How is Darian DeVries Doing So Far?

[AH1971]

Just be glad we didn’t hire Ben McCollum.

[Asha’man]

11 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Just be glad we didn’t hire Ben McCollum.

Good coach but I agree. Was not the style I wanted to see at IU. I think both schools should be happy with their new hires at this point. 

[Stuhoo]

36 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Just be glad we didn’t hire Ben McCollum.

I am glad we didn’t hire McCollum, but it’s not really a knock on McCollum.

McCollum is good and doing well, but I prefer Darian Devries.

[AH1971]

15 minutes ago, Asha’man said:

Good coach but I agree. Was not the style I wanted to see at IU. I think both schools should be happy with their new hires at this point. 

He is a good coach all things considered. His gimmick isn’t going to work in the B10. He’s going to be in a world of hurt next year without Stirtz. He’s a wannabe Bo Ryan on his best day and it ain’t 2014 anymore.

[Asha’man]

18 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

He is a good coach all things considered. His gimmick isn’t going to work in the B10. He’s going to be in a world of hurt next year without Stirtz. He’s a wannabe Bo Ryan on his best day and it ain’t 2014 anymore.

I think he will be good enough to be middle of the pack in the conference in some years. Their NIL is not good, unless they have upgraded recently. 

[str8baller]

1 hour ago, HoosierMatty said:

One thing I really have to tip my hat to on coach DeVries is the fact he's willing to make changes as the season goes on. And in the instance with Alexis he's transparent about making a mistake. When was the last time you can remember a coach at IU make changes as the year goes on. They would just keep running the same stuff that doesn't work into the ground .

 

Even in the recent press conference when talking about bringing back Connerway he said he's going to basically keep Dorn in the starting lineup and just work Tayton in where it makes sense.

I know this seems like a low bar but it's just a nice change of pace after all the stubborn coaches we've had.

If Woodson was the coach he would have immediately put him back in the starting line up. 

This isn’t really true. Just last year Woody inserted Goode in the starting lineup to end the year and went 5-2 to finish and to the point most people had us in the tourney. 
 

With that said, I do appreciate CDD’s comments on Conerway, since I have been calling for him to be benched since at least Iowa. It’s annoying it took an injury to get to that point but I agree he’s taken the opportunity to rectify the situation only playing him 4 minutes the last game. What I worry about is that we’re going to get killed the next two games on the road no matter who plays, so he takes that opportunity to reinsert Conerway into a heavier min rotation when it is clear that we’re at our best when Enright is getting 30+ mpg as our primary ball handler.