General Coach Candidate News

[str8baller 6,264]

3 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Don’t need to win the press conference just need to get a college basketball coach that’s a grinder and with ius resources they will be just fine 

How far down do you think Louisville got before they ended up with Pat Kelsey? I’m guessing the Louisville boards lost their mind.   College of Charleston head coach is killing it at Louisville.   Kentucky hired a former Utah Valley and BYU head coach.  I’m sure Kentucky fans thought they were getting an established high major head coach.   They didn’t and Mark Pope in year 1 has that fan base as excited as they have been in a while.  These 2 will need to continue building the program however both have their programs off to a fantastic start.   Iu will be just fine in my opinion no matter who Dolson ends up hiring as long as that coach is a college basketball lifer and grinder that program will have a chance to crawl out of the mediocre hole they have been living in 

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. 

[IUFAN1976 4,320]

1 minute ago, str8baller said:

Dolson isn’t your problem. He wanted to hire Fitzgerald as the football coach. But his boss, a female at that, might have something to say about it…just like she did with the Fitzgerald (non) hire. 

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.

[JaybobHoosier 12,360]

3 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

IU has to really try to F*** up this hire! If they do? Well?

If it’s Brownell then I think we can fully state this program has no desire to have a good basketball program. I wouldn’t be a fan of Cronin but at least we would be in the NCAA Tournament the majority of the time. I have faith in Dolson, but how things have went the last 25 years, I’m just cautious in how all this will play out. 

[steubenhoosier 1,483]

20 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

USPS SAYS HOLD MY BEER! AND JohnsonIU!

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

[Uspshoosier 49,483]

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 49,483]

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 12,600]

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 528]

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 49,483]

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 65]

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 3,428]

8 minutes ago, steubenhoosier said:

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

My sentence structuring sucks!

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,452]

Back away from the cliff people

[Ryno6284 3,428]

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 1,034]

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 49,483]

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 3,428]

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 947]

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 207]

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 65]

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 27,967]

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.