General Coach Candidate News

[IUGRAD06]

4 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Or....and hear me out

Running off a coach, and alum at that, who has taken his team to the tournament 3 times in 4 seasons relegates the candidate list to "mediocre P5 coaches" and hungry up and comers. 

Dude squeeking into a play in game two out of four years and missing one year is not going to cut it at a lot of top 20 jobs.  Can we stop with nonsense like this?  He barely won and had the easiest OOC schedule than any coach since Knight was fired.  He has the most blow out loses.  Just stop.  Coaches in state think our staff sucks.  

[str8baller]

31 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

If jobs at UNC, Kansas, UConn, UCLA, Syracuse, Louisville, Arizona,  or maybe Illinois, etc. -- schools that are generally considered better at basketball than football -- opened, would Brad Brownell be considered a candidate? Highly doubtful -- or if so, only because of recency bias (Clemson did make the Elite Eight last year and is having a great season this year).

But in 14 seasons at Clemson, Brownell had made four NCAA tourneys. 

If he weren't from Indiana, his name would never be mentioned in connection with IU. 

 

He’s not a good candidate but…

Steve Lavin, Steve Alford, Kenny Payne, Kevin Ollie, Matt Doherty, and a couple others have been hired by those schools. 
 

So …yea, Brownell isn’t exactly out of the realm of possibilities. 

[Hornsby]

Good morning BTB, March 2nd came and went with no Fox Sports announcement. I move to officially ban [mention=9269]IsaacTor[/mention]. 
I’m only half joking.

Isaac is terrific. A top insider

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[Pagoda]

7 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Or....and hear me out

Running off a coach, and alum at that, who has taken his team to the tournament 3 times in 4 seasons relegates the candidate list to "mediocre P5 coaches" and hungry up and comers. 

Doubtful.  CBB coaches all recognize Mike was given significant resources and he did a bad job and he deserved to be fired.

That said, getting CBB coaches to move jobs is tough.  IUBB offers significant resources and a big payday... but I'm not sure who will bite on that.

[Shooter]

Just now, IUGRAD06 said:

Dude squeeking into a play in game two out of four years and missing one year is not going to cut it at a lot of top 20 jobs.  Can we stop with nonsense like this?  He barely won and had the easiest OOC schedule than any coach since Knight was fired.  He has the most blow out loses.  Just stop.  Coaches in state think our staff sucks.  

Wasting your time with that poster I think. Reality is Woodson came in talking about Big Ten and National championships, and now his camp wants to pretend that bubble teams are good enough

[OliviaPope40]

5 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

The Fellas' Lounge

Thought it was Upstairs. 

[hoosiersoxfan]

1 minute ago, IUGRAD06 said:

Dude squeeking into a play in game two out of four years and missing one year is not going to cut it at a lot of top 20 jobs.  Can we stop with nonsense like this?  He barely won and had the easiest OOC schedule than any coach since Knight was fired.  He has the most blow out loses.  Just stop.  Coaches in state think our staff sucks.  

And the one year he had an all-time great Hoosier and a first round pick at point guard, he couldn't get out of the first weekend of the tournament.

[AH1971]

1 minute ago, IUGRAD06 said:

Dude squeeking into a play in game two out of four years and missing one year is not going to cut it at a lot of top 20 jobs.  Can we stop with nonsense like this?  He barely won and had the easiest OOC schedule than any coach since Knight was fired.  He has the most blow out loses.  Just stop.  Coaches in state think our staff sucks.  

We can discuss further once a coach has been named. 

[EasyEJay]

9 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

If Dolson’s “criteria” is mediocre P5 coach then he could make that argument. But there isn’t an IU fan out there who will buy that Brownell fits any criteria other than “IU isn’t a serious basketball school and can’t get a legitimate coach.” The Woodson hire was strong evidence and that would just confirm it. 4 tournaments in 14 years. 0 conference championships or even 2nd place finishes. He’s the hire you make when you give up. 

100 percent agreement with you. Which makes the other 3 guys being brought up laughable especially Groce . but alas this is what you get when you’re going on week 4 of a coaching search with arguably 2-3 weeks to go . 

[IsaacTor]

Brad has signed. Will hear about this publicly before noon today. If not then disregard me forever. I TOLD you all to be patient and didn't listen but I'm in too good of a mood now

[Hornsby]

Brad has signed. Will hear about this publicly before noon today. If not then disregard me forever. I TOLD you all to be patient and didn't listen but I'm in too good of a mood now

And here he is. Our top insider

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[str8baller]

11 minutes ago, Jam said:

I think Woody coming off a deep NCAA run might be preferable

No thanks! 

[Pagoda]

6 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad has signed. Will hear about this publicly before noon today. If not then disregard me forever. I TOLD you all to be patient and didn't listen but I'm in too good of a mood now

lol 

[Uspshoosier]

1 hour ago, AH1971 said:

Running off a coach, and alum at that, who has taken his team to the tournament 3 times in 4 seasons

1.  2nd to last team in the field and earned an 11 seed   (boat raced by a WCC in round of 64 

2.  Projected to win the league finished 3 games back of Purdue (tied for second with Northwestern however lost tiebreaker with them and was 3rd in B1G tourney) did earn a 4 seed but got boat raced in round of 32 by lower seed 

3.     Only beat 2 tourney quality teams all year and those were at home    One was a bubble team Sparty and the  other was Wisky team that got beat by a 12 seed in the tourney   Wasn’t near being a tourney team 

 

  4.  Projected 10 seed or lower and fighting to get off the bubble.  Either going to finish .500 or 2 games over .500 in conference.  
 

said the goal was to compete for B1G titles and national titles.   I’m not seeing either in the 4 years.   I would argue his results relative to what he promised ran him out 

[GP711]

1 minute ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad has signed. Will hear about this publicly before noon today. If not then disregard me forever. I TOLD you all to be patient and didn't listen but I'm in too good of a mood now

uhhhhhhh

[TheDMV]

On 2/27/2025 at 11:06 AM, TheDMV said:

I’ve been pretty clear about that. Random personal connection to someone close to Mark (I live in DMV area), and Mark has talked to IU about the HC job on more than one occasion. Where’s he at on the list, don’t know. Mark doesn’t even know. But there’s some level of interest.
 

Keep an open mind. It’s hard to get people to leave good jobs. 

At least three discussions relating to the job now, most recently with the search firm, not IU directly. 

[Chris007]

2 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad has signed. Will hear about this publicly before noon today. If not then disregard me forever. I TOLD you all to be patient and didn't listen but I'm in too good of a mood now

Issac it's not going to break that fast. There are a lot of leaks but slow down. We have a couple more weeks

[Hoosierfan1901]

2 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Brad has signed. Will hear about this publicly before noon today. If not then disregard me forever. I TOLD you all to be patient and didn't listen but I'm in too good of a mood now

I got my tinfoil hat on Isaac, thanks for the banger

[Hornsby]

Wasting your time with that poster I think. Reality is Woodson came in talking about Big Ten and National championships, and now his camp wants to pretend that bubble teams are good enough

Guys on some other sites are talking like he is going to make a deep tourney run because he took down powerhouses Washington and Penn State. They said the same thing late last year and then he got blown out by Nebraska.

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[MrBBall]

Just now, Chris007 said:

Issac it's not going to break that fast. There are a lot of leaks but slow down. We have a couple more weeks

Hence he’s done. Doesn’t want to post this stuff anymore. I get it. Tough