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[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,438]

The debate is over unless it is these candidates according to Copilot AI! Lol

 

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[Hoosier987 1,492]

One thing that I've learned when reading this thread. Outside of Brad Stevens, whomever we hire there is going to be someone upset. We cover the whole spectrum, from coaches being arrested to being too religious, and too young to too old. 

[iu eyedoc 2,971]

56 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

The timing of the tweets are odd. Dakich made the original tweet on February 4th of 2024. At that time, Tamar Bates hadn't won an SEC game. That tweet was made right after Mizzou had lost to Vanderbilt and was 0-9 in the SEC(Mizzou was 0-18 in conference play). Bates first SEC game was January 6th, 2024. Finally got an SEC win January 27th, 2025. He and Mizzou were 0-20 going into that game. The most recent tweet made after beating Alabama. I just see zero reason to dig back a year for the post from Dakich.

Nor do I, but it makes him no less of an old immature d**chebag. Just a shitty person that found a good paying gig playing to his strength.

[HoosierInParadise 781]

One thing that I've learned when reading this thread. Outside of Brad Stevens, whomever we hire there is going to be someone upset. We cover the whole spectrum, from coaches being arrested to being too religious, and too young to too old. 

The crazy thing is....there are people that would be upset with hiring Brad Stevens because he hasn't been coaching for a while, and he forgot how to do it...

[bigrod 2,922]

34 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Man I just can't stand thinking to far down the list of coaches. I think dusty may is the most unlikely to happen imo. I put stevens well ahead of dusty chances of coming here. The only reason to wait a year would be to hire brad Steven's. That makes perfect sense to me. Waiting a year to hire may makes absolutely zero sense. When you think about this reasonably the most logical hire has to be brad Steven's! Dolson had his guy since last year!

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A stretch to think it happened that way, but it is funny to think about, especially if the rumors about the way Woody treated Dolson are true. When Woody said he would be the coach until he decided he wasn't, Dolson was sitting there, stone faced, thinking, You fool, you're a dead man walking :D

[ziggyiu 710]

Years ago I would have been in favor of Tony, but his style is much less attractive to high-end talent and he had so many really bad flame outs in the tournament toward the end. 

[Bowhunter 2,879]

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

[HoosierHoopster 7,514]

22 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

You are talking about this man so 

I liked Crean generally, nutty as he was. But the, uh, best moment was the unfortunately interpreted quote to a recruit

“I’ve been thinking about you, a lot….”

[HoosierHoopster 7,514]

4 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

Because he has a really good gig going. He has recruited players to play for him there, and UM will up his contract significantly 

[Pagoda 2,239]

27 minutes ago, HoosierInParadise said:

30 minutes ago, Hoosier987 said:

One thing that I've learned when reading this thread. Outside of Brad Stevens, whomever we hire there is going to be someone upset. We cover the whole spectrum, from coaches being arrested to being too religious, and too young to too old. 

The crazy thing is....there are people that would be upset with hiring Brad Stevens because he hasn't been coaching for a while, and he forgot how to do it...

Yea — that was a funny angle.  Brad assembled an NBA title winner that plays some of the most efficient basketball ever played in the history of the sport… and he was gonna be flummoxed by the college game?  Lol.

[Home Jersey 11,708]

1 minute ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Because he has a really good gig going. He has recruited players to play for him there, and UM will up his contract significantly 

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

[OKHOOSIER 4,526]

9 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

Because rich people who apparently don’t actually watch the basketball thought Mike Woodson would be better with a six million dollar roster than he was with the NPOY runner up on his team.  
 

Hope I am wrong but it’s hard to see why he’d leave Michigan now. Then again maybe he told his new employer he was planning to bail after one season to go to his alma mater and they needed to make it cheap for him to do so lol

[Pagoda 2,239]

4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

Great point on all that stuff that happens beyond just recruiting and coaching.  Easy to forget about all that.

[RoadRage 2,521]

1 minute ago, Home Jersey said:

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

You also have to figure in, that if Dolson really wanted May that bad, he would have fired Woody and hired him last year. Not saying he doesn’t have interest in May but the fact that he risk losing him, and it appears he did lose him, tells me he felt he would have better options at the end of this season….

[WoodywithaL 73]

2 hours ago, Mr. Hoosier Pride said:

 

When you flush and the water keeps rising….

[HoosierHoopster 7,514]

6 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Starting a new job is pretty exhausting between meeting new VIPs/admin, then the actual work and recruiting in college sports on top of off court obligations. You generally just have really “settled in” after a year on a new job. IMO it would be exhausting to think about doing that in back to back years especially when UM and IU are very comparable right now. UM even may have a slight edge. Unless they really want to be in Bloomington I think taking the job at IU only ends up making things more complicated / potentially strained with family 

Yeah I don’t see it happening. Would love to be surprised though 

[RoadRage 2,521]

2 minutes ago, WoodywithaL said:

When you flush and the water keeps rising….

Time to get a coat hanger!

[jimsorgi 299]

20 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So why do we think Dusty turns us down now?

We never offer him. 

[jermhoosierfan 113]

34 minutes ago, bigrod said:

A stretch to think it happened that way, but it is funny to think about, especially if the rumors about the way Woody treated Dolson are true. When Woody said he would be the coach until he decided he wasn't, Dolson was sitting there, stone faced, thinking, You fool, you're a dead man walking :D

Thinking, not if I have anything to say about it.

[OKHOOSIER 4,526]

43 minutes ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

The debate is over unless it is these candidates according to Copilot AI! Lol

 

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I like that McCasland is on the list although your AI apparently doesn’t know where he coaches!