General Coach Candidate News

[iu eyedoc 4,422]

5 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Do you mean, LAST SEASON, is cherry-picking? That's something. Wow. 

Oh you like current stuff. How about UCLA is a predictive 7 seed while Baylor is currently slated to be accepting a bid into the NIT.

[AH1971 3,117]

3 minutes ago, tyappleg said:

I guess I'll take the guy who has won a national championship and hasnt been able to win a 2nd one versus the guy who has no elite season to replicate. 

I'm not advocating Cronin over Drew, would take either in a heartbeat. I think it's wild that one person can be so dismissive of one coach over the other despite having almost identical pros and cons with nearly identical records.

[IUHoosierJoe 2,151]

29 minutes ago, IU Prof said:

I hope so, but I'm not sure this is consistent with how Goodman has been talking about the job the past couple weeks. I don't thinking he'd be pushing a guy like TJ Otzelberger if he knew Brad was already in the bag.

I also think the tweet would likely have been worded differently in that case, without the not a candidate bit.

Doesn't mean it's not Brad, just that I'm not convinced Goodman is in on the ruse.

Not saying he’s in on the ruse, but if he is, pushing other names out there would certainly be part of it.  The other names serve as a distraction from Stevens, and also may help some of the names he pushes get a pay raise from their current schools.  It’s a win for everyone.

[MrBBall 982]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

He was having an exceptional season the year before that where his team was projected to be a 1 seed and one of the favorites going into that cancelled tourney 

they year after he won a title he was a 1 seed as well 

Projected 1 seed 

1 seed 

1seed 

3 seed

3 seed 

bubble 

those are his last 6 seasons.   Saying he had 1 good year and hasn’t duplicated that season wouldn’t be right in my opinion.  If you want to argue he underachieves in the tourney with what seeds his teams earn then I can see that argument.  
 

 if IU is to pull a sitting coach from a high major team it will be considered a home run in the industry especially if its from the B1G and SEC.  Fans are going to fan and some will like they hire and some won’t.   

Wouldn’t anyone take this??

[HoosierInParadise 1,653]

I'm not advocating Cronin over Drew, would take either in a heartbeat. I think it's wild that one person can be so dismissive of one coach over the other despite having almost identical pros and cons. 

Records and stats aside then, Cronin kind of annoys me and Drew doesn't when it comes to listening to them talk. I'd rather have Drew...

[Hoosierfanyuh 6,430]

8 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Uh oh.  This news is going to need to be factored in.

(jk… mostly)

This is honestly a valid concern lol. They mean well and do raise decent amounts of money but them being that close with a coach is not fun to see haha

[lillurk 5,084]

9 minutes ago, Demo said:

Archie’s as clean an example as we’ll  ever see of a guy just being too small for a job. From that 1st presser where he looked completely spooked to the Indiana State debacle where he had no answers at all. He was dead man walking. The rest was just shouting.

Ran an errand at halftime of ISU and thought: we’re stuck with this shmuck for years. Game 1!

[Silat Player 1,951]

5 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

You made me do this. 

 

[Demo 23,413]

7 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

You made me do this. 

No one in the history of the game needed that visual less. Brutal.

[Chris007 62,388]

14 minutes ago, IU Prof said:

One thought that has probably already been posted, but just occurred to me...

Let's say Dolson is of the mind to use smokescreens for a search like this. And let's say he landed a big fish (Few, Drew, Pearl, etc.) early on. Brad would be the ultimate smokescreen, in order to keep the true hire protected until after the season...

And if that is the case, we're still getting an amazing coach and it's a huge improvement on day 1.

[str8baller 7,445]

12 minutes ago, JPCIVOP said:

UCLA's 2008-2009 team is their last really good one

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Cronin.
 

Harrick and Howland had little trouble building contenders there. Cronin is close to Lavin and Alford than those two. 
 

I don’t hate Cronin but he really hasn’t built the rosters that Drew has. 

[the_jackal 443]

this post will be met with skepticism, which is understandable. but it won't be Stevens. 100% confident on that. Dolson's current list is 3, he doesn't have his "man", but any of those 3 would be really strong hires. has plans D and E as well, names we've all heard but hope it doesn't get to them. Nothing announced until late march at the earliest. deep talks with 1 candidate in particular, a name i think would be just about universally liked, but nothing signed and won't be until his team is done

- Jackal

[HoosierInParadise 1,653]

this post will be met with skepticism, which is understandable. but it won't be Stevens. 100% confident on that. Dolson's current list is 3, he doesn't have his "man", but any of those 3 would be really strong hires. has plans D and E as well, names we've all heard but hope it doesn't get to them. Nothing announced until late march at the earliest. deep talks with 1 candidate in particular, a name i think would be just about universally liked, but nothing signed and won't be until his team is done
- Jackal

Isaac?

[JHoosier914 1,407]

1 minute ago, the_jackal said:

this post will be met with skepticism, which is understandable. but it won't be Stevens. 100% confident on that. Dolson's current list is 3, he doesn't have his "man", but any of those 3 would be really strong hires. has plans D and E as well, names we've all heard but hope it doesn't get to them. Nothing announced until late march at the earliest. deep talks with 1 candidate in particular, a name i think would be just about universally liked, but nothing signed and won't be until his team is done

- Jackal

Without a name, I think the skepticism might be alleviated a little bit if you shared something about your source.  Not saying it is - but SOUNDS like a hunch the way you've typed it

[CrossboneIU22 1,509]

I like hearing Stevens and McCollum this morning.  I would be happy with either, but CRAZY thought, how about Stevens as the GM and McCollum as the head coach or vice versa.  

Honestly though, McCollum seems more plausible based on what I have read on here (personal opinion), and while I would be on board with that, my recent poll suggests it would divide the fan base. But I'm still on the Stevens train until it crashes and burns or arrives at the station safely.

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[Stuhoo 89,311]

3 minutes ago, the_jackal said:

this post will be met with skepticism, which is understandable. but it won't be Stevens. 100% confident on that. Dolson's current list is 3, he doesn't have his "man", but any of those 3 would be really strong hires. has plans D and E as well, names we've all heard but hope it doesn't get to them. Nothing announced until late march at the earliest. deep talks with 1 candidate in particular, a name i think would be just about universally liked, but nothing signed and won't be until his team is done

- Jackal

MANY thanks for chiming in.

Please don't be a stranger!

[Uspshoosier 54,347]

13 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Baylor is currently slated to be accepting a bid into the NIT.

9 seed as of today 

[southernindianahoosier2 1,056]

5 minutes ago, the_jackal said:

this post will be met with skepticism, which is understandable. but it won't be Stevens. 100% confident on that. Dolson's current list is 3, he doesn't have his "man", but any of those 3 would be really strong hires. has plans D and E as well, names we've all heard but hope it doesn't get to them. Nothing announced until late march at the earliest. deep talks with 1 candidate in particular, a name i think would be just about universally liked, but nothing signed and won't be until his team is done

- Jackal

Interesting... Who's he had deep talks with?

[Class of '66 Old Fart 90,488]

1 hour ago, AZ Hoosier said:

His punishment should be to help Old Fart fetch the extra bandwidth from the crick... might need it today the way this is shaping up...

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