General Coach Candidate News

[AZ Hoosier]

9 hours ago, Magnanimous said:

Let’s debate something we can actually resolve before the NCAAT, since no one on this board, the interwebs, or the outer sphere has a “con-flabbin” clue who the next coach will be or has an actual say in any of this. So…top 10 Westerns:

1) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

2) The Searchers

3) Once Upon a Time in the West

4) Stagecoach

5) Django Unchained

6) Shane

7) The Outlaw Josey Wales

8) Rio Bravo

9) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

10) The Magnificent Seven

Now tell me why Unforgiven, either True Grit, the rest of the Dollars trilogy, Tombstone, The Wild Bunch, Ben McCollum and the Sundance Kid, High Noon, Blazing Saddles (or others) should replace anything on this list. 

Not a western in the sense of a "cowboy" movie... but The Three Amigos has to make the list... as does Unforgiven

[mdiu28]

58 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger deal for some. Trilly who is connected with every agent hasn't heard of Indiana reaching out to anyone right now, Rabby who is pretty much just connected to agents and AAU people and hasn't heard much, just soft chatter. Both have said they have heard things for other openings but not ours. For the life of me I just can't figure out why :-)

Rabby apparently was told by someone to move on from Brad. I personally don't think anyone has any idea.

[Chris007]

2 minutes ago, mdiu28 said:

Rabby apparently was told by someone to move on from Brad. I personally don't think anyone has any idea.

I've heard him say that. He also deletes things when people talk about him, he kicked Cleeter out of chat last night when he brought him up. It's weird. If for some reason his name gets brought up in a couple weeks he will be like I had him on the hot board the whole time

[IUHoosierJoe]

2 minutes ago, mdiu28 said:

Rabby apparently was told by someone to move on from Brad. I personally don't think anyone has any idea.

And that’s the funny thing to me.  Move on from Brad.  But not Cronin, Drew, Beard, etc.  Why?  There’s only one guy getting the job, and all the rest of them aren’t.  So why is there only one he can’t talk about?

[OKHOOSIER]

23 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Not that anyone should care, but I'd just like to revise that the CBB media folks I know are now saying Brad is not a firm "no."  Still a long-shot, but there is small chance in their view.  That's not a big improvement, but it's something.

One thing I come back to is simply how weak of a denial it was. These guys know how words are perceived and how any statement would be interpreted with the IU job being open. The fact remains they could have really shut it down on the record. They had to know “not a candidate” wouldn’t kill the speculation completely. 
 

Or, he’s so uninterested and cares so little they were essentially hand waving the possibility as absurd. Which is entirely possible, he is running the Boston Celtics after all lol. 

[JimmerNoe]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

I've heard him say that. He also deletes things when people talk about him, he kicked Cleeter out of chat last night when he brought him up. It's weird. If for some reason his name gets brought up in a couple weeks he will be like I had him on the hot board the whole time

I think this is weird considering the line of work these guys are in. You have to think Brad Stevens talk on the boards would drive up clicks and subscriptions so it makes no logical sense that he is shutting it down and forbidding it. 

[Hoosierfanyuh]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I've heard him say that. He also deletes things when people talk about him, he kicked Cleeter out of chat last night when he brought him up. It's weird. If for some reason his name gets brought up in a couple weeks he will be like I had him on the hot board the whole time

And he added the “unless an unforeseen circumstance” at one point too lol

[Hoosierfanyuh]

Just now, JimmerNoe said:

I think this is weird considering the line of work these guys are in. You have to think Brad Stevens talk on the boards would drive up clicks and subscriptions so it makes no logical sense that he is shutting it down and forbidding it. 

I mean people were asked to quiet down. I get what you’re saying though. 

[Home Jersey]

I bet you next year we either get Stevens or someone else to be the new HC. 

[Eagle’s Rug]

25 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

The Revenant, The Hateful Eight, Dances with Wolves and the best of all...

 

 

Blazing Saddles!!!

 

[EasyEJay]

3 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I've heard him say that. He also deletes things when people talk about him, he kicked Cleeter out of chat last night when he brought him up. It's weird. If for some reason his name gets brought up in a couple weeks he will be like I had him on the hot board the whole time

Oh it’s a dumpster fire over at Peegs they are getting so testy because he is giving them nothing but shooting down even the slightest of rumors, and continues to remain vague because he has no new info . His sources are agents so what else can he say besides the agents are floating there guys names ( because they wants raises and more NIL cash ) clear he and his little cronie Eric are anxious because they have no more sources inside the actual IU athletic department. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

1 minute ago, EasyEJay said:

Oh it’s a dumpster fire over at Peegs they are getting so testy because he is giving them nothing but shooting down even the slightest of rumors, and continues to remain vague because he has no new info . His sources are agents so what else can he say besides the agents are floating there guys names ( because they wants raises and more NIL cash ) clear he and his little cronie Eric are anxious because they have no more sources inside the actual IU athletic department. 

But they still give their money to him.  That may be even more bonkers than coming here just to call people liars and put laugh emojis on any Stevens post.

[IUBtown]

3 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Oh it’s a dumpster fire over at Peegs they are getting so testy because he is giving them nothing but shooting down even the slightest of rumors, and continues to remain vague because he has no new info . His sources are agents so what else can he say besides the agents are floating there guys names ( because they wants raises and more NIL cash ) clear he and his little cronie Eric are anxious because they have no more sources inside the actual IU athletic department. 

Rabs has turned into nothing more than clickbait.  He very rarely has anything of substance that can't be found elsewhere.  And this has been going on for the past 5+ years. 

[Chris007]

6 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Oh it’s a dumpster fire over at Peegs they are getting so testy because he is giving them nothing but shooting down even the slightest of rumors, and continues to remain vague because he has no new info . His sources are agents so what else can he say besides the agents are floating there guys names ( because they wants raises and more NIL cash ) clear he and his little cronie Eric are anxious because they have no more sources inside the actual IU athletic department. 

Yes, I keep peaking over there and seeing that. They have nothing. Soft chatter he keeps saying. Maybe it really is that quiet, if it is that might be kind of scary. 

[MikeRoberts]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger deal for some. Trilly who is connected with every agent hasn't heard of Indiana reaching out to anyone right now, Rabby who is pretty much just connected to agents and AAU people and hasn't heard much, just soft chatter. Both have said they have heard things for other openings but not ours. For the life of me I just can't figure out why :-)

Because Dolson is going all in on Steven’s again with no backups. This seems like 2021 all over again. Maybe the outcome this time is different but that overconfidence is why we’re here in this thread

[Pagoda]

11 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Oh it’s a dumpster fire over at Peegs they are getting so testy because he is giving them nothing but shooting down even the slightest of rumors, and continues to remain vague because he has no new info . His sources are agents so what else can he say besides the agents are floating there guys names ( because they wants raises and more NIL cash ) clear he and his little cronie Eric are anxious because they have no more sources inside the actual IU athletic department. 

Haha.  Rabby really does a Ms. Cleo routine over there.

[RaceToTheTop]

4 minutes ago, IUBtown said:

Rabs has turned into nothing more than clickbait.  He very rarely has anything of substance that can't be found elsewhere.  And this has been going on for the past 5+ years. 

1.  If Rabjohns has heard that it definitely isn't Stevens, he would try to shoot down rumors.

2.  It's not a secret that Rabjohns has lost inside information from IU and if he wanted to get back in good graces with the next staff, it would make sense that if it were Stevens that he wouldn't be leaking that information.  Getting temporary clickbait doesn't trump long term access.

3.  If Rabjohns has no clue, he isn't going to say he doesn't have a clue.  He'd just parrot what other outlets said.

Based on this, either Rabjohns believes that it isn't Stevens or believes it is Stevens but wants access or he doesn't have a clue whether it is or isn't Stevens.

[Chris007]

2 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

Because Dolson is going all in on Steven’s again with no backups. This seems like 2021 all over again. Maybe the outcome this time is different but that overconfidence is why we’re here in this thread

That might have been the case, seems like that is slanted a little from a trustee's side of things. But let's hope it is different this time. I do know that there were two main people on the list this time with others listed. But as I say I've been wrong before.

[RaceToTheTop]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

That might have been the case, seems like that is slanted a little from a trustee's side of things. But let's hope it is different this time. I do know that there were two main people on the list this time with others listed. But as I say I've been wrong before.

It certainly does seem that if IU is going after Stevens that they are doing it much earlier than they did last go around.  Certainly is going to be time to pivot if it's not him.

[OKHOOSIER]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

That might have been the case, seems like that is slanted a little from a trustee's side of things. But let's hope it is different this time. I do know that there were two main people on the list this time with others listed. But as I say I've been wrong before.

Do you think it’s possible the main thing here with the silence and lack of firmer public ‘no’ is simply because Stevens hasn’t told Dolson no? If Dolson hasn’t been told no, there’s no reason to think he’s moved on to sitting coaches, hence, little to no agent noise leaking out to insiders.