General Coach Candidate News

[Dave from Dayton 3,472]

1 minute ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

From Dusty's portion of the postgame presser and a question specifically about our newly opened position.

Michigan HC Dusty May, on whether he'd have interest in the newly-open #iubb job: "That stuff's crazy. I love being at Michigan, I love our team, we're fighting like crazy. That's it. This place is my foundation, but I'm very very happy at the University of Michigan."

What else could he say?

On the other hand, we learned a lot more about Dusty May's 2nd half coaching and effectiveness.  Also something about the guard part of the roster construction.  

Strikes Dusty May off of my BINGO card.

[DoctorP 1,417]

2 minutes ago, iubb said:

 

 

 

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What a great answer. This guy is the goods. 

[Bowhunter 2,758]

We had our chance to hire him. There were several of us last year pleading for it. If we don’t get Dusty, it’s our own damn fault !

[Hoosierfan1901 6,565]

18 hours ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

If it ain’t Brad, it ain’t Rad

I’ll make an exemption for May, since I personally think it’s going to be him

[Stuhoo 83,709]

8 minutes ago, DoctorP said:

What a great answer. This guy is the goods. 

What a great NON-ANSWER!

If that doesn’t make you excited I don’t know what would!!

[Kentuckysucks 2,750]

8 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

We had our chance to hire him. There were several of us last year pleading for it. If we don’t get Dusty, it’s our own damn fault !

Beard would win more.  I know he has baggage but honestly, if Brad says no I'm not sure they have any other choice.  Heads will roll everywhere if they get this hire wrong.

[JSHoosier 21,009]

May wouldn't be my 2nd or maybe even 3rd choice. I wasn't particularly excited about him last time, today didn't change that.

[Hoosierfan2017 22,538]

17 minutes ago, steubenhoosier said:

 

Not sure why there’s an up in arms reaction to Woodson’s not discussing his retirement. The official statement said that he would talk about it “at the appropriate time.” They are going to manage and control every part of this process to ensure that nothing is said to denigrate the program. 
Open a press conference to the media and who knows where the conversation goes. They managed the discussions leading up to the announcement. They managed the announcement. They will continue to manage this up to, and through the naming of the next coach 

 

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Mike Woodson is a 66 year old man.  He doesn’t need to be coddled with kids gloves. If he’s that sensitive then IU should’ve “retired” him effective immediately. Retiring him mid season because he’s terrible at coaching but then letting him finish out the season is just silly. Rip the bandaid off instead of tiptoeing around big foot’s feelings for the next month. 

[steubenhoosier 1,287]

Just now, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Mike Woodson is a 66 year old man.  He doesn’t need to be coddled with kids gloves. If he’s that sensitive then IU would’ve “retired” him effective immediately. Retiring him mid season because he’s terrible at coaching but then letting him finish out the season is just silly. Rip the bandaid off instead of tiptoeing around big foot’s feelings for the next month. 

I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m just saying that they have laid out how they are going to handle this and they won’t sway from that. It’s not so much to protect Woodson. It’s to ensure he doesn’t go off on the people who he thinks “forced him out.”

[go iu bb 7,172]

28 minutes ago, hoosierbannerd said:

Kansas about to go down again...

I'm removing Self from the list.

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,194]

Yeah, I’ve been saying I think it’s gonna be May.  It makes perfect sense. I’m not completely stoked about it, but I like a lot about it.  It seems like the Indiana/Dolson track of doing things.  I think all the Stevens talk is dream work by insiders.  This one makes sense.  We could certainly do worse.  Idk.  I should be really excited about it.  I think he’d recruit Indiana incredibly.  He’s very well liked. Lots of good things. 
 

I’ll warm up to it.  (Still predict Fife, Howard, and maybe Mullins joins him). Am I crazy?  Probably. 

[Hoosierfan2017 22,538]

IU needs to win the press conference with whoever they hire. The fanbase is about as pissed off/on edge as a fanbase can get after the past 9 seasons during which we’ve won a whopping 1 tournament game. Trot out some middling guy and the temperature will still be scalding hot. Whoever comes in isn’t going to get 2-3 seasons to “figure things out.” They will need to win immediately. 

[Demo 21,049]

6 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

IU needs to win the press conference with whoever they hire. The fanbase is about as pissed off/on edge as a fanbase can get after the past 9 seasons during which we’ve won a whopping 1 tournament game. Trot out some middling guy and the temperature will still be scalding hot. Whoever comes in isn’t going to get 2-3 seasons to “figure things out.” They will need to win immediately. 

How many guys do that? 

[Asha’man 80]

10 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Yeah, I’ve been saying I think it’s gonna be May.  It makes perfect sense. I’m not completely stoked about it, but I like a lot about it.  It seems like the Indiana/Dolson track of doing things.  I think all the Stevens talk is dream work by insiders.  This one makes sense.  We could certainly do worse.  Idk.  I should be really excited about it.  I think he’d recruit Indiana incredibly.  He’s very well liked. Lots of good things. 
 

I’ll warm up to it.  (Still predict Fife, Howard, and maybe Mullins joins him). Am I crazy?  Probably. 

May has a decent floor and has high enough potential to have us at the top of the conference regularly. 

[cbp4iu 1,830]

35 minutes ago, iubb said:

 

 

 

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Sounds like a Dolson call me

[Stuhoo 83,709]

36 minutes ago, Dave from Dayton said:

What else could he say?

On the other hand, we learned a lot more about Dusty May's 2nd half coaching and effectiveness.  Also something about the guard part of the roster construction.  

Strikes Dusty May off of my BINGO card.

What else could he say?!!?

”I’m not going to be the coach at Indiana next year. I will be the coach of Michigan next year.”

He’s a very smart man. He made a choice about what to say and he left the door wide open.

[Kentuckysucks 2,750]

16 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Yeah, I’ve been saying I think it’s gonna be May.  It makes perfect sense. I’m not completely stoked about it, but I like a lot about it.  It seems like the Indiana/Dolson track of doing things.  I think all the Stevens talk is dream work by insiders.  This one makes sense.  We could certainly do worse.  Idk.  I should be really excited about it.  I think he’d recruit Indiana incredibly.  He’s very well liked. Lots of good things. 
 

I’ll warm up to it.  (Still predict Fife, Howard, and maybe Mullins joins him). Am I crazy?  Probably. 

You'll have half the fan base against him from day one.  The war drums would already be beating at his opening press conference.  Would absolutely have to make the S16 year one.  Alford made 3 in 4 years at UCLA.  Got fired.

[Hoosierfan2017 22,538]

16 minutes ago, Demo said:

How many guys do that? 

Stevens, Pearl, Few, May, Beard. The Texas Tech and Iowa state guys too probably. Maybe Cronin. Could be other guys I’m just not thinking of. With the portal and NIL I think an above average coach gets us solidly in the tournament in year 1 and rolling in year 2. They won’t have to have a title contender in year 2, but a couple years of under .500 conference ball to start just won’t cut it. That’s possible even if you don’t “win the press conference.” No one was blown away by Louisville‘s hire last year and they’re sitting at 18-6 and 2nd in the ACC.

There are just too many recent examples of very rapid turnarounds for the fanbase to patiently wait through yet another slow rebuild. 

[IUHAHN81 2,558]

Yeah after that Dusty post game response, we may as well start welcoming him now! Haha

[AZ Hoosier 8,573]

Dolson has to make TJ say no... plain and simple... back up the Brinks truck...