General Coach Candidate News

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1 minute ago, tyappleg said:

So just to recap: we have heard this morning from people who claim to have some sort of inside information:

- It's Brad

- It's a small name coach who will be announced next week

- It's down to 6 people and Mark Turgeon is one of them

- It's going to be an African American candidate

 

Anything else I am missing?

It will be someone who has never been a head coach and 50% chance that it's one who had 96 pounds of MJ.

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Just now, Home Jersey said:

Some of you may call me a heretic but a small part of me almost wants the hire to be Huss just to watch the complete meltdown on this board. Stevens would be funny too for the same reason. For the record I think Huss could become a really good P5 coach someday... But I think the odds of either are quite low. Happy to be wrong if it’s Stevens. Still very interested and cautiously optimistic if it’s Huss. Just THRILLED it’s not Mike The Terrible. 

If Brad Stevens was actually hired... I don't even know what this board would do.

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Just now, IUBtown said:

So UCLA who missed on their top targets and reached for Cronin who took them to a final 4 and extended him are going to lower his buyout so they can do it all over again and get someone better?  To a west coast school going to the Midwest for away games in a ton that has been said to not give two ***** about college basketball?

UCLA might not have a choice in the matter. The stipulations in Cronin's contract ie UCLA jumping conferences was never in play when he signed his extension.

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1 minute ago, Home Jersey said:

Some of you may call me a heretic but a small part of me almost wants the hire to be Huss just to watch the complete meltdown on this board. Stevens would be funny too for the same reason. For the record I think Huss could become a really good P5 coach someday... But I think the odds of either are quite low. Happy to be wrong if it’s Stevens. Still very interested and cautiously optimistic if it’s Huss. Just THRILLED it’s not Mike The Terrible. 

We are pretty much guaranteed a meltdown if it’s anyone mid major lol. Although I would personally be pretty excited for McCollum. 

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Folks, 

Nothing will be announced or rumored until after the season concludes next Sunday or NCAA FIRST FOUR/FIRST ROUND. Our insiders have gone silently which is significant as they were told to silence up. Dolson has his guy, just be patient. 

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Just now, OKHOOSIER said:

We are pretty much guaranteed a meltdown if it’s anyone mid major lol. Although I would personally be pretty excited for McCollum. 

I personally think he would be a better fit for Virgina than IU 

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20 minutes ago, TheDMV said:

Down to 6 candidates. MT is one of them. 4 of the others are names I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread. 

Ohh Ant, just when I thought you were lost!

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So I’m not saying Brad Stevens couldn’t be the next coach at IU. I’m just simply stating that going to his son’s game, which every father would do, isn’t a very good indication of what’s going on. Now if Jerry, Chris, RtZ, and so on, say Brad had a sit down with Dolson somewhere, or even a zoom call.  I’m all in!

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2 minutes ago, JPCIVOP said:

If Brad Stevens was actually hired... I don't even know what this board would do.

Think of what it would look like if Brad is hired and 3 years later he has gone .500 in B10 and made NCAA once and tanked in the first round....LMAO....Suicide watch

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40 minutes ago, BGleas said:

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. 

How dare you go against this board's "insiders" intentionally or unintentionally.  You can't have a voice outside of their information.  If other people with information posts on here then it gets shot down and criticized.  Even if it is valid, well thought out, or detailed.  However, they can provide "info" such as "cracks are leaking...." and everyone loses their damn minds.    

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36 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

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

And why is it that none of these new sourced people were told to keep quiet? It’s rare that Jerry would go this long in this situation without speaking up. 

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37 minutes ago, BGleas said:

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. 

 

He would have used a Celtics plane to go scouting. 

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2 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Some of you may call me a heretic but a small part of me almost wants the hire to be Huss just to watch the complete meltdown on this board. Stevens would be funny too for the same reason. For the record I think Huss could become a really good P5 coach someday... But I think the odds of either are quite low. Happy to be wrong if it’s Stevens. Still very interested and cautiously optimistic if it’s Huss. Just THRILLED it’s not Mike The Terrible. 

Mid Major coaches (in todays college hoops environment where tur-around time is 1-2 seasons tops) are like betting red or black on the roulette table basically 50/50 (yes I know about green 0 or 00 has SCREWED ME MANY TIMES). IU already did that and lost to the house with Archie, I'm not against an Mid-Major guy and who knows you could very well find "THE" coach for the program in that route, but the pressure cooker that is IU baketball right after the last 8 years is TOO much for ANY mid-major guy right now. The one little bit of Info we have gotten straight from Dolson and the AD office since the start of this search makes it clear to me IDK who it will be but if it isn't Stevens (which again ill buy its not easily) it WILL be a sitting P4 HC. 

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1 minute ago, EasyEJay said:

Mid Major coaches (in todays college hoops environment where tur-around time is 1-2 seasons tops) are like betting red or black on the roulette table basically 50/50 (yes I know about green 0 or 00 has SCREWED ME MANY TIMES). IU already did that and lost to the house with Archie, I'm not against an Mid-Major guy and who knows you could very well find "THE" coach for the program in that route, but the pressure cooker that is IU baketball right after the last 8 years is TOO much for ANY mid-major guy right now. The one little bit of Info we have gotten straight from Dolson and the AD office since the start of this search makes it clear to me IDK who it will be but if it isn't Stevens (which again ill buy its not easily) it WILL be a sitting P4 HC. 

I don’t disagree about it being a risk to hire MM coaches. I do think if you find the right guy he could step into this situation and do what’s needed. When did we get straight from Dolson/the AD that it will be a sitting P5 coach? I’m skeptical about us being very successful in that tier of candidates, but would love to be wrong. 

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6 minutes ago, IUguy77 said:

He would have used a Celtics plane to go scouting. 

Absolutely! I would also assume if Brad occasionally wanted to fly out to ND and see a game, even if not directly for scouting purposes, that the team would cover that as well. 

So again, I have no idea if his attendance had anything to do with the IU job.

I just do know that him not being at a Celtics regular season game on a Wednesday in March by itself is nothing. 

The reason he wasn't there could be anything, including some IU connection. Who knows?

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1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

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.

So Stevens will be Notre Dame's coach...and IU gets Micah Shrewsbury...

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1 minute ago, BGleas said:

Absolutely! I would also assume if Brad occasionally wanted to fly out to ND and see a game, even if not directly for scouting purposes, that the team would cover that as well. 

So again, I have no idea if his attendance had anything to do with the IU job.

I just do know that him not being at a Celtics regular season game on a Wednesday in March by itself is nothing. 

The reason he wasn't there could be anything, including some IU connection. Who knows?

I think he just wanted to go see his kid

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2 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Mid Major coaches (in todays college hoops environment where tur-around time is 1-2 seasons tops) are like betting red or black on the roulette table basically 50/50 (yes I know about green 0 or 00 has SCREWED ME MANY TIMES). IU already did that and lost to the house with Archie, I'm not against an Mid-Major guy and who knows you could very well find "THE" coach for the program in that route, but the pressure cooker that is IU baketball right after the last 8 years is TOO much for ANY mid-major guy right now. The one little bit of Info we have gotten straight from Dolson and the AD office since the start of this search makes it clear to me IDK who it will be but if it isn't Stevens (which again ill buy its not easily) it WILL be a sitting P4 HC. 

about a month ago, I went through the Fire Tom Crean thread (sorry to bring up bad memories @realTomCrean) -- but one of the posts were about a certain mid major coach named Danny Hurley and I can't remember if the reaction was more of a "he's not ready for this stage" or "he won't amount to much" but the consensus was a big "no thanks"

i don't say that in favor of one candidate or another .... just that what you're saying is true, it's red or black, and UCONN hit it big a couple of years later 

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4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

I don’t disagree about it being a risk to hire MM coaches. I do think if you find the right guy he could step into this situation and do what’s needed. When did we get straight from Dolson/the AD that it will be a sitting P5 coach? I’m skeptical about us being very successful in that tier of candidates, but would love to be wrong. 

I think folks need to keep in mind every mid-major coach is not automatically an Archie.  Lots of schools have made great hires from the mid-majors.

Also, it appears Dolson is better at hiring coaches than Glass was.

So, yes there is a risk, but it's not the end of the world if we go that route.

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2 minutes ago, ib4iu said:

And why is it that none of these new sourced people were told to keep quiet? It’s rare that Jerry would go this long in this situation without speaking up. 

Either Jerry has news that he feels he can't share or he hasn't heard anything.  I doubt it is the second one is the case.

I just think it's funny that there seem to be a lot of people who have only posted in the past couple of weeks and pretty much just in this thread with their 'inside info' are accusing people who have been here for a long time of doing it for 'likes and cred'.  This isn't a popularity contest.  While we have people taking shots at Chris, the one thing I know is he will be back here even if it turns out his Intel is wrong.  The new insiders....probably not so much IF their infor was incorrect and were just here for the likes and cred.  We know DMV won't be.

There is a reason that Chris would be combative as people take shots at him.  People forgot anytime the info he has provided has been 100% accurate and just focus on when his information didn't match the final result -- not even that the Intel was bad, just that it didn't turn out the way we wanted.