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[Alford Bailey 12,815]

Dusty wants to be at Michigan and didn’t want  the distraction of our opening to affect his recruiting momentum. End of story. Dolson didn’t “let”him sign an extension. That’s ridiculous.

[lillurk 4,341]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

WHY WON'T ANYONE DISCUSS LUKE MURRAY OR ALEX BARLOW?

I asked y'all to do that super nicely! 

 

:)

Fine enough candidates in a vacuum, to me; Murray and Kimani Young are both interesting at UConn.

None of those guys meet the Thamel criteria of HM HC experience

[HinnyHoosier 5,679]

4 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

WHY WON'T ANYONE DISCUSS LUKE MURRAY OR ALEX BARLOW?

I asked y'all to do that super nicely! 

 

:)

Hey, I tried to be a team player.

[Home Jersey 12,107]

Cabin fever is boiling over in here today eh

[Kentuckysucks 3,269]

51 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

The one thing I don't understand is if everything worked out the way people say it did. On Feb 14 Brad said no thanks. Then wouldn't have Scott been on the phone with Dusty's agent that afternoon saying he has big money coming for your client as soon as the season is over since we all know he was the #2 choice. I don't care if his family loves Michigan or not, (don't believe it) we could have given him a much better raise than the 1 million he got with the extension. 

It was a reward for a nice season and Dusty was never going anywhere.  He doesn’t want a fishbowl job.  It’s better for all that he stays at UM.  Not a good fit here imo.

[Hoosierfan2017 23,222]

2 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Dusty wants to be at Michigan and didn’t want  the distraction of our opening to affect his recruiting momentum. End of story. Dolson didn’t “let”him sign an extension. That’s ridiculous.

The most likely scenario is Brad Stevens isn’t coming here, evidenced by Goodman’s tweet saying as much, and neither is Dusty May, evidenced by him signing an extension literally last week, but some are spinning those two events into evidence they’re coming to IU…

I hope Dolson doesn’t share their beliefs and is working on finding who actually might want to be our next coach. 

[Hoosierfan1901 7,057]

1 minute ago, Home Jersey said:

Cabin fever is boiling over in here today eh

Yup, I’m ready to get this hire out of the way now lol

[Kentuckysucks 3,269]

1 minute ago, Home Jersey said:

Cabin fever is boiling over in here today eh

No one really knows a damn thing.  The only real certainty is that we were never getting Stevens.  No one should be surprised with any other possibility.  Kind of fun actually.

[Demo 21,657]

6 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

WHY WON'T ANYONE DISCUSS LUKE MURRAY OR ALEX BARLOW?

I asked y'all to do that super nicely! 

 

:)

Alex Barlow is the lottery ticket hire for those who think Ben McCollum is too safe.

[MikeRoberts 7,615]

12 minutes ago, lillurk said:

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

Sam Story likes to come in with one liners and riddles and word salads. Yes he can be privy to things but the way he dishes his info is odd

he mistakenly responded to a comment with “Calhouns health is the word” that made no sense in the context of anything that was being discussed. I think he just made a mistake but it stuck 

[iu-dl 1,603]

5 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

First, as I have said many times I have not heard of any deal being in place. I'm leaning more that Brad won't be the coach most likely but still don't know.

Also want to state I like Sam a lot, he is a good dude and has always been super nice to me. 

But I know for sure we have been working on Brad, and communicating with him for a long time. Where it doesn't add up for me and all of this took place before the 14th. From my source's booster side of things, we offered him a contract, and he thought about it and countered it. With the counteroffer, Scott had to go back and ask certain people for more money. That all happened before or on the day of the 14th. Then the Goodman info comes out and things have been super quiet since. 

I find it very hard to believe that all of that info I have heard from many others on here is all bull and we only got a 5-minute Zoom call. 

But as I always say I've been wrong before

Agree with all of this. I also enjoy reading Sam's stuff, but he's right as much as he's wrong. I call BS. Not to say Stevens is "the one", but no way if Brad/Scott's relationship is as deep as most say this was a 5 minute formality Zoom call. It just doesn't add up.

[iubb 3,578]

3 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Cabin fever is boiling over in here today eh

 

[iubb 3,578]

1 minute ago, MikeRoberts said:

Sam Story likes to come in with one liners and riddles and word salads. Yes he can be privy to things but the way he dishes his info is odd

 he mistakenly responded to a comment with “Calhouns health is the word” that made no sense in the context of anything that was being discussed. I think he just made a mistake but it stuck 

So Sam Story is the Riddler?

[Chris007 53,849]

7 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

It was a reward for a nice season and Dusty was never going anywhere.  He doesn’t want a fishbowl job.  It’s better for all that he stays at UM.  Not a good fit here imo.

It could be but I don't agree with that from knowing some other things that happened last offseason. 

[iu eyedoc 3,195]

7 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

Didn’t say it did. It changes Dusty’s interest in IU. He didn’t need to sign an extension mid season, he chose to. If he was in bed with IU he wouldn’t have signed it

 

There are 4 possibilities

IU has their man

IU was never interested in Dusty

Dusty was never interested in IU

IU has shown interest but not absolutely and Dusty signed a non prohibitive extension for financial security.

But a meager pay bump and 1 more year did not does not" he’s signed a big extension and almost all but eliminated" make.

[iubb 3,578]

The coaching search in Video form:

just replace "are we there yet?"
WITH
"DO WE HAVE A COACH YET?"

[Chris007 53,849]

6 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

No one really knows a damn thing.  The only real certainty is that we were never getting Stevens.  No one should be surprised with any other possibility.  Kind of fun actually.

Don't forget to add we are never hiring Chris Beard. 

[Kentuckysucks 3,269]

Just now, iu eyedoc said:

 

There are 4 possibilities

IU has their man

IU was never interested in Dusty

Dusty was never interested in IU

IU has shown interest but not absolutely and Dusty signed a non prohibitive extension for financial security.

But a meager pay bump and 1 more year did not does not" he’s signed a big extension and almost all but eliminated" make.

Very possible that Dolson does have his guy and that Dusty was never the #2.  

[Kentuckysucks 3,269]

Just now, Chris007 said:

Don't forget to add we are never hiring Chris Beard. 

That’s likely correct unfortunately.

[Demo 21,657]

Dolson’s a smart guy and with basically a year to prep I find it impossible to believe that the plan is a guy who ain’t comin’, a guy who ain’t comin’ and a guy who probably ain’t comin’. Sure, take the big swings if you need to, but then get into your actual process and nail down your guy. And it’s gonna take a minute. The downside of Woody not making it to the end of the year is the giant information vacuum that we’re going to spend the next 6-8 weeks filling with our angst and insanity. But they’ll get a good dude. They will. Not concerned about the size of the name.