General Coach Candidate News

[RaceToTheTop 28,410]

21 minutes ago, Trish said:

After talking to someone in the know, it appears TJ Otzelberger has his eyes on staying in Ames. 

That is going to make for one long commute to Bloomington.

[Hardwood83 4,834]

1 hour ago, ib4iu said:

I don’t know why people are scared to hire re-treads or P5 coaches that maybe didn’t have as much success the first time. Is it my first choice? No. But if we miss on Stevens, Otz, May, and Drew then I’d take a look at someone like a Collins or Pitino. 
 

Barnes is having way more success at UT than he ever did at Texas or Clemson. McDermott did not do well his first P5 gig. Otz while not P5 the mountain west is arguably better some years and he did not do well. 
 

I’m sure there are others that fit into this category. 

I understand not all success is a straight up path. Also, recognize that, Collins for instance, could do better at IU than NW with better resources. Having said that, why reward mediocrity? I believe the goal is for IU to hire the best option available, not merely someone that "isn't a complete train-wreck "or even "has some potential." Identify the best option and pursue. Repeat until you have a coach. Of course there will be trade-offs and sacrifices, there are no perfect options.  

If the best coach IU can get it Richard Pitino, Jr? Well, I guess that mean Purdue is right, IU sucks and we get what we deserve. 

[Shoes_N_Shorts 137]

43 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

To me, McCollum is maybe the most intriguing ‘what if’ candidate. Seems like the upside is astronomical, just no idea what his floor looks like being in charge of a D1 behemoth of a program. I’ve watched some Drake since Woody got canned and the deliberate offense isn’t nearly as mind numbing as I thought it would be just looking on paper. Ultimately I’d be pretty surprised if Dolson risked it on a guy with exactly zero Q1 experience but who knows. 

Agreed- it's really not . The pace (# of possessions) is slow, but the offense is very efficient. 

[iu eyedoc 3,230]

19 minutes ago, Trish said:

After talking to someone in the know, it appears TJ Otzelberger has his eyes on staying in Ames. 

Clearly,dodged a bullet. Imagine the crap show when his psychosis full manifested

[Hoosier DaDa 3,489]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

You will miss out on some fascinating Mark Turgeon info. 

Can you please direct me to the pages that cover the Turgeon info?  I'm sure it's riveting. LOL 

[Tasmanian Devil 1,812]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I'm good anytime after 2:30-3 range

Got a 1 pm appointment with the bank (close on lake property tomorrow) and a 3:05 pm meeting; after that, it’s party time!!

[Rico 3,408]

3 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Clearly,dodged a bullet. Imagine the crap show when his psychosis full manifested

[Stuhoo 85,464]

8 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

@Stuhoo was the conductor of the Shrewsberry train until this season. I think he's hopped off.

That's because Micah derailed that mofo.

[Hardwood83 4,834]

1 minute ago, Tasmanian Devil said:

Got a 1 pm appointment with the bank (close on lake property tomorrow) and a 3:05 pm meeting; after that, it’s party time!!

So what I heard was our "new coach celebration is at the Taz lake house." Sweet! 

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,734]

Chris started off the day in a great mood let’s keep it that way haha

[AH1971 2,054]

21 hours ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

He's 20-11 in the NCAAT..... honestly, we deserve basketball purgatory for dismissing him, which you aren't necessarily, but.... idk. This is wild to me. 

Trying to respect everyone else's opinion, but.... holy smokes guys.  

Pretty wild that you're so dismissive of Cronin but consider Drew a home run. Yes Drew has a national title, and yes that inflates his overall NCAAT record, but Scott Drew is the king of first weekend exits. Honestly one of the biggest knocks on him, that and his teams generally don't play defense (which lead to early exits) and he's barely over .500 in the B12.

I say that and I like Scott Drew a lot. But Scott Drew and Mick Cronin are very similar coaches in my opinion and you're completely dismissive of one and falling over for the other.

[Tasmanian Devil 1,812]

1 minute ago, Hardwood83 said:

So what I heard was our "new coach celebration is at the Taz lake house." Sweet! 

C’mon on down!

Haven’t had a keg in years, but we can break one out!

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Edited 8 hours ago by #1fanofafrin

[IU Prof 1,509]

1 hour ago, iu2win said:

Hypothetical: a contract was signed and the new coach contacts his friend (Goodman) to ask a favor.  Send out a vague message that I am not a candidate for the IU coaching position.  Scott and I have agreed to give you the heads up hours before making any official announcement.  You can say I was not a candidate because I had already accepted the position and we needed to keep a low profile to allow Woodson to bow out gracefully.

I hope so, but I'm not sure this is consistent with how Goodman has been talking about the job the past couple weeks. I don't thinking he'd be pushing a guy like TJ Otzelberger if he knew Brad was already in the bag.

I also think the tweet would likely have been worded differently in that case, without the not a candidate bit.

Doesn't mean it's not Brad, just that I'm not convinced Goodman is in on the ruse.

[HinnyHoosier 5,733]

1 hour ago, Goober said:

Why did Woodson say he did his job?

Delusion.

[Hoosierfan1901 7,118]

4 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Chris started off the day in a great mood let’s keep it that way haha

Isaac will one up him soon, well, if he ever shows up

[Goober 25]

4 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Delusion.

I just remember 4 years ago I didn’t think we could do worse. We did!

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 10,085]

11 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Pretty wild that you're so dismissive of Cronin but consider Drew a home run. Yes Drew has a national title, and yes that inflates his overall NCAAT record, but Scott Drew is the king of first weekend exits. Honestly one of the biggest knocks on him, that and his teams generally don't play defense (which lead to early exits) and he's barely over .500 in the B12.

I say that and I like Scott Drew a lot. But Scott Drew and Mick Cronin are very similar coaches in my opinion and you're completely dismissive of one and falling over for the other.

It's not wild at all. I watch their teams play, I watch them coach.... You're comparing Baylor to Cinci/UCLA lol 

They aren't similar at all. 

HE'S COACHING AT UCLA..... Good grief. 20-11 at BAYLOR vs 15-14 at UCLA and Cinci. You're hard to take seriously. 

[IU Prof 1,509]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

He truly feels like he did

I hope Dolson's level of surety is more accurate than Woody's, then...

[AH1971 2,054]

1 minute ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

It's not wild at all. I watch their teams play, I watch them coach.... You're comparing Baylor to Cinci/UCLA lol 

They aren't similar at all. 

HE'S COACHING AT UCLA..... Good grief. 

So style of play trumps results lol?

Ok.