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Long-time Iowa beat writer Pat Harty reports that West Virginia head coach Darian DeVries would be the top target.
"There is a growing belief that West Virginia head coach Darian DeVries, due to his ties to the state of Iowa, is the person that Iowa will eventually zero in on to replace Fran McCaffery," Harty wrote in a wide-ranging piece on McCaffery's time at Iowa.
DeVries was born in Aplington, Iowa and played college hoops at Northern Iowa. After a long stretch as an assistant at Creighton, he became the head coach at Drake for six seasons, where he went 150-55 overall with three March Madness appearances.
The problem with DeVries would be the buyout, per Harty.
"DeVries wouldn’t come cheap if you were to combine his buyout with Fran McCaffery’s buyout and with the cost of what it would take from a contract standpoint to land DeVries," Harty said. "Add all those numbers up and it’s more than $30 million because it would likely take a six-year contract paying at least $3.5 to $4 million annually to get DeVries."
If it's not DeVries, his replacement at Drake, Ben McCollom, is another name who has been mentioned.
His buyout would be much more palatable for the Hawkeyes, but he lacks the overall experience and consistency that DeVries has. With that said, he does have Drake playing 24-3 ball atop the Missouri Valley Conference.
Either way, change may be coming soon in Iowa City.
just think McCollum makes sense for them as they are a pretty cheap NIL team
Beard and Knight are definitely similar …in anger issues and …how they try to let their stress out on others…
That article is written by AI. That “author“ writes dozens of articles a day under that pen name.
It loosely draws from a Tipton article that said that Indiana had interest in Dusty May but it didn’t go anywhere.
Listen, I'm fine letting them do their thing, I'll be happy if they don't hire Beard.
There would have to be A LOT of no's to ever get to Collins. I do think he'd be smart to leave Northwestern. The ACC is wide open. A program like NC State or Virginia would be stupid to not call him(though I think Virginia takes VCUs coach, the guy who beat them as a 16 seed).
that seems right to me. IU could do worse, but it’s not a very sexy choice.
You have to get a guy that is comfortable being under a microscope. I don't know if Collins could handle it. I do think he could get a better job than Northwestern.
He was just complaining their hotel had no ac and it was 86 degrees in the rooms…and said they’re out to get his team….so I def do not think he could handle the IU fan base 😂
Collins is definitely a whiner but I think that’s just who he is. I have a hard time believing that a guy who played under Coach K at Duke couldn’t handle the pressure at IU.
There already has been a lot of no's during this IU search. Just like all the other times.
No one knows what is going on. At all. Except for Dolson.
Agree. Aside from his tendency to complain, what do you see from Collins that leads you to believe he'd fall into that category?
The absolute best can win no matter where they are. Collins has had some good seasons, but more often than not, he's finished at the bottom of the league. He finished 10th or worse 8 out of 12 seasons. Another season 9th where he didn't make the tourney. You look at other guys like Beard who is winning at Ole Miss, Wade who won at VCU, LSU and McNeese St. If Collins turned Northwestern into a school that was a sustainable tourney team after 2017, I think it'd be a different story. And I think he would have already left if he were coveted.
Got it, you're referring to his performance, not whether he could 'stand the pressure' at IU. If he had consistently won at NU he'd be at Duke, but I agree that his overall body of work at NU has been good, not great. They had some injuries this year, it will be interesting to see if he can get them back in NCAAT contention next year or if their two year run was primarily driven by Boo Buie.
For Collins and NW to compete they'd have to lower academic standards to the point IU did under Mike Davis and Cheatin' Kelvin. And they won't do that. Collins has done a great job.
