General Coach Candidate News

[IUHAHN81]

Just now, Treesh said:

Brad ********* Stevens! 

It's not over until I'm a press conference. 

I'm with ya man, im with ya! 

[Ghost of Rick Majerus]

Just now, normandale97 said:

I'm not delusional and I don't want Bennett. It's just personal preference. I look at basketball as entertainment and his style to me is not entertaining. Is he a good coach? Absolutely, I just don't like watching his teams play. 

I find this train of thought fascinating by our fan base. You don't like his style of play? His style of play has won multiple ACC Titles and a National Title. Would you not want the same results here? 

[Hurryin' Hoosiers]

Just now, normandale97 said:

I didn't. Kendrick did. Maybe he's looking at the guy that rebuilt Michigan and won 2 big10 regular season titles, 2 big10 tournament titles and went to 2 final fours and considers him a home run. 

Well given the only thing we know is kendrick thinks it is a home run hire, people would think someone guessing beilein would mean they believe he fits the clues.

Do you have any reason to believe it is beilein?  I'd rather it be someone that could be around for a while but i guess we could do worse. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

2 minutes ago, Ghost of Rick Majerus said:

I find this train of thought fascinating by our fan base. You don't like his style of play? His style of play has won multiple ACC Titles and a National Title. Would you not want the same results here? 

I'd be thrilled with his results but I'd be lying if I said that I'd find his style aesthetically pleasing. Even when we won under Archie's style the games were painful to watch a lot of the time. But, I just want to win and win a lot, so I'd be happy to have Bennett. 

[Capt. Crimson]

6 minutes ago, IUHAHN81 said:

What candidate would get Lander excited enough to Tweet that? That's where my mind is at. Then again, he agreed to play for Archie so :/

Michael Jordan

[IU Prof]

Beilein makes the most sense to me if all these disparate rumors are linked and true. He is an innovative guy offensively, has NBA experience now, etc. Recruited Lander. And unlike Bennett or Beard, which would be pretty fast hires given when they were eliminated, Beilein's timeline works better here after Stevens spurned us. 

That having been said, Beilein is still my 6th choice, but if it's a done deal that's the best guess right now, I think.

[MaurerAlum]

5 minutes ago, IUHAHN81 said:

What candidate would get Lander excited enough to Tweet that? That's where my mind is at. Then again, he agreed to play for Archie so :/

Here's the problem with not just the IU fanbase, but people in general in the era of social media. There is no guarantee that a Tweet from one of our players is in any way referencing a coaching change. It might, but it also might not. We have to move past this connecting of dots that may not be connected in the first place.

[Hoosier1984]

If Dolson lives by his words of NBA style and new age offense no way it’s Bennett.

[Maynard]

I don't understand those who are preaching tempo and wanting guys like Oats because of their offensive style.  Alabama was in or near the top 10 in tempo, but they only scored a few ppg more than Michigan.

Would anyone be disappointed with a Michigan style offense?  They ranked 259th in temp this year.  Guess who ranked 206th, a full 53 spots ahead of them?  That's right, Archie Miller's Hoosiers.  They felt so much slower because they were so inefficient.

RMK's teams were near the top of the B1G in scoring because of efficiency, not tempo.  Efficiency is what matters.

[Trish]

Our fans having to sit through more 50 - 47 games. Oh boy.. that would be something.

 

But hey, if we get a 6th Banner then we can score 40PPG for all I care! 

[mdiu28]

5 minutes ago, Treesh said:

Brad ********* Stevens! 

It's not over until I'm a press conference. 

Positive vibes.

LOVE IT!

[Unexpectedflash]

Bennett's teams are slow but at least they are modern in terms of shot selection. They ran a lot of 5 out offenses this year. They are consistently great shooting teams and take a high percentage of theirs shots from three which is a big difference from Archie. I think there's a reason that Bennett has been able to have top 20 offensive efficiency teams the last 5 years. 

[TadQueasy]

The style of play stuff always amazes me.  I could care less about style of play.  I care about Ws.  Play any style you want but get Ws.  Playing hard.  Make adjustments.  Have a good relationship with players.  Those things are way more important that a style of offense.  

[IUHAHN81]

As soon as we get a guy who has us actually winning 70% of our games, playing style will fade to the back of our minds. Everyone wants to have fun watching but I guarantee we wanna win even more. Winning masks A LOT :)

[Hoosierfan2017]

Just now, TadQueasy said:

The style of play stuff always amazes me.  I could care less about style of play.  I care about Ws.  Play any style you want but get Ws.  Playing hard.  Make adjustments.  Have a good relationship with players.  Those things are way more important that a style of offense.  

Basketball is entertainment. I want to win, but I also want to enjoy watching us win. 50-47 slugfests are not something I enjoy watching. If it's what I have to do to watch IU win then ok, but it wouldn't be my #1 choice. 

[IUc2016]

8 minutes ago, IUHAHN81 said:

What candidate would get Lander excited enough to Tweet that? That's where my mind is at. Then again, he agreed to play for Archie so :/

Lander was most definitely a Michigan fan growing up. It was always thought that he would go to Michigan if not IU.

Beilein was the coach of those Michigan teams that Lander watched growing up. just sayin 

[TadQueasy]

Just now, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Basketball is entertainment. I want to win, but I also want to enjoy watching us win. 50-47 slugfests are not something I enjoy watching. If it's what I have to do to watch IU win then ok, but it wouldn't be my #1 choice. 

Winning is entertainment.  

[IUCrazy2]

10 minutes ago, normandale97 said:

I'm not delusional and I don't want Bennett. It's just personal preference. I look at basketball as entertainment and his style to me is not entertaining. Is he a good coach? Absolutely, I just don't like watching his teams play. 

That's fair.  I think the guy would win a whole bunch here, where I think he would start to lose people is if the inexplicable early round tournament losses continue to be a thing.  Losing to a 16 seed as a 1.  They went out early again this year.

It just seems to me that the Bennett/Miller defense is really susceptible to getting killed by teams that can shoot the 3 because you are worried about stopping the other team's 6'8" center from scoring in the paint.

I think that and boring basketball would be the potential downside to Bennett.  On the upside, there would be a whole lot more winning than we have seen around here for most of the last 20 years.

[Ghost of Rick Majerus]

7 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I'd be thrilled with his results but I'd be lying if I said that I'd find his style aesthetically pleasing. Even when we won under Archie's style the games were painful to watch a lot of the time. But, I just want to win and win a lot, so I'd be happy to have Bennett. 

I get it, it's not a run and gun offense like we would love to see. Who wouldn't want that? 

But, I'm like you, I just want to see this program as a consistently successful. I want to see this program in the top tier of the big ten and competing for National Titles. Heck, I'd like to see us compete for a Big Ten Tournament Championship. That would be a nice step. 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Ghost of Rick Majerus

[Hoosierfan2017]

1 minute ago, TadQueasy said:

Winning is entertainment.  

Ehh.. I suppose. We won a lot of games under Archie that I did not find entertaining at all. Tom Crean, for all his faults, put out an entertaining product. His teams were a lot of fun to watch. Beggars can't be choosers though, so if I have to watch boring basketball to watch IU win then I will do it, and if we win enough I won't be complaining.