General Coach Candidate News

[Rusty Shackleford]

1 minute ago, iu eyedoc said:

Rabby madly scrambling to  update his hot board as we speak.

I want to live in a world where Rabby posts a Brad-less hot board 10 minutes before news breaks we've hired Brad.

[tyappleg]

2 minutes ago, jbeaman9 said:

this is typical troll behavior. sorry Isaac

He's put a 3 hour timer on his troll behavior.  It's allowed in my opinion. 

[BradStevens]

Guys, Isaac misunderstood my text again. The announcement I was talking about for today is Osterman reporting that he's crossed 790 subscribers on YouTube. Not that I've signed.

You know how it is...crossed wires and all.

Sorry about that!

[IsaacTor]

Announcement - osterman . IU instructed him to tweet at 10:45am ET so they can do a follow up immediately confirming. 

[monskisprodigy]

This is a...become a legend or enter witness protection moment for Isaac. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

2 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Rabby madly scrambling to  update his hot board as we speak.

He going to put Stevens on top at 11:58, lol

[jbeaman9]

Just now, tyappleg said:

He's put a 3 hour timer on his troll behavior.  It's allowed in my opinion. 

that is the thing, he never gave time zone. only an hour and a half here

[theriverpilot]

4 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

This is going to be fun to watch you all celebrate. What are you guys drinking?

I think the question is, what are YOU drinking?

[AH1971]

1 minute ago, DSUMMITT said:

C'mon - you know that's a very small part of the reason. Missing one tourney in 4 years would keep most coaches in place. It's not his losses that killed him - it's how he got some of them (too many) and how very ill prepared we looked when we did. 

The UofL and Gonzaga losses killed most of us - we had high hopes and really wanted to give CW one more chance - he won the offseason and we were pumped. But in those game we just looked like a mid major playing in the big leagues. Embarrassing.

We win a couple games (against much lower talent) then we run into a 'meh' Nebraska team and lose by almost 20. And it wasn't close - embarrassing again.

We go on a bit of a roll - win some good ones - Rutgers was a decent win.

Then we proceed to go 2-10 starting with a 20 point loss @ a bad Iowa team and 20 pt loss against a decent Illinois team at home - exposed and very ugly. A couple of those losses were very obviously Coaching mess ups in the last plays - embarrassing mess ups - like announcers being mystified on our own network kinda mess ups.

While most of us aren't Coaches but a lot of us have been watching basketball for most of our lives - we recognize when there aren't any adjustments of note - that we try to do the same things with the same results and put our selves one more in the loss column game after game.

 This coaching search I just want a decent X and Os guys who put a product on the floor I can be proud of - that fights and executes an identifiable game plan with consistency. If Crean didn't have such dramatic down years I would have been okay with him - I screamed and yelled every game in the stands his first 3 years cause I loved what those kids were trying to do and how much heart they put into it. While we may not be the most realistic fans - we aren't stupid - I go to games in different stadiums/arenas - you can hear the difference between a knowledgeable fan base and one who is not  i.e. if the fans are knowledgeable listen for when they boo calls - different then average fans imho.

Sorry I know I went off a bit - I'll bring it back on track - who do I want as coach? A solid human being with decent work ethic that realizes the advantages and disadvantages of a place like IU - plus with the TP I do expect to win by year 2. With our resources I don't think that's impossible.

I know all of that already.

That optics of running off a coach who has made the tournament 3/4 years isn't appealing to a well-established coach currently in a good situation. This is a huge reason why Dusty May wasn't interested in the IU job. 

[Hoosierfan1901]

2 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

He’s just a Purdue or UK troll.  Hopefully everyone understands that.  Should be obvious but we have some really crazy fans.

Fun entertainment 

[IU5355]

1 minute ago, IsaacTor said:

Announcement - osterman . IU instructed him to tweet at 10:45am ET so they can do a follow up immediately confirming. 

Isaac, how is the weather this morning in West Lafayette?

[iubb]

[Mr. Hoosier Pride]

3 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Announcement - osterman . IU instructed him to tweet at 10:45am ET so they can do a follow up immediately confirming. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

Just now, AH1971 said:

I know all of that already.

That optics of running off a coach who has made the tournament 3/4 years isn't appealing to a well-established coach currently in a good situation. This is a huge reason why Dusty May wasn't interested in the IU job. 

Right.  Dusty May didn’t know a thing about IU until Woodson was let go.  Good stuff.

[ap2345]

If Osterman is sending it out he doesn't even know it yet

[HoosierInParadise]

Fun entertainment 

Seriously, even if it's his one last trolling effort, at least it's specific and creative. I love it!

[tyappleg]

3 minutes ago, jbeaman9 said:

that is the thing, he never gave time zone. only an hour and a half here

Down to 15 minutes. Lol

[iu eyedoc]

I have a theory: @IsaacTor works for BTB and has a performance report is due at noon Monday morning.

[Pagoda]

4 minutes ago, IsaacTor said:

Announcement - osterman . IU instructed him to tweet at 10:45am ET so they can do a follow up immediately confirming. 

This is not true.

[JimmerNoe]

I do appreciate the extremely short turnaround on the troll behavior. We get quick hits for 1-2 hours to keep us addicted instead of 2 week time frames where we just stress ourselves out.