New Basketball Staff Thread

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

OMG it's another "formal" announcement.  lol

https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/05/28/indiana-announces-drew-adams-as-mens-basketball-assistant-coach/

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-makes-it-official-with-assistant-drew-adams-highly-respected-young-coach/

https://www.on3.com/teams/indiana-hoosiers/news/drew-has-been-successful-every-place-he-has-coached-iu-basketball-announces-hire-of-assistant-coach-drew-adams/

 

[Pagoda]

Now that the bison mascot rollout is done, the athletic dept has shifted their focus to announcing the key leadership hires for our flagship program* that we hired several weeks ago!  :-)

Still no players listed on the website though.  Maybe that's a summer project for the AD.

* I know football brings in more money and it's growing at IU, but we're still technically a basketball school... for now.

[Demo]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

OMG it's another "formal" announcement.  lol

https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/05/28/indiana-announces-drew-adams-as-mens-basketball-assistant-coach/

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-makes-it-official-with-assistant-drew-adams-highly-respected-young-coach/

https://www.on3.com/teams/indiana-hoosiers/news/drew-has-been-successful-every-place-he-has-coached-iu-basketball-announces-hire-of-assistant-coach-drew-adams/

 

Is that really the best picture they could get of him? "Hey Drew, I know you just came off a 36 hr bender and you slept for 8hrs in the sun, but, here, put on this ill-fitting shirt and this pre-tied tie my 13yo was practicing on and we're gonna take a picture of you and put it out in public. Nah, don't worry about shaving, Dude, you look good. The double chin is no problem"

[go iu bb]

Rabby is saying that he expects that IU will be hiring Justin Bailey from Sam Houston and that he won't have an assistant coach title.

[TadQueasy]

45 minutes ago, Demo said:

Is that really the best picture they could get of him? "Hey Drew, I know you just came off a 36 hr bender and you slept for 8hrs in the sun, but, here, put on this ill-fitting shirt and this pre-tied tie my 13yo was practicing on and we're gonna take a picture of you and put it out in public. Nah, don't worry about shaving, Dude, you look good. The double chin is no problem"

Our assistants are not going to win any best looking contest.  

But who cares.  Get players.  Develop players.  Thats all that matters. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Sounds like Justin Bailey will soon be on staff.

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/report-iu-basketball-to-hire-former-sam-houston-assistant/

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Next up on the official announcement list

 

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-makes-it-official-announces-rod-clark-as-a-member-of-darian-devries-basketball-coaching-staff-250377552/

https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/05/29/indiana-announces-rod-clark-as-mens-basketball-assistant-coach/

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-confirms-rod-clark-as-assistant-coach-great-young-coach-proven-recruiter/

https://www.on3.com/teams/indiana-hoosiers/news/he-is-a-proven-recruiter-that-has-produced-high-level-college-basketball-players-iu-basketball-announces-hire-of-assistant-coach-rod-clark/

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2025/5/29/mens-basketball-rod-clark-added-to-indiana-mens-basketball-staff

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Staff in place.  Seems like a good staff but ultimately you are judged on the results.  Curious to see what kind of team they piece together for the following year and the emphasis on HS vs Portal.  Hoping we can land some of these top end guys.  

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

19 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Sounds like Justin Bailey will soon be on staff.

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/report-iu-basketball-to-hire-former-sam-houston-assistant/

What does a director of player personnel do?

[Pagoda]

1 hour ago, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

What does a director of player personnel do?

Get Wilkerson to commit.  ;-)

Aside from that I don't know.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

2 hours ago, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

What does a director of player personnel do?

Rabjohns answered the same question on 247.  It entails scouting, player development, working with the rest of the staff on roster construction and the inevitable other duties as may be assigned.  It is not intended that he'll be an on-the-road recruiter.  One of the key issues to how his job is titled is that there is an NCAA limitation on the number of assistant coaches (5) a team may have but no cap on the number of support personnel.  

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Rabjohns answered the same question on 247.  It entails scouting, player development, working with the rest of the staff on roster construction and the inevitable other duties as may be assigned.  It is not intended that he'll be an on-the-road recruiter.  One of the key issues to how his job is titled is that there is an NCAA limitation on the number of assistant coaches (5) a team may have but no cap on the number of support personnel.  

Great thanks!!!

[Trish]

It appears we have bullied the SID to post the official press releases. Looks like CDD is still filling out his support staff. 

[BA47591]

We wouldn't hire N'Dye(sp) to get Thiam? 

Now that we have a staff, can we start the portal. Everyone that is a proven productive high-major player, decommit and let's start over. Let's start with Rod getting Gillespie, Kenny get Rice and since DD has no issues with tomfoolery hire Thiams mentor and get us a 5. Then we can go down Timberlake, Pagues, Maddox, Lanier street and hope one translates. That's roughly the average, 1/4 of hyped lower d1 players can make the jump. 

Smh

 

 

[TheWatShot]

On 6/2/2025 at 7:07 PM, Trish said:

It appears we have bullied the SID to post the official press releases. Looks like CDD is still filling out his support staff. 

Is somebody going to have to bully them into posting the schedule? No way we only have 2 games scheduled for next season. 

[Stuhoo]

1 hour ago, BA47591 said:

We wouldn't hire N'Dye(sp) to get Thiam? 

Now that we have a staff, can we start the portal. Everyone that is a proven productive high-major player, decommit and let's start over. Let's start with Rod getting Gillespie, Kenny get Rice and since DD has no issues with tomfoolery hire Thiams mentor and get us a 5. Then we can go down Timberlake, Pagues, Maddox, Lanier street and hope one translates. That's roughly the average, 1/4 of hyped lower d1 players can make the jump. 

Smh

 

 

^^That’s some wacky stuff right there^^

[Demo]

2 hours ago, BA47591 said:

We wouldn't hire N'Dye(sp) to get Thiam? 

Now that we have a staff, can we start the portal. Everyone that is a proven productive high-major player, decommit and let's start over. Let's start with Rod getting Gillespie, Kenny get Rice and since DD has no issues with tomfoolery hire Thiams mentor and get us a 5. Then we can go down Timberlake, Pagues, Maddox, Lanier street and hope one translates. That's roughly the average, 1/4 of hyped lower d1 players can make the jump. 

Smh

 

 

Nah, we’re gonna go with what we’ve got and we’ll see how that goes for us. But if it’s any consolation, we did sign Chaz Lanier, but he’s enrolled under the name “Lamar Wilkerson.” 

[LIHoosier]

On 6/7/2025 at 3:04 PM, TheWatShot said:

Is somebody going to have to bully them into posting the schedule? No way we only have 2 games scheduled for next season. 

That's always been a slow burn, esp. since the B1G waits till football season to release the conference schedule. On D1 docket, Purdon't is the only school that has released their full non-con save for a tournament that hasn't released their teams/schedule yet. I'm surprised that IU has released the non-con before August the last couple years.

https://d1docket.blogspot.com/p/2024-25-dockets-power-conferences.html

[Henryville Hoosier]

https://x.com/indianambb/status/1934672300315484428?s=46&t=VCm-eVsdhHni-5V2WFoDBg

[Pagoda]

1 hour ago, Henryville Hoosier said:

https://x.com/indianambb/status/1934672300315484428?s=46&t=VCm-eVsdhHni-5V2WFoDBg

So intense, engaged, and detailed… I know it’s a hype clip but I’m impressed with Coach Norty.

This staff really seems like night and day from the last one and that really should make a difference…