General Coach Candidate News

[Uspshoosier]

1 minute ago, str8baller said:

Could be true. OTOH, Crean, Archie, and Sampson are all lifers and grinders. 
 

The IU basketball job is hard. That’s why you get paid a lot to do it. It’s a harder job than Oklahoma and Dayton and Marquette and so on and so forth. 

Yep.   Nothing is a guarantee.  You step in the box and take a swing.   It will either work out or it won’t.   You do this until you get it right.  Doesn’t matter how many cycles it takes.   What you don’t do is hire a non college basketball coach and think it’s going to work.  

[Uspshoosier]

5 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

Then she’s holier than thou  too!  He’s supposed to be innocent until proven guilty!  She dropped the charges!  Everyone needs to get past it and move on.

As long as other people move on when the search firm IU hired does its  background checks and he doesn’t end up IUs coach.   3 major jobs were open last year and none of them hired him to lead their program.  For me that’s odd that a top 3 on the court coach didn’t get swooped up by those teams 2 which could arguably of needed a home run hire worse then IU needs this cycle.  

[Trish]

Dolson must love seeing Michigan at 20-5, #12 in the country. While Indiana, with projections to finish 1-2 in the Big Ten and an elite transfer class, is about to miss the dance, again.

 

[IndianaSconnie90]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Yep.   Nothing is a guarantee.  You step in the box and take a swing.   It will either work out or it won’t.   You do this until you get it right.  Doesn’t matter how many cycles it takes.   What you don’t do is hire a non college basketball coach and think it’s going to work.  

That sounds like what the AD of the UAB basketball program says lol

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, IndianaSconnie90 said:

That sounds like what the AD of the UAB basketball program says lol

Well they did hire a former Ole Miss coach 

[JustWinBaby]

1 hour ago, OKHOOSIER said:

The fact that it’s paltry just speaks to the fact he was never leaving Michigan and the original buyout wasn’t so he could bolt and save IU money like I tried saying over and over. Based on his own statement, this seems like it was literally just to pay lip service to an extension so the media would stfu about him to IU. Our chance was last season, we blew it, and we’ve got 2000 pages of FMW that says we were all right for thinking it. 

I texted a friend of mine who knows some folks at UM athletics when this news broke. He said Dusty was never even planning on entertaining an offer from IU.

I think perhaps the most damaging think that IU did by keeping Woodson for a meaningless 4th year was scare away talented coaches. People see the dumpster fire that is the IU administration and want nothing to do with it. And frankly I can't blame them.

[Ryno6284]

8 minutes ago, steubenhoosier said:

Wait, did you just accuse @Uspshoosier of asking someone to hold his Johnson?

My sentence structuring sucks!

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Back away from the cliff people

[Ryno6284]

3 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

As long as other people move on when the search firm IU hired does its  background checks and he doesn’t end up IUs coach.   3 major jobs were open last year and none of them hired him to lead their program.  For me that’s odd that a top 3 on the court coach didn’t get swooped up by those teams 2 which could arguably of needed a home run hire worse then IU needs this cycle.  

Maybe he wasn't ready to move after 1 year?

[Papacap]

1 minute ago, JustWinBaby said:

I texted a friend of mine who knows some folks at UM athletics when this news broke. He said Dusty was never even planning on entertaining an offer from IU.

I think perhaps the most damaging think that IU did by keeping Woodson for a meaningless 4th year was scare away talented coaches. People see the dumpster fire that is the IU administration and want nothing to do with it. And frankly I can't blame them.

Well, gosh, if your friend knows some people, that’s it. How bout let’s wait and see what coach we get before worrying that IU can’t hire a good coach?

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

Maybe he wasn't ready to move after 1 year?

Maybe those 3 schools didn’t like what they found out when the search firm did its background checks?

[Ryno6284]

3 minutes ago, Trish said:

Dolson must love seeing Michigan at 20-5, #12 in the country. While Indiana, with projections to finish 1-2 in the Big Ten and an elite transfer class, is about to miss the dance, again.

 

You can blame Dolson, but I would bet that Dusty said no thanks to the fishbowl!

[FightFor6]

1 minute ago, Papacap said:

Well, gosh, if your friend knows some people, that’s it. How bout let’s wait and see what coach we get before worrying that IU can’t hire a good coach?

Yeah. Color me shocked a UM guy thinks someone would never leave UM for another school. That's their baseline.

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

34 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Until a new coach is hired, I'm choosing to believe it's Stevens.  No inside information.  Just being optimistic that something finally goes right for IU basketball.

What I find interesting and that’s pure speculation is that May either 1. Knew IU already had their coach or 2. Genuinely loves being at Michigan and his personality won’t allow him to leave somewhere after one year especially when QB Dropped the ball and IU could’ve had him last year but I could be totally wrong with my thoughts.

[JustWinBaby]

1 minute ago, Papacap said:

Well, gosh, if your friend knows some people, that’s it. How bout let’s wait and see what coach we get before worrying that IU can’t hire a good coach?

I'm sure we'll hire a good coach. But being able to hire a good coach and being able to hire THE coach that you want is not the same thing.

I've not given up hope. I'm just saying that some of the coaches that we think are within reach are in fact completely uninterested in coming here.

[RaceToTheTop]

41 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Better off than me. I'm stuck doing just about nothing for a couple weeks after having a lump cut out of my back and so I'm watching Wall-E with my oldest daughter. Missing Smackdown and UM-MSU.

Enjoy the time with your daughter.  Mine is 27 and married and lives in South Carolina now.  Swear she was 8 last year.

[Ryno6284]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Maybe those 3 schools didn’t like what they found out when they search firm did its background checks?

Was he a real candidate, or a smokescreen?

[rcbowla]

30 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Rick pitino endorsed Chris beard for iu job. Posted by inside the hall

 

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Yes I know. I'm asking why he thinks that helps.

[mdn82]

36 minutes ago, Dalton26 said:

I’m still on the Beard train, but I’ve said that the last 2 times we’re hired a coach so I’m not getting my hopes up. 

Same here my man.  I legit just argued with someone on Twitter how they want Bill Self, but would never touch Beard.  I will never understand those fans.  Not saying Beard isn’t a flawed man, but at this point I am almost starting to think you have to be, to succeed here.  

[tyappleg]

8 minutes ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

Back away from the cliff people