General Coach Candidate News

[OliviaPope40]

19 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Saw a post that speculated that our search firm was talking to McDermott to get background about Otzelberger. 

Are we sure it wasn't to get background about Huss? Huss's resume is pretty fantastic.

For two seasons at High Point he looks good and he did play for Dana Altman. Good high school coaching record too. Haven't watched much of High Point if at all. 

[Motley's]

10 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

All the media said home run.

Sent from my SM-A146U using Tapatalk
 

Correct. Easy to search. All graded an A. Most said it was a can't miss hire. 

[Stuhoo]

5 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

The poster was me and if a middle of the pack B1G school that has had 1 winning conference record in 9 years hired a coach that averaged at least 13 wins in conference over the last 5 years in a top conference then in my opinion that would be a home hire for a program that hasn’t won 

Have you seen much of High Point play under Huss?

What's the vibe there?

[str8baller]

1 hour ago, RaceToTheTop said:

For the record:  no one has a higher career winning percentage at Creighton in the last 90 years than McDermott does.  And he's done it in the Big East instead of MVC.

Dana Altman is a decent coach.  He won less in the MVC than McDermott has in the Big East.

Altman also built that program from the ground up. Altmans has only had one losing season at the P5 level—his first year at KSU in ‘91. 
 

When McDermont was asked to build a P5 school he put together 4 straight losing seasons and got fired.

 

I’d argue at IU he’s taking over more of a rebuild than he is trying to continue and build off of an already successful program at Creighton. 
 

Also McDermont had his son to help kick start his Creighton run and he dipped down after Doug left before building it back up again.  
 

I probably like McD the best of the B-list candidates. But he’s definitely on the B-list. 

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Stuhoo said:

Have you seen much of High Point play under Huss?

What's the vibe there?

Not enough to give an opinion I don’t think.  I know they won the Big South by 3 games.   I’ve only watched 3 of their games this year.  Looking forward to watching them in the conference tourney.  

[OliviaPope40]

1 minute ago, str8baller said:

Altman also built that program from the ground up. Altmans has only had one losing season at the P5 level—his first year at KSU in ‘91. 
 

When McDermont was asked to build a P5 school he put together 4 straight losing seasons and got fired.

 

I’d argue at IU he’s taking over more of a rebuild than he is trying to continue and build off of an already successful program at Creighton. 
 

Also McDermont had his son to help kick start his Creighton run and he dipped down after Doug left before building it back up again.  
 

I probably like McD the best of the B-list candidates. But he’s definitely on the B-list. 

The Creighton teams his son was on were fun to watch that's when in I jumped in on Creighton. 

[iu eyedoc]

Why are we debating McDermott and TJO when Brad Stevens has already agreed to be IU's next coach?

 

 

 

Well, that is what has happened in my mind.

[CSP]

6 minutes ago, Motley's said:

Correct. Easy to search. All graded an A. Most said it was a can't miss hire. 

why is this relevant, though? 

[RaceToTheTop]

So Alan Huss is the flavor of the day today?

Good coach, but Alan Huss's next stop isn't going to be Indiana.

[Unexpectedflash]

12 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Have you seen much of High Point play under Huss?

What's the vibe there?

I actually have watched way more high point than most lol. One of my buddies went to college there. Huss is beloved there. They play very fun basketball especially on the offensive end. Having a top 25 offense at kenpom where most ppl would struggle to name a single player is extremely impressive. Keep in mind tubby smith was their coach before Huss and they were absolutely terrible with no fan support. Huss comes in and immediately wins back to back regular season titles. I know my buddy would be very sad to lose Huss. I doubt he’s being considered but he’s a good young coach on the rise 

[Gameface01]

I don't know how to share it, but sporting news has an article titled indiana expected to interview big 12 former coach of the year. Inside several quotes from Bozich and great a hire it'd be and maybe his name is definitely involved. Can't remember exactly 

[AZ Hoosier]

49 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

I don't ever remember "they saying" Archie was a homerun hire. I'm sure Fred Glass was the only person who said that or tried to tell everyone it was. lol

https://www.si.com/college/2017/03/25/indiana-archie-miller-hoosiers-dayton-hire

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2017/03/25/report-archie-miller-new-iu-coach/99618342/

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-archie-miller-era-begins-at-iu

https://www.thegazette.com/basketball/indiana-hires-daytons-archie-miller-as-mens-basketball-coach/

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/what-they-are-saying-indiana-s-hiring-of-archie-miller

[DChoosier]

2 hours ago, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

Carlyle seems to be coming into his own, with a new coach Rice could be good, I was originally on the I hope MR leaves but I’ve changed my tune and think in a one big system he is really good, MM I want to know if his issues are with the coaching staff or if he is just lazy and uncoachable. I’d possibly be interested in Tucker coming back but same questions as MM

Tucker was allegedly reaching out to other teams, over a month ago, because he didn’t think he was getting the minutes he deserved.

IF TRUE, and I don’t have direct knowledge that it is, I would happily say good goodbye.

He might turn out to be a good player somewhere else but no thanks.

[JPCIVOP]

4 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Why are we debating McDermott and TJO when Brad Stevens has already agreed to be IU's next coach?

 

 

 

Well, that is what has happened in my mind.

We've got to keep the theater going...

[Hoosierfan1901]

7 minutes ago, Gameface01 said:

I don't know how to share it, but sporting news has an article titled indiana expected to interview big 12 former coach of the year. Inside several quotes from Bozich and great a hire it'd be and maybe his name is definitely involved. Can't remember exactly 

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/indiana-expected-pursue-former-big-12-and-national-coach-year-mike-woodson-replacement/739328b2bc52c704331686ee

Spoiler alert: It’s Chris Beard

Btw, he is just grabbing this name from Bozich’s potential candidate list

[AZ Hoosier]

42 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

So he would be more  of a lateral move from MW?

Yeah, neither have coached with a damn for at least the past 40 years...

[realTomCrean]

https://x.com/hoosierheads/status/1897275671631770059?s=46&t=KBMjZuJJTG50JspPvw-4aA
 

He keeps talking like this and makes a E8 I’m back on the woody wagon

[rcbowla]

39 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

An excellent read. The reason it's so good is because it's based on unvarnished input from people that are actually in the real information loop.

Odom is clearly a name that could be considered; "fairly unanimous pick for the top spot" is a very telling line.

I brought up Alan Huss in this thread a ton of pages ago - I did so because he made sense, makes sense, and will continue to make sense. He's the living definition of 'lose the press release, find the right guy' potential if we hire someone that isn't a 60+ year old.

The La Lumiere and Culver connections are intriguing. He could be great and is only 46. He could be worse than Archie. It just seems like a crap shoot on nearly all coaches outside of a very select few.

[Gameface01]

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-basketball/news/indiana-expected-pursue-former-big-12-and-national-coach-year-mike-woodson-replacement/739328b2bc52c704331686ee

[iu eyedoc]

8 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

So Alan Huss is the flavor of the day today?

Good coach, but Alan Huss's next stop isn't going to be Indiana.

He is Temu Mick Cronin