General Coach Candidate News

[IUBtown 194]

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 6 hours ago by IUBtown

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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. 

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

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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

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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?  

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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. 

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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…..

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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 

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

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Hey - we might have a chance with Stevens for all I know. But the most clearly obvious explanation for a trip to South Bend, 3:15 minutes from Bloomington, is that a parent was visiting his kid during the school year and got to hang out with one his absolute best friends Micah as a bonus.

I don't like this terrible explanation! It may be the case though

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9 minutes ago, HoosierSadaseci said:

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

That would be a double nutcracker.

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1 minute ago, normandale97 said:

Let's just say that it's not going to be Stevens, May, Drew, Beard, Pearl, Oats, etc. Take away those names, who do you all feel are the 5 most likely candidates outside of that list?

Mark Turgeon 

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8 minutes ago, IUBtown said:

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.  

How is that a reach lol?

 

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27 minutes 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?

The cracks are cracking but which cracks are the good cracks and who is just smoking crack?

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2 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

Let's just say that it's not going to be Stevens, May, Drew, Beard, Pearl, Oats, etc. Take away those names, who do you all feel are the 5 most likely candidates outside of that list?

Brownell or Mark Few

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9 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

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

No kidding.  Makes me warm to the idea of Chris Collins even.

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7 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

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

If not a Celtics plane and if not an IU affiliated plane, then not sure what that says. It probably says nothing. Maybe was just visiting his kid. 

The fact that he was decked out in ND gear tells me he most likely wasn't scouting the game, was there as just Dad. 

He could have been scouting elsewhere earlier in the week and then swung by to see his kid? Who knows? Could he a ton of different things (including an IU thing). 

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4 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

Let's just say that it's not going to be Stevens, May, Drew, Beard, Pearl, Oats, etc. Take away those names, who do you all feel are the 5 most likely candidates outside of that list?

Brownell

McCollum

Pitino Jr

Turgeon

Isiah Thomas 

Randy Wittman (my betting favorite)

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6 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

Let's just say that it's not going to be Stevens, May, Drew, Beard, Pearl, Oats, etc. Take away those names, who do you all feel are the 5 most likely candidates outside of that list?

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6 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

Let's just say that it's not going to be Stevens, May, Drew, Beard, Pearl, Oats, etc. Take away those names, who do you all feel are the 5 most likely candidates outside of that list?

Aka whose name do I need to tease to get you guys to believe me LOL DWS

McDermott , Cronin , Brownell (barf) Otz , Few 

in order of most realistic IMO