General Coach Candidate News

[Hornsby 3,267]

Interesting thread 

It appears everyone is a connected guy now. By my count we are hiring like 15 different guys.


Lefty: [while walking with Donnie to meet up with other crime family members] When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now if I said instead, this is a friend of ours that would mean you a made guy.


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[IUBtown 210]

55 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

https://x.com/Bball_War3/status/1897760665374519518?t=4PvYa4JF2QPaVv9zjhUalQ&s=19

[Shoes_N_Shorts 144]

4 hours ago, spe317 said:

Location location location. 

Ding ding ding

[Chris007 56,324]

2 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

With all the chatter with several names I would almost be surprised if we didn’t hear anything after the BTT regardless if we make the tourney or not. Or is that totally off base?

I think someone will break the news after the regular season but formal announcement after the season. JMO

[hoosiersoxfan 355]

3 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

With all the chatter with several names I would almost be surprised if we didn’t hear anything after the BTT regardless if we make the tourney or not. Or is that totally off base?

If they hire someone that is still coaching in the tournament, they won't announce it until he is done for the season

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,963]

1 minute ago, Hornsby said:

It appears everyone is a connected guy now. By my count we are hiring like 15 different guys.


Lefty: [while walking with Donnie to meet up with other crime family members] When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now if I said instead, this is a friend of ours that would mean you a made guy.


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My total and complete guess: it’s been Brad for awhile but only a select few know. Otz and Drew agents really like what they’re hearing money and NIL wise and people are hearing they’d hear IU out if approached. 

[8bucks 7,073]

12 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

I'm trying to give Dolson the benefit of the doubt after the Cignetti hire but I can understand people looking at his history and seeing possible red flags. I'm hoping for the best but also wouldn't be at all surprised by a dud hire. There is only 1 name mentioned that I would be shocked to find out is IU's next coach and it's not the guys like Brownell or Collins who are pretty meh.

He was the AD when Woodson was hired and also gave him the raise. That's true. It looks like his hand was forced and I hope that's true because, if not, then I'd give up hope on this search.

It was rumored he wanted to hire Pat Fitzgerald but got turned down by Whitten. That wouldn't have been an inspiring hire, so if this is true that would be a red flag. We ended up with Cignetti which looks great for Dolson and the search firm, which is the same as used for this hire. It's unclear if he was a name Dolson already had on his list or if the search firm recommended him, but we ended up with him so the process worked either way. Overall, since we ended up with Cignetti there is reason for optimism. It's clear that the criteria of what to look for was solid.

I will say that a lot of the names that are being thrown around I'd be very happy with. Stevens, Drew, Otzelberger at the top of the list but I'd be ok with someone like Cronin or McDermott.

So I'm trying to be optimistic but I can totally understand how others are more skeptical.

Thought the same but it could be Fitz was on a candidate list only. He would not really be a bad hire though, just Cigs ended up being great. 

[Kentuckysucks 3,577]

Some ground breaking info coming our way soon.

https://x.com/HoosierHystrcs/status/1897772568016220453?t=ySgxI4HKlIlwW6IGB4UTBQ&s=19

 

 

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,963]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I think someone will break the news after the regular season but formal announcement after the season. JMO

That would certainly be fun! Would sort of be the best of both worlds, getting to see how far our current team can go while also learning who the new coach will be and have them start back channeling for new players. 

[Hornsby 3,267]

My total and complete guess: it’s been Brad for awhile but only a select few know. Otz and Drew agents really like what they’re hearing money and NIL wise and people are hearing they’d hear IU out if approached. 

That would mean " dolson has his guy" was true all along and isaac tor is a genius.

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[Hoosierfanyuh 3,963]

1 minute ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Some ground breaking info coming our way soon.

https://x.com/HoosierHystrcs/status/1897772568016220453?t=ySgxI4HKlIlwW6IGB4UTBQ&s=19

 

 

lol they’ve made it very clear they’re just going to be talking about some interesting things they’ve heard. Is interesting Rabby and Trevor have been radio silent all day, hysterics are usually the ones to talk when they don’t. I’m sure they’ll be as vague as possible. 

[Papacap 1,318]

2 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Some ground breaking info coming our way soon.

https://x.com/HoosierHystrcs/status/1897772568016220453?t=ySgxI4HKlIlwW6IGB4UTBQ&s=19

 

 

The update will be what they read on BTB, X and discord. 

[Hoosierfanyuh 3,963]

3 minutes ago, hoosiersoxfan said:

If they hire someone that is still coaching in the tournament, they won't announce it until he is done for the season

I’m a Brad believer so

[go iu bb 7,859]

10 minutes ago, OGIUAndy said:

Does this rumor have any real legs? Also "looked into" (ie a possible candidate) and "wanted to hire" is much different. I doubt that it would have gotten so far as to "I want to hire this guy" and Whitten said  "no". What he did and the ongoing litigation would have seemingly removed his name from the candidate pool pretty quickly. He's still out there not coaching. So I doubt that a P5 program wanted to hire him but now he can't get a job anywhere? 

I don't know. It was mentioned here but that is why I made sure to call it a rumor instead of something that actually happened. I also added "if true" in the next statement about it. 

You do make a good point about "looked into" vs "wanted to hire". Again, I'm not sure.

[HoosierDevils 55]

5 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I think someone will break the news after the regular season but formal announcement after the season. JMO

So you and @BehindTheBench differ by 1 day! 

[BleedCubbieBlue 1,785]

20 minutes ago, BehindTheBench said:

I think some guy (or I guess it could be gal) owes me venmo or something. Forget who that was, talk about a weird night and interaction, but my venmo is open and accepting dolla dolla (in my best Boston accent) bills yall!

 

[Silat Player 1,132]

8 minutes ago, hoosiersoxfan said:

If they hire someone that is still coaching in the tournament, they won't announce it until he is done for the season

I have trouble buying today's Otz rumor. I would think that Otz would have the most incentive to keep any agreement secret at this point, with his team still playing and getting ready for the tourney. 

I don't buy it at all...

[jimsorgi 604]

5 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Some ground breaking info coming our way soon.

https://x.com/HoosierHystrcs/status/1897772568016220453?t=ySgxI4HKlIlwW6IGB4UTBQ&s=19

 

 

The coaching search is ongoing! Lots of candidates are out there - we don't really know who IU is hiring! Rabby, tell us about your hot board!

[IUHAHN81 2,982]

If the search is "ongoing", how the hell does Scott "have his guy?!" I'll just take it as everyone THINKS the search is still ongoing when it's really not. 

[Chris007 56,324]

2 minutes ago, jimsorgi said:

The coaching search is ongoing! Lots of candidates are out there - we don't really know who IU is hiring! Rabby, tell us about your hot board!

Rabby has been hiding under his bed for two days because he can’t get any info. Hot board 5.0 was coming out last Saturday