General Coach Candidate News

[OGIUAndy]

2 minutes ago, tyappleg said:

Sounds eerily familiar. 

Which is a good thing. Fool me once...

[Uspshoosier]

3 minutes ago, Demo said:

True. And Sampson, Scheyer and Hurley all have 4 man classes coming in. You develop a roster building philosophy and you adhere to it. Personally, I think coaches who eschew recruiting high school kids are gonna struggle to develop a sustainable culture. 

Pitino said this cycle they wouldn’t recruit high school kids because they have to replace too much production from what they are losing and high school kids can’t replace them.    He will recruit high school kids in the future just not next year.   Most great coaches will use a combination of both 

[Home Jersey]

One of the more practical negatives about McCollum is he has no recruits signed to Drake and I think very few rotation players with eligibility he could bring over (let alone them being up to B10 competition). Does he even necessarily have the connections / network to hire an excellent staff around him? I think D2 ball is great but is he tapping into that circle entirely or just rolling with the Drake staff? Or does he actually have very strong connections at D1/P5 levels? I dunno the answer. He’d probably have to assemble an entire roster and staff in an offseason - on a super quick turnaround - and he hasn’t done that before. For a guy with just one year under his belt, as great as I think he is as a coach, it just doesn’t make a ton of sense for this cycle. Maybe he could get it done. But it’s a big risk. Long list of guys who should get the gig first… if they say yes…

[Hoosier987]

5 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Adam Howard just Retweeted McNeese winning the conference. “Good things happen to good people”.

 

Move Will Wade up the candidate list. Lol

 

 

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I don’t think Wade is a serious candidate. 

[HoosierSadaseci]

22 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

He’s done this regularly. 

Do you have proof?  Not saying he doesn't, but...

[Demo]

8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://twitter.com/adamzagoria/status/1893441546101440713?s=46

Dude’s a recruiting machine.

[Stuhoo]

8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

And THAT is what hiring the young, potential “next big thing” looks like.

36 years old.

Entire playing career at top tier program.

Lead recruiter for the best recruiting classes in the country.

Associate Head Coach at Duke.

[Golfman25]

4 hours ago, TTT said:

Pam Whitten is instrumental in this process.  She is no dummy when it comes to major athletics at IU.

And she was just extended.  

[Home Jersey]

Just now, Stuhoo said:

And THAT is what hiring the young, potential “next big thing” looks like.

36 years old.

Entire playing career at top tier program.

Lead recruiter for the best recruiting classes in the country.

Associate Head Coach at Duke.

Never been a HC before. Huge risk IMO. I’d hate that kind of hire. 

[RoadRage]

If IU hires Cronin you will get the same coach that was at Cincinnati and UCLA, eventually he’ll string together a couple of lousy seasons and the fans will demand his bald head….6 more years of mediocrity and the IU program puts even more time between the years we were elite and what we have become. 

 

[Stuhoo]

12 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

And with the proper vetting, Luke Murray could be an excellent hire.

[Hoosierfan2017]

I’m not even saying McCollum can’t cut it at this level. All I’m saying is that he’s a huge risk at a time IU can’t afford to miss on the next coach. Maybe McCollum goes to Iowa and does well. That only matters if the guy we hire is a dud. Louisville fans aren’t moping about Dusty May. They’re happy with their guy who has them 21-6 and 14-2 in the ACC. 

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Never been a HC before. Huge risk IMO. I’d hate that kind of hire. 

He’s the associate head coach at Duke.

He’s a risk for sure, but his experience and exposure to the highest levels of college hoops is extraordinarily higher than a guy that has built a great program in D2.

 

[IUBtown]

4 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Drake went 28-7 last year and 27-8 the year before. It’s not like he stepped into a wasteland of a program. He’s in his first year in D1. How many top 25 teams has he even played at this point? Isn’t his team also the slowest paced team in the entire country? Cronin has won 69% of his games overall as well as 69% of his conference games at UCLA. He’s been to the sweet 16 or better 3 of the last 4 years. Even if McCollum doesn’t flop at the P5 level, what are the odds he delivers better results than that? He’s an absolutely huge risk that IU shouldn’t have to take. 

Cronin only has one sweet 16 in his other 20+ years.  The 4th of those 4 years he finished almost outside of the top 100 Kenpom.  I feel like people are taking crazy pills given out by some leprechaun to hire one of their own. 

[Home Jersey]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

He’s the associate head coach at Duke.

He’s a risk for sure, but his experience and exposure to the highest levels of college hoops is extraordinarily higher than a guy that has built a great program in D2.

 

For sure better equipped for the off the court stuff, which is important. That said, “Associate Head Coach” ain’t the real Head Coach. Very different thing to be actually in the driver’s seat IMO. Interested to see how it works out for them, I liked him as a player 

[hoosierbannerd]

1 hour ago, Hoosier Guy said:

It’s going to be Stevens.  Nothing has changed my mind.

You're god d*mned right...

[steubenhoosier]

Recruiting high school guys to build your program entails risk. Are the recruits going to live up to the hype?

Building your program via the portal entails risk. Will the guys mesh into a team? This year’s roster a good example of highly regarded players who don’t fit as a team.

No one answer. I want a coach who can recruit for the future but who also can evaluate guys in the portal who fit and fill the void where we need help.

If BS can do this, would be ecstatic. Would view this as a priority for anyone else to be considered. 

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

For sure better equipped for the off the court stuff, which is important. That said, “Associate Head Coach” ain’t the real Head Coach. Very different thing to be actually in the driver’s seat IMO. Interested to see how it works out for them, I liked him as a player 

That’s why he’s a risk. But he’s learned from the best of the best at the top of the top for 15 years. He’s a dude. And he’s a dude at Duke, not at some school that would be a five point neutral court underdog to the current IU trainwreck.

[Josh]

46 minutes ago, str8baller said:

The unearned arrogance is a problem, that I agree with you there. Mostly with our decision makers. 
 

But, if you look at the per capita numbers Indiana puts out a ton of pro level players. I think we’re like 2nd in the country. That’s a solid proxy for talent. You have to get players somewhere. The backyard is the starting point. 
 

Again, this job is hard. The HS coaches, as an institution, can be a giant PIA. They can also deliver National Championship talent. Ditto the AAU coaches. Same with our alumni…they all think they’re basketball geniuses (the irony of my dumasz typing this is not lost on me…lol) where the big dogs need to be placated often. But they can also deliver national leading NIL funds. Lots of upside but a hard  job. I think watching a local kid win a title at UConn or god forbid Purdue while we pay tons for a pac 2 transplant loses you a ton of political capital.

Can you show me what National Championship talent you're talking about?  I can think of Kyle Guy, and that was one guy damn near a decade ago.  Maybe I'm missing on all the National Championship talent from Indiana you're talking about?

[Golfman25]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

I respect you a lot as a poster.  A ton.

But this take is why we suck as a program.  Indiana has great recruits and coaches.  But not more than many other places in America.  Lately even, globally.  Thinking that we have some sort of superiority over other areas is why we hired Woodson and worship our high school system.  How's that worked for us?

To be successful you have to dominate your state first.  Then your region.  Then national.  If the state has one of the best HS players in the country he should be a lock for IU.  Then you work out from there.