General Coach Candidate News

[maharkn 1,865]

Copilot AI says its Drew, Cronin, and Pearl and that cronin is the new coach

[Uspshoosier 49,447]

14 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Who are two guys who have never played ball in their life for $200 Alex

I want to say Trevor played in high school and was pretty good if I’m remembering right.  

[HoosierInParadise 781]

I like how an active player, probably our best player, went MIA for a weekend and it's just background chatter to the revolving door of random coaches being floated back and forth lol 

But it is a coaching candidate thread...

[Doctor Jones 62]

1 minute ago, eddy4iu said:

He went to China?

I thought Dennis went to North Korea.

[eddy4iu 792]

1 minute ago, Doctor Jones said:

I thought Dennis went to North Korea.

You're correct

[HinnyHoosier 5,589]

1 minute ago, HoosierInParadise said:

6 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

I like how an active player, probably our best player, went MIA for a weekend and it's just background chatter to the revolving door of random coaches being floated back and forth lol 

But it is a coaching candidate thread...

Right. It's humorous how several people have asked for additional insight and it goes unnoticed. My point being that's how obsessed we are with getting a coach that can revive us. There's nothing quite like an Indiana coaching search!

[Pagoda 2,268]

1 minute ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Right. It's humorous how several people have asked for additional insight and it goes unnoticed. My point being that's how obsessed we are with getting a coach that can revive us. There's nothing quite like an Indiana coaching search!

Sadly, we don't do anything notable on the court.  This is the only real excitement we get every few years.

[Artie86 2,700]

15 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Tony Bennett? C'mon guys. He's not going to be coaching at IU lmao

Come on ap!…….lol!!! These trolls have to do their job and keep this coaching search in doubt. Lol

[JPCIVOP 69]

If we do start talking more seriously about Scott Drew, can we recap what happened with the Jurkin/Perea recruitments from more than a decade ago? I thought I remembered someone on the staff being unhappy with Perea and/or Jurkin tending toward IU, and at least implying that Perea might be deported for choosing the wrong school. I can't find the details. Can someone help me with that? I remember being rubbed the wrong way about how that recruitment was handled on Baylor's part.

[Mr. Hoosier Pride 978]

1 hour ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Because it makes no f'ing sense. 

They have blocked off times in their schedule for practice. They do have a class schedule..... 

I'm pretty certain I heard some ex players talking about this on a Hysterics podcast....they didn't speak ill of coach, but if I'm remembering correctly, they talked as if it was his way of keeping them on their toes and out of trouble....as if they always had to be ready for practice or something like that...

[JPCIVOP 69]

1 minute ago, JPCIVOP said:

If we do start talking more seriously about Scott Drew, can we recap what happened with the Jurkin/Perea recruitments from more than a decade ago? I thought I remembered someone on the staff being unhappy with Perea and/or Jurkin tending toward IU, and at least implying that Perea might be deported for choosing the wrong school. I can't find the details. Can someone help me with that? I remember being rubbed the wrong way about how that recruitment was handled on Baylor's part.

Here's the old article:

https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=6587669

[AZ Hoosier 9,010]

32 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

I like how an active player, probably our best player, went MIA for a weekend and it's just background chatter to the revolving door of random coaches being floated back and forth lol 

I'm pretty sure that it has a lot to do with the program leadership this year and for the past 4 years... just a guess, though...

[#1fanofafrin 64]

41 minutes ago, Gnet550 said:

Semi-serious question lol.....How many times did you "ask the 8 ball" before you got the answer you wanted it to say?

 

P.S. This is not a dig...I'm Sweden on Brad..would love to have him, not sure what to think if he is actually still considering. 

once - only once

[jermhoosierfan 115]

11 minutes ago, JPCIVOP said:

If we do start talking more seriously about Scott Drew, can we recap what happened with the Jurkin/Perea recruitments from more than a decade ago? I thought I remembered someone on the staff being unhappy with Perea and/or Jurkin tending toward IU, and at least implying that Perea might be deported for choosing the wrong school. I can't find the details. Can someone help me with that? I remember being rubbed the wrong way about how that recruitment was handled on Baylor's part.

Personally, I am not a fan of Scott Drew which mostly because of the Perea incident 10 years ago.  His threatening to deport the guy if he didn't go to Baylor really rubbed me the wrong way.  I know that he is big on the religious part in the program which is fine, but the whole threatening deportation was really low. 

[Uspshoosier 49,447]

https://x.com/benarnetkomu/status/1892443911617950079?s=46
 

 

[FortWayneHoosier 6,427]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/benarnetkomu/status/1892443911617950079?s=46
 

 

Anytime someone puts Dakich in his place or dogs him, I celebrate. I have said this before, but Dakich is the kind of guy that has never ran into the wrong person to mess with and it shows. I cannot stand him, regardless of his ties to IU. 

[Pagoda 2,268]

8 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

Anytime someone puts Dakich in his place or dogs him, I celebrate. I have said this before, but Dakich is the kind of guy that has never ran into the wrong person to mess with and it shows. I cannot stand him, regardless of his ties to IU. 

It's a shame he is an IU grad and former player.  He is a terrible person.

[hoosiersoxfan 320]

1 hour ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I’m impressed that he played for Crean, after graduating at a party

Haha it was a party probably a year or two after the guy graduated

[Dave from Dayton 3,741]

5 minutes ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

Anytime someone puts Dakich in his place or dogs him, I celebrate. I have said this before, but Dakich is the kind of guy that has never ran into the wrong person to mess with and it shows. I cannot stand him, regardless of his ties to IU. 

I also am not a fan of Dan's.  I just ignore him.

He is like a lot of people in this world with less empathy and more interested in saying everything even if it hurts others.  He is always right.  Whether he is right or wrong.  But he is shrill about it.  And he hovered over his players like a leach.

Whoops.  Should not have said that.

[iu eyedoc 3,007]

3 hours ago, Chris007 said:

Team had the weekend off, he left Indiana for a trip but hasn't returned. I'm sure he is back by now

And some are concerned Cronin's stern  personality would be a bad culture fit. Oy vey