General Coach Candidate News

[JSHoosier 22,182]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:44 PM, IU Scott said:

Also I don't think it is right to just judge things on tournament success and that is the only important thing to look at.  Everybody just looks at results when we look at coaching hires but to me the most important thing is the fit of the coach to the program.  With crean and Archie we mainly looked at how they did in the tournament and thought they were good hires.  Neither one of them really fit with this program and fan base.

We looked at how they did in 1 tournament.

[akumanina 406]

Is this our version of 'March Madness'?

[Southside 1,914]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:39 PM, Indiana8585 said:

Well those silly kids didn’t win anything so what’s the point? Agree to disagree 

The topic is, what school is more attractive. Recruiting is somewhat a product of attractiveness, so that's the point.

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  On 3/26/2021 at 9:41 PM, Stuhoo said:

Not a perfect world. 
From an HR perspective? You can't respond to many/any Twitter hot takes, even if they're not true, or
We reached out to a representative of Holtmann's to see if he would have interest, and it does no good to litigate subtleties over Twitter.

And one claim was that the 2 had agreed to a deal. The other was simply an inquiry. Pretty big difference

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[IUCrazy2 2,850]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:31 PM, IU Scott said:

because it is true and feel we as fans are part of the reason IU basketball isn't what it use to be.  I just see more and more fans who probably had no clue about IU basketball before they attended IU.  I just don't think those fans totally understand what IU basketball is all about or what it takes to win at IU.  Today people  just have knee jerk reactions and don't actually think things through before speaking.  these media guys know how we are and they probably are having a lot of fun at our expense seeing the meltdown here.

You are barely older than me and I grew up in Indiana as a die hard fan.  The difference between the fans then and the fans now is one group was cheering for a guy that won a Championship and went to the Final Four every 4 or 5 years and the current fans are rooting for a team that goes to the tournament itself about once every 4 years.

There are stories about IU fans throwing trash at the Purdue bus on the way out of town and things like that from the past.  There is just a whole bunch more opportunity for the fan base to show its @$$ now.

 

[IU Scott 2,375]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:36 PM, akumanina said:

My gut feeling is that recruiting coaches in the same conference is kind of a last resort thing. 

Why? he is doing due diligence.

[Kentuckysucks 4,331]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:47 PM, akumanina said:

Is this our version of 'March Madness'?

March Sadness for us.

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  On 3/26/2021 at 9:47 PM, akumanina said:

Is this our version of 'March Madness'?

 

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  On 3/26/2021 at 8:15 PM, Chris007 said:

Chris Holtmann??? What??

It’s Jeff Goodman with A (singular) source.

where was Goodman in getting accurate information on Shaka Smart?

[Southside 1,914]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:44 PM, IU Scott said:

Also I don't think it is right to just judge things on tournament success and that is the only important thing to look at.  Everybody just looks at results when we look at coaching hires but to me the most important thing is the fit of the coach to the program.  With crean and Archie we mainly looked at how they did in the tournament and thought they were good hires.  Neither one of them really fit with this program and fan base.

IDK. "Fit" is a deep topic. A guy that wins, will typically be a fit wherever he is lol. 

I didn't really see Crean as a bad fit. I did think AM was a bad fit, but that is mostly due to his scheme.

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At this point we’re either getting Oats, or it’s an IU guy.  Don’t think there’s any other outcome.

[IU Scott 2,375]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:49 PM, IUCrazy2 said:

You are barely older than me and I grew up in Indiana as a die hard fan.  The difference between the fans then and the fans now is one group was cheering for a guy that won a Championship and went to the Final Four every 4 or 5 years and the current fans are rooting for a team that goes to the tournament itself about once every 4 years.

There are stories about IU fans throwing trash at the Purdue bus on the way out of town and things like that from the past.  There is just a whole bunch more opportunity for the fan base to show its @$$ now.

 

At least they weren't killing  our own then but Purdue

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  On 3/26/2021 at 9:48 PM, Southside said:

The topic is, what school is more attractive. Recruiting is somewhat a product of attractiveness, so that's the point.

Ok well those recruits didn’t pan out so I’m glad we didn’t attract them. How does not winning a tourney game since 2014 make the job attractive? We can agree to disagree its better to just let the thread keep going instead of rehashing old points. Cheers to a better program! 

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  On 3/26/2021 at 8:24 PM, Iubravos said:

Wouldn't be surprised if we checked in and then he let's someone know he was contacted on his interest. 

Yeah....the term “zeroed in” would be bringing n more than one source.

[Hoosierfanyuh 5,326]

Ok new take no one is gonna have the slighest of who we hire til it happens cuz i wldve never guessed in a million years we even contact holtmann tbh

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  On 3/26/2021 at 9:28 PM, Nonymouse said:

Obviously this is true, but be careful bringing rationality to the forum.

Funny how you believe whatever rumors fit your narrative and then dismiss people believing rumors you don’t.

[Deserthoozier 1,120]

  On 3/26/2021 at 9:37 PM, IU Scott said:

So just look it as a normal job application in the real world.  Does an HR department only bring in  1 resume at a time and look at it to see if they are qualified and want to hire that one.  No they keep the job open and looks at 100's of resumes and then decide who they want to bring in for an interview.  So what is so different in a coaching search when you want to look at multiple coaches before bringing in the few for interviews.

Some one ponied up $10MM...not to sort through resumes!

[ThompsonHoosier 3,416]

At this point just post the job on Indeed or ZipRecruiter and let interested coaches apply.

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  On 3/26/2021 at 9:52 PM, Southside said:

IDK. "Fit" is a deep topic. A guy that wins, will typically be a fit wherever he is lol. 

I didn't really see Crean as a bad fit. I did think AM was a bad fit, but that is mostly due to his scheme.

Granted I was a year old when RMK was hired, but I thought I've read that IU fans weren't initially happy because they were used to the "Hurryin Hoosiers" type of ball and RMK slowed it down with his motion offense.. but when the wins came and championships won, the man was a genius according to fans- so fit is less important than success.. Just Win Baby!

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  On 3/26/2021 at 9:57 PM, Deserthoozier said:

Some one ponied up $10MM...not to sort through resumes!

to get rid of Archie