Good choice coach, don’t ever go on the hysterics pod please.
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Good choice coach, don’t ever go on the hysterics pod please.
I thought it was very dry and only coach speak. Got nothing from the interview. I think the hysterics would have gotten some fun details out.
It's nice to have a good coach who is not socially awkward or an egomaniac. As Don Fischer said after meeting with DeVries in the IU locker room, he's a friendly, good-natured guy who is easy to talk to.
i don’t want fun details. I want winning basketball not a circus show.
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My #1 for the next coach was this - just a normal guy that loves basketball and knows how to win.
I bet Devries is getting sick of doing interviews for every Harry, Dick and Tom. The same questions keep getting asked, either with different words or the same words structurally rearranged. He's probably the busiest man on campus right now, doing a juggling act between getting adjusted to new surroundings, building a team while dismantling an old one, finding new assistant coaches, answering to the media, all while selling a house and finding a new one. The man must be exhausted, but I guess that's why he gets paid by the millions.
DeVries' biggest problem will be finding the same success fans have come to expect after just one year of Cignetti. It's a hard act to follow, even for Cignetti.
DeVries' biggest problem will be finding the same success fans have come to expect after just one year of Cignetti. It's a hard act to follow, even for Cignetti.
It was a straight forward and open interview. What do you expect him to talk about or say? How he smoked a doobie when he was a teenager?
The most important thing ... his wife is happy. I was happy to hear him say that when he told his family IU offered him the job, they ALL were excited about it.
I am just guessing ... but after getting "a dream job" I really doubt that he is sick of doing anything that is part of changing jobs in big time college coaching. He admitted he is not sleeping much but with his two energy drinks per day and the excitement of being Indiana's new coach ... adrenalin is high right now.
I agree ... Cignetti's success might be his biggest problem. Yet at the same time, once fans seen sound fundamental winning basketball, that will be a good start to changing and winning will take care of itself.
I was pumped when he went through the interview without talking about himself in third person…
How he smoked one on his way to the interview would be more captivating to an audience. (Forgive me, Father)
No surprise. Nothing against Morgantown, but I imagine that Bloomington is a step up from there.
Hopefully, the days of hearing our basketball coach analyze the shortcomings of his team's performance with, "They just didn't come out of the locker room with any juice." (Woodson to Fischer) are over now.
Does anyone know if DeVries plays golf? (discounting Putt-Putt) It's not a prerequisite for success, but it helps in establishing "one of us" relationships with fellow university associates and fat-wallet alumni.
Does anyone know if DeVries plays golf? (discounting Putt-Putt) It's not a prerequisite for success, but it helps in establishing "one of us" relationships with fellow university associates and fat-wallet alumni.
If nothing else, no more black specks of coal dust distracting to the smiles and no need for toothpicks in the pockets.
I didn’t get interviewed, coach did.
Go and listen to Knight, Pitino, Painter, Pearl and many other coaches that are still coaching this time of year. They give more than just basic coach speak. They don't care if something they say could be construed by others as being negative. They just say what they are thinking and I respect that. There wasn't anything bad it was a good interview but I was hoping for more personality. He was more Archie than any of the coaches listed above. I also had the same criticism of Mike Woodson. His interviews were awful, dry and boring (every sentence he spoke. Started with the word again).
Well, not every coach can be a Mark Few or a Greg Gard.
Have you passed your contact information to IU's SID? That would be a good start for you and a better interview to listen to.
Hysterics? For me, they take way to long to say way to little.
Yes, seems like a very likable guy. I hope I like him as much after next season!
That is what happens when you are a self centered egotistical asshat. And I mean that in the most disrespectful way possible towards the hysterics.
Media BS is the reason why most of the best coaches don’t want to talk to them, or put them in their place when they have to talk to them. Hopefully Coach will make his teams play do all the talking.
Pete isn't a guy DeVries should ever get tired of talking to. He is leading the charge of more NIL cash.
Coach checks the, "not a wierdo" box. That's a good first step.
That was good, thank you.
Not coach speak at all. I felt a sense of what he's about, and his philosophy. It's only coach speak for those coaches that don't have the ability to get it done. But you can sense the difference usually between those talking the talk and those describing the real walk. And his background is an indicator.
I liked things such as his describing running daily drills, even just for a very short time, because then players 'understand that it's important to us'. And why. Smart, makes sense from what little I know about learning other skills.
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Not coach speak at all. I felt a sense of what he's about, and his philosophy. It's only coach speak for those coaches that don't have the ability to get it done. But you can sense the difference usually between those talking the talk and those describing the real walk. And his background is an indicator.
I liked things such as his describing running daily drills, even just for a very short time, because then players 'understand that it's important to us'. And why. Smart, makes sense from what little I know about learning other skills.
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I’ve always felt the negative reporting of media, as prosperity started going the least bit “south,” probably had as much to do with Knight’s firing as anything else. The media influences the way the uninformed and highly gullible think. Snowballs rolled downhill from there.
Very few basketball fans are football fans even still. The fact we still haven’t sold out the entire stadium for next year shows that. Imagine if this guy goes 35-2 next year like CC did? The state would literally be on fire.
Do we know who we are playing in the pre-season yet? I've read that many of those games are scheduled up to a few years in advance. All I think I've heard is that we will play Marquette in November in Chicago.
It's more like 100 staircases up. Barely a decent college town, and it's in WV. It's brutal compared to Bloomington.
Big Ten is still one of the toughest conferences. I’m hoping to see the 20-24 win season, but might be tough in year one. Even if Coach brings along a few guys familiar with his game play.
Anything above and beyond these numbers and I’ll be ecstatic.
GO HOOSIERS!!
I guess we can just get another coach. Who is left?
If the poor bastard doesn't win at least 23 and get to, at minimum, the Sweet 16, he'll be considered a Failure by many... Lets hope he is able to put a great TEAM on the floor next season.
So all he has to do is build a Sweet 16 TEAM over about five and a half months...
Failure to me would be producing a team that looked anything like the last couple years. Don’t think that’s going to be the case though.
For me, finish in the top half of the conference, do something respectable in the BTT, make the NCAAT without any bubble drama would be acceptable for year one. Improve in year two.
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