Interesting. And I assume not an attempt at trolling because he’s really good.
What is your source for that, if you don’t mind sharing?
Who's going to be the new IU coach
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What is your source for that, if you don’t mind sharing?
I like him. Have they given up on IU legacy types? Davis, Fife, Dakich, Woodson.
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IMHO I will listen and value your take over this Twin dope and all other Hoosier turds who some how think their opinions matter on this board….
Gosh. So much has changed in college basketball in the last few years, but wouldn’t this be viewed as tampering by doing this during the season?
I know that ethics don’t seem to matter much anymore. I’m just a bit old-school and would like to see better moral behavior by leadership at our universities and other institutions.
Thanks-you are kind. IU was recently a dysfunctional mess but thanks to Cignetti and NIL, Dolson has a plum job to offer. No one wants to follow a legend and everyone wants unlimited resources and a strong AD. That’s now IU, largely thanks to Cignetti empowering Dolson, and to some lousy previous hires.
An easy one? Calbert Cheaney doesn’t want to be and hasn’t been a head coach anywhere, and that includes zero chance at IU.
Beard is a fantastic coach who would crawl to Bloomington for the job, but has real, untreated problems with the bottle, and even more than the domestic violence dropped charges, I think that will eliminate him. Any team that hired Beard will win though.
I don’t see Drew having interest after passing on UK, but if he did? That’d be worth following. I don’t think IU boosters would want him at the price he’d command.
Stevens isn’t as crazy as you think. So many reasons the timing is right; elderly parents in Indy, kid in college at ND, Celtics being sold, still 48 and wants to coach before he gets too old. In the NIL era he’d be a grand slam home run of epic proportions. Him and Painter would perennially be in the top ten like the good old 80’s days. And Stevens is tight with Dolson.
May was a perfect fit last year and has a small-ish buyout. He’s very tight with Dolson too. Not completely far-fetched. He’s a Greene County boy and would have loved to be in Bloomington; he also has won above and beyond any expectations- a truly excellent coach who still goes on IU podcasts and refers to the Hoosiers as “we” even though he’s HC at UM.
As said here, Otz has ties to Ames and a large buyout; buyout is big for Cronin too.
Shrews is a great guy and I think an excellent coach but he’s 60-62 in D1. I think that’s a non-starter.
McCollum? I can’t see IU hiring a guy with 20 D1 games who has never coached against a ranked opponent.
I love McCasland—haven’t ever heard about him having connections to IU. He’s never coached out of Texas but if his agent reached out he’d likely be near the top of the list.
If the pie-in-the sky candidates don’t work? I could see Buzz Williams, maybe McDermott if he was interested, maybe even Gates.
That’s what I’ve got; based on who Dolson likes, who makes career-wise sense, and who might be interested.
Now watch them hire McCollum or Shrews lol.
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What makes Beard a fantastic coach?
And has Stevens actually said in the last 2 years he wants to coach ncaa bball?
Beard wins like crazy. As Parcells said “You are who your record says you are.” If you’ve watched Beard-coached teams play a lot, they are winning because they are truly fierce.
Shrews has recently said on camera that Stevens absolutely wants to coach again. Stevens doesn’t say anything either way.
