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First, you guys are hilarious. Reading the pages I missed on a long travel day is great.  I guess I missed the chance to drop the bomb that coaches were informed yesterday that Woody is being ret

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First thing's first, congrats to the IU women on the 4-seed and hosting opportunity. Tough draw, but they call it madness for a reason. Secondly, love you guys and this community, but goodness you're

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The “compromise” by Dolson to let this go down this way saved us some good cash on the buyout. Lot of litigation today. Make no mistake about it, this was not Woody’s decision to retire. 

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Just now, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

you're worried if he'd win here? I absolutely cannot smh any harder. 

How are they made up concerns? Because you made them up. "babysitting 18-22 year olds"-- how much babysitting do you think Coach K did with the pros he brought in? And, again, out of those 4---- he's the best candidate. 

Reading sure is a skill. Where did I ever doubt his ability to coach /win? Assuming he's 100% committed to the job along with all the nuances of being a college head coach (which are different than being an NBA head coach and executive), sure sign him up. I'm questioning his commitment because every career move he has made suggests he's committed to being a college head coach. 

I'm not asking for you to agree with my opinion either.  

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7 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

How are they made up concerns? Every career move he has made suggests otherwise. How many guys leave college for the NBA and come back successful or come back at all? 

I mean, Pitino and Cal haven't done half bad. 

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Reading sure is a skill. Where did I ever doubt his ability to coach /win? Assuming he's 100% committed to the job along with all the nuances of being a college head coach (which are different than being an NBA head coach and executive), sure sign him up. I'm questioning his commitment because every career move he has made suggests he's committed to being a college head coach. 

I'm not asking for you to agree with my opinion either.  

You seem confused in your posts then. You just asked... " How many guys leave college for the NBA and come back successful or come back at all?  lol... but you aren't questioning if he'd win.... hmmmm

So, what are you questioning? "his commitment" ....no. you're questioning if he'd win lol 

I had no clue that being a college HC was different than an NBA HC and GM. Appreciate the help. 

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"Stevens is an Indiana boy to his core. He was born and raised in in Zionsville, Indiana. His father would often drive him to Bloomington to watch the Indiana Hoosiers play. Stevens replicated what he saw during pick-up games in his friends’ driveways." Seth Davis hints at Brad Stevens as candidate if Indiana job opens in 2025 - On3

Brady Stevens, Son of Celtics Executive Brad, Commits to Notre Dame MCBB | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report

Son is a FR at Notre Dame, Dad is an IU grad, and Brad grew up dreaming of and replicating IUBB games in his driveway. It's a done deal, what better way to honor your family than to win a championship for your home state with your son on the team and dad proud in the stands

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"Stevens is an Indiana boy to his core. He was born and raised in in Zionsville, Indiana. His father would often drive him to Bloomington to watch the Indiana Hoosiers play. Stevens replicated what he saw during pick-up games in his friends’ driveways." Seth Davis hints at Brad Stevens as candidate if Indiana job opens in 2025 - On3

Brady Stevens, Son of Celtics Executive Brad, Commits to Notre Dame MCBB | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report

Son is a FR at Notre Dame, Dad is an IU grad, and Brad grew up dreaming of and replicating IUBB games in his driveway. It's a done deal, what better way to honor your family than to win a championship for your home state with your son on the team and dad proud in the stands

“With all the Billy Donovan chatter there is another former college coach in the NBA who should not be forgotten. Brad Stevens,” Davis wrote on X. “He’s an Indiana native. Perhaps if there’s a big job open in his native state next year…. Don’t rule it out. It’s more possible than you think.”

 
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11 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Reading sure is a skill. Where did I ever doubt his ability to coach /win? Assuming he's 100% committed to the job along with all the nuances of being a college head coach (which are different than being an NBA head coach and executive), sure sign him up. I'm questioning his commitment because every career move he has made suggests he's committed to being a college head coach. 

I'm not asking for you to agree with my opinion either.  

Here’s the rub man. Questioning Stevens’ commitment to the grind or to recruit is rich coming from you given that you held water for our current coach all summer and through much of this disaster of a season. 
A coach who has actually shown ZERO commitment to the grind or to recruiting. 

Stop bringing up hypothetical concerns when you completely ignored them for your preferred guy. Your credibility is in the ******* toilet 

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30 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Quinn forced him on to IU with Steve

He is Steve's godson and was untouchable the first 3 years

IU hired Pam, she loves athletics, She let Scott get rid of Allen and let him hire Cigs

Woodson still sucks, but his buddies can't save him any longer, Scott has power now.

Woodson is done either now or March

Sorry -- having a brain fart.

Who's Steve? 

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1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

Just a reminder for those if you don’t get your guy A, B, C or even D there are plenty of good college basketball coaches coaching today that could take over and turn this around.  Doesn’t have to be the name brand coach to get this thing rolling.   Also if and that will be a big if Stevens becomes head coach and he doesn’t turn IU around then that’s all she wrote for IU basketball.   He is the White Whale for almost every IU fan.  If he can’t fix it then I would say most fans will check out 

I’m going to disagree with you here. Going back twenty years the title has only been won 4x by a single time winner: Bennett, Calipari, Ollie (lol), and Scott Drew. 
 

Absent Ollie, those guys are all good coaches, but even with them in the mix the titles are generally monopolized by the top 5ish coaches at top programs.  
 

“Good coaches” will potentially get chewed up at a place like IU. Places like IU need to be searching for great. I am with you on being fine with taking a young up and comer, but IUs problem is twofold: 1) they can’t identify them and 2) they can’t self assess well enough to pull the trigger and move on quickly when it isn’t working. 
 

So I 100% get fans fixating on Stevens…even though it isn’t going to happen.

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5 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Brad Stevens discourse is sooo tired. Would be great if he comes here, sure. Until I see it with my own eyes, I can’t get excited about it. I’d rather talk about all the candidates who wouldn’t necessarily win the press conference than the handful we know that would. Wake me up in March…

Thanks for letting us know! 

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6 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Sorry -- having a brain fart.

Who's Steve? 

Ferguson.  Chairman of Cook Medical, former Chair of BoT, etc. and was a mentor to Woody a long time ago or something like that, I can't remember, but they're close.  Buckner and Ferguson pushed the Woody hire here.  Apparently IUBB is their personal sandbox and they can appoint their old pal to be coach.  Very poor behavior from them.

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