General Coach Candidate News

[RoadRage 3,012]

3 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Curt Cignetti was a quarterback at West Virginia, a graduate assistant there, a D1 assistant for 25 years, and a P5 assistant for nearly 20 years before his head coaching tenure. His P5 assistant experience included four years at an obscure school named the University of Alabama for some guy they call Nick Saban. 

Their backgrounds are vastly different. Cignetti had 2+ decades seeing the FBS apparatus and recruited some of the best players in the country during his time at Alabama. He coached Philip Rivers. He recruited Russell Wilson to NC State. And that’s before you get into the huge differences between IU basketball and IU football as programs. 

You stalking me bro?

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9 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

You’re either going to be the goat, or you’re going to be a goat. Either way, I appreciate commitment to a good bit, especially with one that drives up ad revenue for the mods. 

THE MODS DO NOT GET A PROFIT SHARE!

damn I wish we did

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13 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

Multiple high major coaches just in the last week have said things to the effect of “high school recruiting is worthless now,” including pitino. 

True. And Sampson, Scheyer and Hurley all have 4 man classes coming in. You develop a roster building philosophy and you adhere to it. Personally, I think coaches who eschew recruiting high school kids are gonna struggle to develop a sustainable culture. 

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9 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

Not when the coach literally doesn’t even try to recruit.
 

In any event, the portal is the future, and with IU’s budget, they just need a mildly competent recruiter to crush the portal every year. Get a guy with great Xs and Os who’s just decently likable, and they’re set. Why McCollum is such a no brainer pick in my view. 

McCollum only believes in using the portal when necessary.  He prefers 3-4 year guys that he can develop and impact their lives.  He prefers guys who want to earn their way instead of transferring to a place with a starting spot and a high payroll available.  So you’d be asking him to completely change his core principles if that’s how you’d want him to operate at IU.

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Just now, RoadRage said:

And McCollum has won 4 D2 National titles and has won an incredible 80% of his games. I think McCollum is even less of a risk than RMK was at the time!

I don’t care if he’s won 40 D2 national titles. He’s never experienced anything like running a program like IU basketball and everything it entails. The Cignetti comparison completely falls apart when you compare their backgrounds. There’s no reason for IU basketball to need to take such a big risk. 

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3 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

And McCollum has won 4 D2 National titles and has won an incredible 80% of his games. I think McCollum is even less of a risk than RMK was at the time!

So you’re also a Ray Harper, Tonagel, and Crutchfield fan for the IU job?

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16 hours ago, Chris007 said:

I’ve heard conflicting reports of if pen has made it to paper yet. 

It hasn't. Brad was supposed to sign all star weekend but unfortunately his pen ran out of ink. So he is waiting for his ink refill to come in and that takes time. It's special ink made from the horn of a free range, organic grass fed unicorn. So it'll be a few more weeks.

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8 minutes ago, Motley's said:

No top program would look at Brownell. He’d never be connected to the IU job if he wasn’t from Indiana. 

Sounds eerily familiar. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,339]

Adam Howard just Retweeted McNeese winning the conference. “Good things happen to good people”.

 

Move Will Wade up the candidate list. Lol

 

 

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2 minutes ago, tyappleg said:

Sounds eerily familiar. 

Which is a good thing. Fool me once...

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3 minutes ago, Demo said:

True. And Sampson, Scheyer and Hurley all have 4 man classes coming in. You develop a roster building philosophy and you adhere to it. Personally, I think coaches who eschew recruiting high school kids are gonna struggle to develop a sustainable culture. 

Pitino said this cycle they wouldn’t recruit high school kids because they have to replace too much production from what they are losing and high school kids can’t replace them.    He will recruit high school kids in the future just not next year.   Most great coaches will use a combination of both 

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One of the more practical negatives about McCollum is he has no recruits signed to Drake and I think very few rotation players with eligibility he could bring over (let alone them being up to B10 competition). Does he even necessarily have the connections / network to hire an excellent staff around him? I think D2 ball is great but is he tapping into that circle entirely or just rolling with the Drake staff? Or does he actually have very strong connections at D1/P5 levels? I dunno the answer. He’d probably have to assemble an entire roster and staff in an offseason - on a super quick turnaround - and he hasn’t done that before. For a guy with just one year under his belt, as great as I think he is as a coach, it just doesn’t make a ton of sense for this cycle. Maybe he could get it done. But it’s a big risk. Long list of guys who should get the gig first… if they say yes…

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5 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Adam Howard just Retweeted McNeese winning the conference. “Good things happen to good people”.

 

Move Will Wade up the candidate list. Lol

 

 

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I don’t think Wade is a serious candidate. 

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22 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

He’s done this regularly. 

Do you have proof?  Not saying he doesn't, but...

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8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://twitter.com/adamzagoria/status/1893441546101440713?s=46

Dude’s a recruiting machine.

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8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 

And THAT is what hiring the young, potential “next big thing” looks like.

36 years old.

Entire playing career at top tier program.

Lead recruiter for the best recruiting classes in the country.

Associate Head Coach at Duke.

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4 hours ago, TTT said:

Pam Whitten is instrumental in this process.  She is no dummy when it comes to major athletics at IU.

And she was just extended.  

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Just now, Stuhoo said:

And THAT is what hiring the young, potential “next big thing” looks like.

36 years old.

Entire playing career at top tier program.

Lead recruiter for the best recruiting classes in the country.

Associate Head Coach at Duke.

Never been a HC before. Huge risk IMO. I’d hate that kind of hire. 

[RoadRage 3,012]

If IU hires Cronin you will get the same coach that was at Cincinnati and UCLA, eventually he’ll string together a couple of lousy seasons and the fans will demand his bald head….6 more years of mediocrity and the IU program puts even more time between the years we were elite and what we have become.