General Coach Candidate News

[rcbowla]

21 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

A friend and I spent an afternoon looking at the Zapruder film frame by frame. With our limited equipment we concluded that what looks like a gun from the driver, is actually John Connally’s hat. If you watch the video closely a few times, you might also agree?

I've heard that many times but as Fleek said there are other elements to it including all of the reactions and the timing of when he turns and gestures that that's when JFK is shot. But I digress

[Truthhurts]

7 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

If those are your choices you don’t let the fans dictate your decision, you try to hire Ben McCollum. He’s no riskier in my opinion that Cronin or Brownell, 43 years old with a phenomenal winning record, he might just be a future superstar coach! 

I’m 100% on board with Ben and that’s totally my pick if I’m the AD. But I have zero faith in the admin to take the “riskier” option. 

Edited February 22, 2025 by Truthhurts

[Chris007]

12 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

It’s not gonna be Brad. Dusty, via his extension, just turned it down.  Drew turned down UK, so he’s not coming to IU. TJ’s buyout is likely insane. Fans (wrongly) ptobably can’t be sold on Ben M. Beard would be too big of a - ahem - black eye on the university. 
 

Sooooo …criticize all you want, but serious question, why *wouldnt* Brad B be a serious candidate?  Who else exactly is there, realistically, outside of Brad B and Cronin? 

Goodman just said that when TJ renegotiated in December his buyout dropped to 4 million. I still don’t think he’ll leave but that’s doable.

[theriverpilot]

1 hour ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Interesting fact is that Harrelsons dad was an honest to god hitman.  Some people thought he was involved in the JFK assassination but that’s a topic for another day.

This is why I’m here. New basketball coach search updates and super random trivia like this!! Lol

[RoadRage]

3 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

I've heard that many times but as Fleek said there are other elements to it including all of the reactions and the timing of when he turns and gestures that that's when JFK is shot. But I digress

I can tell you honestly, this was 20 years ago and we had only heard it was the driver, no other theory, we came to the governor’s hat all on our own. We need a thread somewhere to discuss this!

[OKHOOSIER]

Buzz Williams has moved up my list and appears to be a vest guy. +1

[Truthhurts]

12 minutes ago, hoosierbannerd said:

By all accounts, Dolson has had over a year for this hire and with the amount of money he has to pay for a coach and NIL for a top roster, if he only pulls in Brownell; that would be severely disappointing. I don't think that's going to be the case though... :)

Fans significantly overestimate the magnitude of their teams’ pull on coaches, and IU is guiltier of it than any fan base.  Hard to disagree with a word of this piece, other than I prefer Ben over Brad B
 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2025/02/22/indiana-basketball-coach-purdue/79441554007/

Edited February 22, 2025 by Truthhurts

[Mopladysman]

8 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

If those are your choices you don’t let the fans dictate your decision, you try to hire Ben McCollum. He’s no riskier in my opinion that Cronin or Brownell, 43 years old with a phenomenal winning record, he might just be a future superstar coach! 

This

[RaceToTheTop]

6 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

I've heard that many times but as Fleek said there are other elements to it including all of the reactions and the timing of when he turns and gestures that that's when JFK is shot. But I digress

Everyone talks about a second shooter but no one talks about a second President.

[Truthhurts]

Just now, Chris007 said:

Goodman just said that when TJ renegotiated in December his buyout dropped to 4 million. I still don’t think he’ll leave but that’s doable.

Hadn’t seen that. That’s very doable. TJ would be a home run and maybe the NIL situation being relatively bad drives him away. 

[Kentuckysucks]

11 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

STOP.  Just stop with the Kennedy assassination stuff.  Everyone knows it was aliens and they're being housed in Area 51.  

 

[Hoosierfan2017]

44 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

I agree…I think it is that $100M number being thrown around, if that is even close to being true, do you just go from that and Stevens says no, to Cronin? Throw those numbers at Wright, Donovan, Pearl, Self, and Drew, and then maybe Cronin. But again, if you are going to offer Cronin, why not go for McCollum who is 10 years younger and might be one of the great coaches of the future? 

Because we have 20+ years of data on Cronin while McCollum has less than a year of D1 experience under his belt. Maybe he’s becomes a great coach, but why take that risk if Cronin is on the table? At the very least Cronin gets us to the tournament each year which would be a big step in getting IU out of laughingstock territory. 

[theriverpilot]

1 hour ago, iu eyedoc said:

This might have legs after watching the comeback just now against Wisky.

/s

[tyappleg]

Wisconsin with an all time choke job against Oregon.  Cross Greg Gard off the list.

[IUCrazy2]

6 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

Fans significantly overeating the value of their teams’ pull on coaches, and IU is guiltier of it than any fan base.  Hard to disagree with a word of this piece, other than I prefer Ben over Brad B
 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2025/02/22/indiana-basketball-coach-purdue/79441554007/

If our goal is to be Purdue, we need to drastically reduce the amount of money we pump into basketball and instead invest in football which has a much larger return on investment.

 

[RoadRage]

4 minutes ago, theriverpilot said:

This might have legs after watching the comeback just now against Wisky.

/s

Altman is a great coach, but I believe he is a great grandfather?

[IUBtown]

5 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Because we have 20+ years of data on Cronin while McCollum has less than a year of D1 experience under his belt. Maybe he’s becomes a great coach, but why take that risk if Cronin is on the table? At the very least Cronin gets us to the tournament each year which would be a big step in getting IU out of laughingstock territory. 

Because it doesn't cost you 10mil. Give that money to football. 

[RoadRage]

6 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Because we have 20+ years of data on Cronin while McCollum has less than a year of D1 experience under his belt. Maybe he’s becomes a great coach, but why take that risk if Cronin is on the table? At the very least Cronin gets us to the tournament each year which would be a big step in getting IU out of laughingstock territory. 

You make good points, Cronin is definitely the safer choice, but I would still take the risk and get McCollum, guy has won 80% of his games, I don’t care where you are coaching, you win that much with our NIL he will win at Indiana!

[Sobchak_Security]

29 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

It’s not gonna be Brad. Dusty, via his extension, just turned it down.  Drew turned down UK, so he’s not coming to IU. TJ’s buyout is likely insane. Fans (wrongly) ptobably can’t be sold on Ben M. Beard would be too big of a - ahem - black eye on the university. 
 

Sooooo …criticize all you want, but serious question, why *wouldnt* Brad B be a serious candidate?  Who else exactly is there, realistically, outside of Brad B and Cronin? 

 

30 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

It’s not gonna be Brad. Dusty, via his extension, just turned it down.  Drew turned down UK, so he’s not coming to IU. TJ’s buyout is likely insane. Fans (wrongly) ptobably can’t be sold on Ben M. Beard would be too big of a - ahem - black eye on the university. 
 

Sooooo …criticize all you want, but serious question, why *wouldnt* Brad B be a serious candidate?  Who else exactly is there, realistically, outside of Brad B and Cronin? 

Here’s a choice for you.  Look at the 3 résumé’s below.  Which would you choose??

 

A: 698 - 367 (.655)

B: 452 - 279 (.618)

C: 503 - 244 (.673)

[OKHOOSIER]

15 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

Hadn’t seen that. That’s very doable. TJ would be a home run and maybe the NIL situation being relatively bad drives him away. 

I looked after watching that couldn't find anything to support that claim by Goodman. Just the increases in salary and a direct quote from ISU "And all other contract language remains the same" or something to that effect. Not saying Goodman is wrong, but I couldn't find the buyout numbers anywhere. Restructured in December.