General Coach Candidate News

[Class of '66 Old Fart 89,497]

Hope for the best; plan for the worst.

[Southside 1,914]

8 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Were hearing on here that thad can barely walk to and from his seats at butler games but also hearing he wants to coach division 1 again. Something doesn't add up. Hopefully he doesn't just need money and we fall for it

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I read an article saying he's much better, so the Butler narrative sort of surprises me. I know he interviewed for the UGA job a few years back, so at least we know he's interested in the right opportunity. If the drop leg issues have persisted though, might make for hard decision. It's not like he has to run the court, but he needs to at least be able to get around easily. 

[coonhounds 10,464]

I read an article saying he's much better, so the Butler narrative sort of surprises me. I know he interviewed for the UGA job a few years back, so at least we know he's interested in the right opportunity. If the drop leg issues have persisted though, might make for hard decision. It's not like he has to run the court, but he needs to at least be able to get around easily. 

Yeah I will take him over archie in a wheel chair I just am worried about his stamina for recruiting and coaching in games. Hopefully he is healthy and could do the job

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[JSHoosier 22,182]

If Matta is open to coaching again, he either needs the money or feels he's healthy enough to do it again.

 

If he's healthy enough, I'd be thrilled.

[Trish 14,396]

Our AD is going to hire a guy who hasn’t coached or recruited in four years? 
 

Kids don’t even know him. 

[kreigh8 2,111]

55 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

All of y’all that criticized the choice of Dolson?

Remember, a major part of being a successful AD is the ability to raise money.

That is Scott Dolson’s wheelhouse.

 

Before we erect the Dolson statue shouldn’t we wait to see who he hires? If I recall correctly a lot of the criticism of Dolson was that he was a Fred Glass clone except with a stop as a basketball manager. He’s got a chance here to prove those doubters wrong as Glass’s hirings haven’t all worked out obviously, but Fred had no trouble raising money himself

I wasn’t one of those critical, just going off memory for those who were. Consider me impressed when the basketball program is turned around - until then I’m cautiously optimistic.

[Trish 14,396]

2 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I honestly can’t tell if this is a trolling bit or not. I’m leaning toward yes, because you’re a smart poster.The Celtics have two all-star wings under 25 signed to long-term contracts. If the Celtics have a ‘bleak’ future then about 25 of the 30 NBA teams have bleak features and their coaches should walk away from their jobs. Maybe we can hire one of them. 

Bleak future as they have no money and no bench. It doesn’t matter if you have talented players that’s are young. It’s a players league. The second a player demands a trade, it’s happening.

Look at the NBA the past few years. Players have control. Not the GM’s. 

[iubb 4,644]

We are going to rehire tom crean. 


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[Southside 1,914]

11 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

Yeah I will take him over archie in a wheel chair I just am worried about his stamina for recruiting and coaching in games. Hopefully he is healthy and could do the job

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Ya think the NCAA would approve a segway on the sidelines?

[Hovadipo 61,254]

6 minutes ago, iubb said:

We are going to rehire tom crean. 


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There is a demographic of IUBB Twitter that would welcome this. 

[JSHoosier 22,182]

13 minutes ago, kreigh8 said:

Before we erect the Dolson statue shouldn’t we wait to see who he hires? If I recall correctly a lot of the criticism of Dolson was that he was a Fred Glass clone except with a stop as a basketball manager. He’s got a chance here to prove those doubters wrong as Glass’s hirings haven’t all worked out obviously, but Fred had no trouble raising money himself

I wasn’t one of those critical, just going off memory for those who were. Consider me impressed when the basketball program is turned around - until then I’m cautiously optimistic.

Being Glass 2.0 is my concern, or part of it with McRobbie and the administration.  My feelings on Glass aren't a secret here, and I wanted our next AD to be nothing like him.

[Trish 14,396]

7 minutes ago, iubb said:

We are going to rehire tom crean. 


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Our next coach is likely to peak at CTC levels so yes. 

[kreigh8 2,111]

4 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

Being Glass 2.0 is my concern, or part of it with McRobbie and the administration.  My feelings on Glass aren't a secret here, and I wanted our next AD to be nothing like him.

It's not a skill I'd be good at, but raising the money would appear to be the easy part. Hiring the right guy is a bigger mystery and challenge. I was dead wrong on Glass hiring Allen and Archie, but Dolson needs to knock this one out of the park. Best of luck to him and all of us

[Stuhoo 88,168]

47 minutes ago, hoosierpap said:

Waiting for the right opportunity. I believe he interviewed for UGA before Crean

I would think as a condition of his buyout he’s required to pursue employment.

 

[lillurk 4,916]

9 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

There is a demographic of IUBB Twitter that would welcome this. 

Three of the four best seasons IU has had since Damon Bailey graduated in ‘94 came on his watch. I understand he’d run his course here but can you blame them?

[lillurk 4,916]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

I would think as a condition of his buyout he’s required to pursue employment.

 

I believe that’s paid out as of last year, so he doesn’t have to keep up that ruse any longer

[Stuhoo 88,168]

9 minutes ago, Treesh said:

Our next coach is likely to peak at CTC levels so yes. 

That’s just silly.

If you have no idea whatsoever who the next coach is and who the new recruits will be, how the hell can you already project how well that unknown coach will do?!?

[hper50 1,645]

https://trustees.iu.edu/meetings-minutes/index.html

taking what @Chris007 said in the other thread, but it appears there’s a BoT executive session tomorrow morning from 9 to 11 am

[JSHoosier 22,182]

3 minutes ago, kreigh8 said:

It's not a skill I'd be good at, but raising the money would appear to be the easy part. Hiring the right guy is a bigger mystery and challenge. I was dead wrong on Glass hiring Allen and Archie, but Dolson needs to knock this one out of the park. Best of luck to him and all of us

I made my feelings known when Allen was hired.  I didn't have an issue with Allen really, my issue was Glass’s process and not conducting an actual search.

Granted, if he did I have no doubts he would've screwed it up.

[Hovadipo 61,254]

2 minutes ago, lillurk said:

Three of the four best seasons IU has had since Damon Bailey graduated in ‘94 came on his watch. I understand he’d run his course here but can you blame them?

I guess not, even though it’s kind of goofy. I get that side of it for sure. I appreciate his highs while also realizing why it was time to move on and how much better things could/should be than “4 good seasons since our current roster’s parents were probably in their teens”.