General Coach Candidate News

[Golfman25]

17 minutes ago, JPCIVOP said:

So... he is literally coaching a DII team this year. In his interview he said that he put the roster together not expecting short-term success. To boot, Texas Tech's coach (who Drake would face in the next round) credits McCollum for remaking McCasland's offensive system. I'm not going to hold Drake's results against him this year, regardless of who IU hires.

Great.  So how does he go from that to putting together a competitive Big10 roster?  He'll be a work in progress.  So us fans will indeed need patience.  

[12345Brad]

4 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Then why is Iowa presumably going to stretch themselves financially to NOT hire a guy who is in their own backyard? I just have a hard time diving into the deep end on a guy 99.9% of you didn't even know they existed 3 months ago. 

Not gonna rehash our arguments from last week its just too big a risk, if he's truly the only option then sure give him a shot BUT plenty of smoke that suggest Will Wade is willing to listen WAY less of a risk makes much more sense. McCollum is the risk hire you make if you have no other options 

Maybe McCollum feels like he could do better at IU vs Iowa given their NIL?   It’s possible Iowa already spoke to McCollum (as we think IU did) and he thinks IU is in a better place to win.   
 

just a thought.  Anyway, I trust Dolson. He had Pearl and May ready to go a year ago. 

[Cd71]

Dane Fife opening up in his interview right now.  Guess since Woody is gone he can get some stuff off his chest.  Fun listen.

[mdn82]

Just now, Golfman25 said:

Great.  So how does he go from that to putting together a competitive Big10 roster?  He'll be a work in progress.  So us fans will indeed need patience.  

That will not matter no matter who the coach is.  Let’s not kid ourselves.  For the first half of the first season there will be a honeymoon period and will extend its going well.  That’s it.  It has been that way since the turn of the century.  Be even more extreme now with the rise of the portal and NIL money. 

[TrueHoosier62]

Okay, so like this one time, at band camp, I met Brad Stevens. Brad was banging Mary Jane Rottencrotch from Terre Haute, (she played the flute), and Brad says to me afterwards, "something smells fishy". I said, "Well, it would". He said, "No, I mean at IU". I said, "Oh."

He said, "Yeah, I want to coach there one day, but I'm not sure they still want to win, and I want to win! You'd think after winning five national championships, they'd want to do the things that help you keep winning, but they don't. They just fired Bob Knight and gave his team to Mike Davis, and that's what smells fishy.

I asked if Mike Davis had been with Mary Jane Rottencrotch, the flute player from Terre Haute, and he said "no, I don't think so". 

I said, it "well doesn't really matter, we're all gonna get screwed now".

Brad washed his hands, sanitized them and walked out, muttering something about "never coaching at IU".

 

[SlammySammy]

1 minute ago, 12345Brad said:

Maybe McCollum feels like he could do better at IU vs Iowa given their NIL?   It’s possible Iowa already spoke to McCollum (as we think IU did) and he thinks IU is in a better place to win.   
 

just a thought.  Anyway, I trust Dolson. He had Pearl and May ready to go a year ago. 

Do we really know that though? Really? OR is that what some insiders here fed us?

[IUBtown]

25 minutes ago, EasyEJay said:

Also if Iowa is going after DeVries over Golden boy then why should we be so excited about getting McCollum? 

Because he's already taken?  DeVries would only be announced before because he didn't make the tournament, not because Iowa got to pick first.  

[mjeze106]

18 minutes ago, SlammySammy said:

Well, I am hearing Dan Hurley.....just saying...new source...seems strange....Cousin lives in Connecticut...runs a bunch of nursing homes in the state....says he got it from family member visiting a loved one....

 

[Golfman25]

16 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

Rabby is saying that the players can't enter the portal until the 24th. Man, he is totally clueless and wrong. Yet again.

It doesn't matter when they can "enter."  Guys are announcing and making their intentions knows as we speak.  Portal is just "official."   

[iubb]

 

[Jwalk83]

People are fired up today!

[Jwalk83]

I’d rather have McCollum over brownell.

[jimsorgi]

State of this thread:

[AZ Hoosier]

3 hours ago, 12345Brad said:

He hired Matta.  QB hired Woodson. 
 

This hire is all $cotty D

Dolson hired Matta to HELP Buckner's boy... but Woodson wasn't having any part of it.

And yes, this hire will be "ALL SCOTTY D".

[HoosierDYT]

If nothing else we are the best at belaboring the point


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[12345Brad]

3 minutes ago, SlammySammy said:

Do we really know that though? Really? OR is that what some insiders here fed us?

I obviously wasn’t in the room, but a lot of people aside from here have discussed it.   It sounded like Dolson was ready to move on - then QB got in the way and secured $4+mm in NIL for Woodson to ensure he didn’t fail this year … yet here we are. 

[realTomCrean]

6 minutes ago, 12345Brad said:

Maybe McCollum feels like he could do better at IU vs Iowa given their NIL?   It’s possible Iowa already spoke to McCollum (as we think IU did) and he thinks IU is in a better place to win.   
 

just a thought.  Anyway, I trust Dolson. He had Pearl and May ready to go a year ago. 

That's a good point about NIL. If Iowa is financially constrained to buy out Devries at $4M, how does that play to NIL. If I were a coach and school X has unlimited funds seemingly and School Y has very limited funds (in a harder place to recruit to as well) - the choice would be easy

[Magnanimous]

Folks, chill. Look out for the Mike Woodson is officially out announcement from the AD then we can transition to big wink watch. 

[Magnanimous]

4 minutes ago, Jwalk83 said:

I’d rather have McCollum over brownell.

Brownell isn’t even on the table.

[Soulsnipes]

Just now, Magnanimous said:

Folks, chill. Look out for the Mike Woodson is officially out announcement from the AD then we can transition to big wink watch. 

I would think the Woodson announcement would be very soon.