General Coach Candidate News

[4iufourever]

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.    

[ib4iu]

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. 

[IUguy77]

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. 

[EasyEJay]

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. 

[Home Jersey]

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. 

[BGleas]

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?

[HoosierSadaseci]

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...

[hoosiersoxfan]

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

[Mr. Hoosier Pride]

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 

[Pagoda]

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.

[RaceToTheTop]

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.

 

[IUBtown]

14 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

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.

That's as big of a reach as Cody Zeller becoming a gm or assistant coach because he's been tweeting more about IU and went to a game.  

Edited March 6, 2025 by IUBtown

[OKHOOSIER]

5 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. 

The really interesting thing to me is we haven’t had an actual college basketball coach in the full NIL and transfer portal era. We’ve had… Woody. We have abandoned high school recruiting. I’ll be excited for anyone we hire to be honest, because we will be getting a college basketball coach to drive the Ferrari that is our program (money wise),and it will be exciting to see how an actual college basketball coach does here. 

[RaceToTheTop]

Rick Pitino Jr not sounding as bad as some of the suggestions I've seen.  Ugh.

[Mr. Hoosier Pride]

Just now, RaceToTheTop said:

Rick Pitino Jr not sounding as bad as some of the suggestions I've seen.  Ugh.

Jr vs. Turgeon .... Jr gets my vote 10/10 times

[8bucks]

5 minutes 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?

If he were not on a Celtic plane or one owned by someone affiliated with IU that would be a little telling yeah?  

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, Pagoda said:

I think folks need to remember 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.

I love the idea of stealing a proven coach from a big program but that’s not very common. Most of the time you have to find your own guy and take the chance on him. Archie was a miss… I’m not convinced at all McCollum / Huss / McMillan, etc. all have the same issue. Oats wasn’t OATS when he was at Buffalo. He grew into being that guy at Bama. If you’re good at hiring, to your point about Scott, that may be the ideal scenario. I’m just looking forward to the official announcement coming out. Down to weeks, not months. What a soul sucking year it has been for IUBB. Thank goodness for football season. 

[Alford Bailey]

37 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

It’s your tone.  Anytime someone even mentions Brad you act like someone is trying to have an affair with your wife.  Stop being so defensive.

And no, I don’t think we’re getting Brad either but there are many reasons he would be interested and our timing has never been better.

You would be less disappointed if you listened to BGleas on this…..

[EasyEJay]

7 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. 

Thought I remember reading something to that effect on On3 or Field of 68 article don't remember the exact wording seemed me it was something about consistently getting to the NCAA tournament  and success within the tournament 

[Hoosierfanyuh]

Just gotta keep waiting, a lot of restless people in here, understandably so