General Coach Candidate News

[JustWinBaby 1,001]

Man I miss the days when we were debating the merits of Brad Stevens vs Dusty May and Mick Cronin was the "oh sh!t" hire.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 9,141]

2 hours ago, ceast11 said:

News today is suggesting Will Wade and NC State are having a second meeting and close to closing the deal.

Going to the ACC makes sense. That conference sucks and is wide open.

[AZ Hoosier 10,074]

3 minutes ago, IU5355 said:

Greg Gard makes 3.75 mil a year. Proven coach. Why not throw a big offer at him? Worst he can say is no. 

His Badgers just smoked Cronin's Bruins in the B1GT ... but he seems to have the personality of a door knob ...

[HoosierSadaseci 2,894]

4 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

Smoke Screen. Look in the comments 

Much appreciated...

[IUBtown 514]

3 minutes ago, ceast11 said:

Which creates a greater firestorm for Dolson, hiring Brownell or Beard?

Wives are taking the brunt of it either way.  The trailer parks would be upset with Brownhole

[wirenuts 1,377]

7 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Ask your mom lol

Gotta say, reading this in the tony soprano voice makes it way funnier...

[HoosierDaddyK 76]

4 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

So, WQB forced the hire of a former player, long time friend and mediocre NBA coach with no college experience, and there was doubt in the minds of some that it wouldn't end well? C'mon, that is pretty inconceivable ... the odds were incredibly slim that it ended any other way ... and when you factor in the approach that Woodson took to actually doing the job, it left very little doubt that it would end the way that it has.

And now we're trying to find a legitimate coach to resolve a 4 year (or 8 year) mess that is the basketball program. I hope there's someone willing and able to do the job... we will hopefully know soon.

Agree you didn’t need to be a rocket scientist to see the potential for a mediocre NBA coach to not be super successful in college, but people had been b*tching about “hire an IU guy” since they fired Davis. At least we can finally move past that

[IU5355 568]

Just now, AZ Hoosier said:

His Badgers just smoked Cronin's Bruins in the B1GT

His teams have always been hard to prepare for. Cronin ran into a buzzsaw.

[BA47591 598]

1 minute ago, Kentuckysucks said:

I mean literally every NBA to college hire has been an unmitigated disaster...Ewing, Avery Johnson, Howard, Mullins, etc.  We could go one forever.  Not one has been successful.

Everyone in the world knew it at the time.  Everyone of course except the Indiana administration as always.  Dumbest people alive.

One guy is all it takes for schools to forget all the rest. BYU right now is becoming the blue print for a school like Texas. 

[KathywithaC 800]

3 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

So, WQB forced the hire of a former player, long time friend and mediocre NBA coach with no college experience, and there was doubt in the minds of some that it wouldn't end well? C'mon, that is pretty inconceivable ... the odds were incredibly slim that it ended any other way ... and when you factor in the approach that Woodson took to actually doing the job, it left very little doubt that it would end the way that it has.

I think you might be surprised that many IU fans and friends don’t look at every half of every game and want to fire or extend the coach based on that 20 minutes of play. Most had high hopes for him, especially given all of the previous disappointments, and they’re genuinely sad that it didn’t work out for him and for the University. Not sure why people find that so odd or unbelievable.

[QuinnB(BOT)(Perfectin76) 331]

6 minutes ago, Mr. Hoosier Pride said:

of course it's not Quinn......are you being for real?

Cathy and I have known each other for many years. I am thrilled to see a friendly face (or read their words in this case). 

Go Hoosiers!

QB

[realTomCrean 2,483]

8 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Ask your mom lol

 

[Kentuckysucks 4,155]

1 minute ago, IUBtown said:

Wives are taking the brunt of it either way.  The trailer parks would be upset with Brownhole

What about the Masshole?

[Ron Mexico 91]

Google AI says the sleeper pick is McCollum.  Yesterday it was Otz.  Even AI has no clue.  It was Pearl yesterday using Bing Copilot.  Now it’s back to BM.  Shouldn’t be surprising given Goodman’s thank you very little nugget yesterday.  Anybody have DeepSeek?

[AZ Hoosier 10,074]

2 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Short-term: Beard (assuming Ps and Qs are being minded). <=== I see what you did there!

Long-term: Brownell.

well done...

[Papacap 1,638]

4 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Considering that neither is a serious candidate and this is purely hypothetical, Brownell. But for totally different reasons than Beard.

Brownell. The vast majority of my IU friends want Beard. No one I know wants Brownell. 

[HoosierDaddyK 76]

1 minute ago, wirenuts said:

Gotta say, reading this in the tony soprano voice makes it way funnier...

Tony woulda said “ur muddah”

[IU Prof 1,968]

Don't know if this has already been posted, but Brownell's buyout is over $8 million. I would be shocked if we spent that kind of cash to buy him out. I think you can put that speculation to rest.

[KathywithaC 800]

1 minute ago, QuinnB(BOT)(Perfectin76) said:

Cathy and I have known each other for many years. I am thrilled to see a friendly face (or read their words in this case). 

Go Hoosiers!

QB

I just wanted to see if you really knew your stuff, Quinn. 

[realTomCrean 2,483]

3 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Man I miss the days when we were debating the merits of Brad Stevens vs Dusty May and Mick Cronin was the "oh sh!t" hire.

Iowa: Devries or McCollum 

Indiana: May or Stevens

Annoying both of those guys are presumed “yes” and Indiana can’t get a guy to come home to lead a storied franchise w/ unlimited resources/support