General Coach Candidate News

[VFury 207]

35 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

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.

You say that now, when its only hypothetical. But when we actually had a guy who got to 3 sweet 16's and 2 big ten titles in 5 years we couldn't stand it, so I find it hard to believe this fanbase would be OK with it.

[MrBBall 431]

23 minutes ago, MrBBall said:

Greene has an educational system?

I am being silly by the way. I respect the Greene co folks. All is well

[Hollywood Mike Miranda 912]

6 minutes ago, CrossboneIU22 said:

Is Isaac and Kathy, actually the same person?

I'm convinced there's one weirdo, multiple-personality type troll on here who has like 20 different accounts.

[Kentuckysucks 3,059]

1 minute ago, VFury said:

You say that now, when its only hypothetical. But when we actually had a guy who got to 3 sweet 16's and 2 big ten titles in 5 years we couldn't stand it, so I find it hard to believe this fanbase would be OK with it.

Crean would have one decent year and then completely fall off the cliff the next.  Cronin would provide much more stability.  And Crean was going nowhere but down.  He had burned every bridge in the state.  Things were only going to get worse.

[Capt. Crimson 3,669]

Just now, Hollywood Mike Miranda said:

I'm convinced there's one weirdo, multiple-personality type troll on here who has like 20 different accounts.

And the guy behind the keyboard looks like this 

[Dave from Dayton 3,732]

2 minutes ago, Hollywood Mike Miranda said:

I'm convinced there's one weirdo, multiple-personality type troll on here who has like 20 different accounts.

No we don't.

[IUHoosierJoe 1,651]

1 minute ago, Hollywood Mike Miranda said:

I'm convinced there's one weirdo, multiple-personality type troll on here who has like 20 different accounts.

It does seem that way.  Either that, or somebody with an agenda is paying 5-10 people to come here for “community engagement.”

[iubb 3,397]

2 minutes ago, Hollywood Mike Miranda said:

I'm convinced there's one weirdo, multiple-personality type troll on here who has like 20 different accounts.

[Hollywood Mike Miranda 912]

2 minutes ago, Capt. Crimson said:

And the guy behind the keyboard looks like this 

HAHAHA... you got me, that actually made me laugh out loud :)

[Ctf9 37]

1 minute ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Crean would have one decent year and then completely fall off the cliff the next.  Cronin would provide much more stability.  And Crean was going nowhere but down.  He had burned every bridge in the state.  Things were only going to get worse.

Also I think given the trauma of Archie and Woodson people are forgetting how exhausting Crean was as a human being. This is something that the Wikipedia coaching records can never capture. What does it feel like for this person to be a character in our lives? Crean had some real positives. (Remember him taking McDonald’s to a person outside the restaurant?) But he was stubborn and defensive and awkward and honestly kinda manic. 
 

And he was inconsistent, and his trajectory was going down. Recruiting was tailing off locally and nationally. Juwan and OG were diamonds in the rough but we were all tired of an irritating coach who wouldn’t adjust his turnovers or defense and who also needed to find diamonds in the rough. 
 

Most days, I remember the good parts of the Crean era. But it was time to move on from him, and it’s worth reflecting on the legit bad parts too. 

[mjeze106 205]

39 minutes ago, miner74 said:

Long term lurker here (look at my join date), What I'm wondering is Chris 007 is wrong more than he is right, then when he is called out he throughs a fit and threatens to quit posting and people kiss his a## till he comes back, then he posts stuff that is more wrong than right, but he is an "insider" that doesn't  know SH_T

 

“Tryna strike a chord and it’s prolly A miner74"

[ap2345 9,736]

1 hour ago, IsaacTor said:

March 2nd 3pm public announcement foxsports

You do realize that the time and date that you listed make absolutely zero sense right, but I do like the confidence. 

[Dave from Dayton 3,732]

Just now, Ctf9 said:

Also I think given the trauma of Archie and Woodson people are forgetting how exhausting Crean was as a human being. This is something that the Wikipedia coaching records can never capture. What does it feel like for this person to be a character in our lives? Crean had some real positives. (Remember him taking McDonald’s to a person outside the restaurant?) But he was stubborn and defensive and awkward and honestly kinda manic. 
 

And he was inconsistent, and his trajectory was going down. Recruiting was tailing off locally and nationally. Juwan and OG were diamonds in the rough but we were all tired of an irritating coach who wouldn’t adjust his turnovers or defense and who also needed to find diamonds in the rough. 
 

Most days, I remember the good parts of the Crean era. But it was time to move on from him, and it’s worth reflecting on the legit bad parts too. 

I agree.  He not only left dysfunctional lockeroom players for Archie Miller to clean up.  And from my perspective, IU administration would not agree to let Archie get rid of a few and bring in his guy.  

Zeller saved Crean's butt.  But it was time for Crean to go poof.  Similar to what happened at Marquette.

[Ryno6284 3,363]

43 minutes ago, miner74 said:

Long term lurker here (look at my join date), What I'm wondering is Chris 007 is wrong more than he is right, then when he is called out he throughs a fit and threatens to quit posting and people kiss his a## till he comes back, then he posts stuff that is more wrong than right, but he is an "insider" that doesn't  know SH_T

 

Scotty, is that you?

[AZ Hoosier 8,940]

57 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

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.

The "fishbowl" discussion is interesting. No way to know before we know... but the IU job > than the UL job (in my mind, and many around here)... and the fact that Dusty was an alum is also a factor that could tip the "fishbowl" discussion in our favor... we shall see...

[Rico 3,380]

3 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

Scotty, is that you?

[KYHoosier 352]

Stevens to me is a pipe dream as much as I would love to have him. I was a little skeptical how Dusty would adjust to high D1 basketball, but he has done a great job and would be a home run hire. I hope we can still land him.

I'm at the point that if we miss out on these two, that we can still land a coach that can be successful here. We have the resources. What we have endured the past 8 years with Archie and Woodson, I can't fathom we can do much worse than that. It is fun to talk about Banner 6, but the reality is that we are further away from a title as we have ever been. I wasn't a Crean guy, but I do miss watching teams that were fun to watch and were nationally relevant.

I really don't care who we hire. I just want a coach that who has some fire to him, understands game management, values tough teams, can keep us consistently in the top 25, and someone who we believe has the opportunity to take us on a ran come March. Im tired of watching bad, disinterested teams. I'm ready to enjoy IU basketball again. 

[Stuhoo 84,727]

1 hour ago, IsaacTor said:

March 2nd 3pm public announcement foxsports

That’s terrible news.

I have a 2:30 dental cleaning appointment that day.

Can we move this to 3:15 so that I can watch it live?

Please confirm- thanks.

[LamarCheeks 20,621]

14 minutes ago, Hollywood Mike Miranda said:

I'm convinced there's one weirdo, multiple-personality type troll on here who has like 20 different accounts.

Reminds me of an old poem ... 

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm a schizophrenic
And so am I 

[Chris007 52,234]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

That’s terrible news.

I have a 2:30 dental cleaning appointment that day.

Can we move this to 3:15 so that I can watch it live?

Please confirm- thanks.

What kind of dentist is open on a Sunday? That's ridiculous.