Bozich says
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Grow a sack and hire Wade or Beard. If Dolson hires Brownell, then he’s a giant pu**y.
Maybe it’s not Dolson’s hire (again)? That would piss me off, if I were him, but he got railroaded with the Woodson hire so how much has really changed since then?
I fully expect IU to fuk this up, regardless of who makes the call.
I fully expect IU to fuk this up, regardless of who makes the call.
I think Dolson had the football hire authority. Why wouldn't he? The program was the worst in the country with tenure to that effect. Kind of like cooking black eyed peas.....you really can't screw it up. Now basketball.....IU has been living on the fumes of a long and storied program....for years. Our coaching has beens and will bes have all inhaled the fumes until they expired....yet the grand potentates who run the back room continued to hoard the authority in the basketball program. Why? I think it goes back to RMK and Myles Brand...or, it could be that they actually believe they are responsible for that storied history....not those who played and coached the games.
This is going on my clipboard and will be my response for the next three weeks.
It probably is Dolson's hire but that does not mean he will not mess up it. IU is very good and messing up bbal hires. If he is going to limit himself with the holier than thou hiring process well he will get all the blame if the L's start coming because he passed up great coaches since they were not pure enough.
Bozich says...
Whatever is going to get him clicks & views from half of the people that read him and clicks & views from the second half that will ridicule the first half.
Whatever is going to get him clicks & views from half of the people that read him and clicks & views from the second half that will ridicule the first half.
Should’ve gotten off the high horse and got Beard or Wade , but that would make too much sense.
You understand that nobody listens to your constant whine right? You didn’t even like the Cignetti hire. You called him effeminate.
I like those choices, just in the reverse order. I wouldn’t be disappointed with either, but much more excited about McCollum.
what makes this board interesting is not the comments about coaches with past domestic abuse charges, a show clause put on them, or exiled for on campus stripper parties but the posts about coaches who would enthrone us in solid mediocrity: Brownell, Cronin, Alford, etc. We would rather be hated or taunted, but never do we want to be forgotten in the mediocre middle.
IU talks a good game , but they don’t walk the walk. Too scared to get a coach who will bring us back to prominence and always settle for the meh. All the way back to when they were potentially going to make Davis and Treloar co-coaches. Just silliness.
Not that I believe Bozich, Goodman, or Dakich, but what if Brownell's agent is floating his name as #1, or Indiana is after hearing rumblings of McCaffery being fired? They can gauge how much Brownell is liked/disliked and all of a sudden McCollum is liked a helluva lot more.
Another interesting name in the shadows.....Darian Devries at WVU....who, like McCollum, is linked to Iowa. Add him to the short list of interesting coaches.....who will likely be snatched up after this season.
Why would Bozich have any sources that would know anything? He’s not even a full-time IU beat reporter. He’s just tossing crap out there because his boss told him to publish something.
He’s a real college basketball coach with Indiana roots. Give him Indiana resources. I’m good if he’s the hire.
Ehhh, I honestly feel IU should set its eyes higher. Brownell has won 60% of his games st Clemson
Then there's the possibility that no one knows anything and everything we're reading is click bait sourced through fan fiction.
What are the odds? After Davis, Sampson, Crean, Miller ... probably pretty damn good.
Horse farms and car washes.. it's happening.
A comment without any merit or factual credibility.
IU has an outstanding athletic department. IU men's basketball is now the outlier in the overall equation. They can fix that by hiring a true winner.
You can wait and see before slinging mud, just like the rest of us.
I think he's been preparing longer than that. Just because he didn't get to fire Woodson last year, doesn't mean he didn't already start making his short list for when the day came.
May is absolutely overrated. Only reason he was ever part of the conversation was because IU is his alma mater and he was connected to the program.
It’s the same stupid logic that got us into trouble hiring Bigfoot. May is better than Woody but that ain’t saying much.
Ok keep telling yourself this, until I’m proven wrong the athletic department is weak. Ok how about subpar.
You know a great deal about subpar. The athletic department, over the past 5-7 years, maybe more, has been well above subpar.
Basketball and football have been subpar (aside from this years football team which was great). I do know a ton about subpar I’ve watched IU basketball the past 2 1/2 decades and football for longer than that.
Good coaches are focused on their team this time of year and don’t need distractions. There’s a good chance that when the search firm contacted some coaches they said, “I’m not interested at this time.” But 30 minutes after they’re eliminated in the NCAA’s they’ll say, “Ok, I’m interested at this time.”
I assume their agents are either saying no outright or keeping the conversation warm until their client can get engaged.
