General Coach Candidate News

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1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

I’m kinda surprised y’all haven’t caught yeagley’s careful choice of words and the distinction.

When Dusty May chose his words carefully yesterday? Everyone jumped on the distinction.

ap2345 has been clear he thinks it’s Stevens or May, but Yeagley has said no such thing to my knowledge.

Now he may jump in and 100% clear this up, but until then “Dolson’s guy” is a mystery to me.

Don’t spit on my cupcake and call it frosting Stuhoo.  Let me dream and THEN I come here cry typing when actual reality hits. 

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49 minutes ago, lillurk said:

IU is not going to 10 years, 9.2M/year for anyone other than one guy this offseason, IMHO

If this is true I agree 100% Jerry doesn’t have to give us a name. Plus most current coaches would not be negotiating terms of a contract while coaching a team. It is very obvious who they have if they already got there man. But the big question is is it true not who it is.

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53 minutes ago, lillurk said:

Yeah there are some non-Stevens guys who might require that. I like Oats too, if Bill Self wants to move on (why? And also I’m a little worried he’s losing his fastball), etc. But of the candidates on anyone’s hot board, one guy is gonna require that bill

Whenever I see Cronin, I can't help but think of Bill Burr. And that, of course, always makes me think of when he completely obliterated Philly. LOL

 

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Other than Beard, I do think it’s interesting that we aren’t getting any early rumors from the big sites about people we’ve reached out to or who have some legs. Unless trilly or peegs have said otherwise and I’ve missed it.

i know it’s been two days, but not sure how quickly mid season vs traditional hiring processes go. With a big national spotlight I just figured we would start hearing tons of “rumors” of some sort right out of the gate. Seems like we are only hearing Stevens stuff. 

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5 minutes ago, IU Prof said:

We know Brad was Dolson's top choice last time. If, and that's still a big IF, Dolson does truly have his guy in the fold, then I'd be shocked if it wasn't Stevens. I doubt Jerry'd have said, twice, "it's all happening" in reference to Dusty or Mick.

Add to this the fact Trilly said he hadn't heard any buzz with IU doing backchannelling to college coaches, which is consistent with targeting an NBA guy.

To be clear, I'm not saying I think it is Brad. Just that he's the only plausible candidate if our guy is already in the bag.

I think the Trilly piece is really interesting here, and probably confirms that there is one target right now and until that target says no, the search doesn’t shift. Part of me also wonders about the stuff Thamel said on Saturday. He made it pretty clear there was and would be a lot of interest in our job with the proven NIL. How hilarious would it be if Woody getting 5 million in roster money to fail got us a huge name lol

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2 minutes ago, Crazy about IU said:

If this is true I agree 100% Jerry doesn’t have to give us a name. Plus most current coaches would not be negotiating terms of a contract while coaching a team. It is very obvious who they have if they already got there man. But the big question is is it true not who it is.

They could feel good about it and still be wrong. Our insiders felt good last time before our opponents collectively laughed at how stupid the hire was.

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Just now, JimmerNoe said:

Other than Beard, I do think it’s interesting that we aren’t getting any early rumors from the big sites about people we’ve reached out to or who have some legs. Unless trilly or peegs have said otherwise and I’ve missed it.

i know it’s been two days, but not sure how quickly mid season vs traditional hiring processes go. With a big national spotlight I just figured we would start hearing tons of “rumors” of some sort right out of the gate. Seems like we are only hearing Stevens stuff. 

I think Scott likes having the Beard information out there even if it’s all coming from Beards agent and some friends who are former players. It lets him do his work behind the scenes without people paying attention. 

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52 minutes ago, Silat Player said:

Whenever I see Cronin, I can't help but think of Bill Burr. And that, of course, always makes me think of when he completely obliterated Philly. LOL

 

When I here the name Dusty May,  the name reminds me of a 70's female hippie folk singer or a stripper.

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Jerry also said he expected an announcement right after the season and before the tourney starts.

So huge contract for a guy who isn’t currently coaching.

Hmm.

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By the way, y’all may not like Jeff Goodman, but he has sources at IU. He won’t come out and say much declarative, but he dropped Cronjn’s name early and hasn’t backed off.

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2 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

When I here Dusty May,  the name reminds me of some 70's female hippie folk singer.

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4 minutes ago, JimmerNoe said:

Other than Beard, I do think it’s interesting that we aren’t getting any early rumors from the big sites about people we’ve reached out to or who have some legs. Unless trilly or peegs have said otherwise and I’ve missed it.

i know it’s been two days, but not sure how quickly mid season vs traditional hiring processes go. With a big national spotlight I just figured we would start hearing tons of “rumors” of some sort right out of the gate. Seems like we are only hearing Stevens stuff. 

 

3 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

I think the Trilly piece is really interesting here, and probably confirms that there is one target right now and until that target says no, the search doesn’t shift. Part of me also wonders about the stuff Thamel said on Saturday. He made it pretty clear there was and would be a lot of interest in our job with the proven NIL. How hilarious would it be if Woody getting 5 million in roster money to fail got us a huge name lol

 

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I think Scott likes having the Beard information out there even if it’s all coming from Beards agent and some friends who are former players. It lets him do his work behind the scenes without people paying attention. 

Yep, especially as perhaps THE premier job opening (seems like Davis will get one more year at UNC).

Dusty will either get a nice raise or the IU job based on his careful answer. Beard can dance for the job if he wants, it’s not going to him. But I bet within a week there’s some new contract or extension discussions reported for a few guys with leverage.

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4 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I think Scott likes having the Beard information out there even if it’s all coming from Beards agent and some friends who are former players. It lets him do his work behind the scenes without people paying attention. 

I think you’re right. If we’ve got everyone in the know saying that Beard is ours if we want him, that’s not a bad floor for Scott to rest on while he reaches for much higher.

its like those movies where the hot girl tells everyone you’re cute and suddenly everyone else likes you even more. Except in this case our hot girl sometimes nips a little too much whisky and likes to be handsy so we won’t ever really date her.

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2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

By the way, y’all may not like Jeff Goodman, but he has sources at IU. He won’t come out and say much declarative, but he dropped Cronjn’s name early and hasn’t backed off.

I don’t disagree at all but Goodman is top of the list for coach shills — whether he’s helping a friend get a buck in exchange for access or actually reporting is basically impossible to differentiate here or anywhere else.

(Lots of the Archie hype was from guys like Goodman.)

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Going to be a long couple weeks haha. 

Spring portal is open from March 24 - April 22. Final four starts 4/5 with championship game on 4/7. 

Will be interested to see how quickly we announce, especially if it is a coach in the tourney, to give them time once they are bounced to start working the portal. 

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5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

By the way, y’all may not like Jeff Goodman, but he has sources at IU. He won’t come out and say much declarative, but he dropped Cronjn’s name early and hasn’t backed off.

I believe Goodman's daughter still goes to IU?

I also saw a brief YouTube video in which he was pimpin' Beard pretty good. So who knows? 

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1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

By the way, y’all may not like Jeff Goodman, but he has sources at IU. He won’t come out and say much declarative, but he dropped Cronjn’s name early and hasn’t backed off.

I’ll go ahead and say it *ducks*. I would be fine with Cronin, we’d be consistently good. We spent a half a week on how IU needs an “alpha” (I hate that goofy term), strong personality, etc. etc. It doesn’t really get more strong personality than a guy who publicly called his players delusional, and has now gone like 6-2 since or whatever they are. 
 

There, I said it. I in no way believe it gets to Cronin, and Goodman is a low down dirty snitch. 

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10 hours ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Or a stairway to stevens

At this point in my fandom its just Dazed and confused.

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Very funny that Stevens doesn’t check a couple of the boxes from Thamel’s list: not a sitting head coach, and no P4 success, technically.

Recall that Thamel was early with the Thursday report on Woodson’s future so has some credibility here.

I assume even Thamel would say that obviously Stevens exceeds those given his circumstances. Still, funny that one of the guys everyone agrees would be an immediate unanimous A+ doesn’t meet some of the checkboxes.

I don’t think it’s a smokescreen; anyone else on the list probably does meet those aside from like Few (not P4) or Wright (off the board I’d assume, but not sitting coach).

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17 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I think Scott likes having the Beard information out there even if it’s all coming from Beards agent and some friends who are former players. It lets him do his work behind the scenes without people paying attention. 

Hopefully Cronin's name being tossed around is more of the same.