Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[AZ Hoosier]

1 hour ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

DDv will be my method of choice 

CDdV

[OKHOOSIER]

7 minutes ago, Motley's said:

Probably didn't phrase it right that he was one WV's two top scorers. They brought in Jayden Stone as a transfer to be a scorer. He averaged 20.8/5.6/2.7 the prior season at Detroit. Scored 30 in Detroit's final Horizon tourney game. Wasn't available all season for WV. 

If those two are available, that’s a top-25 maybe top-15ish team all season and the DD conversation is completely different right now. The fact he still had them a tournament team was just good coaching. (Snubbed obviously but that team should have been in) 

[Dave from Dayton]

2 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Not to turn this into an Archie thread, but I followed that program pretty closely back then, and the truth about it is really somewhere in between really good and stagnant.  He struggled his first 2 1/2 years, low conference finish his second year and started the third year 1-5 in the league and the natives were getting restless.  Then, mid-season, they miraculously turned it around and had the miracle Elite 8 run.

After that Archie was certainly very good in conference.  It should be noted that was right after Xavier and Butler left for the Big East, but he was still very good in league.  Never was able to have another tournament run, though.

He never was able to have another tournament run.  True.

But he did get into the NCAAT his last 4 years at Dayton.

At Dayton...that is good.

Archie was not in my top 5 of picks when he got tapped for the job.  I was surprised.

He did not have the basketball players with long arms and with the work ethic that was team oriented in his tenure at IU.  

[JustWinBaby]

Archie's been gone for four years and we're still doing postmortems on his tenure lol, he really did a number on this fanbase.

Archie Miller was a poorly vetted coach, frankly. That's all there is to it. He was a bad fit for the program because of who he is, not necessarily because he is a bad coach -- and I still believe he's a decent coach, he's just in a shitty situation at Rhode Island, and frankly the IU job may have broken his spirit a bit. If he'd never left Dayton I think he'd still have that program rolling.

The reason I trust Dolson is because of the process through which he hired Cignetti. He didn't look at wins and losses, he looked at the character traits that led to the wins and losses. He identified the type of leader IUFB needed and got him. I believe he had a very similar, if not even more refined, process for the basketball coaching search. And in the introductory press conference, both he and Whitten discussed the traits they had been looking for, and that DeVries "met or exceeded" all of the criteria. And then DeVries spoke and confirmed that for us.

Sure, it's just words and we'll have to see the on-court product. But this felt starkly different from the Woodson and Miller introductory press conferences. There was a much clearer description of the vetting and hiring process that IU underwent, and a much clearer vision for how Coach DeVries wants to build the program.

[TadQueasy]

The only good thing about the Archie time period is having a coach named after the great Archie Bunker. 

[AZ Hoosier]

43 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

This is just a guess. But 3 high school kids Sisley and 2 from WV. Then 10 portal guys and none from the current roster. 

Fully agree... wipe it clean and don't forget the bleach...

[Hoosier DaDa]

I’m cleaning up my screenshot roll and came across this. Our new coach wasn’t even listed with odds on this. 

[Hoosier DaDa]

13 hours ago, MyDRockHard said:

Since we moved off Woody, had to update my screen name. Excited for the future under our new coach!

Hopefully, it will last more than four years.

[Jim IV22]

I like Drock (since it's already established) or CDV...if we are still voting

 

DD will always remind me of Dakich (vomit)

[Hoosier DaDa]

12 hours ago, Golfman25 said:

One of the things mentioned in the analysis video a few pages back was CDD ability to adapt and adjust.  Back in the Drake days Tucker was good enough to create his own shots.  When they moved to WVU, the talent was better, so they ran him off a series of screens to get him looks.   That’s what I like.  Will adjust to personal in order just win baby.   Can’t wait to see how this roster comes together in the next month.   

That is one of the many things that has been driving me mad for the past eight years +. The coaches recruited these players and then they try to jam a square peg in a round hole. If the guys that you recruited are not doing well in your system, change things up and that’s what I like to hear. Awesome.

[Motley's]

11 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

I’m cleaning up my screenshot roll and came across this. Our new coach was in even listed with odds on this. 

I think someone got word that we were talking to McDermott. We were, but we were talking to him about DeVries. 

[LamarCheeks]

Fisch weighs in on D-Rock. 

(Has he undergone some implant work? LOL). 



https://www.wane.com/video/voice-of-the-hoosiers-don-fischer-goes-1-on-1-with-wanes-glenn-marini-on-the-hiring-of-iu-basketball-coach-darian-devries/10553547/

[LIHoosier]

2 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Fisch weighs in on D-Rock. 

(Has he undergone some implant work? LOL). 



https://www.wane.com/video/voice-of-the-hoosiers-don-fischer-goes-1-on-1-with-wanes-glenn-marini-on-the-hiring-of-iu-basketball-coach-darian-devries/10553547/

Probably just one of the few times we've ever seen Fisch without a giant set of headphones matting his hair down.

[Silat Player]

16 minutes ago, TadQueasy said:

The only good thing about the Archie time period is having a coach named after the great Archie Bunker. 

No, the only thing good about the Archie time period was his smokeshow wife. 

Archie was an absolute disaster, and I can't believe that he got past the interview. Archie must have brought his better half and Fred was ... uh ... distracted. 

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

6 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Fisch weighs in on D-Rock. 

(Has he undergone some implant work? LOL). 



https://www.wane.com/video/voice-of-the-hoosiers-don-fischer-goes-1-on-1-with-wanes-glenn-marini-on-the-hiring-of-iu-basketball-coach-darian-devries/10553547/

This video gets me pumped up. It’s so nice to have a coach who gets fired up and moves along the sidelines communicating instead of just standing there with a blank stare with his mouth wide open looking confused

[TadQueasy]

5 minutes ago, Silat Player said:

No, the only thing good about the Archie time period was his smokeshow wife. 

Archie was an absolute disaster, and I can't believe that he got past the interview. Archie must have brought his better half and Fred was ... uh ... distracted. 

She was no Edith Bunker, but she was alright. 

[JustWinBaby]

25 minutes ago, Jim IV22 said:

I like Drock (since it's already established) or CDV...if we are still voting

 

DD will always remind me of Dakich (vomit)

DRock feels like something his players and coaches call him -- people who know him personally -- not something fans call him. But that's just me.

[BlueDevil]

If DDV can load up in the portal which I think he will, and with what is coming in I think you’re looking at 25 wins next year in year 1. There will be real shooters again making it rain in SSAH. It feels different this time.

[moyemayhem]

Does anyone know if DRock is related to T-Rock and K-Rock?

[Jet812]

1 hour ago, rayl456 said:

Yeah…sorry, I know that some think Goode would be a likely choice, but no.  This is a new start…new mindset…new regime.  No leftovers, thanks.  JMHO.  :)

If for nothing else I’d like at least one holdover that can tell us how different things are now than last season… ;)