General Coach Candidate News

[IU5355 226]

12 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Buddy of mine well-connected in Texas just called me to tell me he's hearing Joel Osteen is getting some consideration from Indiana. Could be nothing. Just thought I'd pass that along.

IU couldn't pay him enough. 

[lillurk 4,461]

6 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

I doubt it too but he’s a perfect fit other than that one thing.  If Beard was a choir boy I’d probably choose him over Brad if I was Dolson.

Do you really value the Knight connection or something? Even if he was a perfect choir boy he wouldn’t be in my top 5. Clearly a good coach, I have my opinion and I think it’s all moot since it won’t be him. But I don’t really get the obsession.

[realTomCrean 2,090]

Beard Twitter account following/followers interesting. He follows IU Soccer and is followed by Malik Reneau and Adam Howard 

[ceast11 128]

On 3/3/2025 at 3:23 PM, ceast11 said:

IU brass is coming around to the idea of Chris Beard in Bloomington. Lots of conversations by his agents behind the scenes this past weekend, trying to prove that he is a new man. Not a done deal, but it’s trending toward at least a possibility. 

Don’t shoot the messenger!

As I stated last night…

I see ‘Inside the Hall’ dropped this today as well. https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/03/04/indiana-basketball-coaching-search-profile-chris-beard/

 

 

[IUBtown 171]

17 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Buddy of mine well-connected in Texas just called me to tell me he's hearing Joel Osteen is getting some consideration from Indiana. Could be nothing. Just thought I'd pass that along.

Can't be him, he doesn't like taxable income.  

Edited 19 hours ago by IUBtown

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1 minute ago, ceast11 said:

As I stated last night…

I see ‘Inside the Hall’ dropped this today as well. https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/03/04/indiana-basketball-coaching-search-profile-chris-beard/

 

 

You may be right but I don’t think ITH doing a profile is what would indicate that - they’ve done one on everybody discussed on this board and will continue to put out profiles of coaches people are talking about broadly speaking 

[str8baller 6,536]

12 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

68 conference wins in a top 4 conference 3 sweet 16 with one of those being an elite 8 appearance with a 1 pt loss to go to the Final 4.  Down year still made the round of 32 and TBD on this year.   All that in a 5 year period. Yep sign me up all day everyday.   A coach that can produce that is a coach that can compete for a national title.   

 

10 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

More importantly, he's producing that at Creighton. Think what he could do at a program with the resources of Indiana.

I mean…he’s either producing in a big time conf. at a school with more home fans than IU or he’s at a small school who would be elevated by IUs resources. He can’t really be both. 
 

He’s sort of neither fish nor fowl in this one. I can see why opinions vary wildly. For all the “B level” candidates I think I like watching his teams about as well as any. 

[Chris007 55,812]

5 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

Beard Twitter account following/followers interesting. He follows IU Soccer and is followed by Malik Reneau and Adam Howard 

I think Malik was looking at the last season in the portal and probably again this season. Howard is looking for a job. Who knows why Yeagley is :-)

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,963]

Beard Twitter account following/followers interesting. He follows IU Soccer and is followed by Malik Reneau and Adam Howard 

Let’s rock and roll. Maybe this is why the Woody burners have tried to disparage him as much as humanly possible. Seems it’s worked though because BTBers generally won’t give him a chance.

I’m torn, because I would NEVER…. And I despise it. But I also don’t know the facts enough to be a real judge of character.


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[Chris007 55,812]

8 minutes ago, ceast11 said:

As I stated last night…

I see ‘Inside the Hall’ dropped this today as well. https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/03/04/indiana-basketball-coaching-search-profile-chris-beard/

 

 

I definitely think Scott has been around a lot of searches and has learned from some of them. He knows how to play the game.

[IUrocker 2,442]

I understand the hesitation with Beard because of his personal issues he may have outside of being a basketball coach. On the other side of all that, the thing that intrigues me about him being the coach compared to others on the list is that IU is clearly his destination dream job that he would crawl to get to. People who want a job that bad would do a heck of a job at making sure they’re a success. Like I said, i understand not wanting him and agree with those points, but there comes a time where why would you want to have to continue to beg and bribe a coach to want to come here when you could have a solid guy who dreams of having the job….are there better candidates? Absolutely…but I wouldn’t be upset if we ended up with Beard (even though I doubt it’d end up happening). 

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28 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Buddy of mine well-connected in Texas just called me to tell me he's hearing Joel Osteen is getting some consideration from Indiana. Could be nothing. Just thought I'd pass that along.

Did he give you tickets in a pew near Joel?

[rcbowla 7,649]

1 minute ago, IUrocker said:

I understand the hesitation with Beard because of his personal issues he may have outside of being a basketball coach. On the other side of all that, the thing that intrigues me about him being the coach compared to others on the list is that IU is clearly his destination dream job that he would crawl to get to. People who want a job that bad would do a heck of a job at making sure they’re a success. Like I said, i understand not wanting him and agree with those points, but there comes a time where why would you want to have to continue to beg and bribe a coach to want to come here when you could have a solid guy who dreams of having the job….are there better candidates? Absolutely…but I wouldn’t be upset if we ended up with Beard (even though I doubt it’d end up happening). 

I'm all for Beard getting the job but to be fair he had his dream job at Texas and screwed it up. IU may be dream job #2 though.

[lillurk 4,461]

2 minutes ago, IUrocker said:

I understand the hesitation with Beard because of his personal issues he may have outside of being a basketball coach. On the other side of all that, the thing that intrigues me about him being the coach compared to others on the list is that IU is clearly his destination dream job that he would crawl to get to. People who want a job that bad would do a heck of a job at making sure they’re a success. Like I said, i understand not wanting him and agree with those points, but there comes a time where why would you want to have to continue to beg and bribe a coach to want to come here when you could have a solid guy who dreams of having the job….are there better candidates? Absolutely…but I wouldn’t be upset if we ended up with Beard (even though I doubt it’d end up happening). 

Actually he was fired for cause from his dream job

[Class of '66 Old Fart 87,872]

29 minutes ago, 12345Brad said:

Let’s say for a minute it’s not Stevens and it’s not an active college coach 

It's so obvious people.  Our next head coach will be Armond Hill who is currently the most inactive coach around.

[TTT 1,154]

12 minutes ago, IUBtown said:

Can't be him, he doesn't like taxable income.  

It would be charitable work.

[AH1971 2,115]

2 hours ago, MikeRoberts said:

If you think Woodson isn’t connected to the players, coaches, BOT and Donors I don’t know what to tell you. 
where do you think some of the info that hits this board comes from?

Absolutely. 
 

Woodson is extremely close with both Ferguson and Cindy SS. 

[Uspshoosier 50,988]

8 minutes ago, str8baller said:

mean…he’s either producing in a big time conf. at a school with more home fans than IU or he’s at a small school who would be elevated by IUs resources. He can’t really be both. 
 

My opinion he is producing in a big time conference.   Conference realignment doesn’t make sense for most but they are the example of doing it right.   They had out grown the MVC as a basketball program. They made the move to the Big East and he has turned them into a national brand for the Big East.  School might be small but the basketball program is a legit.    when he does leave for whatever reason I expect it to be a job the will attract really good coaches 

[IUrocker 2,442]

1 minute ago, lillurk said:

Actually he was fired for cause from his dream job

Yeah true, I wasn’t thinking Texas as being Beards dream job. 

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1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

My opinion he is producing in a big time conference.   Conference realignment doesn’t make sense for most but they are the example of doing it right.   They had out grown the MVC as a basketball program. They made the move to the Big East and he has turned them into a national brand for the Big East.  School might be small but the basketball program is a legit.    when he does leave for whatever reason I expect it to be a job the will attract really good coaches 

You act like he coaches in a conference with the two time defending national champion.