General Coach Candidate News

[Chris007]

16 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

It’s not that he didn’t have a list in 2021 it was that he made little to no progress with that list. Fast forward to 2025, wasn’t May in that top 3? Now he’s signed a big extension and almost all but eliminated.

Again, if Stevens is his #1 and he gets him then it all works out. I have heard from a few people that he had done little work on backup plans 4 years ago and while not confirmed yet by any means, it appears little is being done again if you believe what is being said ie. No activity with agents 

as we found 4 years ago, you have to have multiple people ready to say yes to be safe and avoid 4 years of misery, not just one 

I will say if it is true that Stevens said no on Friday the 14th (Not sure I believe yet) and Dolson let Dusty sign the extension a week later that is not a good sign.

[IUHoosierJoe]

6 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

If he messes this hire up he will be fired. He already messed up the Woodson hire. Whether it was forced or not his name is on that hire.


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He’s not getting fired.  He would have schools lined up to hire him because he would take Cignetti with him.

[MikeRoberts]

10 minutes ago, Jet812 said:

This is what I fear the most.  That Dolson thought he’d get Stevens, it ain’t happening & now we’re scrambling again.  If that’s the case SD should be fired.  I just don’t have the faith that many others do because of the Cig hire…

Not sure if he has screwed anything up this go around, it’s possible he’s killing it. We will find out after the fact how it all shook out and I don’t just mean what coach we ended up  

[GP711]

1 minute ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Any comment on what Sam Story said in the Trilly discord?

Got a lot of respect for Sam, I just disagree. Like i said Scott has been working this. No way brad waits all the time to then say no thanks on the first meeting. And add what Chris said, if that really happened, we would have told Dusty's agent he's our guy and we have money coming to him do the extension wouldn't happen. Until Jerry or Rtz(i think they are more connected than anyone else) come in and say brad is a no, i am on the brad train. regardless of them i am still hearing we are in a good spot. I look forward to see what happens. 

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I will say if it is true that Stevens said no on Friday the 14th (Not sure I believe yet) and Dolson let Dusty sign the extension a week later that is not a good sign.

The far and away most logical reason why May signed that extension is because...

He really, really wants to be the Michigan Head Coach for a very long time.

[OliviaPope40]

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9 minutes ago, Jet812 said:

& if BS has been dragging him along this whole time, knowing for the past months/year that this decision was imminent,  then he ain’t the good guy everyone has made him out to be either…

Yes.  Assuming the account we've heard from 4 years ago with BS to be true, if Dolson inquired and got anything but an "I'm interested, tell me more" type response this time, that would be time to focus his efforts elsewhere.

[Pagoda]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I have said this before, but to me it is really important to reinforce and emphasize:

• The coaching search is fun
• Winning the press release and initial press conference is NOT the goal.
• Getting a big name whose naming makes our rivals sad is NOT the goal.
• Being right or getting a candidate that makes any of us think "Yesssss!" is NOT the goal.

• The goal is to find a coach that wins a ton of games for an extended tenure and makes us proud of the performance and culture of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team. And that goal could be accomplished by hiring:
  • A big, big name like Stevens or Drew, or
  • A less big name like Collins, McCollum, Schertz, McCasland, Byington, etc, etc., etc.

We'll also have to wait and see how the new coach actually performs.  People could generally be bummed with the hire, but then the hire does great.  Or everyone loves the hire, but then they struggle for some reason.  

[iu eyedoc]

8 minutes ago, Jet812 said:

This is what I fear the most.  That Dolson thought he’d get Stevens, it ain’t happening & now we’re scrambling again.  If that’s the case SD should be fired.  I just don’t have the faith that many others do because of the Cig hire…

How are they scrambling?

Do people actually expect every coaches agent Dolson reaches out to to immediately announce IU is interested in my client?

Some coaches may be more private.

Some coaches may think it would adversely affect their recruiting

Some agents may want to maintain a good reputation of confidentiality among AD's for other clients.

There is almost a month or more before any coach IU would be interested in will be available.

The angst on here is comical

 

 

[Hornsby]

Ha, no way.  With FB doing well, Scott is set, that sport drives everything in the athletic dept.  Scott has setup IU to bring in tens of millions more in revenue, and last year the school was showcased on GameDay and Big Noon and other shows like it never has before.
And for the 1,000th time, Scott didn't hire Woody so he isn't held responsible.  Scott just got an extension and raise in May 2024.

Before you crown dolson the next coming maybe wait and see how this fall goes in football. The schedule is tougher and your basing if all on one season.

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[HoosierHoopster]

12 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Any comment on what Sam Story said in the Trilly discord?

"Calhoun's health is the word"

Maybe my favorite quote from all my years of on IU message boards, it just keeps on giving

[EasyEJay]

33 minutes ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

30 minutes ago, Capt. Crimson said:

Sam Story dropped into Trilly discord this AM and said he thinks Stevens is over. Dolson met with him on Feb 14th and it didn’t go anywhere. Timing with his daughter is bad.

Drew and May (since his buyout isn’t impossible)still at top of his list before they move on.


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These snot nosed bratty kids of Stevens are starting to make me angry lol oh well four more years they will both be graduated so that won’t be an issue next coaching search haha Ok bring on Brad Brownell for those 4 years just make sure it’s a low buyout DWS 

[Stuhoo]

With image attribution to @Uspshoosier...

Alex Barlow

Luke Murray

 

These are exactly the type of guys that could lose the press release, make our rivals' fans 'not sad' and win a ton of games at IU for a very, very long time.

 

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2 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

We'll also have to wait and see how the new coach actually performs.  People could generally be bummed with the hire, but then the hire does great.  Or everyone loves the hire, but then they struggle for some reason.  

True.  Heck, a new coach could come in and make a big impact for the first season or two and then settle in to ho-hum results (or take a couple of seasons to build momentum).

[MrBBall]

15 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

That adds up. If Michigan believed that May was going to become Target #1, they would have to move fast and they did

But they were working on something for much longer than that. It was just presented to him that day

[tyappleg]

A lot of overreaction and assumptions today based on a story told by one guy.  You shouldn't take his word as truth anymore than you should take Chris's or RTZ.  

Lighten up and have some fun.  There is still a long ways to go.  But assuming we are now scrambling because SS said BS said no 2 weeks ago (6 weeks until we would have to make a hire) is an overreaction.  

[TTT]

Stevens 

May

Alford

Schertz

Scott Drew 

McCollum

(Schertz troll his Facebook page:   philosophy, player buy in during interviews, intelligent speaking, Kaizen, 21st century style of play while being a defensive minded coach…..with a popular team first offense with individual roles where everyone wins on team, a competitor, early age tennis star that took him to basketball…type of guy that using IU NIL (team assembly) would put an A+ team on the floor that would be connected as a team, in university, community and likable/lovable by fans.

[Pagoda]

7 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Before you crown dolson the next coming maybe wait and see how this fall goes in football. The schedule is tougher and your basing if all on one season.

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Actually, I'm not basing it off one season.  IUFB doesn't need to have a year like last year to be on a path to improvement (getting out of the bottom of the conference) and more revenue.  

The IU athletic dept is more than just basketball.  

[lillurk]

4 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

"Calhoun's health is the word"

Maybe my favorite quote from all my years of on IU message boards, it just keeps on giving

This comes up a bunch but I don’t know the context. Who can share?

[Jet812]

7 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

How are they scrambling?

Do people actually expect every coaches agent Dolson reaches out to to immediately announce IU is interested in my client?

Some coaches may be more private.

Some coaches may think it would adversely affect their recruiting

Some agents may want to maintain a good reputation of confidentiality among AD's for other clients.

There is almost a month or more before any coach IU would be interested in will be available.

The angst on here is comical

 

 

Love that you think enough of yourself to discount their opinions, thoughts & exploration of possibilities without any actual knowledge of your own!  Awesome self-confidence!!!!