General Coach Candidate News

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Highly unpopular opinion but I’d rather get a motivated Chris Beard than Drew.

Drew if we are lucky enough to get him should make us a consistent winner, I’d guess. I like it better than Cronin. Both would probably be solid.

Then it becomes, staffing, and portal excitement which is where the real winning will need to happen.


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[Kentuckysucks]

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

FWIW the BOT just gave Whitten a contract extension and a raise which I'd take as a signal they'd be in her corner if it's a hire she and Dolson want to make.  There was one reported dissenting vote but it wasn't QB, it was Vivian Winston.

I don’t see her signing off on Beard no matter what.  He’s the guy we need to get imo.

[AZ Hoosier]

2 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

I don’t see her signing off on Beard no matter what.  He’s the guy we need to get imo.

[KNOBYDOX]

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

FWIW the BOT just gave Whitten a contract extension and a raise which I'd take as a signal they'd be in her corner if it's a hire she and Dolson want to make.  There was one reported dissenting vote but it wasn't QB, it was Vivian Winston.

Vivian Winston must be Katy with a C

[cthomas]

I like what Whitten and Dolson have done with IU football. I believe that they will do something similar for basketball. She is a President who gets the importance of the athletic programs and is going to support it.

[johnsoniu]

Potential coaches watch:

The Will Wades on ESPN+
 

*braces for the wrath of @Uspshoosier*

[rdevito29]

In my mind (and my gut) - it is Brad until he says directly states “I will not be the next head coach of Indiana Basketball” or until we hire somebody else. 

All signs seemed to point to Brad until (what I believe was) a smoke screen quieted things down. Since then, any noise has not been substantial - the way that I think Brad and Scott want things to be until Woodson is officially done.

I do not think we would still be hearing minor rumblings about Brad if the donors thought it was someone else, since that seems to be our main source of info here. I trust our insiders to honestly report what they are able to, and I believe what they were told early on. 

Also, as far as I have seen, nobody has reported that a donor is upset with how the process is going. Even after the news broke that Brad “thoroughly appreciates being a Celtic and loves the people he gets to work with every day.” Maybe I missed something, but I would think that it would upset a donor if what we were told early on is true, and we would hear about it, because again that seems to be the info source here. JMO.

The reality is that nobody knows for sure until something is done and announced. Call me delusional. I’m okay with being wrong, and I will be optimistic about the future of the program regardless of who our next coach is. Go Hoosiers :)

[NashvilleHoosier]

3 hours ago, Chris007 said:

I will when I have heard from someone I trust that it is a done deal. Some others have heard things like that but I have not. 

Also I thought it was done last time, people believed me, I felt I let them down and I got some really nasty emails from people. Just trying to avoid that

Lol…I don’t blame you buddy. Weren’t there some weirdos on here demanding an apology b/c they had staked their own reputation on what they read from people they don’t know on a free message board? Totally not weird behavior. 4 years ago was a wild ride.  

[Uspshoosier]

21 minutes ago, johnsoniu said:

Potential coaches watch:

The Will Wades on ESPN+
 

*braces for the wrath of @Uspshoosier*

 

[HoosierInParadise]

There was this one time, I told everyone at work and anyone that asked me, that I was happy with the organization I worked for and the one thing I love the most was the people I worked with. I said all of this while I was working on getting another job somewhere else...

The only quoted statement we've seen means absolutely nothing...

It's Stevens till it's not for me. But I'll be happy to watch some good basketball next season even if it ends up being someone else.

[cleeter]

Lol…I don’t blame you buddy. Weren’t there some weirdos on here demanding an apology b/c they had staked their own reputation on what they read from people they don’t know on a free message board? Totally not weird behavior. 4 years ago was a wild ride.  

If Brad doesn’t come this time, I demand an apology from [mention]Chris007 [/mention]because I bet my cousin, 18 holes of golf with beers included that Brad comes. He can slug some beers. I also bet my wife the middle name rights to our child due in September that he would come.


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[IUHAHN81]

I literally don't care if our "insiders" end up being wrong. As long as they are genuinely passing on what they've heard from what are hopefully reputable sources. Honestly the idea and hope of possibly getting Brad is and has been more fun than the actual season anyway. Keep it comin' boys! 

[WoodywithaL]

5 minutes ago, cleeter said:

If Brad doesn’t come this time, I demand an apology from [mention]Chris007 [/mention]because I bet my cousin, 18 holes of golf with beers included that Brad comes. He can slug some beers. I also bet my wife the middle name rights to our child due in September that he would come.


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So middle name is Chris007 if Stevens is the coach then?

[OKHOOSIER]

2 minutes ago, HoosierInParadise said:

There was this one time, I told everyone at work and anyone that asked me, that I was happy with the organization I worked for and the one thing I love the most was the people I worked with. I said all of this while I was working on getting another job somewhere else...

The only quoted statement we've seen means absolutely nothing...

It's Stevens till it's not for me. But I'll be happy to watch some good basketball next season even if it ends up being someone else.

As someone literally going through this right now, preach. The people that need to know, know, but they haven’t said anything. I’ll get to make the announcement to everyone when it’s appropriate. This part of the Stevens saga is not at all unbelievable to me. So until he has another Masshole moment, there’s a chance. personally, I think it’s slim, but “not a candidate” is not putting out any fires. JMO

[theriverpilot]

7 minutes ago, cleeter said:

If Brad doesn’t come this time, I demand an apology from [mention]Chris007 [/mention]because I bet my cousin, 18 holes of golf with beers included that Brad comes. He can slug some beers. I also bet my wife the middle name rights to our child due in September that he would come.


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Son, what have you done?? SMDH

[cleeter]

So middle name is Chris007 if Stevens is the coach then?

It’s between that and Bradley [emoji23]


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[cleeter]

Son, what have you done?? SMDH

I’ve placed two amazing bets my man.


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[sirhoosierlot]

[BGleas]

8 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

As someone literally going through this right now, preach. The people that need to know, know, but they haven’t said anything. I’ll get to make the announcement to everyone when it’s appropriate. This part of the Stevens saga is not at all unbelievable to me. So until he has another Masshole moment, there’s a chance. personally, I think it’s slim, but “not a candidate” is not putting out any fires. JMO

The difference is that there aren't people who's job it is to find these things out about you, there are people that make a living finding these things out in the NBA and in Boston, and there hasn't been a peep. 

[hoosierbannerd]

17 minutes ago, cleeter said:

If Brad doesn’t come this time, I demand an apology from [mention]Chris007 [/mention]because I bet my cousin, 18 holes of golf with beers included that Brad comes. He can slug some beers. I also bet my wife the middle name rights to our child due in September that he would come.


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I admire the strong stand my man!..