General Coach Candidate News

[KathywithaC]

3 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

So, WQB forced the hire of a former player, long time friend and mediocre NBA coach with no college experience, and there was doubt in the minds of some that it wouldn't end well? C'mon, that is pretty inconceivable ... the odds were incredibly slim that it ended any other way ... and when you factor in the approach that Woodson took to actually doing the job, it left very little doubt that it would end the way that it has.

I think you might be surprised that many IU fans and friends don’t look at every half of every game and want to fire or extend the coach based on that 20 minutes of play. Most had high hopes for him, especially given all of the previous disappointments, and they’re genuinely sad that it didn’t work out for him and for the University. Not sure why people find that so odd or unbelievable.

[QuinnB(BOT)(Perfectin76)]

6 minutes ago, Mr. Hoosier Pride said:

of course it's not Quinn......are you being for real?

Cathy and I have known each other for many years. I am thrilled to see a friendly face (or read their words in this case). 

Go Hoosiers!

QB

[realTomCrean]

8 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Ask your mom lol

 

[Kentuckysucks]

1 minute ago, IUBtown said:

Wives are taking the brunt of it either way.  The trailer parks would be upset with Brownhole

What about the Masshole?

[Ron Mexico]

Google AI says the sleeper pick is McCollum.  Yesterday it was Otz.  Even AI has no clue.  It was Pearl yesterday using Bing Copilot.  Now it’s back to BM.  Shouldn’t be surprising given Goodman’s thank you very little nugget yesterday.  Anybody have DeepSeek?

[AZ Hoosier]

2 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Short-term: Beard (assuming Ps and Qs are being minded). <=== I see what you did there!

Long-term: Brownell.

well done...

[Papacap]

4 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Considering that neither is a serious candidate and this is purely hypothetical, Brownell. But for totally different reasons than Beard.

Brownell. The vast majority of my IU friends want Beard. No one I know wants Brownell. 

[HoosierDaddyK]

1 minute ago, wirenuts said:

Gotta say, reading this in the tony soprano voice makes it way funnier...

Tony woulda said “ur muddah”

[IU Prof]

Don't know if this has already been posted, but Brownell's buyout is over $8 million. I would be shocked if we spent that kind of cash to buy him out. I think you can put that speculation to rest.

[KathywithaC]

1 minute ago, QuinnB(BOT)(Perfectin76) said:

Cathy and I have known each other for many years. I am thrilled to see a friendly face (or read their words in this case). 

Go Hoosiers!

QB

I just wanted to see if you really knew your stuff, Quinn. 

[realTomCrean]

3 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

Man I miss the days when we were debating the merits of Brad Stevens vs Dusty May and Mick Cronin was the "oh sh!t" hire.

Iowa: Devries or McCollum 

Indiana: May or Stevens

Annoying both of those guys are presumed “yes” and Indiana can’t get a guy to come home to lead a storied franchise w/ unlimited resources/support 

[Rusty Shackleford]

17 minutes ago, KathywithaC said:

I said a week but was only trying to estimate when our season would end, assuming we received a tournament bid.

As for what you’ve heard, it’s accurate. When it got hot after the Iowa and Illinois games, he wanted SD to publicly support him by saying he was coming back next year. Dolson told him that any evaluation of his performance was a post-season issue, and Woodson didn’t like that. He sought help from others and was told that we weren’t going to do what he wanted. I think he saw the writing on the wall and realized he wouldn’t survive. I’m not privy to every last detail and discussion, but that’s how it unfolded.

The discomfort in certain circles at IU (and from some very prominent alumni and friends) is palpable. He was and is extremely well thought of by a number of people, and no one wanted things to end this way. He’s been connected to IU for nearly 50 years, and that’s helped him build a number enduring relationships. Unfortunately, there were a few people who were concerned that his hiring would someday result in a less than happy departure, so they’ve proved to be prophetic.

This is the most reasonable thing you've said all day.

[RoadRage]

4 minutes ago, IU5355 said:

His teams have always been hard to prepare for. Cronin ran into a buzzsaw.

Is that how he got sawed-off?

[Hoosier DaDa]

3 hours ago, theriverpilot said:

Why do these guys even have their social media DMs open on their accounts??

Got to keep them open for the ladies.

[IU5355]

1 minute ago, RoadRage said:

Is that how he got sawed-off?

Yes. He's only 5 foot 4 now. 

[Kentuckysucks]

1 minute ago, KathywithaC said:

I think you might be surprised that many IU fans and friends don’t look at every half of every game and want to fire or extend the coach based on that 20 minutes of play. Most had high hopes for him, especially given all of the previous disappointments, and they’re genuinely sad that it didn’t work out for him and for the University. Not sure why people find that so odd or unbelievable.

Honest question.  How many times do people like you have to be wrong before you finally wake up?  The people on these boards have been a million times more correct than the people running things at IU have been for every single hiring and firing since the Knight era.  Every single one.  If you'd just hire who we tell you to you'd never be in this situation.  Is it fun for people like Dolson and Whitten to be laughed at by the rest of the country?  I assure you they are laughed at.  No one can believe how incompetent the people running IU are.  No one.  You see it from the media from people like Goodman and Rothstein.  They think you're a joke.

And here we go again most likely.  You have Chris Beard and Will Wade out there begging for the job.  But you'll screw it up again as always.  I think it's by design.

[KathywithaC]

5 minutes ago, QuinnB(BOT)(Perfectin76) said:

Cathy and I have known each other for many years. I am thrilled to see a friendly face (or read their words in this case). 

Go Hoosiers!

QB

We actually met your freshman year at IU . . . I’m sure you remember it vividly.

[IU5355]

1 minute ago, KathywithaC said:

We actually met your freshman year at IU . . . I’m sure you remember it vividly.

This is getting strange now lol

[LamarCheeks]

If memory serves, even KathyC said in one of her recents posts that good things are coming for IU hoops. 

I don't necessarily consider that a strain on the board.

I haven't the slighest clue who our next coach will be, but Chris, AP, Jerry and others seem to be optimistic, so I'm guess I'm gonna choose to be as well ... 

[Silat Player]

24 minutes ago, KathywithaC said:

I said a week but was only trying to estimate when our season would end, assuming we received a tournament bid.

As for what you’ve heard, it’s accurate. When it got hot after the Iowa and Illinois games, he wanted SD to publicly support him by saying he was coming back next year. Dolson told him that any evaluation of his performance was a post-season issue, and Woodson didn’t like that. He sought help from others and was told that we weren’t going to do what he wanted. I think he saw the writing on the wall and realized he wouldn’t survive. I’m not privy to every last detail and discussion, but that’s how it unfolded.

The discomfort in certain circles at IU (and from some very prominent alumni and friends) is palpable. He was and is extremely well thought of by a number of people, and no one wanted things to end this way. He’s been connected to IU for nearly 50 years, and that’s helped him build a number enduring relationships. Unfortunately, there were a few people who were concerned that his hiring would someday result in a less than happy departure, so they’ve proved to be prophetic.

Because a meddling or incompetent college admin hired an unqualifed coach w/o any college basketball experience to be their ... ya know... head college basketball coach? 

Who would've thought that possibly would've ended up badly? Go figure. LOL