there was no way Dolson could hire him with The King of Mediocrity camped out in the chair.

Now, the question is "does Dusty still want it"? That's the answer we will get between now and April.

Note that I said "during the season", not if he stays at UM. He knows the IU job is open but if he's in such a hurry to sign the extension during the season, then I just don't think he was ever really interested in coaching at IU at all. 

If it's after the season, he listens to IU's pitch and then says no, then I could see how year 4 Woodson might have cost us May. But not a during the season extension. There was the report that May turned down UL because it was a fishbowl, so maybe he never would have ended up at IU.

Woodson still should not have gotten year 4, regardless. It's sad that we're arguing these hypotheticals because of that.

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Mick Cronin if going 30-4 only to lose in the round of 32 was a competition.

[Hoosierfan1901 8,317]

4 minutes ago, maharkn said:

Already on national TV will be doing it at half court in front of all the fans 

Fair, guessing Billy D will be with him too

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56 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

He supposedly has a high buyout but many seem to think UCLA would let him go for less.  Doesn’t sound like he’s happy out there and is probably a bad fit personality wise for LA.

Being a bad fit personality wise in LA sounds like a positive.

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10 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Why wait for March 2nd to berate him? Lol. By the way, great user name and profile pic. Very handsome if I say so myself. 

Can't stand any of you East Coast guys :-)

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43 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

March 2nd 3pm public announcement foxsports

He spoke it into existence. So it is written so shall it be done.

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3 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Fair, guessing Billy D will be with him too

He will be co- headcoach 

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2 minutes ago, VFury said:

Mick Cronin if going 30-4 only to lose in the round of 32 was a competition.

I would be thrilled with high 20s, low 30s win in a season. Cronin has won 30 games 3 times in his career. Anything can happen in a single elimination tournament. He made the FF in 2020-2021. Cronin, while not a “home run” hire … would be a very good hire.

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40 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Dude I have been on your side this whole time but you got to slow down. 

You wanted 2000 pages though!  Don’t you know that even though there’s no publicly available information that they’ve already scheduled a press conference and have communicated with the networks to ensure it gets coverage? Clearly that’s how all of this works. The famed “process”.

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46 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

March 2nd 3pm public announcement foxsports

This is a bit too much even for you. Now it’s trying too hard. 

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1 minute ago, MrBBall said:

This is a bit too much even for you. Now it’s trying too hard. 

I know, he had me until the foxsports thing.  

 

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Just now, Juwan Moye said:

You wanted 2000 pages though!  Don’t you know that even though there’s no publicly available information that they’ve already scheduled a press conference and have communicated with the networks to ensure it gets coverage? Clearly that’s how all of this works. The famed “process”.

True I asked for it. Wonder if they will stop the Celtics game to tell the fans in the Garden.

Maybe it's like the Andrew Luck situation. Right in the middle of the game

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2 minutes ago, MrBBall said:

This is a bit too much even for you. Now it’s trying too hard. 

 

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13 minutes ago, Herotime said:

That date sounds suspect. Middle of a west-coast trip seems unlikely.

The “march 2nd theory” that Isaac is proposing is based upon the waiver deadline for the NBA being March 1st. So his claim about March 2nd was that’s basically when the front office looks towards the next season which, since Brad is coming to IU, he wouldn’t worry about.

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Just now, Juwan Moye said:

The “march 2nd theory” that Isaac is proposing is based upon the waiver deadline for the NBA being March 1st. So his claim about March 2nd was that’s basically when the front office looks towards the next season which, since Brad is coming to IU, he wouldn’t worry about.

But it’s also a Sunday and there’s no way an announcement like that would happen on a Sunday. March 3 would make the troll marginally more believable but no anonymous internet poster would have this info especially not 2 weeks in advance. Dude needs to get a life