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[HoosierSadaseci 3,005]

14 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

I 100% expect it to be bronwell or someone like him. We have already crossed off like 5 names probably because they aren't pure. Stevens isn't happening

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I'm sorry you're so miserable all the time...I never realized how unhealthy following IU basketball can be...you're in my thoughts and prayers...hopefully better days are ahead...

[Hoosier Guy 8,333]

1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

Nothing against him but I scroll past his post when I see his name. I honestly remember anything positive. I'm sure some do that to my post too. 

Probably true with my posts as well.

[Hornsby 3,870]

This is his 15th season at Clemson.  He’s made the Elite 8 one time and the Sweet 16 one time during his tenure.  Not a good idea, imo.

Nope but tunnel vision will look at his current team not the past 15 years. I still think we hire someone like him though given how many current well known guys won't be considered due to the morality test. Most all proven winners have something in their past. It's going to be bronwell or some flavor on the month. We had our guy last year and let him get away

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[8bucks 7,554]

2 hours ago, the_jackal said:

Directly connected to Dolson. Let's just say I speak regularly with someone who speaks with Dolson every day. 1 of the very, very few people who actually knows specific names he is targeting. Either this guy is giving me bad info on purpose about Stevens - honestly could be a smokescreen - or he gave me good info into the current landscape of the search. 

Used to go by a different name on this site but deleted that account. maybe Chris will remember, but I told him Archie would be the hire about a week before he was announced via DMs. Don't post on other boards, but have lurked here for a while. Don't want to be the bad guy, i want stevens just as much as everyone else and hope this is just bad info. figured i'd pass along what i heard yesterday

- Jackal

Was Stevens ever the guy?  Did Scott have on-going conversations with him throughout the year (or longer)?  If he did, was there a point when Stevens said no?

[Hornsby 3,870]

They just like when the “insiders” talk in code or riddles, or are very vague with their info. “I know things but I can’t say now on that front…” 
 
I do agree that Stevens to IU is not a 0% chance, but I have about the same chance to go on a date with Lily James (google her—hot!) as BS to IU though, so like 0.01% chance 

Id say 2% chance

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[Truthhurts 367]

Just now, #1fanofafrin said:

Buzz is lower on my list, but I would have been happy for the hire

Buzz is another super high floor option and personally I think his ceiling is better than Cronin too. I’d have been very happy to get him. But A&M has all kinds of money and he’s a Texas guy, so it probably wasn’t ever all that likely. 

[str8baller 7,501]

45 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

yeah, my point was that no one will believe any insight that isn’t what they wanna hear. I’ve been saying for weeks Stevens has been 100% out from the jump. He just doesn’t wanna leave the Celtics for IU. Period.  Of course it makes total sense, because leading the Celtics organization is a better job than coaching at IU, but no one buys that someone may know it for a fact because cognitive dissonance has a stranglehold on this board.  

I’d say a majority of the board doesn’t believe Stevens is coming to IU.

A bigger majority doesn’t believe you have any particular insight either, into what is a very predictable and obvious conclusion.  

[ebridges24 2,607]

44 minutes ago, HoosierPapi4 said:

So…Mark Turgeon? 

NO, not Mark TurDgeon!

[Mopladysman 1,403]

Just now, 8bucks said:

Was Stevens ever the guy?  Did Scott have on-going conversations with him throughout the year (or longer)?  If he did, was there a point when Stevens said no?

Also a good question for Truthhurts.  

[Hornsby 3,870]

Dolson wasn’t the reason IU hired those clowns.

Dolson is limited in who he can go aftercthough. I'm guessing the only realistic options are flavors of the month or bronwell. May isn't coming

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[Hoosier Guy 8,333]

It’s too doom and gloom in here.  Fact of the matter is that a certain couple posters still believe that it’s Stevens.  I’m not worried.

[Hornsby 3,870]

Nothing against him but I scroll past his post when I see his name. I honestly remember anything positive. I'm sure some do that to my post too. 

Good. You don't have to read them. I kind of skip yours now too on stevens and him coming to iu. I don't engage in fantasies for a second time   You had me going four years ago but not his time around

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[WRSMick55 261]

53 minutes ago, Papacap said:

Cept Jay could shoot.

Man , could he shoot! Smooth.

[Trish 14,477]

Here's something to look at. I should send this to Dolson and let him know how badly Indiana screwed up by not hiring Dusty last year.

 

 

[GloryDays 6,224]

3 hours ago, 12345Brad said:

I think I missed it yesterday, but do the Indiana high schools / AAU programs have issues with Drew?   I recall people saying things like that in the past.  Was it just his cheating at Baylor back in the day?  
 

On the flip side, NIL certainly alleviates that. 

Something about deporting Perea if he didn't sign with Bayler.Think maybe an assistant was involved.

 

[JimmerNoe 1,214]

2 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Good. You don't have to read them. I kind of skip yours now too on stevens and him coming to iu. I don't engage in fantasies for a second time

 

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Please return to the Fire Woody thread from whence you came and pollute it with as many negative posts about Quinn, Brownell, and Woody as you would like. This is the fun time rational thinking thread. 

[Stuhoo 89,543]

Just now, Trish said:

Here's something to look at. I should send this to Dolson and let him know how badly Indiana screwed up by not hiring Dusty last year.

 

 

FWIW, I am thinking that IUBB shot map is likely a real improvement from last year's.

[Hoosier Guy 8,333]

5 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Dolson is limited in who he can go aftercthough. I'm guessing the only realistic options are flavors of the month or bronwell. May isn't coming

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May isn’t coming because Dolson has bigger fish to fry.

[Hoosierfanyuh 6,797]

Question: Does anyone know the benefit of negotiating a lower buyout if you have no plans of leaving? I cannot really make sense of it. Not trying to insinuate anything with this question just trying to understand 

[Dave from Dayton 4,024]

9 minutes ago, Truthhurts said:

I think it’s just that everyone wants insider info and for the first time in my life I have it but nobody wants to hear it because it isn’t good news and that drives me crazy. That’s really it. I’m sorry for the abrasiveness. Will try to be better. 
 

and will try to just  beat the McCollum drum instead. 

We've heard what you said.

I don't believe most of what is posted here or anywhere without independent verification. 

And I don't believe the Brad Stevens' to IU rumors until he signs.

It is just talk so far.  

Until someone posts something that is verifiable.

And McCollum has won and looks good.  Except that he hasn't beaten a team yet that is in the top 50.  Or run a big program.  Or really recruited the big time.  Or worked with NIL.  

And don't go crazy because other people don't believe what they can't see or experience themselves.  If you are like that, then you are letting other people control you.  There's way too much of that stuff going around today in the media and politics.