Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[MikeRoberts 7,862]

7 hours ago, BehindTheBench said:

Literally sit second row behind the bench / scorers table every home game. If you ever wanna use my tickets, let me know big guy 

Lean forward and say hello to Mr. Renneissen for me

[jonz44 834]

Try 22 years for Kansas since they’ve hired a coach. Counting DeVries, Kansas has had same amount of coaches in the last 60 years than IU has had in the last 10. 

I knew it had been over 20 years since they hired a coach. My 10 years reference was regarding how much the college landscape has changed in the last 10 years. Not sure if it's for the better but without a doubt it is significantly different than it was 10 years ago.

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[akumanina 397]

1 hour ago, iu eyedoc said:

So I guess Drock isn't uniting the fan base?

Well...I guess the plan is to win $hit load of games, and that will get everyone on board eventually. We expected Woody would at least unite the fanbase if not winning a lot of games, but he didn't even know Dane Fife was an IU guy. 

[JustWinBaby 1,419]

Some really interesting comments made by the 247sports WVU staff in their reaction podcast:

They confirmed that DeVries had been in talks with Indiana in some form or another for over a month.

They believe (but can't confirm) there was contact between Dolson and DeVries in the Bahamas (one of them even insinuated that DeVries may have known IU was going to open up and he'd be candidate, and that's why he elected to shut down Tucker DeVries for the season to preserve eligibility after just 8 games -- zero proof to this, but interesting he'd even suggest it).

DeVries had given Indiana a hard yes last week, and was waiting for tournament results to finalize and sign.

Once IU and WVU got snubbed, things were set in motion rapidly Sunday evening, and by Monday Dolson and DeVries met to finalize the contract. This wasn't the expected timeline, but it worked out perfectly for Indiana -- and better for WVU in the long run, since they can get going on their coaching search before the tournament begins.

Iowa was never really in the picture; they wanted DeVries, but not only were they way too late to the party, they lacked the firepower to contend with IU. It was also noted that Iowa lacks the NIL support that WVU has, so it would've been a pretty tough sell for Iowa to pry him away regardless; Iowa being "home" for DeVries was likely their main selling point. Once it became clear DeVries wasn't even entertaining an offer from Iowa, they knew he was gone. They felt they could compete with Iowa to keep him, but not Indiana.

They also anticipate nearly the entire roster to follow the head coach and/or assistants (wherever they end up).

That about sums up the portions relevant to Indiana. They rambled on a bit about what coaches they'll target, the new landscape of college basketball, the future of non-B1G/SEC power conference programs, etc.

I'll add this: the tone of the podcast was pure dejection. They had felt like they had their guy for the long haul in Morgantown, and had been extremely excited for the future with DeVries. They sounded incredibly bummed to lose him. I almost felt bad for them lol. I suppose that's how we'd feel if Cignetti packed up and headed out of town to take the Texas job or something after one year.

[IndyFife 123]

1 hour ago, akumanina said:

Well...I guess the plan is to win $hit load of games, and that will get everyone on board eventually. We expected Woody would at least unite the fanbase if not winning a lot of games, but he didn't even know Dane Fife was an IU guy. 

Wait, WHAT???  I had not heard that one…

[Brass Cannon 25,179]

We finally hired a coach that checks a very simple box for me.  He’s won a postseason tourney on some level.  
 

I like the hire simply because I feel we actually did the bare minimum of effort here.  
 

Give the guy woodys NIL and see what he can do 

[IUCrazy2 2,784]

8 hours ago, Golfman25 said:

WTF.  That’s part of the problem.  

https://x.com/dandakich/status/1902165379213828313

[Brass Cannon 25,179]

2 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

https://x.com/dandakich/status/1902165379213828313

He will be moving on to the university of Austin in Massachusetts 

[Stuhoo 87,516]

On 2/25/2025 at 1:10 PM, Stuhoo said:

Devries?

For sure. That is a 'lose the press release win a ton of games' guy without question.

Sign. Me. Up.

• Proven record of winning
• Turned around a historically bad mid-major
• Young
• Great culture
• Great defense
• Modern offense
• Obsessive hard worker
• P5 experience and turning around a program in year one at P5

 

On 2/25/2025 at 1:16 PM, PartyintheVillas said:

This is a Pat Kelsey/Mark Pope kind of hire than can work out.

 

On 2/25/2025 at 1:19 PM, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Pat Kelsey was a homerun. Sign me up

 

On 2/25/2025 at 1:36 PM, Uspshoosier said:

An added bonus is Tucker comes with the head coach.  A fully healthy Tucker on your team is a really good thing.  DeVries would do well at IU in my opinion 

 

[beaver56 81]

27 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

https://x.com/dandakich/status/1902165379213828313

I read that and wanted to vomit. 

[Teter02 104]

10 hours ago, Silat Player said:

Agreed. It would be so much easier to get Mullins to flip if he was committed pretty much anywhere other than the 2-time defending champions. 

Hurley is the best coach in the country. That's probably an insurmountable obstacle for nearly any coach.

He also said half of his players were probably hitting the portal. If true, I’d be double checking this is what I want if I were Mullins.

[Teter02 104]

6 minutes ago, beaver56 said:

I read that and wanted to vomit. 

Really poor look

[Brass Cannon 25,179]

So was Malik just confused why everybody said the I before the U for 3 years