General Coach Candidate News

[PartyintheVillas]

8 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Expected to Pursue LOL . Beard would pack his stuff and be in Bloomington in time for Senior Day if IU was interested in hiring him 

He would crawl through glass, the glass from the empty bottles probably, to get to Btown.

[IU5355]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Cracks are getting bigger. 

We are all on the edge of our seats. Literally. Lol

[P92]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Cracks are getting bigger. 

Do you think we already have the man, whoever it is, or that we’re still in pursuit of a target that hasn’t agreed yet?

[Motley's]

15 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

MANY (media, fans, posters)  thought Archie was a home run hire. At the time Archie, Holtmann and Mack were the three hottest young coaches in the country and IU nabbed Archie. 
There are many examples of mid-major coaches being successful at bigger programs but unfortunately there are many, many cases of them bombing. We all know which category describes Archie.

I remember an article at the time where a journalist had anonymously polled a list of coaches as to the best hire in the B1G in 2017. About two-thirds said Archie, about 20% said Holtmann and about 10% said Underwood. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

26 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

https://www.si.com/college/2017/03/25/indiana-archie-miller-hoosiers-dayton-hire

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2017/03/25/report-archie-miller-new-iu-coach/99618342/

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-archie-miller-era-begins-at-iu

https://www.thegazette.com/basketball/indiana-hires-daytons-archie-miller-as-mens-basketball-coach/

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-indiana-s-hiring-of-archie-miller

I remember one of the talking heads being interviewed right after the Archie hire.  Might have been DeCourcy, but I’m not sure now.  He was asked if Archie failed at IU, what would be the reason.  He was shocked at the question.  He said something to the effect of, “I never even thought of that.  I hadn’t considered it.  I just don’t see any way he will fail.”  I was never anywhere near that confident, lol.

[CSP]

7 minutes ago, DougJr74 said:

Nothing much being said so far today. Like watching paint dry.

 

I can't imagine coming to post this in a thread. 

[HoosierKix]

That @JerryYeagley23 bomb on Saturday after we blow the game is going to hit like crack!!!  

[OGIUAndy]

31 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

https://www.si.com/college/2017/03/25/indiana-archie-miller-hoosiers-dayton-hire

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2017/03/25/report-archie-miller-new-iu-coach/99618342/

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-archie-miller-era-begins-at-iu

https://www.thegazette.com/basketball/indiana-hires-daytons-archie-miller-as-mens-basketball-coach/

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-indiana-s-hiring-of-archie-miller

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/candid-coaches-which-power-conference-school-made-the-best-coaching-hire/

[JHoosier914]

6 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Cracks are getting bigger. 

When will these cracks reach us? haha

*non-serious question

[LamarCheeks]

25 minutes ago, Gameface01 said:

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/indiana-expected-pursue-former-big-12-and-national-coach-year-mike-woodson-replacement/739328b2bc52c704331686ee

Funny how the story says Chris Beard's name keeps popping up, but cites only Rick Pitino endorsing him and Rick Bozich speculating that he might be a candidate. 

From that, we go to "Indiana expected to pursue" Beard. 

Um, no. You cannot draw that conclusion from those two pieces of non-news. 

 

[the_jackal]

The committee has done/is doing quite a bit of background work on Beard. No idea where that ultimately goes. alan huss is an interesting name. i think he's a little further down the list of candidates today, but an interesting name. No coach has signed any agreements, no coach has been hired to this point. still work to be don but some really good options

- Jackal

[OKHOOSIER]

I’ll say this for Beard despite being in the no group for him, it would be nice if we hired someone who actually wanted the job. Feeling like we are begging people to come resurrect the program is tiring. 
 

That said, my guess is Beard is going to be willing to crawl to every big job that opens until someone gives him a chance to be in a fishbowl again. I don’t doubt he has some affinity for RMK and maybe that makes the job special to him, but I’d guess he would have walked to Lexington or Louisville as well given the chance. 

[AZ Hoosier]

8 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Cracks are getting bigger. 

[HoosierPapi4]

2 minutes ago, the_jackal said:

The committee has done/is doing quite a bit of background work on Beard. No idea where that ultimately goes. alan huss is an interesting name. i think he's a little further down the list of candidates today, but an interesting name. No coach has signed any agreements, no coach has been hired to this point. still work to be don but some really good options

- Jackal

Why do you always seem to pop in when the Brad talk starts heating up lol

[Pagoda]

5 minutes ago, the_jackal said:

The committee has done/is doing quite a bit of background work on Beard. No idea where that ultimately goes. alan huss is an interesting name. i think he's a little further down the list of candidates today, but an interesting name. No coach has signed any agreements, no coach has been hired to this point. still work to be don but some really good options

- Jackal

I do not like the word “committee.”  It triggers my IUBB coach search PTSD.

Everyone says this is Scott’s show this time around, how is there a committee?

[Chris007]

7 minutes ago, P92 said:

Do you think we already have the man, whoever it is, or that we’re still in pursuit of a target that hasn’t agreed yet?

I think we are in a very good position. Hoping to hear more :-)

[Tasmanian Devil]

Just now, HoosierPapi4 said:

Why do you always seem to pop in when the Brad talk starts heating up lol

Smokescreen 

[iu eyedoc]

11 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Cracks are getting bigger. 

I thought Rick Majerus passed away?

[AZ Hoosier]

7 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

I can't imagine coming to post this in a thread. 

spoiler alert ... you did.

[HoosierPapi4]

4 minutes ago, the_jackal said:

The committee has done/is doing quite a bit of background work on Beard. No idea where that ultimately goes. alan huss is an interesting name. i think he's a little further down the list of candidates today, but an interesting name. No coach has signed any agreements, no coach has been hired to this point. still work to be don but some really good options

- Jackal

I would hope that Alan Huss is not on the list or the list after or even mentioned on the list after the list. Thats worse than Mark Turgeon by a mile.