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[OliviaPope40 7,014]

[AZ Hoosier 9,086]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

[OKHOOSIER 4,700]

2 minutes ago, OliviaPope40 said:

I'm a simple man, I see office GIFs, I like. 

[JF87 1,935]

2 hours ago, RoadRage said:

I am not going to argue about the amount of people, but there are plenty of posts supporting him, hard to miss them actually?

From the recent survey.  Many would accept him (42%), but I wouldn't say Cronin has strong support on this board. 

1. 5. Would you approve of the hiring of Mick Cronin (UCLA)?

   • Yes
      13
   • No
      96
   • Neutral
      56

 

[schoosier 3,613]

Pitino said to hire Beard and now hearing he may be interested also. Also just saw where Pitino will not bring any freshmen in next year. He said not mature enough to play and the same for Sampson. You look at some of these portal guards compared to ours and one clear reason we have struggled. The money we spent on our guards could have went to an SEC guard and Wisconsin’s transfer but we got Rice and other PAC 10 guard. Now Watching UConn and St John’s, Pitino has a legit team and would kill it here. 

[ronzo4IU 166]

39 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

Unfortunately I don't think this ever goes away. Big reason? The national media that loves to make fun of us, call us insane for thinking IU should be elite, and generally runs the fanbase down for living in the past-- also loves putting IU basketball on national TV, loves positing stories about us, and knows we drive content. No matter how good we are. 

I have lived all over the place since I left Bloomington for the last time. One thing I never had to worry about? Seeing my alma mater play basketball. I have paid for numerous extra subscriptions/cable packages over the last 20 years to watch our terrible football team. It is no coincidence IU always ends up on a B1G+ game early season. Because our fanbase will pay for it to watch. IU basketball will always be a fishbowl. The media love to hate us. 

Good point. I don’t think there are very many college basketball teams with a large fan base that tolerate bad basketball for very long. Like it has already been said, if a coach is worried about the pressure after getting paid millions and millions of dollars they should probably stay out of P5 basketball at an institution like IU.
Just curious, are you from Oklahoma? I’m from the region up around Hammond and my mom and stepfather relocated us to broken arrow Oklahoma when I was about 16 and I lived there for about 10 years, unfortunately ..lol

[OliviaPope40 7,014]

6 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

I'm a simple man, I see office GIFs, I like. 

I tried to watch it I really couldn't get into it.

[AZ Hoosier 9,086]

6 minutes ago, ronzo4IU said:

Good point. I don’t think there are very many college basketball teams with a large fan base that tolerate bad basketball for very long. Like it has already been said, if a coach is worried about the pressure after getting paid millions and millions of dollars they should probably stay out of P5 basketball at an institution like IU.

Not sure I agree... one arrogant, incompetent hack of a mediocre NBA coach got about $20M from the university... seems to be set for life... 

[OKHOOSIER 4,700]

2 minutes ago, ronzo4IU said:

Good point. I don’t think there are very many college basketball teams with a large fan base that tolerate bad basketball for very long. Like it has already been said, if a coach is worried about the pressure after getting paid millions and millions of dollars they should probably stay out of P5 basketball at an institution like IU.
Just curious, are you from Oklahoma? I’m from the region up around Hammond and my mom and stepfather relocated us to broken arrow Oklahoma when I was about 16 and I lived there for about 10 years, unfortunately ..lol

I was stationed there for several years, but no, Indiana/Michigan primarily. We traveled all over the state since there is nothing to do, at least you were in the eastern part lol, western OK is a different world. People really do not understand how isolated it is. That base was 70 minutes from a Target hahaha. I like OKC and Tulsa, southeast part of the state is beautiful too. 

To your other point, 100%. I would absolutely love to see UNC, Kansas, Duke or Kentucky to wander the wilderness like we have and see what those fanbases look like. IU is different, whether anyone nationally wants to believe it or not, and I will die on that hill. 

[MikeRoberts 7,572]

3 hours ago, MrBBall said:

Whichever coach is named, it’s because they WANT the job. Scott D will not try to lure a coach if they don’t want the job of being in the limelight. Otz doesn’t seem to maybe want that? It’s something I’ve tried to think about through this process. 

Interesting comment knowing he has tried to lure people that didn’t want to come in the past

[MikeRoberts 7,572]

13 minutes ago, schoosier said:

Pitino said to hire Beard and now hearing he may be interested also. Also just saw where Pitino will not bring any freshmen in next year. He said not mature enough to play and the same for Sampson. You look at some of these portal guards compared to ours and one clear reason we have struggled. The money we spent on our guards could have went to an SEC guard and Wisconsin’s transfer but we got Rice and other PAC 10 guard. Now Watching UConn and St John’s, Pitino has a legit team and would kill it here. 

Pitino Sr could come here for 4 years and with our NIL possibly win a natty in that time frame. He’s that good

[Willkie71 225]

31 minutes ago, hoosierbannerd said:

@cybergates getting ready to catch up on 200 pages...

He can skip the 150 pages on Beard...

[JF87 1,935]

16 minutes ago, schoosier said:

Pitino said to hire Beard and now hearing he may be interested also. Also just saw where Pitino will not bring any freshmen in next year. He said not mature enough to play and the same for Sampson. You look at some of these portal guards compared to ours and one clear reason we have struggled. The money we spent on our guards could have went to an SEC guard and Wisconsin’s transfer but we got Rice and other PAC 10 guard. Now Watching UConn and St John’s, Pitino has a legit team and would kill it here. 

Our roster could kill it if our coach wasn't a mediocre NBA coach that is still learning the college game.  

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,468]

14 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

OMG — transitive logic. To justify why a team that will have to win it’s conference tournament to make the field is better than their actual verified current results of 59 in the NET. 

This is a team that needed overtime to beat both ISU and Missouri State this month. They had a big advantage early in the season because of team continuity. They are having a great year for Drake, but last year with Devries as coach Drake was better! 47th in the NET.

Why don’t you give the love to Devries? He was better at Drake, is in his 40’s, and is doing fantastic in a P5 conference.

Nothing transitive about it. I was just responding to who Vandy beat. I wasn't even thinking about Drake. 

[Asha’man 188]

1 minute ago, MikeRoberts said:

Pitino Sr could come here for 4 years and with our NIL possibly win a natty in that time frame. He’s that good

Except people want their head coach to have a resume of a pastor. Anything less and they aren’t good enough. 

[schoosier 3,613]

4 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

Pitino Sr could come here for 4 years and with our NIL possibly win a natty in that time frame. He’s that good

Absolutely, he said the college game like G league where players have 1/2 year contracts. I would take him before others like Cronin.

[OKHOOSIER 4,700]

4 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

Pitino Sr could come here for 4 years and with our NIL possibly win a natty in that time frame. He’s that good

I think you can definitely make an argument that Pitino is the greatest college basketball coach of all time. Had he just stayed at Kentucky or never gotten in trouble at UL, it probably isn't even a question. JMO

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,925]

4 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Our roster could kill it if our coach wasn't a mediocre NBA coach that is still learning the college game.  

What is there to learn, though? It's just 5 guys playing basketball with a shot clock like D1 basketball.  

He values a 7ft dude over legit guard play, which is wild.  

[schoosier 3,613]

4 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Our roster could kill it if our coach wasn't a mediocre NBA coach that is still learning the college game.  

Our guard play sucks outside Goode. Woody doesn’t know how to build a team period. 

[hoosierdaddy1980 4]

Has anyone mentioned Chris Beard on here? I kid, I kid!