How is Darian DeVries Doing So Far?

[Josh]

48 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Never said that... just asked you to back up your statement... it's OK if you can't.

Ok.  In the same vein, you prove that it never happened. It's ok if you can't. 

[AZ Hoosier]

9 minutes ago, Josh said:

Ok.  In the same vein, you prove that it never happened. It's ok if you can't. 

LOL... please don't ever change.

[Golfman25]

2 hours ago, Magnanimous said:

3-2…27-2…what’s the difference.

Btw, there’s now a sizeable part of my brain that thinks Cig was referring to championships when saying “no freaking way am I going 3-2.”

The conversation was about the first 5 games of his first season.  Goodman thought it would be a tremendous turnaround to go 3-2.  Cig had other plans.  :)

Go look at Aidan Fisher's comments about deciding to come to IU.  Cig went thru the schedule with him and told him why they would win each game. 

The point is Cig expects to win every game, period.  Kind of like the old IU basketball days -- winning was expected.  None of this, ebb, flow, and bubble BS.  

[Golfman25]

2 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Yea or nay?

Doesn't matter.  The BEST coaches adapt to their talent.  

[Golfman25]

42 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

It’s his first year. As a person who started the Fire Woodson thread and jumped at firing Archie after year three , even I know it’s not fair to discard a coach trying adjust to a new atmosphere.
 

I worked for UNC while we hired Roy Williams and believe me it even took him a little bit to get settled. It’s just not fair. 
 

I understand that not winning a title since 87 gets us a bit antsy but we have to be patient 

I have zero problem being patient as long as I see a positive trajectory.  First positive move I saw was going to Alexis as a starter.  Next we'll see if Conerway continues to come off the bench and Dorn starts.  Looks like CDD is willing to adapt, which is a good sign.  Got to finish strong, though.  

[Banksyrules]

10 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

I get why it got made we were taking alot of Ls for a bit.  
 

Roster construction L

OoC schedule L

Conference Games L

 

But we have a nice little streak going now. We have gotten to the ebb and not just the flow of winning and losing.  
 

All I want from Coach is making the tourney and build a more solid/complete roster next year.  We lose a lot of pieces from this team

All criticisms are welcomed obviously but not sure that warrants a fire thread . At least for now.

[NYhoosier]

Development of Dorn & Bailey has improved IU significantly

[Home Jersey]

7 minutes ago, NYhoosier said:

Development of Dorn & Bailey has improved IU significantly

Dorn, yes... Bailey? We'll see how he does when he's not facing Xavier Booker. Hopefully he can build on a great performance last time out. 

[Brass Cannon]

5 hours ago, Banksyrules said:

All criticisms are welcomed obviously but not sure that warrants a fire thread . At least for now.

Eh fair the og fire Archie thread got changed to something like “grievances” for that reason. 

[Golfman25]

1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

Eh fair the og fire Archie thread got changed to something like “grievances” for that reason. 

Stop being so soft.  Coaches are hired to get fired.  :)   

[HoosierCoop]

4 hours ago, Home Jersey said:

Dorn, yes... Bailey? We'll see how he does when he's not facing Xavier Booker. Hopefully he can build on a great performance last time out. 

At one time, many months ago, I was actually pissed that we didn't get Xavier Booker.  After watching his college career and missed 3-point attempts, I can say we dodged a bullet.

[go iu bb]

20 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Yea or nay?

It's like deja vu all over again.

[Stuhoo]

5 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

It's like deja vu all over again.

The talking heads and fans have the same, expected, understandable, run-the-gamut,human reactions every time.

The head coach and his staff are different, for better or worse, every time.

[str8baller]

11 hours ago, Banksyrules said:

All criticisms are welcomed obviously but not sure that warrants a fire thread . At least for now.

You guys are acting like it was a few people contained to this thread. The team was quite literally booed off the court at half time of the Iowa game. And they probably deserved it. I honestly don’t remember that ever happening in a coach’s first year before at IU. I actually think if the football team wasn’t on a historic run the media and fan reaction after Iowa would’ve been even worse.  
 

I agree with the poster above who said Devries has shown the willingness to adjust and change on the fly. I never really thought IU was a learn on the job type of place but maybe Devries will be the exception. 25 years of losing and football being awesome seem to have taken the pressure off. 

[iu eyedoc]

On 2/1/2026 at 1:06 PM, Uspshoosier said:

Just this year  Tennessee blew a 17 point lead to Kentucky at home, Virginia blew a 16 point lead at home to North Carolina with a first year head coach.   It’s part of college basketball and especially now days with the importance of the 3 point shot.   Double digit leads evaporate quickly nowadays 

What I'm reading is you want Woodson back, you darn participation trophy apologist.

[iu eyedoc]

On 2/1/2026 at 1:42 PM, Brass Cannon said:

Exactly quick reaction for sure but there had nothing of merit yet for the season. The DeVries era had been all flow and no ebb. 
 

Hes got some wins and some recruits but he still has a big task. This offseason needs to go better. We can’t go into next season with this many missing pieces 

Christ on a cracker! He literally built an entire team,no hyperbole, zero returning players from scratch in a short period of time. Not even Dusty May had to do that. So he did not McGyver together a Ferrari...shocking! 

He has put a competitive product on the floor and they are showing signs of growth, something that is foreign to these parts lately. He also has a few quality guys coming back, 3 top 100 recruits and plenty of time to attack the portal this year, so progress should be evident.

 

That is,if he isn't fired in the next few weeks.

 

[Uspshoosier]

49 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

What I'm reading is you want Woodson back, you darn participation trophy apologist.

 

[Brass Cannon]

53 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

Christ on a cracker! He literally built an entire team,no hyperbole, zero returning players from scratch in a short period of time. Not even Dusty May had to do that. So he did not McGyver together a Ferrari...shocking! 

He has put a competitive product on the floor and they are showing signs of growth, something that is foreign to these parts lately. He also has a few quality guys coming back, 3 top 100 recruits and plenty of time to attack the portal this year, so progress should be evident.

 

That is,if he isn't fired in the next few weeks.

 

Like can you not read where I literally said this was before the recent stretch.  Which most assuredly did not look like a competitive product. 
 

That was literally the entire point of that post so very impressive that you missed it. 

[Brass Cannon]

Glad to see the same exact people that acted holier than though when people criticized Crean, Archie and Woodson are gonna be holier than though again. 

I was high on DeVries but dude basically crapped the bed until 10 days ago.  I’m gonna wait for little more than a good 3 game stretch before I am convinced that’s the real DD and not the 9 months of mediocrity that preceded it. 
 

 

[Stuhoo]

5 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Like can you not read where I literally said this was before the recent stretch.  Which most assuredly did not look like a competitive product. 
 

That was literally the entire point of that post so very impressive that you missed it. 

Nick Dorn is really good at basketball. A nice thing to make a coach look good.