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[Hornsby]

Maybe we start a Creighton pipeline. Ten years of McDermott, followed by his Creighton replacement Huss. Seems like Huss would almost certainly be GMs replacement there. 

All aboard the huss bus in 2025

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[IUHoosierJoe]

48 minutes ago, Papacap said:

This is not to relitigate Beard’s issues, but for those with inside sources, are you hearing that Beard is 100% out of consideration or are people speculating that IU wouldn’t consider him? I also find it hard to believe it would him but just seems like he is still brought up a lot.

I can tell you there has been significant donor talk of Beard and TJ.  I can also tell you from past experience that donor talk typically doesn’t mean a whole lot unless it’s from the very, very top donors.

[RaceToTheTop]

43 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Oh; is it that easy?

As @Uspshoosier has clearly stated, the guy that is "actually the head coach" at Creighton is in charge of

• a better,
• more successful program with
• better attendance than IU, and
• in a better conference.
• And his team practices at a building named "The McDermott Center." And he's 60. 

AND PEOPLE TURN UP THEIR NOSES AT HIM TOO!

So yes, if we want to "Oumar Ballo/Bryson Tucker/Miles Rice Style" overpay for him? Then we've got a shot with McDermott; but that's the primary way it could happen.

So you think it’s easy to go from being a two year head coach at High Point to taking over the fish bowl at IU?

You were the one telling people to get off their ‘high horse’ gif not jumping on…Alan Huss, someone that doesn’t appear on anyone’s search list for IU.  

[mdiu28]

15 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

I can tell you there has been significant donor talk of Beard and TJ.  I can also tell you from past experience that donor talk typically doesn’t mean a whole lot unless it’s from the very, very top donors.

I donate $100 to IU every Olympic year. They owe me. How do I get in on these convos? 

[Artie86]

1 minute ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

I can tell you there has been significant donor talk of Beard and TJ.  I can also tell you from past experience that donor talk typically doesn’t mean a whole lot unless it’s from the very, very top donors.

......what else can you tell me? 

[Chris007]

50 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

I miss the old BTB where debate and info (right or wrong) was accepted or ignored. The hateful personal attacks always come from a subset of new posters

Amen, brother. Someone said always be careful of the people with under 200 posts but that's not me I think everyone has good intentions. Anymore I said I'm hearing good things about a basketball search and I'm attacked. It didn't used to be that way. But I am hearing good things

[Scooter T Washington]

1 minute ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

I can tell you there has been significant donor talk of Beard and TJ.  I can also tell you from past experience that donor talk typically doesn’t mean a whole lot unless it’s from the very, very top donors.

You mean my $100 donation doesn’t put in a position to be in the know?!?

[IU Prof]

I do wonder what Brad could still be mulling over at this point. Unless he's trying to squeeze every last dime out of IU, it seems that by now any potential questions would have been answered, and any concerns resolved to the best of IU's ability.

So it seems to me that in all likelihood, he must either be in or out at this point. The idea that he's still in play, but not committed, seems unlikely.

[Stuhoo]

35 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

So you think it’s easy to go from being a two year head coach at High Point to taking over the fish bowl at IU?

You were the one telling people to get off their ‘high horse’ gif not jumping on…Alan Huss, someone that doesn’t appear on anyone’s search list for IU.  

1) I do not think it's going to be easy for any coach that comes to IU.

2) I am telling people to get off their high horse and not to look down at a guy that could absolutely be a viable candidate.

Not on anyone's search list? Today, ESPN cited a 'full disclosure with guarantee of anonymity' panel of "more than a dozen industry sources involved in the coaching carousel: agents, power brokers, etc. We polled them on the top five names they think are ready to move during the 2025 coaching cycle. The only criteria: The coaches couldn't have been at the high-major level previously, and they couldn't be clients of the voter." 

And Alan Huss was the second most qualified out of 20 named. Ahead of Schertz, McMillan, McCollum, etc. So if we decide to go the mid-major route? 

[HoosierTrav]

4 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Amen, brother. Someone said always be careful of the people with under 200 posts but that's not me I think everyone has good intentions. Anymore I said I'm hearing good things about a basketball search and I'm attacked. It didn't used to be that way. But I am hearing good things

This always happens around coach hiring cycles. We get an influx of outside posters who are here to feed off of the info. When things don’t pan out they get vitriolic. 
 

That usually dies down early into the offseason and this site gets back to its original core of posters (+/- a few new faces) that get along just fine. 
 

just have to bite down on the leather for now. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

8 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Amen, brother. Someone said always be careful of the people with under 200 posts but that's not me I think everyone has good intentions. Anymore I said I'm hearing good things about a basketball search and I'm attacked. It didn't used to be that way. But I am hearing good things

I still think they’re being sent here to shoot something down whenever it comes up.  It’s happened too many times now.

[Ryno6284]

I still keep coming back to the one poster whose kid talked with Brads parents somewhere. IU was brought up and his dad said Brad could never do that to Butler! That cuts deep, also is why I’ve moved on from Brad. Would love to be surprised though!

[Jet812]

56 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

If you came here for inside info, well I feel sorry for you. At least you aren't paying for it on Peegs. 

You should feel sorry for a guy that keeps coming back to a site for inside info, while claiming the site has no inside info though.  At least he’s not doing that, because that would indicate a real lack of intelligence…

[str8baller]

35 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

I just don't think the Archie argument is a very good one for discrediting, for lack of a better term, every midmajor coach. 

Jay Wright, Bill Self, Coach K, Bob Knight, Scott Drew, Pitino, Billy Donovan and a massive list past those individuals.... all came from a midmajor. 

Nobody said “every” midmajor coach. But midmajors are risky and low majors like Stu posted, even more . Nobody should know that better than IU fans. We have run the gamut from Knight to Archie. The failures out number the successes probably in the neighborhood of 10:1.  
 

There’s not going to be one stat or profile that’s dispositive. If there were it’d be easy and anybody can do it. You have to have an AD that is a top basketball mind or lucky as ****. Fred Glass was a basketball moron. We’ll find out about Dolson soon enough. 
 

The only way to tilt the odds in your favor outside of  that is to hire a proven P5 guy. For IUs expectations that list is short: Drew, Bennett, Wright, Donovan, Stevens…That’s about it. The odds are really small for each one but thankfully you only need one. If Dolson doesn’t know basketball lets hope like hell he’s a big game closer. 
 

If he’s neither a top basketball evaluator or closer, let’s pray he has a horseshoe up his @$$. 

[RaceToTheTop]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

1) I do not think it's going to be easy for any coach that comes to IU.

2) I am telling people to get off their high horse and not to look down at a guy that could absolutely be a viable candidate.

Not on anyone's search list? Today, ESPN cited a 'full disclosure under anonymity panel of "more than a dozen industry sources involved in the coaching carousel: agents, power brokers, etc. We polled them on the top five names they think are ready to move during the 2025 coaching cycle. The only criteria: The coaches couldn't have been at the high-major level previously, and they couldn't be clients of the voter." 

And Alan Huss was the second most qualified out of 20 named. Ahead of Schertz, McMillan, McCollum, etc. So if we decide to go the mid-major route? 

I will respectfully say there is zero chance that IU is ‘hopping on the Huss Bus’.  I have stated that he is a good X and O coach….but there are quite a few of those guys.  But I also wouldn’t call high point a mid major.  They are low major.

[Kentuckysucks]

2 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I still keep coming back to the one poster whose kid talked with Brads parents somewhere. IU was brought up and his dad said Brad could never do that to Butler! That cuts deep, also is why I’ve moved on from Brad. Would love to be surprised though!

But Scott Drew might.  

[Ryno6284]

Just now, Kentuckysucks said:

But Scott Drew might.  

I don’t buy that talk either, but not because of Butler!

[HoosierSadaseci]

1 hour ago, ceast11 said:

Jackal, I have been trying to prep the board for the inevitable this whole week. The Beard train is gaining major momentum each day. Those with previous concerns seem to be finding some grace within their hearts to open up to the idea of him leading the Hoosiers. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. What once seemed as a long shot, seemingly doesn't seem so long anymore.

Chug...chug...choo...choo...

[TadQueasy]

2 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

I still keep coming back to the one poster whose kid talked with Brads parents somewhere. IU was brought up and his dad said Brad could never do that to Butler! That cuts deep, also is why I’ve moved on from Brad. Would love to be surprised though!

This statement does not even make sense in my mind.  Do what to Butler?  He is not leaving them.  He already left them a long time ago.  Is there anyone in the world that views Butler as a better place than Indiana?  

[Chris007]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

1) I do not think it's going to be easy for any coach that comes to IU.

2) I am telling people to get off their high horse and not to look down at a guy that could absolutely be a viable candidate.

Not on anyone's search list? Today, ESPN cited a 'full disclosure under anonymity panel of "more than a dozen industry sources involved in the coaching carousel: agents, power brokers, etc. We polled them on the top five names they think are ready to move during the 2025 coaching cycle. The only criteria: The coaches couldn't have been at the high-major level previously, and they couldn't be clients of the voter." 

And Alan Huss was the second most qualified out of 20 named. Ahead of Schertz, McMillan, McCollum, etc. So if we decide to go the mid-major route? 

This is rich even for you Stu