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16 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

https://x.com/Bball_War3/status/1897760665374519518?t=4PvYa4JF2QPaVv9zjhUalQ&s=19

It’s nice when someone gets it.  Even if it’s an anon on X.

Yea IU has made a lot of bad hires and the results have been poor on the court for a long time.  But that’s in the past and doesn’t matter much.  What matters is we have big resources and coaches should want that (I hope).

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15 minutes ago, hoosiersoxfan said:

Recruiting is such a grind, especially in season.  Coaches will fly in from a road game and then drive to go watch recruits at multiple schools play games the next day, all while working to keep the current team on track.  

Also, I don’t know how many people ever have had a job where you’re literally “on” 24/7/365. It’s exhausting. And that’s what I imagine recruiting in the old system was like. Literally at the mercy of 16 and 17 year old kids all year long. 
 

NBA presents its own challenges, but being able to recharge your batteries by taking several stress free months off in the summer is worth it’s weight in gold. Also you’re just coaching. No other BS.  
 

If college can become like the pros in terms of schedule and responsibilities with similar salaries, you’ll definitely see a renewed interest in the job. 

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2 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

It’s nice when someone gets it.

Yea IU has made a lot of bad hires and the results have been poor on the court for a long time.  But that’s in the past and doesn’t matter much.  What matters is we have big resources and coaches want that (I hope).

It looks good on paper and, in theory, should be true. 

IU has made so many bad hires for so long. It is hard to believe that they will make a good hire for the bball program until a good coach is actually introduced. 

I know everyone claims that Dolson has a plan and is working it, and that QB is responsible for Woodson, but Scott IS the guy who actually hired him. And gave him a 4th year. 

I'm obviously saying the quiet part out loud. Back to the optimism. 

Let's get Brad F*cking Stevens...

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10 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Also, I don’t know how many people ever have had a job where you’re literally “on” 24/7/365. It’s exhausting. And that’s what I imagine recruiting in the old system was like. Literally at the mercy of 16 and 17 year old kids all year long. 
 

NBA presents its own challenges, but being able to recharge your batteries by taking several stress free months off in the summer is worth it’s weight in gold. Also you’re just coaching. No other BS.  
 

If college can become like the pros in terms of schedule and responsibilities with similar salaries, you’ll definitely see a renewed interest in the job. 

I am pretty sure your first sentence just described parenting. I remember when my first kid was a newborn, I watched Hurt Locker and felt jealous that their job was less stressful than dealing with a baby.

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42 minutes ago, hper50 said:

Since we have time for a Rick Majerus story:

My dad was a student at Ball State when Majerus was the coach there. He and his buddies would run into Majerus all the time at Tony's Locker Room (local bar). Majerus would call them by name, tell stories, and often foot their bill.

The best part: every time Rick went to Tony's, he would order not one, not two, but three orders of full-sized nachos. All for himself. And would absolutely demolish them.

Rest peacefully, you lovable glutton.

explains the heart attacks...

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6 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Also, I don’t know how many people ever have had a job where you’re literally “on” 24/7/365. It’s exhausting. And that’s what I imagine recruiting in the old system was like. Literally at the mercy of 16 and 17 year old kids all year long. 
 

NBA presents its own challenges, but being able to recharge your batteries by taking several stress free months off in the summer is worth it’s weight in gold. Also you’re just coaching. No other BS.  
 

If college can become like the pros in terms of schedule and responsibilities with similar salaries, you’ll definitely see a renewed interest in the job. 

I'm all for it as long as they don't think they can take the Woodson route.

During the season, it's a lot of hours so no losing a game then hanging with your buddies drinking wine and smoking cigars.

HS recruiting is still important so the HC needs to put some effort in there whether it's talking/texting recruits or going to watch them play. I don't want it to be a team made up almost completely of transfer portal players that gets turned over every year. As you pointed out, having someone that can do a lot of the scouting and watching during the summer could make a huge difference. The HC does need to still be somewhat involved, maybe not as much as is required now.

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22 minutes ago, Silat Player said:

It looks good on paper and, in theory, should be true. 

IU has made so many bad hires for so long. It is hard to believe that they will make a good hire for the bball program until a good coach is actually introduced. 

I know everyone claims that Dolson has a plan and is working it, and that QB is responsible for Woodson, but Scott IS the guy who actually hired him. And gave him a 4th year. 

I'm obviously saying the quiet part out loud. Back to the optimism. 

Let's get Brad F*cking Stevens...

My view is Scott had nothing to do with the Woody hire/4th year and when left alone he went out and made a very nice football hire.  I’m not arguing though, at this point it’s water under the bridge and agree to disagree is fine by me.

After the last 25 years of IUBB I can’t help but be nervous too.  But I keep going back to the fact this job profile is different in the NIL era and we seem to have a competent AD who is being substantially left alone to run this process.  That is really all I can hope for and it greatly improves our chances vs the last five (ouch, what a big number) hires.  

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23 minutes ago, hper50 said:

Totally. Was just curious if anyone knew if they graduated a ton of guys, had some injuries, etc.

Sports reference said they only returned 37% of their minutes played.

They also went from December 5th until January 7th without playing a game.  Wonder if there was some COVID issues.

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1 minute ago, Pagoda said:

My view is Scott had nothing to do with the Woody hire/4th year and when left alone he went out and made a very nice football hire.  I’m not arguing though, at this point it’s water under the bridge and agree to disagree is fine.

After the last 25 years of IUBB I can’t help but be nervous too.  But I keep going back to the fact this job profile is different in the NIL era and we seem to have a competent AD who is being substantially left alone to run this process.  That is really all I can hope for and it greatly improves our chances vs the last five hires.  

Yes.  Everyone should be nervous but also optimistic.

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6 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

To follow up

https://x.com/bball_war3/status/1897762220496609506?s=46&t=0mbJ_TT4MQ8KZKv29ZqhSg

Will remain a complete skeptic on Stevens but will say this: if IU is/was unable to get it done with him, nobody’s getting it done with him. He’s not gonna end up at KU or UNC down the road. If the dude ever coaches CBB again it will be this job this time.

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