Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[Trish]

4 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

I remember John Decker from the old Scout forum. Good memories over there. 
 

I was wondering if that was him. Wow!

[Trish]

Ben has matched the # of NCAA TOURNEY wins that Darian has in his first year in D1. 
 

 

[Lebowski]

5 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So has it been confirmed, did Ben turn us down ?

 Maybe someone like @Chris007 can help with this.  

[tyappleg]

6 minutes ago, Trish said:

Ben has matched the # of NCAA TOURNEY wins that Darian has in his first year in D1. 
 

 

Jesus Christ.  This is going to get old real quick.  

[HoosierInParadise]

Jesus Christ.  This is going to get old real quick.  

I wasn't even bashing McCollum, just glad we hired CDV and I had people flock to his defense...

[Trish]

16 minutes ago, tyappleg said:

Jesus Christ.  This is going to get old real quick.  

Can we not joke around on here anymore?! 

[tyappleg]

Just now, Trish said:

Can we not joke around on here anymore?! 

Sorry; it's hard to tell whose joking and whose not. I apologize, but there are those on the board who would post something like that and be serious. 

[LamarCheeks]

20 minutes ago, tyappleg said:

Jesus Christ.  This is going to get old real quick.  

[Golfman25]

1 hour ago, 8bucks said:

What exactly did he inherit?  Didn’t he have to bring in around 9-10 players. Did he inherit a staff or did he have to bring that too. 

A winning mindset.  If you listen to Cig when he got here he couldn’t believe the “loser mentality” we had with football.  He really had to focus on that with the administration and the fans, like getting the fans to stick around during the game.  

[LamarCheeks]

47 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

So has it been confirmed, did Ben turn us down ?

The way I understood it -- from reading through the massive amount of info here -- was that we made strong overtures to DeVries and McCollum. While McCollum was sorta undecided, DeVries said yes. 

I could be wrong, though. 

[AZ Hoosier]

The way I understood it -- from reading through the massive amount of info here -- was that we made strong overtures to DeVries and McCollum. While McCollum was sorta undecided, DeVries said yes. 
I could be wrong, though. 

It may have come down to the fact that DeVries and WVa were done, and McCollum and Drake were still playing.

Regardless, we got a really good coach, and I’m pumped for next year.

[Pagoda]

9 hours ago, go iu bb said:

I added up the salaries I saw for the assistant coaches under Woodson to get that number. 

Hunter: $432k

Rosemond: $410k

Walsh: $225k

Those add up to less than $1.1M. I think they also get retention bonuses that a are in the 10s of thousands and bonuses so they do make more than that but not a ton. 

I've looked at few other assistant coaches at other schools and they made more. Luke Murray at UConn is making $750k. Murphy at Alabama is making $450k which is on par with ours but still more. 

I agree that that total for IU seems low, which is why I'm hoping they increase the budget like they did for football. Give the program a chance to hire a big time assistant and retain him for pretty much anything except for a HC job.

These are tricky numbers to find. 

Latest Mind Your Banners pod Osterman said IU had the largest staff budget in the B1G last year and it was one of the tops in the country (if not the top, wow).  This does line up with the very large overall operating budget IUBB has.

I would guess at IU CDD will have the budget to basically hire whoever he wants.  It seems like CDD typically has a large staff, so we should have a lot of staff announcements coming soon.

Also, this latest pod is a good one.  They talked to some coaches on an anonymous basis that faced CDD throughout the years, etc. and it's pretty interesting stuff.

[Brass Cannon]

#1 sign we got a good coach. 
 

Some people are outright pissed we got him. 

[Chris007]

8 hours ago, Bowhunter said:

So has it been confirmed, did Ben turn us down ?

He didn't say no he just wanted time to think about it and DeVries said yes immediately. 

[GP711]

I would imagine some staff news today. Also i still feel good about Enright from DePaul. 

[IU5355]

8 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

He didn't say no he just wanted time to think about it and DeVries said yes immediately. 

Is Dolson impatient? Or did he believe both were equally strong candidates?

[Chris007]

Just now, IU5355 said:

Is Dolson impatient? Or did he believe both were equally strong candidates?

We wanted to get the ball rolling and neither was a bad choice. I think we got the better end of the deal IMO

[GP711]

1 minute ago, IU5355 said:

Is Dolson impatient? Or did he believe both were equally strong candidates?

I think had they both said yes right away it would be McCollum. However, there were concerns with him. Scott had concerns about his high-level recruiting. Credit to trilly on that nugget:)

[IUGRAD06]

15 minutes ago, GP711 said:

I think had they both said yes right away it would be McCollum. However, there were concerns with him. Scott had concerns about his high-level recruiting. Credit to trilly on that nugget:)

McCollum as much as I like him this would have been the biggest issue.  Great coach.  Question with him will be consistency at this level.  If I was him I would be very choosy where I ended up.  I wanted him here but I also don’t think it would have been the best fit for him.  He is a great basketball mind though.  I think DeVries if you think about it will be the better fit long term.  

[Hoosierfan2017]

20 minutes ago, IU5355 said:

Is Dolson impatient? Or did he believe both were equally strong candidates?

Idk, but I want the coach who doesn’t need time to think about it. By the looks of it, DD touched down in Bloomington before the ink was even dry.