General Coach Candidate News

[Mr. Hoosier Pride 1,543]

  On 2/18/2025 at 5:06 PM, Hoosier Guy said:

I’ll laugh so hard if Isaac turns out to be correct.  That would be beyond hysterical.

I'm rooting for it!  But mainly so we can have Brad!

[HoosierHoopster 8,317]

  On 2/18/2025 at 4:53 PM, Dave from Dayton said:

We have confirmed the appointment for Stuhoo.  Just answer one question:  Is it Brad? 

Marathon Man - such a good movie

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  On 2/18/2025 at 5:06 PM, Hoosier Guy said:

I’ll laugh so hard if Isaac turns out to be correct.  That would be beyond hysterical.

It would be insane and about a 0.1% chance of happening.  Entertaining though.  He fully jumped the shark today.

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  On 2/18/2025 at 4:40 PM, Chris007 said:

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

Dr. Jerry Helper -IF you're a friend of Rob's of course...

[OKHOOSIER 5,892]

  On 2/18/2025 at 3:49 PM, 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

 

That's six days in a row. Hova REALLY has some 'splainin to do now.

[JPCIVOP 692]

  On 2/18/2025 at 4:33 PM, Dave from Dayton said:

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.

A great irony is that, had Zeller chosen Butler, that might have given IU the courage to dump Crean after a 12-20 season, in order to hire the generational coaching talent up the road in Indianapolis. If push comes to shove, I am glad that Crean got the chance to win after taking on the coaching job when he did. But Stevens would have certainly made the leap, had he been offered in 2011.

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Announcement right smack dab in the middle of the Uconn/Marquette women's game when the whole country has their eyes glued to the tv! Perfection. 

 

 

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March 2nd 3 pm we get our guy! Very exciting news!

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  On 2/18/2025 at 2:53 PM, Chris007 said:

Remember he comes from the Woodson and players' side of things. Not the administration. Doesn't mean he's wrong just adding some perspective 

Chris do you know who Tyme is??

[Capt. Crimson 3,983]

Announcement at a specific date, time, and tv channel is way too specific to be true imo. It would have leaked so fast if that were the case. 

[Chris007 62,527]

  On 2/18/2025 at 5:15 PM, Sobchak_Security said:

Chris do you know who Tyme is??

I do not. We have traded a few DM's on Twitter. He thinks I reach more people than I do but I agreed with him that I could tone my dislike down some. We both agreed that we love IU and left it at that. I believe they said we had met before. 

[Demo 23,575]

  On 2/18/2025 at 5:11 PM, JPCIVOP said:

A great irony is that, had Zeller chosen Butler, that might have given IU the courage to dump Crean after a 12-20 season, in order to hire the generational coaching talent up the road in Indianapolis. If push comes to shove, I am glad that Crean got the chance to win after taking on the coaching job when he did. But Stevens would have certainly made the leap, had he been offered in 2011.

Of the potentially infinite number of parallel universes that could theoretically exist, in not 1 of them was Crean fired after 2011, Zeller or no Zeller. 

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  On 2/18/2025 at 4:28 PM, 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. 

*Aggressively adjusts oversized pants and slams some ambiguous liquid in a dasani bottle* 

[JPCIVOP 692]

  On 2/18/2025 at 5:19 PM, Demo said:

Of the potentially infinite number of parallel universes that could theoretically exist, in not 1 of them was Crean fired after 2011, Zeller or no Zeller. 

Not that Crean would have deserved to be fired. And almost certainly the administration was not of a mind to do something so mercenary. But, in hindsight, two trips to the title game from the Horizon League should have been a clear message; 'No hard feelings, Tom, but we have to do this for the good of the program.'

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  On 2/18/2025 at 3:49 PM, 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

 

In the good old days, Chris had the inside information about Romeo Langford.

That was when you were a lurker.....something we also refer to as the good old days.

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  On 2/18/2025 at 5:19 PM, OKHOOSIER said:

*Aggressively adjusts oversized pants and slams some ambiguous liquid in a dasani bottle* 

The suit thing I never understood. Didn't he get outfitted with custom suits by AD on the square? Why did those things always fit so horribly.

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  On 2/18/2025 at 5:18 PM, Chris007 said:

I do not. We have traded a few DM's on Twitter. He thinks I reach more people than I do but I agreed with him that I could tone my dislike down some. We both agreed that we love IU and left it at that. I believe they said we had met before. 

Gotcha.  Was it ever confirmed that ScottDolsonsBurner was Miller Kopp??

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  On 2/18/2025 at 5:28 PM, Sobchak_Security said:

Gotcha.  Was it ever confirmed that ScottDolsonsBurner was Miller Kopp??

Not sure it was 100% confirmed, but likely.  He has said he was a former IU player and it appears he had a loyalty to Woodson.  At first people thought it was Xavier Johnson but looks like that is not the case.  Kopp makes sense because regardless of how few shots Kopp was getting (something that 'wasn't Mike Woodson's job' -- Mike Woodson -- Kopp continued to start.

I have no problem with Kopp as a player here.  I do think he would have been better off going somewhere that actually believed in the three point line.

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  On 2/18/2025 at 5:26 PM, JPCIVOP said:

Not that Crean would have deserved to be fired. And almost certainly the administration was not of a mind to do something so mercenary. But, in hindsight, two trips to the title game from the Horizon League should have been a clear message; 'No hard feelings, Tom, but we have to do this for the good of the program.'

and we followed it up by hiring Archie (good hire on paper) and the Wizard of Broad Ripple (bad hire from any angle).

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  On 2/18/2025 at 5:26 PM, JPCIVOP said:

Not that Crean would have deserved to be fired. And almost certainly the administration was not of a mind to do something so mercenary. But, in hindsight, two trips to the title game from the Horizon League should have been a clear message; 'No hard feelings, Tom, but we have to do this for the good of the program.'

That’s obviously what we should’ve done after last season.  But this is Indiana University and we have a process here.  Can’t hurt anyone’s feelings.  There’s optics to worry about to.