General Coach Candidate News

[Tony! Toni! Toné!]

[Pagoda]

6 minutes ago, Tony! Toni! Toné! said:

 

Scott Dolson is Jimmy Chitwood.  He’s gonna make this shot.

[Artie86]

1 minute ago, Tony! Toni! Toné! said:

 

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...very clever! lol!!!!

Hmmmmmm, what's next? lol ;)

[IUguy77]

3 minutes ago, MrBBall said:

That owner is not a full fledged IU athletics supporter. Probably music since they own a music company. I think that plane is much ado about nothing. 

He’s also part owner of the Indy 11. So I’d say there’s a chance he has some athletic interests. 

[Stuhoo]

4 minutes ago, IUguy77 said:

It was said that the plane was owned by Chuck Surack. I’m assuming that info was correct. 

Chuck Surack is a major supporter of the Jacobs School. Not sure he is a major athletic department booster. He also owns an aviation company, so putting someone on a private plane is not a major thing for him to do.

Surack is also a Northern Indiana native and a major booster of Notre Dame.

[Ryno6284]

@normandale97  
 

sorry to hear of your passing last week! We have an entire thread devoted to your passing. Maybe you should change your handle to include ghost? We could use a few more ghosts around here!

[ronzo4IU]

10 minutes ago, Hoosier Guy said:

I think this could be a big factor.  He finished the job in the NBA and won an NBA Finals championship.  Maybe he wants to finish the job in NCAA and win an NCAA national championship.

I don’t know how many coaches if any have ever done that.. probably none.

[Motley's]

Two names getting serious consideration are Dennis Gates and Anthony Grant. The major donors are acutely aware that there are only two African American coaches in the 18 team B1G. They don’t like that Woodson is being forced out and Ben Johnson may be out at MN. They don’t want the B1G to be all white coaches. Think the optics are terrible. They’d like to have Shaka in the mix, but don’t think he’ll leave Marquette. They’d love Tommy Amaker, but his record in recent seasons is a tough sell. Don’t count out Shrews either. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

8 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Well he only bothered watching him one time in the previous 30 games and that was in Boston.

I did see some reports that he tried buying season tickets but got outvoted 3 to 1. 

[OKHOOSIER]

15 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Sure! I don’t disagree one bit. Still for all the flight tracking that goes on in this thread, we see hes back in Indiana. Anything with IU is probably more likely being discussed elsewhere. Not sure how much time Brad spent in Indiana. But nice he’s choosing to spend time in his home state, even if only for the obvious reason.

If his kid actually played or even dressed or ND was actually good I’d put zero weight on it. The president of the Boston Celtics watching two shitty college basketball teams on a random Wednesday is not nothing. His kid isn’t even listed in the box score. Brad also knows any appearance in the state is going to raise eyebrows no matter what the reason. Also as far as I can tell he’s not visited SB once all season. Pretty odd timing if you ask me. 

[HinnyHoosier]

6 minutes ago, Motley's said:

Two names getting serious consideration are Dennis Gates and Anthony Grant. The major donors are acutely aware that there are only two African American coaches in the 18 team B1G. They don’t like that Woodson is being forced out and Ben Johnson may be out at MN. They don’t want the B1G to be all white coaches. Think the optics are terrible. They’d like to have Shaka in the mix, but don’t think he’ll leave Marquette. They’d love Tommy Amaker, but his record in recent seasons is a tough sell. Don’t count out Shrews either. 

Fudge that noise. That's how we hired African American (except not) Kelvin Sampson.

This is troll music.

[MrBBall]

3 minutes ago, Motley's said:

Two names getting serious consideration are Dennis Gates and Anthony Grant. The major donors are acutely aware that there are only two African American coaches in the 18 team B1G. They don’t like that Woodson is being forced out and Ben Johnson may be out at MN. They don’t want the B1G to be all white coaches. Think the optics are terrible. They’d like to have Shaka in the mix, but don’t think he’ll leave Marquette. They’d love Tommy Amaker, but his record in recent seasons is a tough sell. Don’t count out Shrews either. 

Wut….

[Chris007]

2 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I did see some reports that he tried buying season tickets but got outvoted 3 to 1. 

That's why you don't have two kids. 

[lillurk]

The actual rumor about Anthony Grant is that he might retire after the year lol

[Motley's]

2 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Fudge that noise. That's how we hired African American Kelvin Sampson.

This is troll music.

Sampson is Native American and one helluva coach

[Hoosierfan2017]

2 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

If his kid actually played or even dressed or ND was actually good I’d put zero weight on it. The president of the Boston Celtics watching two shitty college basketball teams on a random Wednesday is not nothing. His kid isn’t even listed in the box score. Brad also knows any appearance in the state is going to raise eyebrows no matter what the reason. Also as far as I can tell he’s not visited SB once all season. Pretty odd timing if you ask me. 

“Sorry son, I’d love to come visit you at college, but it’d raise eyebrows for a job 3+ hours away, so I gotta stay away.” 

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

Here's the deal everyone, as I've mentioned before, until the national media leaks it we just aren't going to know. Obviously communication is has been taking place between IU and the finalists. When I say that I wouldn't expect a big name, I'm thinking of people like Stevens, May, Pearl, Beard, Drew, Otz, Oats...and coaches like that whose names have been thrown around for month. Will the general public know something next week? I can't answer that. Will IU know who the coach is going to be at the end of the week? I think that is the hope. It's a weird time in college basketball. You have a limited time with the transfer portal open and it's open while the NCAA Tournament is going on. I don't think it's realistic to have a coach announced after the tourney and be able to put together a staff and a roster. I would assume 99% of our roster at least tests out the portal so will the new coach have to attempt to work 2 jobs at once like college football coaches do sometimes? Again, I have no idea. The actual people involved in this aren't going to share names of who we are potentially negotiating with and give this info out. So, the only thing I can say is that it sounds like we are getting closer. As far as names of who we are down to...again...I don't know. My own speculation says that Ben McCollum is definitely one of the candidates. Sorry, nobody is going to be able to come here and tell you for sure who the coach is going to be. Someone has been feeding some of the members on here Brad Stevens info for years that is bad info. If he ends up being the coach out of nowhere, I will gladly come back here and eat crow. Gladly. 

this isn't convincing lol 

[HinnyHoosier]

1 minute ago, Motley's said:

Sampson is Native American and one helluva coach

See my edit. It was sarcasm because they thought he was African American at the time. I'm aware he's native American. And he is certainly in the 'helluva' tier. Indiana, particularly Scott Dolson, is not going to make an idiotic decision to hire someone or not hire someone because their skin provides nice shiny optics. That absolutely will not be the rationale.

 

[Mopladysman]

8 minutes ago, Motley's said:

Two names getting serious consideration are Dennis Gates and Anthony Grant. The major donors are acutely aware that there are only two African American coaches in the 18 team B1G. They don’t like that Woodson is being forced out and Ben Johnson may be out at MN. They don’t want the B1G to be all white coaches. Think the optics are terrible. They’d like to have Shaka in the mix, but don’t think he’ll leave Marquette. They’d love Tommy Amaker, but his record in recent seasons is a tough sell. Don’t count out Shrews either. 

Talk about unserious. 

[Stuhoo]

8 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

Here's the deal everyone, as I've mentioned before, until the national media leaks it we just aren't going to know. Obviously communication is has been taking place between IU and the finalists. When I say that I wouldn't expect a big name, I'm thinking of people like Stevens, May, Pearl, Beard, Drew, Otz, Oats...and coaches like that whose names have been thrown around for month. Will the general public know something next week? I can't answer that. Will IU know who the coach is going to be at the end of the week? I think that is the hope. It's a weird time in college basketball. You have a limited time with the transfer portal open and it's open while the NCAA Tournament is going on. I don't think it's realistic to have a coach announced after the tourney and be able to put together a staff and a roster. I would assume 99% of our roster at least tests out the portal so will the new coach have to attempt to work 2 jobs at once like college football coaches do sometimes? Again, I have no idea. The actual people involved in this aren't going to share names of who we are potentially negotiating with and give this info out. So, the only thing I can say is that it sounds like we are getting closer. As far as names of who we are down to...again...I don't know. My own speculation says that Ben McCollum is definitely one of the candidates. Sorry, nobody is going to be able to come here and tell you for sure who the coach is going to be. Someone has been feeding some of the members on here Brad Stevens info for years that is bad info. If he ends up being the coach out of nowhere, I will gladly come back here and eat crow. Gladly. 

That's a great post; it reeks of reality!

Very much appreciated!!