Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

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11 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Was really excited about Preston Murphy.  That’ll be a bummer but it never really made a lot of sense either.   Need to get a few recruiting sharks.  Also our talent evaluation needs to be improved SO much.  Although. I suppose having a system in place would help matters. 

Moikobu seems to be a pretty fast riser.  Was with DeVries at Drake and served under mccasland at both north Texas and Texas tech.  Also served as Director of Recruiting under Bryce Drew at Grand Canyon.

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Chester Frazier? It doesn’t sound like he’s going to stay at wvu with the new coach

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25 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Was really excited about Preston Murphy.  That’ll be a bummer but it never really made a lot of sense either.   Need to get a few recruiting sharks.  Also our talent evaluation needs to be improved SO much.  Although. I suppose having a system in place would help matters. 

What does a system have to do with talent evaluation. You just throw out fishing rods with bags of money and you keep the biggest fish that bite. 

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15 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

What does a system have to do with talent evaluation. You just throw out fishing rods with bags of money and you keep the biggest fish that bite. 

I am saying a few of our guys were better players than they looked with Woodson due to system, fit, coaching.

I was knocking our talent evaluation while acknowledging there were a multitude of problems. 
 

Rice, Banks, maybe Carlyle, Tamar Bates.  Some others. 
 

But our portal targeting besides the 5 spot was atrocious.  

Edited March 28 by WayneFleekHoosier

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Talent evaluation, skill sets that compliment each other are what we sorely missed with the previous staff. And ffs... stop recruiting slow @$$ players. Can't stand it. Thankfully, DDVs one year at WVU should give us relief we will be playing open post moving forward. 

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5 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I am saying a few of our guys were better players than they looked with Woodson due to system, fit, coaching.

I was knocking our talent evaluation while acknowledging there were a multitude of problems. 
 

Rice, Banks, maybe Carlyle, Tamar Bates.  Some others. 
 

But our portal targeting besides the 5 spot was atrocious.  

Rice and Bates would have been much better with a better coach. Carlyle is awful. I think Banks found a good spot. The AAC is probably where his max talent level is u less he wants to be a role player.

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1 minute ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Rice and Bates would have been much better with a better coach. Carlyle is awful. I think Banks found a good spot. The AAC is probably where his max talent level is u less he wants to be a role player.

Banks game resembles Okani, though. I think Banks/DeVries at your 3/4 would be dynamic. 

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Actually... if you went DeVries, Banks, Hansberry 3-5 I'd be in love. 

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18 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I am saying a few of our guys were better players than they looked with Woodson due to system, fit, coaching.

I was knocking our talent evaluation while acknowledging there were a multitude of problems. 
 

Rice, Banks, maybe Carlyle, Tamar Bates.  Some others. 
 

But our portal targeting besides the 5 spot was atrocious.  

Nah I got ya. Was just being sarcastic and insulting the way we had done things previously 

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1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

I think Murphy is out since he signed an extension at Alabama this week. Sounds like Barnett is going to get the Oral Roberts job. Olstrom to Minny. So I'm going with Achoki Moikobu from Texas Tech, Drew Adams from Cincy, and I'm not sure who the 3rd will be. Just my own guess, so don't take it for more than that. 

If an extension has been approved for Murphy it does not appear to me it's been signed yet.  Nothing except the raise last year is out.  

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Just now, newcastle12 said:

If an extension has been approved for Murphy it does not appear to me it's been signed yet.  Nothing except the raise last year is out.  

I saw it was approved by their board of trustees earlier this week, and Trilly said yesterday that it had been signed. But I hope you're right, 

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In the Hoosiers Connect interview with Coach, he mentioned he's basically been on the phone non-stop. I have to think Coach Devries knows the following: 

1) He has a pretty good idea who his staff will be. 

2) He has a decent idea of which players are coming with him from WVU (recruits too). 

3) I think he also has an idea of who is out there and who hasn't officially entered the portal yet. 

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1 hour ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Chester Frazier? It doesn’t sound like he’s going to stay at wvu with the new coach

If one believes the word on the WVU board the relationship between Frazier and Devries is “fried.” They say he didn’t like the way the departure went but could just be sour grapes - who knows?

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1 minute ago, eddy4iu said:

If one believes the word on the WVU board the relationship between Frazier and Devries is “fried.” They say he didn’t like the way the departure went but could just be sour grapes - who knows?

Chester Frazier taking something too personally?  No way.  /s

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Murphy always felt like a pretty serious pipe dream given where Bama is and what they’re able to pay. But, hey, if DeVries expressed interest and his guy ended up leverging a raise out it, no harm, no foul.

The Moikobu thing fascinates me and I REALLY hope that happens. Check out the guy’s resume:

https://texastech.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/achoki--moikobu-/4048

Every school he’s been at has gotten much better immediately. So he’s either: 1) the Forrest Gump of Asst Coaches and just walks into great situations, 2) a guy with a great eye for good coaches, or 3) a really, really great Asst. Pretty sure it’s a combination of 2 and 3. So I’m in big-time on that dude.

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2 hours ago, Chris007 said:

think Murphy is out since he signed an extension at Alabama this week

They extending past his current 2027 contract or just approved a raise?  If they extended past his current one then it would seem he is staying however if they just approved a raise and didn’t extend his current contract then IU could possibly still be in the mix 

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1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

They extending past his current 2027 contract or just approved a raise?  If they extended past his current one then it would seem he is staying however if they just approved a raise and didn’t extend his current contract then IU could possibly still be in the mix 

Maybe it was just a raise. Good I like the sound of that

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1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

Maybe it was just a raise. Good I like the sound of that

Who knows.  I would guess bama won’t let him go without a fight however Oats will be just fine finding a replacement.   The guy lost all his assistants to head coaching jobs a couple years ago and turned out to find more sharks 

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4 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

They extending past his current 2027 contract or just approved a raise?  If they extended past his current one then it would seem he is staying however if they just approved a raise and didn’t extend his current contract then IU could possibly still be in the mix 

It looks like a raise to $675k and extension.

I don't see an extension in this article, just the raise. Calls him the "de-facto general manager" at Bama. I'm not sure if this is behind a paywall or not: 

https://247sports.com/college/alabama/article/new-contract-details-released-for-alabama-football-staff-members-key-basketball-assistant-247833395/#:~:text=Preston Murphy%2C an assistant coach,will pay him %24675%2C000 annually.

This one says there is an extension through the end of 2028.

https://alabama.rivals.com/news/alabama-approves-new-contracts-for-over-a-dozen-staff-members-ryan-grubb

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22 hours ago, go iu bb said:

On twitter a bunch of WVU fans were calling Tucker a coke head among other things. Yet people try to say IU fans are the problem. Yeah.

 

12 hours ago, gfeltner28 said:

https://youtu.be/T60nsXYNftk?si=Mawn8J49WTgcrIKb

Not sure if this has been shared but Tucker D has some crazy range! Excited to watch this kid play. 

If coke makes you shoot like that, then lines for everyone!