New Basketball Staff Thread

[steubenhoosier]

1 hour ago, RaceToTheTop said:

WVU fans ain’t learnt nothin.

They’re mad because CDD rund oft.

[Chris007]

The fantastic son I am, I took my mom to Mother Bears on the west side for her 76th birthday last night. Around 7:30 in the evening, I looked up and Coach DDV, Rod Clark, and DDV daughter all walked in. After our dinner, we walked over to say welcome to Bloomington and told coach it was my mom's birthday and that she had spent 42 years working at the University. Super nice people, were so gracious, felt like we could have talked for an hour. My brother, who wasn't sold on the hire, has now met him, plus heard a couple of other stories has changed his tune. 

[Ryno6284]

22 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

The fantastic son I am, I took my mom to Mother Bears on the west side for her 76th birthday last night. Around 7:30 in the evening, I looked up and Coach DDV, Rod Clark, and DDV daughter all walked in. After our dinner, we walked over to say welcome to Bloomington and told coach it was my mom's birthday and that she had spent 42 years working at the University. Super nice people, were so gracious, felt like we could have talked for an hour. My brother, who wasn't sold on the hire, has now met him, plus heard a couple of other stories has changed his tune. 

Happy birthday to your moms! My 45th is today!

[Chris007]

Just now, Ryno6284 said:

Happy birthday to your moms! My 45th is today!

Happy Birthday. I will be celebrating my 49th in two weeks.

I recommend taking any old person to Mother Bears for their birthday and treating them. 76% off for my mom last night was fantastic.

[Stuhoo]

29 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

The fantastic son I am, I took my mom to Mother Bears on the west side for her 76th birthday last night. Around 7:30 in the evening, I looked up and Coach DDV, Rod Clark, and DDV daughter all walked in. After our dinner, we walked over to say welcome to Bloomington and told coach it was my mom's birthday and that she had spent 42 years working at the University. Super nice people, were so gracious, felt like we could have talked for an hour. My brother, who wasn't sold on the hire, has now met him, plus heard a couple of other stories has changed his tune. 

 

Did they order the Dante's Inferno pizza?

If not, I am not sold that this has been a good hire.

 

[HoosierHoopster]

6 hours ago, Ryno6284 said:

Happy birthday to your moms! My 45th is today!

Is @Chris007gonna take you to Mother Bears?

[go iu bb]

Adams, Clark, Johnson, and Norton will be the assistant coaches. Bargen will be a special assistant to the head coach and concentrate on the offense. I take that as kind of an offensive coordinator.

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

1 minute ago, go iu bb said:

Adams, Clark, Johnson, and Norton will be the assistant coaches.Bargen will be a special assistant to the head coach and concentrate on the offense.

Any idea on GM? DOBO? Etc

[AZ Hoosier]

Drew Adams’ interview with Hoosiers Connect

https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/05/13/video-assistant-coach-drew-adams-interview-with-hoosiers-connect/

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

1 hour ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Drew Adams’ interview with Hoosiers Connect

https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/05/13/video-assistant-coach-drew-adams-interview-with-hoosiers-connect/

That was a good interview 

[Demo]

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-will-have-some-of-the-highest-paid-assistants-in-college-basketball/
 

Not like we didn’t know this, but they stepped up pretty good on the staff.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-will-have-some-of-the-highest-paid-assistants-in-college-basketball/
 

Not like we didn’t know this, but they stepped up pretty good on the staff.

Indiana Athletics has been spending and I couldn't be happier about that.  Once we get the right choices in place, and hopefully, this is it, we should start competing relative to our spending.  The recruiting offers in 2026 tell me 2 things.  We are still going to swing for the fences.  I love this.  And we might figure the value of relatively top High school players might moneyball what the Portal was doing this past offseason where the market was bananas.  

[WeeDerkaNaut]

Other than we need a big man, I like where we are so far. Next season should be fun to watch.

[Trish]

Why has it been so radio silent on the hirings? Very odd. Never seen it before in college athletics. 

[68Hoosier]

48 minutes ago, Trish said:

Why has it been so radio silent on the hirings? Very odd. Never seen it before in college athletics. 

Right.  They are not even listed on the IU website yet, which is odd.  That along with the roster not being posted either.  

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

49 minutes ago, Trish said:

Why has it been so radio silent on the hirings? Very odd. Never seen it before in college athletics. 

Certainly hasn't been quiet in the world of portal and high school recruiting but it is definitely unusual.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

3 hours ago, 68Hoosier said:

Right.  They are not even listed on the IU website yet, which is odd.  That along with the roster not being posted either.  

I guess we haven’t hired the person responsible for updating the website yet. lol. 

[Pagoda]

19 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I guess we haven’t hired the person responsible for updating the website yet. lol. 

I've done some work with IU, and when it comes to things like websites and marketing, we had to go to central departments that from what I could tell seem to do it for the whole school.  And let me tell you they move slow.

So I suspect the athletic dept has to submit what they want for the bball webpage to that central IT department that does the websites.  It's probably some combination of the AD being lazy and the IT department being slow.

This isn't a big deal, but it's amateurish and it sort of annoys me because it's a basic effort thing.  And really our whole athletics site looks terrible.  I know this is a pointless rant, but I'll post it anyways...

[Hovadipo]

2 hours ago, Pagoda said:

I've done some work with IU, and when it comes to things like websites and marketing, we had to go to central departments that from what I could tell seem to do it for the whole school.  And let me tell you they move slow.

So I suspect the athletic dept has to submit what they want for the bball webpage to that central IT department that does the websites.  It's probably some combination of the AD being lazy and the IT department being slow.

This isn't a big deal, but it's amateurish and it sort of annoys me because it's a basic effort thing.  And really our whole athletics site looks terrible.  I know this is a pointless rant, but I'll post it anyways...

Cuban Center runs IUHoosiers, but other than that you’re spot on. It moves at a snail’s pace and is largely an afterthought.

Usually the specific team pages with regard to roster and staff pages gets handled by the SIDs, however, and those folks are pretty good. Which makes me think the lack of updates is administrative/by design instead of lazy this time. 

[sirhoosierlot]

With the bison rollout I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t an entirely new website being built