Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[bobknightsghost]

4 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

DeVries will have hopefully 15ish successful years here then retire.

People will clamor for 63-year old Brad Stevens and lament us not signing him in 2025... or 2021... 

RTZ posted that Trilly was wrong literally moments before it was confirmed by all the national outlets. 

That's called trolling and gets called out when it's done by Isaac.

RTZ has a "reputation" so he gets a pass for being wrong? No, he's trolling. 

He somehow never has time to be around the boards except to post gifs then do the whole tantrum thing...

People can mock it. Who cares.

I think all of the “insiders” here are trolls. And they get a free pass to say whatever the hell they want because they tell people what the want to hear.

[str8baller]

6 minutes ago, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

You don’t think Scott contacted all of the big time coaches to see if they were available?

No. There’s no evidence of that at all. 
 

They did what IU always does which is politic and shift responsibility. They hired a search firm. It came back with a list of young guys they thought IU could throw a ton of money at and Dolson picked one.  It’s the IU way. 
 

Everything else is just narrative. And if I’m being cynical and say narrative specially pushed out by the AD.  But let’s be joyous and say it was just exuberant fans caught up in the excitement of search season. 

[Silat Player]

1 minute ago, hoosierbannerd said:

so anything happen today muchachos?

(For the record, I hope my guy gave y'all some good laughs over the past few weeks)

Let's get back to actual winning basketball.. Welcome Coach D!

I'm gonna miss the smoking whale...

[Stuhoo]

25 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Didn't some vouch for that bozo? Wasn't RTZ an insider in HSN? Did I read that here or am I going crazy? (Either could be true at this point)...

 

I’m gonna say this once and then drop it: Which poster vouches for someone truly matters.

Did Hovadipo, Uspshoosier, Old Fart, Dalton, Stromboli, Fort Wayne Hoosier, Crimson and Cream, LiHoosier, or Demo vouch? To me that would be truly meaningful.

For instance, I post a lot, but during the entire coaching season, there was one poster who I thought had credible inside info that I stuck my neck out for… @westgym.

There are others that have access; many of them are wonderful posters and really good people, but when a mod endorses inside information, that is a rare and pretty ******* notable occasion.

And now I’m done with this topic.

 

[Golfman25]

1 hour ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

It’s not an exciting hire. He just went .500 in conference with a comparable NIL to Indiana. He was good at Drake. So what? Lots of guys do well at mid majors. Will he be great? Maybe. My hope is Indiana can compete at the level we spend. Nothing says DeVries will make us a top 15 program. No recruiting edge. No real name recognition. Just another hope and a prayer. Glad he has work ethic. He’s going to need it.


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Debbie Downer enters the chat. 

Some of you guys must be fun at parties 

[Home Jersey]

Just now, bobknightsghost said:

I think all of the “insiders” here are trolls. And they get a free pass to say whatever the hell they want because they tell people what the want to hear.

I don't agree that all of them are trolls at all and want to drop this conversation.

People can draw their own conclusions... I will leave it at that. Go Hoosiers 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

Just now, Silat Player said:

I'm gonna miss the smoking whale...

It needs to be enshrined forever as someone’s profile picture

[hoosierbannerd]

1 minute ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

It needs to be enshrined forever as someone’s profile picture

you got it!

[str8baller]

6 minutes ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

Real mvp of this hire is Devries’ agent

He’s got nothing on Creans agent who renegotiated a bigger deal for Crean in the summer before he coached a single game.  If Fred Glass were a hostage negotiator he’d single handedly drop the life expectancy of the entire state.

[Dalton26]

Let’s keep this thread about the new coach and the potential going forward. 
 

Those of you that bought every little tidbit as fact and are now butthurt need to get over it. You chose to buy it when countless of us told you to use common sense, that’s on you just as much as it’s on the people you keep calling out. 

[IU5355]

So does this mean that Scott and Brad didn't go to see the breaking bad set? 

 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

Did we clarify the pronunciation of DeVries?

[Jeff Flabjohns]

Just now, IU5355 said:

So does this mean that Scott and Brad didn't go to see the breaking bad set? 

 

F**k, this is always gonna be good for an immediate laugh. For the rest of time. 

[Silat Player]

1 minute ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

Did we clarify the pronunciation of DeVries?

De-Vreeze

Rhymes with Mr. Freeze

[iu eyedoc]

1 hour ago, schoosier said:

WV fans fairly pissed about losing him it appears. Good praise from McDermott. Hear he’s a grinder with awesome work ethic. Coaches in 1/4 zips along with staff, from the Midwest. Loves to recruit. How about X and o’s hearing he plays up tempo? Man to man D?

So SD learned from MW's 4 years that he wanted the exact opposite guy.

[rayl456]

1 hour ago, Trish said:

Brad ******** Stevens! 
 

We’ll get him next time, that is, if Butler doesn’t get to him next year. 

No thanks.  Asking twice is more than enough.  He’s a Masshole.

[coonhounds]

Debbie Downer enters the chat. 

Some of you guys must be fun at parties 

No that was an absolute spot on. He gave credit that maybe he can win. Devries is definitely a hope and a prayer. We are hoping and praying he can win big here. Expectation is national championship! That is the goal. Final four is failure here. Hopefully he is ready

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[Motley's]

6 minutes ago, bobknightsghost said:

I think all of the “insiders” here are trolls. And they get a free pass to say whatever the hell they want because they tell people what the want to hear.

The willingness of so many to be catfished for so long, because they hear what they want is astounding. Even when they’re being patronized with obviously fake info. Every coaching search reveals the same thing. True insiders aren’t on message boards and they don’t leak until they share with their preferred media sources. 

[Hoosierfan1901]

https://x.com/mattnorlander/status/1902142205596189075?s=46&t=0mbJ_TT4MQ8KZKv29ZqhSg

[Hoosier1984]

3 minutes ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

Did we clarify the pronunciation of DeVries?

We did on one page I saw. Guessing in between posts that used the words hump, banger or Brad Stevens.