Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[HoosierHoopster]

^^ All good news to here. I'm so liking this hire at this point

[RoadRage]

Last night during the Drake game, they said that Bennett Stirtz was the MVC Player of the Year.....they also said that the prior 2 years, the MVC Player of the Year was Tucker DeVries!

[JustWinBaby]

17 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Seeing a handful of tweets about DDV making his rounds at the major Bloomington establishments yesterday. Love it. Being a genuine man of the people will serve him well. It earned Crean a LOT of leash.

 

[Shooter]

1 hour ago, Golfman25 said:

My concern with McCollum is he hasn't had longer term success at the D1 level.  What he did D2 is impressive.  And this year at Drake certainly points him in the right direction.  But it's only one year.  No way is he ready to enter the chit show that has been IU basketball the past several years. 

Need a guy that can deal with rebuilding a dysfunctional roster (and can come in a recruit IU level players right away), a divided fan base, divided former players (with some "banned" from the program), the clownshow that is the Hysterics (and their fans), the politics to maintain a high level NIL, etc., etc.       

DeVries has is work cut out for him.  I'm 100% behind him.   

Agree. This is McCollum's first season ever in D1. Otherwise his entire playing, assistant, head coach career was in D2.

DeVries played D1 and was a longtime assistant under Altman and McDermott. Multiple trips to NCAA tournament as a head coach. One year experience in a big conference. I think there's less risk of the non-basketball parts of the IU job being "too big" for DeVries.

[Hoosierfan2017]

24 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Seeing a handful of tweets about DDV making his rounds at the major Bloomington establishments yesterday. Love it. Being a genuine man of the people will serve him well. It earned Crean a LOT of leash.

Not to make this about Woodson, but the way he conducted himself was a huge reason why the fanbase went so hard against him. At the end of the day you have to win, but like in any setting, people will have more patience and grace for someone they like. 

[OliviaPope40]

8 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

 

I'm showing my age here but can someone explain to me number 6. 

[rcbowla]

I've liked basically everything I've watched from DDV's teams but there's this one thing. Every year they are good for at minimum 1 or 2 absolute **** kickings. I'm talking 25-30 pt losses. Seems odd and I'm not real sure why.

[Shooter]

Just now, rcbowla said:

I've liked basically everything I've watched from DDV's teams but there's this one thing. Every year they are good for at minimum 1 or 2 absolute **** kickings. I'm talking 25-30 pt losses. Seems odd and I'm not real sure why.

Only 1 or 2? That will be an improvement

[Hoosier DaDa]

22 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I saw Upstairs. Not sure about others

 

22 minutes ago, newcastle12 said:

Upstairs tweeted he was there for sure. 

 

20 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

I saw one about Yogi's too just scrolling through, but can't find it now.

Curious was he looking for Ballo?

[theriverpilot]

1 hour ago, iu eyedoc said:

Some of the comments out there are insane

 

This confirms Tucker faked injury, DeVries threw games, the inbound plays where bad, offense non-existent, and Colorado wasn’t as goood as Small

So he  threw games and still ended up 19-13, sounds great!  And Tucker DeVries underwent shoulder surgery for a fake injury so his dad could take another job that he was the backup plan for.

 

They all be drinking cases of this in WV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://x.com/football_dude84/status/1902423309213405221?s=46

[rcbowla]

3 minutes ago, Shooter said:

Only 1 or 2? That will be an improvement

Lol I get it. I expect a random wtf loss every once in a while and they are OK as long as they aren't trends.

[Hoosier DaDa]

6 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Not to make this about Woodson, but the way he conducted himself was a huge reason why the fanbase went so hard against him. At the end of the day you have to win, but like in any setting, people will have more patience and grace for someone they like. 

He was living on fumes from his playing days to win over the fan base. 

[NVFalcons1990]

9 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

I've liked basically everything I've watched from DDV's teams but there's this one thing. Every year they are good for at minimum 1 or 2 absolute **** kickings. I'm talking 25-30 pt losses. Seems odd and I'm not real sure why.

Yeah, but we are already used to that......so we're ready for it! :)

[Hoosier DaDa]

7 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

I've liked basically everything I've watched from DDV's teams but there's this one thing. Every year they are good for at minimum 1 or 2 absolute **** kickings. I'm talking 25-30 pt losses. Seems odd and I'm not real sure why.

I noticed that too. I was going to make a reference about not worrying about a beatings anymore, but before I posted it, I checked his records. Looks like it’s gonna happen still.

[rcbowla]

2 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

I noticed that too. I was going to make a reference about not worrying about a beatings anymore, but before I posted it, I checked his records. Looks like it’s gonna happen still.

I'm not trying to be negative and I'm happy with the hire but they are really, really bad beatings. And seemingly from teams that don't make sense sometimes.

[Chris007]

46 minutes ago, Ryno6284 said:

Personally, Calbert is my favorite Hoosier of all time! I was born in 80 so I missed some, lol!

I’m four years older than you so I would agree the 87 team and those early 90’s teams are my favorites.

[68Hoosier]

14 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

I've liked basically everything I've watched from DDV's teams but there's this one thing. Every year they are good for at minimum 1 or 2 absolute **** kickings. I'm talking 25-30 pt losses. Seems odd and I'm not real sure why.

I can remember some of Knights teams taking some *** whooping's back in the day.  It seemed like some of them where on purpose at times to let them know if they don't listen and do what they want this is the outcome.  Teaching moment so to speak.

 

Not sure that is what this is but sometimes a good whooping opens your eyes to make you better.

 

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

7 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

I noticed that too. I was going to make a reference about not worrying about a beatings anymore, but before I posted it, I checked his records. Looks like it’s gonna happen still.

I mean I have two arguments to that… 1. His first team is Drake so that’s bound to happen. 2. He was without his best two players in a power 4 schools that also is bound to happen. 

[Chris007]

38 minutes ago, newcastle12 said:

Upstairs tweeted he was there for sure. 

I heard he went up and down Kirkwood. But yes was in Upstairs during the afternoon games 

[CSP]

Just now, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

I mean I have two arguments to that… 1. His first team is Drake so that’s bound to happen. 2. He was without his best two players in a power 4 schools that also is bound to happen. 

I'd say Small was his best player... his 2nd and 3rd best.