General Coach Candidate News

[iubb]

7 minutes ago, #1fanofafrin said:

Something between Soft Chatter and Serious Business

The Charmin bears will be our new coach?

[CSP]

Just now, str8baller said:

Ok. Steve Alford is in based on his New Mexico stint then.  
 

I think that is too wide a net to cast for the stat to be meaningful but one can use it however they like. 

I don't really see that it's that wide of a net, I'm just saying TJ O would be on the list. 

And Cronin wouldn't be, so that's a great thing! 

[Hollywood Mike Miranda]

3 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

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 

There's so many great posters on here, but I absolutely LOVE IT when USPS mic-drops someone like this with the coldest of cold hard facts, baby.

[JPCIVOP]

Another set of coaching candidates floated. Pertaining to this section, there is reference made to - hindsight being what it is - the time to hire Alford would have been in the aftermath of the Mike Davis situation. Would have given him a chance, and also averted the self-inflicted Sampson disaster.

[BradStevens]

35 minutes ago, IU Prof said:

My guess is that if you took a poll, less than 50 percent of people here actually think Brad will be the next coach. Probably we'll under 50 percent, in fact.

Brad is the most fun coach to discuss. But that doesn't mean a majority of the board actually thinks he'll be the guy. Even Chris has said (at times, at least) that if forced to guess he doesn't think it'll be Brad.

And here I thought we were all friends...

[MaynardaHoosier]

23 minutes ago, MrBBall said:

Sir, I appreciate the list. But….cmon

I looked at hires in the big ten over the last decade, paid attention to parameters like age, winning %, tournament success, conference titles, aked an AI software to list the coaches currently in college basketball who fit the trends, eliminated coaches who were not going to be hired by IU, and then made the list.  It isn't the group I would put up if I was just emotionally making a decision.  It could be extremely wrong.  However, there aren't a ton of people trying to put these together for discussion.

[Home Jersey]

Willard had SHU steady eddy and has shown a lot of growth at Maryland. Just imagine what a guy like him could do with IU’s resources. Used to be an assistant for Pitino at Louisville I believe… knows the area… Lol

[MaynardaHoosier]

17 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Why do people act this way?

This list has

1. One of the frontrunners for NCOY (May)

2. A guy whose had Iowa State a top 5 team in the country back to back years (Otzelberger)

3. A coach who has made the tournament 15/16 years and has a .700 winning % in a P5 conference (Cronin)

4. A longshot that has won multiple NCAAT (Donovan)

5. An experienced but average coach in Chris Holtmann 

If those are indeed the 5 candidates, Dolson will have done an excellent job. 

Who do you expect IU to hire lol?

The post would have been much better received if I had just put Brad Stevens 1 through 10.  Most people want a hotboard that fills their emotional needs.

Edited March 3, 2025 by MaynardaHoosier

[TheDMV]

3 hours ago, Ctf9 said:

Have those fans had any remorse or self reflection for running Turgeon out to get worse results from Willard? I’ve always wondered that. (Not equating this to IU—Woodson has to go, though I guess you could draw a parallel to Crean.)

Willard is clearly a good coach, having been the only guy who could make Hall relevant over the last couple of decades. And in 2 of his first 3 years at Maryland, he’s had top 25 teams in Pom. So I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s worse right now.
 

still, yeah, my view is Turgeon was run out way too quickly and he’s a much better coach than the casual fan realizes. It’s really not easy to go 7-8 seasons in a row without a single bad team. That takes coaching chops. Dolson seems to get that. 

Edited March 3, 2025 by TheDMV

[Chris007]

3 minutes ago, TheDMV said:

Willard is clearly a good coach, having been the only guy who could make Hall relevant over the last couple of decades. And in 2 of his first 3 years at Maryland, he’s had top 20 teams. So I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s worse right now.
 

still, yeah, my view is Turgeon was run out way too quickly and he’s a much better coach than the casual fan realizes. Dolson seems to get that. 

I think you're starting to convince me. I have one foot lifting up to get on the Mark Turgeon train. Can I sit up front and where the conductor's hat?

[HoosierSadaseci]

1 hour ago, dwtaylor1055 said:

so multiple people having the same opinion on say Stevens cannot be considered "we"?

We are Borg...

[JSHoosier]

5 minutes ago, TheDMV said:

Willard is clearly a good coach, having been the only guy who could make Hall relevant over the last couple of decades. And in 2 of his first 3 years at Maryland, he’s had top 25 teams in Pom. So I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s worse right now.
 

still, yeah, my view is Turgeon was run out way too quickly and he’s a much better coach than the casual fan realizes. It’s really not easy to go 7-8 seasons in a row without a single bad team. That takes coaching chops. Dolson seems to get that. 

Stop trying to make Turgeon happen, it's not going to happen.

[Ryno6284]

5 minutes ago, TheDMV said:

Willard is clearly a good coach, having been the only guy who could make Hall relevant over the last couple of decades. And in 2 of his first 3 years at Maryland, he’s had top 25 teams in Pom. So I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s worse right now.
 

still, yeah, my view is Turgeon was run out way too quickly and he’s a much better coach than the casual fan realizes. It’s really not easy to go 7-8 seasons in a row without a single bad team. That takes coaching chops. Dolson seems to get that. 

Your ANTics are really starting to wear thin! Lol 

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, TheDMV said:

Willard is clearly a good coach, having been the only guy who could make Hall relevant over the last couple of decades. And in 2 of his first 3 years at Maryland, he’s had top 25 teams in Pom. So I don’t think it’s fair to say he’s worse right now.
 

still, yeah, my view is Turgeon was run out way too quickly and he’s a much better coach than the casual fan realizes. It’s really not easy to go 7-8 seasons in a row without a single bad team. That takes coaching chops. Dolson seems to get that. 

Two of Turgeon's last four years were worse than Mike Woodson's worst year. 

So yeah - it's pretty difficult to go 7-8 seasons without a single bad team. Sadly, the Turg was not the guy who accomplished that task.

[CSP]

I can't actually believe there are STILL posts about Turgeon lol wtf

[JSHoosier]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

I think you're starting to convince me. I have one foot lifting up to get on the Mark Turgeon train. Can I sit up front and where the conductor's hat?

The thought of Mark Turgeon coaching IU....

[go iu bb]

29 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Larry Brown, duh

The other Larry: Larry Bird

[JSHoosier]

2 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

I can't actually believe there are STILL posts about Turgeon lol wtf

In a matter of hours we've gone from Brad Stevens to Brad Brownell and Mark Turgeon. We may not survive this search.

[CSP]

1 minute ago, JSHoosier said:

In a matter of hours we've gone from Brad Stevens to Brad Brownell and Mark Turgeon. We may not survive this search.

I want to slam my head with a toilet seat reading this troll yap about Turgeon every chance he gets. 

[68Hoosier]

6 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

The thought of Mark Turgeon coaching IU....

Now this is just nasty, LOL