Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[go iu bb 8,727]

I'm happy @Stuhoo didn't get an input into the coaching hire. His evaluation of coaches is questionable. Gates: yes. McCollum: no

[Bowhunter 3,088]

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

[Bowhunter 3,088]

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

[Shooter 627]

McCollum is super impressive. But I'd be a little concerned about him in the IU fishbowl if we went that direction. This is his first season associated with Division I basketball in any capacity. Not as a player, assistant, nothing. Jumping from that right into the IU job would be a massive change.

I have zero concerns about him from a coaching basketball standpoint. The dude can coach.

[Trish 14,341]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:13 AM, Bowhunter said:

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

I was wondering if that was him. Wow!

[Trish 14,341]

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

 

[Lebowski 3,247]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:13 AM, Bowhunter said:

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

 Maybe someone like @Chris007 can help with this.  

[tyappleg 7,288]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:21 AM, 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 1,598]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:29 AM, tyappleg said:

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 14,341]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:29 AM, tyappleg said:

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

Can we not joke around on here anymore?! 

[tyappleg 7,288]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:46 AM, 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 21,710]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:29 AM, tyappleg said:

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

[Golfman25 6,527]

  On 3/21/2025 at 2:32 AM, 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 21,710]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:13 AM, 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 10,514]

  On 3/21/2025 at 4:05 AM, LamarCheeks said:

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 3,967]

  On 3/21/2025 at 1:25 AM, 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 25,242]

#1 sign we got a good coach. 
 

Some people are outright pissed we got him. 

[Chris007 60,624]

  On 3/21/2025 at 3:13 AM, 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 1,808]

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

[IU5355 803]

  On 3/21/2025 at 11:57 AM, 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?