General Coach Candidate News

[Tasmanian Devil 1,763]

17 minutes ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

Andy Mohr talk makes think about this movie. 

One of my all time favorites.

President Carter: “What is the solution (to inflation)?”

”You want the solution to inflation? Hi friends, Marshall Lucky for New Deal Used Cars, where we’re fighting inflation not just lowering high prices, not only by murdering high prices, but by blowing the living $&!t out of high prices. Yessir, you heard me right!”

Classic

[Juwan Moye 632]

Awful lot of discussion about coaches not named Brad Stevens.

[LamarCheeks 20,684]

7 hours ago, FortWayneHoosier said:

Alright fellas. The name calling stops now. One person has been removed so far. The mod team has really done a great job letting everyone bring on all discussions, but you guys cannot attack and name call one another. 
 

-Thanks management 

Calling people names -- only a cotton-headed ninny muggins would do such a thing! 

[Juwan Moye 632]

1 minute ago, IUCane said:

Stevens is hired as IU GM.  Beard or Otz as coach.  Dolson playing chess not checkers!!

I tried to will Stevens as GM and May as head coach into existence.

[madtownhoosier 62]

9 hours ago, deserthoosier said:

Yup...The visit to Sisley is BAFFLING!

Not when you consider he can go to Florida and play several rounds of golf on IU's dime.

[JSHoosier 21,418]

1 minute ago, madtownhoosier said:

Not when you consider he can go to Florida and play several rounds of golf on IU's dime.

Buckner flew to do a job for the Pacers on IU's dime so there was no need for Woodson to suddenly pretend to care about recruiting.

[rayl456 628]

7 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Calling people names -- only a cotton-headed ninny muggins would do such a thing! 

Yeah…well, there’s a few of them out there that frequent this board.  

[Artie86 2,706]

10 hours ago, hoosierdogg said:

Lit

….bussin’, as my HS kids would say. lol
As a matter of fact, my students have asked me, “Is it eating?” lol

[Hovadipo 59,005]

1 hour ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

He’s got that level of much dinero? Can’t even process that from car sales.


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54 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

When they’re naming the basketball locker room after you? You are an impactful donor.

Built the softball stadium too*. Dude is rolling in money. 

*$20 million stadium got named after him. So at least a very hefty gift for it.

[JF87 1,906]

9 hours ago, Home Jersey said:

McDermott is my #1 if we can possibly snag him

I'm starting to warm up to the idea of McDermott.  His teams are fun to watch.  The Big East teams may be at a competitive disadvantage when the new revenue sharing takes place so McDermott might be open to a move. I'm still holding out for Stevens or Bennett. 

[ap2345 9,822]

50 minutes ago, IUBtown said:

Kentucky after the Drew thing genuinely wanted Pope.  Why do people assume they passed on Beard? 

Because they did and so did Louisville. 

[ap2345 9,822]

8 minutes ago, madtownhoosier said:

Not when you consider he can go to Florida and play several rounds of golf on IU's dime.

I’m not sure why anyone would let him do it though.

[IUBtown 57]

3 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Because they did and so did Louisville. 

Where's the report on that?

[Gameface01 68]

So Beard when mentioning Bob Knight at halftime while throttling Kentucky, wasn't a message to IU athletic department. It was a message to the fans and others. "I'm already the guy, and I'm coming to dominate like the General "

[Juwan Moye 632]

12 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

….bussin’, as my HS kids would say. lol
As a matter of fact, my students have asked me, “Is it eating?” lol

Skibidi 

[HoosierSadaseci 2,264]

I would love for Chris, Yeags, RTZ, IUWins, even IsaacTors to all be right with their info, but I just cant open myself to that kind of hope, only to be let down again...

And although our resources may be attractive to top tier coaches like Pearl, Drew, Few, Otz...even Self, I don't see any of them leaving what they've built to come to IU...not to mention that Woodson was hired to be a bridge-gap coach, so it wouldn't make sense to hire a coach similar in age...

No chance Dolson takes a chance on an up and comer, and doubtful he takes a chance on Beard or Wade, though they would likely be successful at IU...

So it really only boils down to a few proven winning coaches that aren't yet long in the tooth, and Cronin is likely going to be that guy...

[BGleas 8,133]

13 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

Buckner flew to do a job for the Pacers on IU's dime so there was no need for Woodson to suddenly pretend to care about recruiting.

I could be completely wrong, but my understanding of that was IU asked Buckner to attend an event which would have caused him to not be able to take the Pacers team plane to a road game, which is why IU paid for the travel. 

By no means trying to defend Buckner, I hope he comes to an IU game and gets boo'd out of the building. 

[Dalton26 16,956]

8 hours ago, J34 said:

But a coach who admits he needs alcohol after a stressful day doesn't make you have concerns. Would this pond be too big for him to keep his stress reliever under control? 

It very well could be. I have absolutely no respect for Beard as a man if everything that was accused is true(ha can’t sue me for defamation). I also don’t drink at all so the need to drink every day doesn’t make sense to me at all either. I’m looking at it purely as coaching and I think Beard would be a much better coach at IU than McDermott. I also believe there would be so many stipulations in Beards contract, that he would be probably required to get help as part of his contract. 
 

I’m looking at it from a coaching POV, as a human I wouldn’t even want to be in the same room as Beard personally. But at the same time a lot of the people harping on Beards past have also been in favor of coaches in the past that have questionable pasts theirselves or covered up for their players horrendous actions too. Honestly there’s probably not many college coaches whose hands are entirely clean. 

[Juwan Moye 632]

1 minute ago, HoosierSadaseci said:

I would love for Chris, Yeags, RTZ, IUWins, even IsaacTors to all be right with their info, but I just cant open myself to that kind of hope, only to be let down again...

And although our resources may be attractive to top tier coaches like Pearl, Drew, Few, Otz...even Self, I don't see any of them leaving what they've built to come to IU...not to mention that Woodson was hired to be a bridge-gap coach, so it wouldn't make sense to hire a coach similar in age...

No chance Dolson takes a chance on an up and comer, and doubtful he takes a chance on Beard or Wade, though they would likely be successful at IU...

So it really only boils down to a few proven winning coaches that aren't yet long in the tooth, and Cronin is likely going to be that guy...

Reasonable take. Personally, while Cronin isn’t “exciting” I’d be happy with him as our coach if it meant we’re consistently a top-25 team again and playing for B1G titles.

[OKHOOSIER 4,620]

It looks like everyone had another rousing Chris Beard session last night that went absolutely nowhere, so I will say this for Beard to try and nuance the stance:

While morally, I am dubious on him and I seriously doubt he would get through a vetting process (he would live in Kentucky somewhere right now if he could, which is probably the most damning evidence), but if he was hired, I would trust that Dolson did his DD and was comfortable with the hire. Because if he melted down somehow, Dolson would also go down with the ship. Is that a risk Dolson is willing to make? No one knows. 

I don't have to agree with the hire to root for the team. The bottom line is we are not talking 5-10% of the fanbase that would be upset with the hire. Our poll here even showed its closer to 50-50. A Beard hire would fracture the fanbase from the word go, and beyond the incident, that fact would probably give Dolson pause. Winning probably helps cure it, but reality is many--  myself included would be uncomfortable if not disgusted. Call me holier than thou, a *****, judgmental, etc., I care not, and that's all I have to say about that. Not rehashing what happened to make people feel that way. Anyways...

The fun part out of the way, from a purely coaching perspective:

And before I get flamed by the Beard is literally RMK 2.0 crowd: Yes, he is talented, and I think he would probably win big at IU and make a FF in short order. BUT:

He has not IMO, and this is proven by the record whether anyone wants to admit it or not, warranted the weird obsession with him. He was 59-48 in the Big12. He got fired 8 games into the season, and Rodney Fn Terry proceeded to coach the team to 29-9, 2nd place in B12, B12T championship, and an Elite Eight-- Texas didn't exactly implode after Beard got fired. And Terry has shown he is at best an average coach-- Texas was simply loaded in 2022 (credit to Beard's roster construction). 

His last two seasons at TT were 18-13 and 18-11 respectively. He had a nice 2 year run at TT, and he has improved Ole Miss who is firmly in the middle of the pack in the SEC, which is expected IMO if you are a good coach regardless of "resources"--  not that Ole Miss is some poor backwater school. Is he a slam dunk? Maybe? Likely? I imagine we will find out soon enough, but probably not at IU. If Fitzgerald was reportedly a no by Whitten, I have a hard time believing Beard would be a yes. 

TL;DR: I will trust Dolson to vet properly regardless the outcome since it is his head too, I doubt he gets considered at all, but Beard would win a bunch of games here.