General Coach Candidate News

[EasyEJay]

21 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. 

comparing the NCAA tourney to coaches leaving a FB program before a nothing burger of a bowl game is wild bro. A coach leaving before coaching his team in the NCAA tourney would be more like a Football coach leaving before his team plays in the first round of the college football playoffs. No coach in there right mind will leave before exiting the NCAA Tourney don't care what the portal dates are . Plus NCAA tourney runs equate to potentially massive pay raises 

So you think the coach is announced before the NCAA tourney (as you said yesterday) and that would mean IU would NOT be hiring a coach that coaching in the NCAA tourney and also is NOT what most would consider a big name ................. if that's the case than Dolson might as well light a match in the middle of SSAH and poor a gallon of gas on top of it LOL 

[BGleas]

Not supporting anything or shooting anything down, just saying it's completely normal for an NBA Pres of Bbal ops, GM, etc., to not be at one of his teams games. 

Of course they attend a lot, but certainly not all especially during the college bball season. 

So while you can infer signs from some things, Stevens not being at the Celtics game last night isn't really one of them on its own. 

[AH1971]

27 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

“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.” 

"That I've already turned down twice, but you know, there's 3-4 guys on this forum called BTown Banners that are hearing I'm accepting the job...at least you can come play for me next year"

[Chris007]

1 minute ago, BGleas said:

Not supporting anything or shooting anything down, just saying it's completely normal for an NBA Pres of Bbal ops, GM, etc., to not be at one of his teams games. 

Of course they attend a lot, but certainly not all especially during the college bball season. 

So while you can infer signs from some things, Stevens not being at the Celtics game last night isn't really one of them in its own. 

Like clockwork

[Hoosierfan2017]

33 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. 

Not the place to discuss, and this is probably a troll post, but I could absolutely see the IU donors having this mentality. Wouldn’t be the first time. 

[Hoosier DaDa]

33 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. 

Not to be political but this sounds like a DEI stuff.

[HinnyHoosier]

Just now, AH1971 said:

"That I've already turned down twice, but you know, there's 3-4 guys on this forum called BTown Banners that are hearing I'm accepting the job...at least you can come play for me next year"

Damn it guys, you woke it up.

[OKHOOSIER]

27 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

“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.” 

Didn’t think I needed an asterisk saying I don’t think it actually has anything to do with the IU head coaching position but is fun to speculate so*
 

*I don’t think Brad Stevens visiting his kid actually has anything to do with our job, but it’s fun to speculate when there is zero other news of note. 

[BGleas]

Just now, Chris007 said:

Like clockwork

Um, ok. I posted non-Stevens stuff the last few days as well. 

Just trying to provide value where I can, and this is one area where I can. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

2 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Not supporting anything or shooting anything down, just saying it's completely normal for an NBA Pres of Bbal ops, GM, etc., to not be at one of his teams games. 

Of course they attend a lot, but certainly not all especially during the college bball season. 

So while you can infer signs from some things, Stevens not being at the Celtics game last night isn't really one of them on its own. 

But when you combine this with Cody Zeller’s wife being on tour on the west coast at the same time IU is playing out there, it’s pretty compelling evidence.. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

4 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Not supporting anything or shooting anything down, just saying it's completely normal for an NBA Pres of Bbal ops, GM, etc., to not be at one of his teams games. 

Of course they attend a lot, but certainly not all especially during the college bball season. 

So while you can infer signs from some things, Stevens not being at the Celtics game last night isn't really one of them on its own. 

Just out of curiosity, how is it “on its own” when you’ve been here to refute probably 25 different things?

[Chris007]

1 minute ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Just out of curiosity, how is it “on its own” when you’ve been here to refute probably 25 different things?

Compared to how many times he said that might be true

[Hoosierfan1901]

This will be a long day on this thread hahaha

[12345Brad]

21 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

If you think about it, the only way it makes sense for it to be this quiet is that there is a handshake deal with someone  who is a current college head coach, and it’ll get fully worked out when his team is done.  
 

If you’re casting a wide net and talking to lots of candidates, there’s gonna be some leaks here and there. If you’ve come to an agreement with anyone involved in the NBA, there’s zero reason for it to be so quiet (you obviously can’t wait for their season to be over, and Woodson and everyone already knows he’s out. So what would be the hold up? Nothing.)
 

Logically, all that makes sense is that we have mostly a handshake deal with a current  college head coach and will finalize/announce when his team is done.

So who is it? Well, the bigger the name, the more likely there’d be a leak. There’s been nothing. So my guess is it’s a candidate like McCollum or Byington or Devries. 

Or it could be this quiet because it’s not currently a college coach and they are just waiting until the season is over to announce??

[CSP]

6 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Like clockwork

what's this mean? 

[AH1971]

Just now, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

what's this mean? 

Chris doesn't like being undermined because it hurts not only his feelings, but his ego.

[BGleas]

2 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Just out of curiosity, how is it “on its own” when you’ve been here to refute probably 25 different things?

I'm saying in a vacuum, and NBA GM not being at a his teams regular season home game is fairly normal. They certainly attend very often, but it's also regular for them to not be at a home game due being on the road scouting, etc. 

 

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Just out of curiosity, how is it “on its own” when you’ve been here to refute probably 25 different things?

He never said it was on its own. He said if that's the only piece of evidence we're looking at. 

[Chris007]

1 minute ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

what's this mean? 

 Anytime someone mentions anything positive about Stevens multiple people show up to discount it but that never happens with any other candidate. 

[CSP]

1 minute ago, AH1971 said:

Chris doesn't like being undermined because it hurts not only his feelings, but his ego.

I didn't ask you.