General Coach Candidate News

[Hoosier Guy]

28 minutes ago, bigrod said:

Only my personal opinion, but I think IU already has their coach. Take that for what it's worth, but my feeling is that May has been told and that is why he signed an extension. As others have said, things aren't making a lot of sense right now. Scott is still doing his due diligence, but why has all the information suddenly stopped flowing? Maybe I'm delusional or it's just wishful thinking, but I think things aren't making much sense right now for a reason. Scott has been conducting this search for over a year now, IMO. 

I think you’re correct.  Dusty May would’ve been the next coach if Dolson didn’t have someone else lined up already.

[Juwan Moye]

9 minutes ago, Trish said:

It’s Brad Stevens. 

March 2nd

3pm

Fox Sports

[iu eyedoc]

11 hours ago, bobknightsghost said:

There are just too many other things at play. A quad 1 game could be playing the best team in the country on the road or the 75th best team in the country on the road. IMO beard is in a different league than Cronin. I’m not impressed with what Cronin has done at UCLA

Your not impressed by a .690 win % in and out of conference, 3 sweet16's, and a Final Four in the last 5 seasons, but are in love with a guy that is barely better than a coin flip in confrence games and hasn't made it past the first weekend of the tournament since 2019?

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

57 minutes ago, Golfman25 said:

NW is an academic school.  He has a very limited pool of players he can even hope to recruit.  

I mean so is Michigan 

[AZ Hoosier]

2 hours ago, madtownhoosier said:

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

The guy is simply amazing... he's blowing off pre- and post-game interviews with Don Fischer because he's embarrassed that he's an entitled brat and crappy coach who hasn't recruited for 4 years... but he can take the time to travel to Florida on the company dime to "recruit" a kid who's already committed and who would crawl over broken glass to play for IU... 

So glad he's gone soon, but wish he was gone last year... he's screwed up this program more in the past 4 years in more ways than we can count, and walked away with $20M... 

 

[OKHOOSIER]

So if Goodman is to be believe the Otz buyout is actually 4Million? Do we actually think we have a shot there? I always figured he was a big time long shot like Oats but at a place with less money. If Otz is actually viable and interested he has to be number 1. 

[IndianaSconnie90]

1 hour ago, ap2345 said:

Because they did and so did Louisville. 

I have no sources suggesting that they specifically passed on Beard for background issues. That's speculation, easy speculation,  regardless of how incorrect it might be

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, ap2345 said:

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

because he said it was ok.

[IndianaSconnie90]

1 hour ago, IUBtown said:

Where's the report on that?

There isn't one lol haven't you picked up on the flow here? 

[deserthoosier]

1 hour ago, madtownhoosier said:

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

Come on...there's nobody (Dolson, whoever) that says, "Nope, you're not spending recruiting resources at this stage of your employment."

[IndianaSconnie90]

1 hour ago, Papacap said:

Pretty sure it was that Buddy/Guy exchange. We don’t tolerate that around these parts.

As for coaches, if we don’t get Stevens, Drew, or someone out of left field like Few or Bennett, McDermott would be my first choice. But coaches like TJ, Buzz, and even Cronin would be good and could win lots with IUs resources.

Since the chance IU hires Beard is nonexistent, glad he won’t be dividing the fan base.

I love how a few people on a message board act like they speak for the majority of the fan base lol that's an important thing to consider when reading BTB. This is most certainly the minority opinion

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, BGleas said:

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. 

Wasn't the "event" a BoT meeting? Isn't he the chairman of that board? Seems like a reasonable "request"... and on what planet does getting to your moonlighting job become the responsibility of your employer?

I'm not defending Buckner either... I would never do that.

As far as getting booed at a IU basketball game... does he even attend them? He could not have ever watched one and still continue to defend the Wizard of Broad Ripple.

 

[ap2345]

1 hour ago, IUBtown said:

Where's the report on that?

For the love of god. Don’t be an idiot. Lots of times things like that don’t get out but even Trilly has said it happened. 

[deserthoosier]

1 hour ago, ap2345 said:

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

Those are my thoughts too.

[ap2345]

8 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

because he said it was ok.

Yeah he doesn’t have the authority to approve that

[rcbowla]

39 minutes ago, IU Prof said:

Word on the street is that Otz substantially lowered his buyout when he most recently reworked his contract.

Yeah Goodman said it's only $4M....only lol can't believe my fingers typed that. Anyhow it's certainly doable.

[IUBtown]

1 hour ago, RoadRage said:

Maybe Cronin is the best we can do this time around?

 

Lol you don't pay that buyout for Cronin.  I'd be extremely disappointed if that's the route they take. 

[RoadRage]

Just now, IUBtown said:

Lol you don't pay that buyout for Cronin.  I'd be extremely disappointed if that's the route they take. 

Sarcasm my friend…..sarcasm!

[go iu bb]

6 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Wasn't the "event" a BoT meeting? Isn't he the chairman of that board? Seems like a reasonable "request"... and on what planet does getting to your moonlighting job become the responsibility of your employer?

I'm not defending Buckner either... I would never do that.

As far as getting booed at a IU basketball game... does he even attend them? He could not have ever watched one and still continue to defend the Wizard of Broad Ripple.

 

He also could have used zoom to attend the meeting.

[iu eyedoc]

11 hours ago, bobknightsghost said:

I don’t think Cronin is a bad coach. He’s just in lower tier than beard IMO.

He was 16-17 last year (his 5th year) at UCLA

if Cronin goes 16-17 his fifth year at IU the student section will be chanting “fire Cronin” and leaving at halftime

After 3 years of a conference championship,a Final Four, Sweet 16, and Sweet16?

What would they be chanting about a guy that is 2 games over .500 in conference and had a measly 2 tournament wins in the last half decade? With such similar results some may even be confused and still chant "fire Mike Woodson."