Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

[Stuhoo]

Our new starting PF and best player sighting.

Welcome Tucker Devries!

[Pagoda]

Just now, Papacap said:

I know it’s easy to say but he seems to really mean it when he is out to build a team and not a roster. His comment about not taking some players with red flags because if what it might due to the locker room is big. Again, I know it’s words. But he has repeated that several times so it’s deep seated, IMO. 

Going to be very interesting who he keeps from our current roster...

[soindianahoosierfan]

Blue collar, no nonsense coach. What you see is what you get. I like it.

[Hoosier DaDa]

1 hour ago, hoosierpatriot22 said:

Sorry if I’m asking for the hundredth time but I’ve been offline all day. What time is the press conference today?

not sure if anyone answered you but watching it now an hour behind.

https://iuhoosiers.com/watch?Live=4782&type=Live

[HoosierInParadise]

I liked what he had to say. He definitely WANTS to be at IU. We now have a motivated coach that has a deliberate plan on how he wants to build this. That is a HUGE upgrade from the last 8 years. Crean was the last coach that even appeared to have a plan or a clue on how to build success. Crean just couldn't sustain it...

[OliviaPope40]

1 minute ago, soindianahoosierfan said:

Blue collar, no nonsense coach. What you see is what you get. I like it.

I never want to see a gold tie when we play Purdue.

Edited March 19 by OliviaPope40

[Brass Cannon]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

Our new starting PF and best player sighting.

Welcome Tucker Devries!

Hopefully not our best player. When all the dust settles.  
 

On a tangent wasn’t their a Hey Arnold episode where the coaches kid was named Tucker. 

[maharkn]

Philosophy seems to be very similar to Cig. I can see why he was on the list

[Helgo]

This is why I’m 100% on board now. All year I have commented/complained to other fans that IU was just a collection of high prices players. They were not a team and the pieces didn’t fit together to make a team.

[str8baller]

2 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

The only other program that I can think of in the last couple years to hire a sitting Power 5 coach was Arkansas because the fanbase of Kentucky was running him out.

Uh….Kentucky? 
 

Can’t really have it both ways where UK settled and IU didn’t, because each guy was essentially a midmajor coach with one year of P5 experience. Popes was arguably a better year. 

[AZ Hoosier]

21 minutes ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

“You’re not building a collection of players, you’re building a team”. 
Woody down bad lol

Loved the shot at Woodson about trying to be successful bringing in 10-11 players every season... Woodson had exactly what DeVries said - a collection of players, and not a team.

So pumped... let's go!!!

[Bankshot]

Something I don't think I will quickly be able to forget....who are the idiots & morons who kept us from doing something like this last year?

What a colossal waste of time, money, and further damage to the program! 

[OliviaPope40]

Just now, Helgo said:

This is why I’m 100% on board now. All year I have commented/complained to other fans that IU was just a collection of high prices players. They were not a team and the pieces didn’t fit together to make a team.

At least it's not Bruce Weber's fist speech. 

[IULL3]

It is refreshing to hear an IUBB coach take questions from the press without the sense that we are all falling asleep 

[hoosierpatriot22]

25 minutes ago, JPCIVOP said:

Yeah... I know that she's not popular, but IU has shown that the President is able to undermine the basketball program (Brand & Herbert). She has not shown herself to be anything like that. I won't be raising any voice against her.

Why’s she not popular? I’m in no way “in the loop” but I always assumed she was fairly well liked, only listening in from the athletics side of things

[JustWinBaby]

8 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

ok guys...... He's winning the press conference......  That man is motivated to win.  I'm quickly warming up.  Getting pumped up to see what his recruiting chops will look like.  

By all accounts he's a really solid recruiter. In his first year at WVU he had a top 25 incoming freshman class and brought in a top 3 transfer portal class last summer.

[AZ Hoosier]

20 minutes ago, soindianahoosierfan said:

Anybody notice that none of the questions being answered end with “I wish I knew.”? Nice to have a coach that clearly gets it and knows what he has to do to build a program and right the ship.

I didn't hear the hump mentioned one time... I think we're over it!

[JF87]

24 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Overall? 

You can tell he's a little nervous with the public speaking... but he's not being paid to be an orator... 

You can clearly sense what his vibe is all about. And I think we're going to like it. Ball coach vibes to me. 

He seemed uncomfortable in his opening remarks.  I thought he was quite comfortable answering the questions about basketball.  Devries was back in his element just talking ball.  

[Home Jersey]

He’s gonna feast with our NIL this cycle IMO

[Alford Bailey]

2 minutes ago, Helgo said:

This is why I’m 100% on board now. All year I have commented/complained to other fans that IU was just a collection of high prices players. They were not a team and the pieces didn’t fit together to make a team.

Yes!