Candidate Thread: Brad Stevens (Boston Celtics)

[Nonymouse]

10 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Sure.  He could have handled it the way Beard did.  He could have handled it the way Nick Saban did (which is closer to what he actually did).  At the end of the day, he's Brad Stevens, and he handled it the way Brad Stevens did.  Not everybody's the same.  Not everybody handles things the same way you would.  Not everybody has the same motivations you would.  So while I think landing Stevens is a long shot, what he says to the media is not a definitive answer until Indiana hires a coach and it's not him.

Brad repeatedly refused to talk about jobs when he was a rumored candidate while at Butler. While there, he had talked to Tennessee, Illinois, UCLA, and the Suns (and probably others). His MO was always always always “I don’t talk about other jobs.” For him to deny it publicly in this way is as strong of a denial as he’s ever given about anything. Heck, he even poked fun at the notion this week when he said “remember last week when I was going to Indiana?”  

I know none of you care about my source on this front because I’m new and it isn’t what you want to hear, so I’m not going to keep going there. But the above info is all public and merely connecting logical dots. 

Edited March 27, 2021 by Nonymouse

[ap2345]

2 minutes ago, Nonymouse said:

Brad repeatedly refused to talk about jobs when he was a rumored candidate while at Butler. While at Butler, he had talked to Tennessee, Illinois, UCLA, and the Suns (and probably others). His MO was always always always “I don’t talk about other jobs.” For him to deny it publicly in this way is as strong of a denial as he’s ever given about anything. Heck, even poked fun at the notion this week when he said “remember last week when I was going to Indiana?”  

I know none of you care about my source on this front because I’m new and it isn’t what you want to hear, so I’m not going to keep going there. But the above info is all public and merely connecting logical dots. 

Did you ever pm Yeagley like he offered? That would go a long way for helping your sources credibility around here. 

[SteelerHoosier]

Cool. Most of us realize he is likely not coming. 

[TheWatShot]

4 minutes ago, Nonymouse said:

Brad repeatedly refused to talk about jobs when he was a rumored candidate while at Butler. While there, he had talked to Tennessee, Illinois, UCLA, and the Suns (and probably others).

"probably others" makes me think you don't actually know this. 

[BH33]

11 minutes ago, IUguy77 said:

Is there a way to block or ignore people on this site? Been looking but haven’t seen an option. 

hover over that user's name and the Ignore option comes up

[Nonymouse]

3 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

"probably others" makes me think you don't actually know this. 

It would take you two minutes on google to find him connected to the jobs I just mentioned. As I said in the post - this was public. I simply don’t know if there were others. I had no connection prior to 2013, when he was fielding interest while at Butler. 

[mdiu28]

6 minutes ago, Nonymouse said:

Brad repeatedly refused to talk about jobs when he was a rumored candidate while at Butler. While there, he had talked to Tennessee, Illinois, UCLA, and the Suns (and probably others). His MO was always always always “I don’t talk about other jobs.” For him to deny it publicly in this way is as strong of a denial as he’s ever given about anything. Heck, he even poked fun at the notion this week when he said “remember last week when I was going to Indiana?”  

I know none of you care about my source on this front because I’m new and it isn’t what you want to hear, so I’m not going to keep going there. But the above info is all public and merely connecting logical dots. 

It's not that we don't care, dude. It's your approach. You have this "I'm right, everyone else is wrong. If you don't believe me, you're dumb" attitude and it makes you look like, excuse my language, a pompous *******. 

I think you'll find 99.99% on here appreciate any inside info (see Chris, Yeagley, 0708, etc). Just not the way you minimize everyone else's and try to maximize yours. It's up to each person to believe it or not - we don't need you to do that for us. 

[Nonymouse]

8 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Did you ever pm Yeagley like he offered? That would go a long way for helping your sources credibility around here. 

I know. But I can’t out myself. 

[Hovadipo]

38 minutes ago, Josh said:

Can you dumb this down a couple more notches?  Hov like hover?  Hovering Oladipo?

Jay-Z calls himself “Hova”, as in the Hebrew word for the man upstairs. Playing off that. 

[FightFor6]

Can we get back to having fun with this process and stop sucking the air out of the room? 

Some posters here:

[IUguy77]

5 minutes ago, BH33 said:

hover over that user's name and the Ignore option comes up

Thank you. 

[str8baller]

26 minutes ago, Nonymouse said:

Where was the part where Saban said he loved living in Miami? Had Saban lived there 8 years? Had saban been to multiple AFC title games? Had Saban told everyone he’d never go back to college basketball?
 

This comparison is silly. 

More or less at similar junctures in their career. Both are/were not going anywhere with their current team thanks to front office failures. So the next move, and there will be a next move, is gonna come and either be another pro spot or college. Saban was convinced to come back to college even though he never thought he would and his goal was to win the SB. Hell, Saban accomplished a lot more than Stevens in his first stint in the college game, had nothing to prove , and still came back.  
 

I’m not one that thinks Stevens is coming, but the parallel with Saban is there beyond the denials.
 

Who knows what Stevens wants and if it’s even the same as he wanted a year ago, 8 years ago or a month ago. He hasn’t won a championship at any level. Doesn’t look like he will with the Celtics. And while he’s capable enough at a coach, in the NBA you realistically have to have a top 2 or 3 roster to do so and the coach has little control over that. I wouldn’t rule out a return to college for him eventually even if he doesn’t want to today. 

[pumpfake]

53 minutes ago, FritzIam4IU said:

I would agree with this. A bird in hand and all that. I don't think you could wait until May/June unless you have some kind of guarantee.

Agree, and by guarantee I'd mean signed and legally binding.  At one time a person's word may have been their "bond" but when things happen like with Josh McDaniels you can't take that risk.  Heck, the colts had already begun hiring coordinators at his suggestion before he reneged on his word.

[Josh]

12 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Jay-Z calls himself “Hova”, as in the Hebrew word for the man upstairs. Playing off that. 

Certainly not the first time in my life that my total lack of hip hop knowledge made me look silly.  

[JimmerNoe]

This is like when you know Santa probably isn’t real, and that mean kid at school told you it’s just your parents, but you still want to stay up late just to double check that the magic might still be alive. Brad is Santa. I am a child. It doesn’t matter how many times someone tells me he’s not coming down the chimney if I want to believe just one more year.


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

I think most people realize the odds are low here. But who cares if we have a little fun in this thread while we wait for the hire to be announced. It’s not over til it’s over.

To me it’s not Stevens or bust, but some of these candidates getting discussed with legitimacy is depressing.

I’m going to hang in fantasyland a while longer and hope Indiana opens the checkbook to some deserving young/middle aged coach.


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[IUCrazy2]

34 minutes ago, Nonymouse said:

I know. But I can’t out myself. 

Yes, national secrets are definitely at stake.  You are a good man to keep that quiet.

Edit:  I think if you polled the people in this thread and asked them to truly say whether they thought Stevens was coming here, greater than 80% would say no.  If you followed r/wallstreetbets a few weeks back, this thread is the same vibe.

[Kboro21]

59 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

That didn't clear anything up lol. Not for me anyhow

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Just accept that you’re old and out of the loop on some things LOL 

[SteelerHoosier]

Plot twist: Backalleyguru was actually Mrs. Stevens 

[ap2345]

1 minute ago, SteelerHoosier said:

Plot twist: Backalleyguru was actually Mrs. Stevens 

He’s now called gurubackup but that would be awesome