General Coach Candidate News

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10 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

The cig love is over the top based on one season. This year's schedule is much harder. This year is his true test. They will say he isn't tom allen but the Allen love was the same after the covid year.

 

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Now we’re hating on Cig?? We really don’t deserve to have anything good as a fan base. Some of you are just unhappy people at your core. “True test” as if he isn’t the greatest thing to happen to IU football in history. Even if he wins just 6 games, it’s still better and more consistent than anything we’ve ever done.

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It may be McCollum but at least Drake is in the tournament and maybe IU so it’s another week minimum til any announcement 

[IU5355 771]

Is kathy going to come and confirm Goodmans tweet?

Or Isaac?

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2 hours ago, go iu bb said:

I don't know, hence my question about how long it takes to get players ready to play in the system. But looking at Drake and saying not long doesn't prove it one way or another. Looking at their roster, they have a bunch of seniors. It might not take long since good coaches tend to be good teachers, after all, or it might take a year or two.

Probably no one on this board knows the answer, which is fine. Why would anyone here have paid too much attention to him at the D2 level?

It took him until his 3rd year at NW Missouri State to win 20+ games, same as Hurley at URI and UConn. 

He continued getting better at that level and built some very good teams which he retained the cores of. 

This group he took with him may have been the best core he ever put together.

Stirtz is a nice piece. If he can retain some of the guys on this roster and get some transfers from the programs with coaches people pine for over him - who also happen to praise him and have strong relationships with (McCasland at TTU, Williams at A&M, Smart at Marquette)... you can see him having a serviceable roster in Y1. Still plenty of valid question marks/obvious risks. We'll see how quickly kids learn his system and if he's able to retain them / use the portal effectively. 

I'm comfortable with the risks personally. Excited to see what he can do with our NIL and HS recruiting. 

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2 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

 

I know this is BTB, but I am still surprised about the level of freak out over a tweet stating something we already knew.

This definitely spooked some solid posters on here. 

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5 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

The donors are only willing to pony up the big dollars for the one guy they know IU can't get.

Only one that I know of was only putting his money up for BS. The rest would all save money with this hire though. One of the donors could cover this contract 

[HinnyHoosier 6,307]

3 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Seems like everyday we hire another coach.  How many is that and who will it be tomorrow?

It's a helluva staff is what it is. Chess baby, chess.

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Trilly thinks this is a “trial balloon” and not a done deal to see how fans react. Take that as you will 

Not reacting well on social media. If this is seriously his plan we are screwed

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So I guess the UK job is no longer attractive since they got turned down by top coaches and settled for Pope who.had never won a tournament game.

That's why I am admitting that I don't understand the current college basketball landscape. I'm admitting it's a trend that I don't understand. But I do believe what I said as far as what it communicates to me as a fan and the program I follow.

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2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I think I’ve had more fun getting everyone fired up than the tweet itself. 

….ahhhh, I get it, this is your version of “RTZ’s” post yesterday… lol

[Trish 14,310]

It’s fake news everyone. Just enjoy your evenings! As a great reminder, we no longer have to watch Mike Woodson basketball! I hope he’s finished packing up his office along with the rest of the staff. 

 

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26 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

I'd give Cig another season before you crown him.  We played 2 good teams all season and got torched both times.  He was also able to bring a bunch of his JM guys with him.  Just reminds me of Tom Allen's covid year where we didn't beat a single team that finished in the top 25 and he got a near $40M buyout for it then the wheels came off.  Many of us called it at the time.  Expect a lot of 7-5 finishes from Cig which is certainly fine.

Two “good” teams?  It’s pretty tough playing national champ and runner-up on the road.  We were in year one of our new coach and they had 3-5x more NIL than IU.  Those games got away from us, but it’s pretty understandable.  OSU was smashing everyone.

Our margins of victory was pretty darn good too vs the bad and mediocre teams.

Agree seven win type seasons are good.  Hopefully we can do even better.  Just becoming a midpack team in the conference would be amazing.

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38 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Joe Lunardi just took UT from 1st out to last in, replacing...IU.

Lucky for IU, Lunardi is the worst bracketoligist.

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3 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

It's a helluva staff is what it is. Chess baby, chess.

Coaching by committee 

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8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Sounds like IU is going to hire an actual college basketball coach.   Let’s go.  Get in the box take a swing  and hope we are not doing this 4 years down the road.  If true breath of fresh air an actual college basketball coach will be in charge of the program.     History told people the most likely outcome was a coach from a lower level.   An actual on court blue blood program swung and missed on their other sitting power 5 coaches and had to hire a coach that just made the jump to the Big 12 but was a mid major coach his whole time before that without a tourney win.    If it’s McCollum then let’s ride 

We hired someone? I was watching Creighton like you told me to. :-)

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7 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I understand what you’re trying to say but that’s not it. I still have several friends who can’t talk to me about the hiring process. If it was McCollum for the last week they would have been saying it. Jerry would be here posting. 

Heck yes. All I need to hear. Let’s go!

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2 minutes ago, BtownBallers said:

Coaching by committee 

You took the post right out of my mouth! lol 

….on top of that you have a true Indiana born and raised player like Goode helping coach and direct the team! 

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4 minutes ago, WRSMick55 said:

Lucky for IU, Lunardi is the worst bracketoligist.

It’s not just lunardi either and Boise State. Just won as well so that’s two teams behind IU that have now won.

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9 minutes ago, IU5355 said:

Is kathy going to come and confirm Goodmans tweet?

Or Isaac?

Or dmv?  Or is he consoling Turgeon?

or could it be there was a tweet that said one of the top candidates is a top candidate?

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1 minute ago, IU05 said:

Heck yes. All I need to hear. Let’s go!

Direct from the Mothership…

Owe…We want the funk…give up the funk…Ow…We need the funk…we gotta have that funk.