General Coach Candidate News

[HoosierTrav]

9 minutes ago, IUwins0708 said:

Can someone get me another beer? Miller High Life preferably 

It’s the champagne of beers. Says it on the bottle. 

[ap2345]

3 minutes ago, TheDarkKnight69 said:

What happened to the guy saying there was a press conference Wednesday. Or is that not a thing anymore 

He came back and said he’d heard it was going to be Matta.

[Hippopotamo]

9 minutes ago, Iubravos said:

I don't understand the Arkansas love either. If IU goes to 6 mil a year he will be our coach. No doubt

If Arkansas matches the offer he might stay. 

[Jeff_Boy_Ardee]

And it says the reports were false.

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Yes I know, I called
Myself out for misreading. I’m stuck in the armpit of eastern kentucky for work reading all these updates on here and Twitter on a small @$$ phone while downing beers at the only local sports bar while watching the games. My apologies.


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

What happened to the guy saying there was a press conference Wednesday. Or is that not a thing anymore 

Probably for Matta, had he passed his physical..........


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[Golfman25]

27 minutes ago, HoosierTrav said:

We are a program in the toilet and somehow trending further downward, somehow. We just took one of the games consensus great young coaches, chewed him up, and spit him out. If we were misled into making a coaching change by Stevens, it’s a fatal blow. Dolson would be working from square one with no hot leads. Don’t forget the donors who ponied up the dough to make the transition. This is true and Dolson and the athletic Dept just likely burned up every dime of political capital they had. Just imagine for one second that you were given assurances that a certain guy was coming, if you could meet certain demands, you commit to potentially 8 figures of your money towards said guy, and the athletic Dept delivers Dane ******* Fife...... I’d never take another phone call. Neither would you. 

That's not how it works.  These IU donors in most cases earned their money and are smart.  They know about risk, sure things, etc.  I am sure the discussion included the comment "Ok Scott, you say you got Stevens, but what if you don't?  What if he's playing you?  What's plan B?"   

[Iubravos]

3 minutes ago, Hippopotamo said:

If Arkansas matches the offer he might stay. 

I'd put big money on it that he would walk. He wants to big at a big time program.  Arkansas is not close to peak Indiana. 

[hoosierbannerd]

2 minutes ago, Jeff_Boy_Ardee said:

Yes I know, I called
Myself out for misreading. I’m stuck in the armpit of eastern kentucky for work reading all these updates on here and Twitter on a small @$$ phone while downing beers at the only local sports bar while watching the games. My apologies.


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I think whomever is sitting to your left, you should do a snakebite with just for sh*ts n giggles..

 

[rcbowla]

Maybe we reached a deal with him and he passed a physical to be announced later ?

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I'm way behind but here you are looking at from another very logical point of view and it appears nobody noticed

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[tomallenfan1]

I’m preparing for us to find out during the first exhibition game when the new coach walks out of the tunnel.

[go iu bb]

1 minute ago, Golfman25 said:

That's not how it works.  These IU donors in most cases earned their money and are smart.  They know about risk, sure things, etc.  I am sure the discussion included the comment "Ok Scott, you say you got Stevens, but what if you don't?  What if he's playing you?  What's plan B?"   

I'm sure they've also had their share of negotiations in which everything seemed to be going great to only fail in the end for one reason or another. 

[Moye > Boozer]

2 hours ago, Jeff_Boy_Ardee said:

Some people need to chill out. Went from I’m not believing anything else that’s rumored on Twitter because of Stevens to all of a sudden believing we signed a paraplegic.

Dolson is obviously doing his homework, we haven’t hired anyone yet let’s all relax and let it play out before we jump off the cliff.


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Honestly had me crying laughing so hard with this. Thank you, Jeff Boy

[cleeter]

That's not how it works.  These IU donors in most cases earned their money and are smart.  They know about risk, sure things, etc.  I am sure the discussion included the comment "Ok Scott, you say you got Stevens, but what if you don't?  What if he's playing you?  What's plan B?"   

Totally agree. Or a situation saying “I WILL give you “X” amount of dollars if it’s Brad Stevens”. That would still be a donor funding the new hire, but the exchange of funds is dependent on the agreement. It’s not like the donor walked in with ten million in a duffel bag and said bye.


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[coonhounds]

I'm way behind but here you are looking at from another very logical point of view and it appears nobody noticed

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Yes I read the wide of the mark comment interesting. Didn't totally shoot it down. Could have said false or totally inaccurate imo

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[DChoosier]

1 hour ago, HoosierTrav said:

We just took one of the games consensus great young coaches, chewed him up, and spit him out. 

Ha.
“We” did not chew up Archie and spit him out. He made well over 20mm and delivered a disappointing, historically terrible run. A number of coaches hired when he was, and after, have done better, he never brought his alleged tough minded “brand” to the program, recruiting stalled, his offense was horrific, he had glaring needs but left scholarships open, his players seemingly had little affinity for him, the only players that made it to the tourney did it by transferring to other schools, the year 4 issues were mostly the same as the year 1 issues and he began his tenure by losing at home to Indiana State and ended it by going scoreless for the last 10 minutes of his tenure....a fitting finish. We fired Davis and Crean and they were both much, much more successful than Archie. 

 

[HomeBrew911]

Never really been a message board kind of guy and only started following a few months ago. This is my first time posting on any so bear with me. First, I believe yesterday was the anniversary of one of my top five Hoosier basketball moments, A.J. Moye and the Boozer block. I watch a replay of that game every March. As far as a new coach, my completely uneducated opinion is that it comes down to two coaches that being Drew or Musselman. The program needs a jolt of energy and I think these two can provide that. Drew can obviously recruit and both run systems that have energy. You're not recruiting kids to come play defense. You sell them on an uptempo offense and then challenge them to pride themselves on playing lockdown defense. I think both can do this. I wasn't really sold on Musselman at all until after their last game and it was two things. The first was him jumping on the table after the win, that is exactly what this program needs, someone who brings energy and passion. The second was an interview I read about Justin Smith. I saw him as a guy with limitless potential who was just lazy and lacked motivation. Now it seems like he was just unhappy playing in a system that was basically boring and uninspiring. 

[IUHAHN81]

Listens gents, make sure u hit us with them 12:30 am Lander style tweets tonight. Lovin' the depths of our coaching search so far.  Looking forward to Digger Phelps being thrown into the mix! 

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

He’s a young man, really. What 54? Coaching has been tough on him. He looks at least 10 years older in his face and legs. I wish him the best with his health, but even I knew we shouldn’t be targeting him. His quotes when he departed Ohio State speak volumes. He and JB should continue their passion in basketball, just not as a head coach of a major University.
 
 
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I'm 55. If he looks 10 years older, I look twice as old as I am.

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[Stuhoo]

Welcome HomeBrew911!

[RaceToTheTop]

Tomorrow I go on a vacation to Kentucky for some family time and golfing with my son and father-in-law.  Pains me to not be able to wear my IU gear.  Not worth the grief.