General Coach Candidate News

[Hoosier987 1,476]

2 minutes ago, Ghost of Rick Majerus said:

What about Tommy Amaker?

(Everyone else loves throwing out random names, so I tried to find one that hasn't been mentioned in 1100 pages. Did I succeed?)

How about Sidney Lowe. J/k.

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10 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Stevens more likely than Beard.  See UK, UL, and UM not giving him a look in their hiring processes.  He is very hard to hire for bigger brand programs/schools due to image damage to the school, some upset donors and alumni, and ongoing risk with his behavior.

Yeah, I don’t think IU will consider him, but I also think that’s a mistake. He would change the program for the good 

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23 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

It feels like a grenade went off in here yesterday.  Everyone is disoriented from the blast, we’ve got some folks down, some are unaccounted for, no one quite knows what is going on.  It’s going to take time to recover…

Everyone is now trying to figure out if it was a concussion grenade or a frag grenade. Goodman is claiming it's a frag grenade without showing evidence of that and the rest of the media are running with that.

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2 minutes ago, Ghost of Rick Majerus said:

What about Tommy Amaker?

(Everyone else loves throwing out random names, so I tried to find one that hasn't been mentioned in 1100 pages. Did I succeed?)

I think you might have!  :)

[IUguy77 224]

10 minutes ago, WeeDerkaNaut said:

I very well could be, that just struck me as odd. 

If Steven’s said he’s not a candidate then that would be the most important words that Steven’s would say regarding the job. But Steven’s wasn’t quoted as saying that. He said he was happy working with the Celtics. None of that has anything to do with the IU job. To me that means the door is still very much open and that was put out as a way to quiet everything down. 

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1 minute ago, Hoosier987 said:

How about Sidney Lowe. J/k.

Yes, he deserves an interview for sure. Same with Travis Steele. 

[Home Jersey 11,425]

6 minutes ago, Demo said:

Never gonna happen in Bloomington in a million years, but some AD who’s secure in his position and doesn’t care about winning the presser, maybe 1 of the 2 Florida schools, is gonna take Shaheen Holloway out of that Seton Hall NIL hellscape and in 2 or 3 years is gonna look pretty freaking smart. I know it’s his alma mater, but he’s a really good coach and that’s a really bad deal and he’s not going to stay there and get his brains beat in for 15 years because they have no money. 

He coaches his tail off every game. It looks like they have a sixth player on the court half the time lol. He had to scrape the barrel for this roster and the season hasn’t gone their way, but they still play tough and might beat UConn today. He is a very good coach and will make a worthy program very happy someday, hopefully soon. Guy can be big time, just not at SHU in the world of NIL. It is not a personality fit but I’d love him at IU, we’d be the hurryin Hoosiers again.

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2 minutes ago, HoosierInParadise said:

4 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Goodman is a Boston-based reporter that covered the Celtics for years and also has a direct line to the college basketball community. 
Goodman makes perfect sense for this. 

I thought about this and the smokescreen theory. If it is, in fact, a smokescreen, maybe Goodman was asked to put it out there in exchange for being the one that will be the first to be given the official news so he can break it first. Probably not, but it got me thinking..

Again, just my opinion based on my experience working in PR for an NBA team, but my experience is that fans massively overrate this idea of smokescreens. 

I've been a part of GM's being hired, coaches being hired/fired, stars being traded, etc., and while it's been a long time that I worked there and the landscape has changed, ive never been a part of a conversation about sending out smokescreens or getting false information to reporters to get them off the scent, etc.

I'm not saying it never happens, but not nearly to level fans think. 

[Chris007 51,770]

1 hour ago, Jet812 said:

Checking back in to see if @RoadToZion, @JerryYeagley23, @Chris007, @ap2345 have heard from their sources that the BS deal is dead or if things have gone silent everywhere?

Absolutely nothing on my end. Some donors last night were still happy. But very quiet today. I’m laying low this weekend and watching other coaches just in case:-)

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I want a consistent year in, year out identity of gritty, maximum effort, toughness, bare knuckle basketball. That requires a culture that reflects a personality type. I believe that's what IU nation would embrace. That's who we are I think. We're a gritty,  basketball-educated fan base that sees through gimmick, half-assed basketball. Dusty would be successful but I have no idea what a Dusty culture would look like. Toughness will win a lot of games and when matched with talent you have a juggernaut. The coaches out there that I admire for that are Sampson, Pitino, Beard and Otzweiler. 3 of those have had issues. 2 of those are old. Otzweiler isn't leaving his wife's school.  I keep coming back to Beard. 

[HoosierInParadise 763]

Again, just my opinion based on my experience working in PR for an NBA team, but my experience is that fans massively overrate this idea of smokescreens. 
I've been a part of GM's being hired, coaches being hired/fired, stars being traded, etc., and while it's been a long time that I worked there and the landscape has changed, ive never been a part of a conversation about sending out smokescreens or getting false information to reporters to get them off the scent, etc.
I'm not saying it never happens, but not nearly to level fans think. 

Thanks for the info! I appreciate the perspective I would never have in my line of work.

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3 minutes ago, Ghost of Rick Majerus said:

What about Tommy Amaker?

(Everyone else loves throwing out random names, so I tried to find one that hasn't been mentioned in 1100 pages. Did I succeed?)

Have heard worse ideas. Tell you what would be awesome about that: Amaker comes to Bloomington and wins a Natty. As he’s being interviewed with confetti in his hair and One Shining Moment blasting away he looks straight into the camera and tells Krzyzewski to F himself for blocking him from getting the Duke job. Would be the greatest flex ever. 

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7 minutes ago, Ghost of Rick Majerus said:

What about Tommy Amaker?

(Everyone else loves throwing out random names, so I tried to find one that hasn't been mentioned in 1100 pages. Did I succeed?)

I'll throw out another name.  Ryan Odom-  Career .627 winning percentage.  He currently has VA Commonwealth ranked 32nd in Kenpom.  

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13 minutes ago, Hoosier987 said:

You don’t like him. You’ve made that very clear and it’s reasonable why you don’t…but there are plenty of people that would support him. There’s no reason to continue to comment and throw shade on everyone who throws their support to Beard.  Do I think he has high chance of becoming the next coach? No. I think it’s Dusty, but there’s a reason why Beard is thrown in the conversation…past sins aside…he’s a Knight guy that can coach.

Liking him has nothing to do with it.  UK, UL and Michigan all could have hired him and didn’t.  Why do you suppose that was??

[Pagoda 2,083]

5 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

Everyone is now trying to figure out if it was a concussion grenade or a frag grenade. Goodman is claiming it's a frag grenade without showing evidence of that and the rest of the media are running with that.

Yea.  Goodmans reporting was vague for sure and there is a sliver of hope.  But fwiw, I know some quality journos who cover the team and after looking into it their view is Brad is a no, which bummed me out.  I wanted to believe it’s Saban before Bama but not sure it is.  I don’t trust Rabby.

Anyways, we’ll see, hoping for the best.  Go IU.

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40 minutes ago, WeeDerkaNaut said:

I...huh? "I'm happy in Boston." does not equal "I'm not a candidate for the IU job." So people just jumped to that based on Goodman's tweet? 

There was a screenshot of a text exchange several pages back, from another board I believe, that was supposedly from Goodman someone told him that Stevens told them he wasn't a candidate. So 3rd hand if the exchange was even real.

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6 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

He coaches his tail off every game. It looks like they have a sixth player on the court half the time lol. He had to scrape the barrel for this roster and the season hasn’t gone their way, but they still play tough and might beat UConn today. He is a very good coach and will make a worthy program very happy someday, hopefully soon. Guy can be big time, just not at SHU in the world of NIL. It is not a personality fit but I’d love him at IU, we’d be the hurryin Hoosiers again.

I love that guy. His teams play with their hair on fire for 40 every night and even with the talent gap they just never stop competing. 

[JSHoosier 21,316]

34 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

I’ll admit, it’s pretty vague and interesting, compared to 2021 where he explicitly said it multiple times in front of media. 

He was a coach in 2021, easier to not be around media now.

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I just hope IU doesn't go cheap after Stevens said no. Dolson reportedly had $9M+/year lined up to throw at Stevens. Some of that may have been promised only for Stevens but I hope there was plenty that would be available for another quality coach. My fear is that we end up with a risky coach that is hired for $3-4M/year. I want them to spend $6-7M to get someone that is a known winner at the P5 level.

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I’ve been thinking about tinfoil reasons for the generic “I love who I work for” denial. Maybe he’s just trying to be nicer about it this time. I can’t imagine at least some of his friends and family were less than impressed with the Masshole thing. I remember thinking at the time a simple “honored, but no thanks” would have sufficed. He didn’t need to basically make the state a joke for thinking he’d leave Boston. Maybe this in the inverse.