General Coach Candidate News

[Hoosier DaDa]

2 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I think the entire fanbase is so over this season that we just don’t care anymore. The team sucks and the coach is gone in a month, so the season might as well be over already. If Ballo wants to go hide out at the Upstairs Pub or wherever he ventured off to, who cares. He’s gone in a month too regardless.

Agreed let Ballo spend his million in Bloomington helping the local economy before heads out of town.

[jermhoosierfan]

31 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

I'm not your buddy, friend.

I'm not your friend, guy.

Edited February 20, 2025 by jermhoosierfan

[OliviaPope40]

2 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I think the entire fanbase is so over this season that we just don’t care anymore. The team sucks and the coach is gone in a month, so the season might as well be over already. If Ballo wants to go hide out at the Upstairs Pub or wherever he ventured off to, who cares. He’s gone in a month too regardless.

My mom is ready for baseball season she's checked out like a senior who is done with finals.

[Hoosier DaDa]

2 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

That's pretty bizarre behavior, if true

You are talking about this man so 

[darB s'tI]

4 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

I'm not your friend, guy.

That's about enough of that, you two.

[iu eyedoc]

1 hour ago, Sobchak_Security said:

There was no way they were going to fire a minority alum after 3 years, who had gone to the NCAA tournament twice, after having given Archie 4 years with no tournament.  Would have setup the school for a racial discrimination lawsuit most likely.  

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

The debate is over unless it is these candidates according to Copilot AI! Lol

 

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[Hoosier987]

One thing that I've learned when reading this thread. Outside of Brad Stevens, whomever we hire there is going to be someone upset. We cover the whole spectrum, from coaches being arrested to being too religious, and too young to too old. 

[iu eyedoc]

56 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

The timing of the tweets are odd. Dakich made the original tweet on February 4th of 2024. At that time, Tamar Bates hadn't won an SEC game. That tweet was made right after Mizzou had lost to Vanderbilt and was 0-9 in the SEC(Mizzou was 0-18 in conference play). Bates first SEC game was January 6th, 2024. Finally got an SEC win January 27th, 2025. He and Mizzou were 0-20 going into that game. The most recent tweet made after beating Alabama. I just see zero reason to dig back a year for the post from Dakich.

Nor do I, but it makes him no less of an old immature d**chebag. Just a shitty person that found a good paying gig playing to his strength.

[HoosierInParadise]

One thing that I've learned when reading this thread. Outside of Brad Stevens, whomever we hire there is going to be someone upset. We cover the whole spectrum, from coaches being arrested to being too religious, and too young to too old. 

The crazy thing is....there are people that would be upset with hiring Brad Stevens because he hasn't been coaching for a while, and he forgot how to do it...

[bigrod]

34 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Man I just can't stand thinking to far down the list of coaches. I think dusty may is the most unlikely to happen imo. I put stevens well ahead of dusty chances of coming here. The only reason to wait a year would be to hire brad Steven's. That makes perfect sense to me. Waiting a year to hire may makes absolutely zero sense. When you think about this reasonably the most logical hire has to be brad Steven's! Dolson had his guy since last year!

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A stretch to think it happened that way, but it is funny to think about, especially if the rumors about the way Woody treated Dolson are true. When Woody said he would be the coach until he decided he wasn't, Dolson was sitting there, stone faced, thinking, You fool, you're a dead man walking :D

[ziggyiu]

Years ago I would have been in favor of Tony, but his style is much less attractive to high-end talent and he had so many really bad flame outs in the tournament toward the end. 

[Bowhunter]

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

[HoosierHoopster]

22 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

You are talking about this man so 

I liked Crean generally, nutty as he was. But the, uh, best moment was the unfortunately interpreted quote to a recruit

“I’ve been thinking about you, a lot….”

[HoosierHoopster]

4 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

Because he has a really good gig going. He has recruited players to play for him there, and UM will up his contract significantly 

[Pagoda]

27 minutes ago, HoosierInParadise said:

30 minutes ago, Hoosier987 said:

One thing that I've learned when reading this thread. Outside of Brad Stevens, whomever we hire there is going to be someone upset. We cover the whole spectrum, from coaches being arrested to being too religious, and too young to too old. 

The crazy thing is....there are people that would be upset with hiring Brad Stevens because he hasn't been coaching for a while, and he forgot how to do it...

Yea — that was a funny angle.  Brad assembled an NBA title winner that plays some of the most efficient basketball ever played in the history of the sport… and he was gonna be flummoxed by the college game?  Lol.

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Because he has a really good gig going. He has recruited players to play for him there, and UM will up his contract significantly 

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

[OKHOOSIER]

9 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

Because rich people who apparently don’t actually watch the basketball thought Mike Woodson would be better with a six million dollar roster than he was with the NPOY runner up on his team.  
 

Hope I am wrong but it’s hard to see why he’d leave Michigan now. Then again maybe he told his new employer he was planning to bail after one season to go to his alma mater and they needed to make it cheap for him to do so lol

[Pagoda]

4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

Great point on all that stuff that happens beyond just recruiting and coaching.  Easy to forget about all that.

[RoadRage]

1 minute ago, Home Jersey said:

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

You also have to figure in, that if Dolson really wanted May that bad, he would have fired Woody and hired him last year. Not saying he doesn’t have interest in May but the fact that he risk losing him, and it appears he did lose him, tells me he felt he would have better options at the end of this season….