Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[Jeff Flabjohns]

10 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

There seems to be a lot of unhappy folks around there lately... this is for y'all:

I have a hunch that those most disappointed have been tuned out from IUBB entirely the last two years. 
Anybody watching Woodys tenure knows just how far the staff, and some players, put us behind the 8 ball in most matchups. 
 

And also expected us to hire whomever we wanted because *reasons*

[newcastle12]

1 minute ago, IU5355 said:

Hope we can keep this kid. These Europeans have been lighting it up. 

I heard he was a project at best and was Woody trying to lock someone down to shut down a narrative.  He can actually play? 

[DChoosier]

12 minutes ago, hoosierbannerd said:

Guess which 3 words totally p*ss me off in this statement and the kid was here long enough to know better!

F*ck, I need a Snickers...

“University of Indiana”…..after three years here???!!  LOL, LOL

I’d bet a decent pile of change that MR will be playing for Miami next season.

 

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

1. Called Stevens to make sure.

2. Would have loved Dusty, who wasn’t leaving UM after one year.

3. Gauged interest from Otz-nope.

4. Gauged interest from one of either Drew or McCasland—they were not moving for anyone.

The fifth choice? Also the numero uno top choice that was realistic and had any intention of leaving their current position.

 

Yep. Not saying this is what happened, but given the smoke with McCollum. 

Thinking about the Goodman tweet... did McCollum put it out to see if Dolson's interest was legit/pressure Iowa? Did Dolson put it out there to tell his first choice (DeVries) to make up his mind or we will move on? Seems to me we had our choice and picked DeVries. Dolson has more information than me, so I've got no reservations being excited about this hire until he gives me a reason not to be. 

[str8baller]

7 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

He wasn’t even a realistic option until the NCAA spurned West Virginia.  In 24 hours Dolson decided this was our move for the next 6 years.  

I think I’m with you there. Whatever you think of Devries, and I’m cautiously optimistic*, it really looks and feels like Dolson had no plan or wasn’t able to execute the one that he had.  
 

We’ll get the university puff pieces in a few days and can probably read between the lines enough to piece together a realistic narrative. 

 

*Im underlining and notating this so people don’t get their feelings hurt: lots to like about Devries moving forward 

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, IU5355 said:

Dolson must have alot of confidence in Devries to give him such a nice contract that assuming will go up with success 

Agreed... would love to see the incentive structure of the contract...

[Golfman25]

1 hour ago, Silat Player said:

Agreed. It would be so much easier to get Mullins to flip if he was committed pretty much anywhere other than the 2-time defending champions. 

Hurley is the best coach in the country. That's probably an insurmountable obstacle for nearly any coach.

Dude is also insane.  :)

[IU5355]

2 minutes ago, newcastle12 said:

I heard he was a project at best and was Woody trying to lock someone down to shut down a narrative.  He can actually play? 

48% 3 point shooter. 

[HoosierFan1994]

Last night I felt the same smoke we saw with Cig was happening with Devries. I looked more into him and called him a solid hire but not a home run. The more I've read, heard, and seen about the coach, I love this hire. 

1) WVU and Iowa folks are big time mad. That's a good thing.  I listen/watch McAfee (WVU guy) and he loved Devries. You should've seen his face when Thamel said today "When a job like Indiana comes, you have to take it. Like he didn't expect it. 

2) West Virginia is a good job in a top 3 conference in the country. He really wants to be here. 

3) My cousin played at UE in the MVC. Drake was usually, outside of one crazy year, at the bottom of the league with UE. Devries had six 20 win seasons there. Before Drake only had five 20 win seasons in their program history. WVU was a last place team in the Big 12. He turned that program around in one year. They absolutely should have been in. 

4) Lots of college basketball experience at the mid-major level, Big East as an assistant, and Big 12 for a year. 

5) His son can play. If healthy, he's going to be a top player on this team next year. 

I can understand the upset fans. Yeah, I wanted a proven P5 winner too. He isn't exactly that. But those guys normally don't leave for a job like IU. It sounds like he is a hard worker which is much needed. Will his personality work here? I felt for Archie it came crashing down in year 2 when they went on a crazy losing streak. He couldn't handle it. How's he going to handle a bad home loss in January when the entire fan base is pissed? TBD. 

Interested in who he brings for assistants. Some have Indiana ties (good and bad). I did research. Outside of his son, there are 3 guys with eligibility left he could possibly bring: Amani Hansberry (F-Transfer from Illinois), Sencire Harris (G-Transfer from Illinois), and Jonathan Powell (Freshman-Cupps HS teammate? Already in the portal). 

Solid HS class he had coming in. Two top 75 recruits (Braydon Hawthorne and Kelvin Odih). 

[JustWinBaby]

1 hour ago, JustWinBaby said:

It's not "goodbye," it's "see you later"

[Chris007]

1 hour ago, Home Jersey said:

DeVries will have hopefully 15ish successful years here then retire.

People will clamor for 63-year old Brad Stevens and lament us not signing him in 2025... or 2021... 

RTZ posted that Trilly was wrong literally moments before it was confirmed by all the national outlets. 

That's called trolling and gets called out when it's done by Isaac.

RTZ has a "reputation" so he gets a pass for being wrong? No, he's trolling. 

He somehow never has time to be around the boards except to post gifs then do the whole tantrum thing...

People can mock it. Who cares.

So petty along with others on here. If any one thinks we met with Brad once early on I don’t know what to tell you. This place sucks. 

[Pagoda]

Just now, go iu bb said:

I guess it depends on how much of their revenue share other schools are committing to men's basketball. IU's NIL was already very high. Revenue sharing is capped at $20.5M with a large chunk going to football and some of it needs to go to women's sports. I agree that about $2M of revenue share seems low, but we'll need to see how much it ends up being and how that compares to other schools.

Yea.  I misread that tweet — it meant $7M for just NIL and then the rev share on top of that, and we are planning to be 2x the conference average on rev share.  With that clarification it makes sense and I think our total player payroll number is fantastic.  

[newcastle12]

Just now, IU5355 said:

48% 3 point shooter. 

You've watched the film?  Stats can be very misleading for a lot of reasons. 

[IndyFife]

12 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

The difference?

Anthony Leal wrote his own damn going away letter, and it was from the heart.

Malik is a nice enough kid, but it’s pretty likely that his agent wrote that for him and let it fly.

University of Indiana. Buh Bye 4 Eva.

[Jeff Flabjohns]

14 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

He wasn’t even a realistic option until the NCAA spurned West Virginia.  In 24 hours Dolson decided this was our move for the next 6 years.  

We don’t know this at all. It’s entirely likely that DDv has been near the top of Dolson’s list the last two weeks. Him missing the tournament sped up discussions that might have already been happening. 

[JHoosier914]

Not reading all of the 30 pages before here, so I’m sure this was said somewhere/somehow.

while not someone I expected/wanted, he is now our coach and we all should throw our full support behind him.  Give him to to implement his system and get players he wants. I don’t think we need to compare him to other first year coaches in the conference (a la May) that many wanted at the end of last season.

from what I’ve read (and again, was probably stated here) dude knows ball, is a grinder and won’t be outworked.  Learned for a long time under really good coaches. Has a history of winning.

lets get behind him and hopefully reap the benefits of this hire for years to come

[IU5355]

Just now, newcastle12 said:

You've watched the film?  Stats can be very misleading for a lot of reasons. 

There are a few highlights tapes on YouTube if you're interested. 

[sirhoosierlot]

17 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Obviously it was. Ability to pay top 10 money and top 10 nil and can’t attract a proven winning coach.  Quite impressive really.  Would have much rather rolled with Cronin and he wasn’t my top pick.  Eric said he would have been interested.  Just a bungled efffort by Dolson.  

We paid the second biggest buyout ever to get Devries according to Osterman. Pope was first last year. Both were around the $6 million dollar rank. McCasland’s buyout alone would have broke the record by $2 million. 

[Rico]

I am pleased with the hire.  Now let’s hang some more banners.

[Geometry Hoosier]

After listening to Doug McDermott on field of 68 after dark, I’m excited.