Damn, this is a ringing endorsement for Beard from a pretty good source.
- Thread starter Tony Warwick
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He is a great coach. But he’s not the guy I’d want vouching for my charcter.
The truth of the matter is, everyone makes mistakes, only difference is some are more public than others.
I'm not saying that Beard should be the choice, but I bet every candidate isn't as squeaky clean as our fanbase wants them to be. Well, except May, that kid seems like a choir boy.
I don't know all of the details, but it's my understanding that the charges against Beard were dropped.
Who is this Bears fellow? This is the first mention of him I've seen on this forum.
Are we certain that Beard is an alcoholic? If so, you can't hire him if he's still drinking (people have said on here he is).
Guilty until proven innocent, and then still guilty.
Beard made a name for himself nationally when he led No. 12 seed Arkansas Little-Rock to a double-overtime upset victory over No. 5 seed Purdue in the
Another reason to hire Beard.
Another reason to hire Beard.
Fortunately no one on here has any say in the matter. Those are decisions for Scott Dolson, that's his job. If he doesn't consider someone as obvious and accomplished as Chris Beard, then he's not doing his job.
Because she wanted the charges dropped, as DV victims sometimes do. "Never charged" is NOT necessarily synonymous with "innocent."
For sure doesn’t mean guilty either.
For sure doesn't mean innocent. For sure doesn't mean guilty. So there's indecision and unknows on it all.
Why, on earth, risk the fallout then? We've lived through what happens when risky picks blow up in your face. And we don't have to go there again. Speaking of battered wife syndrome. Damn.
Honest question, would the 1990 version of Bob Knight be hired by IU in 2025?
I question that the "high reward" part is enough better than...May, McCasland, Drew, McCollum, etc... would be...if its better at all. He hasn't done much since the TT title game run?...
He beat them again at TT in 2018. Sweet 16 if I remember correctly, but in fairness Purdue had just lost Isaac Haas for the season.
No one is going to be unhappy from a BASKETBALL standpoint if we hire Beard. It is obviously the off-court issues with him. If that is one issue, two issues, on-going issues is to be determined by Dolson's due diligence, as has been pointed out by KKott many times. I happen to concur.
Piss on character. I want wins. I am tired of hiring coaches that are impeccable people, but lose.
If the powers that be were serious about winning, Beard is who they’d hire.
The powers that be are not serious about winning. Beard won’t even get a call. It will be somebody else.
And I predict that the program will continue to struggle for the next 4-5 years…after which we will go through this routine once again.
Making a 6th straight hire that ends in massive failure would be a million times more of a black eye to IU than hiring Chris Beard and him having a dui would be.
What’s the answer? Why is his offense boring? It is averaging 77.8 pts per game.
Is Duke offense boring? They average 81 pts
Almost nobody would likely hire him except apparently St. Johns or West Virginia
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We’re comparing him to OJ lol
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JFC….the simple minds around here have created such a hilarious narrative here. “We need a good coach, not a choir boy!!”
“Who cares about character??!”
“If this administration cares about winning, we’d hire Beard….”.
IU can absolutely hire a coach *just* as good as Beard without having to risk the fallout of hiring a potential ticking time bomb. This false dichotomy that only an edgy, rough coach will get results here is super weird. It’s almost as if some people here think the secret sauce with RMK was actually his controversial off-the-court behavior. Coach K and Dean Smith did just fine without the extracurricular stuff. The list of great coaches without extra baggage is long, and no, they weren’t choir boys either.
Let them do their due diligence with Beard, and see what they find. My guess is it’s not good, or he would’ve been hired by UK or Louisville.
“Who cares about character??!”
“If this administration cares about winning, we’d hire Beard….”.
IU can absolutely hire a coach *just* as good as Beard without having to risk the fallout of hiring a potential ticking time bomb. This false dichotomy that only an edgy, rough coach will get results here is super weird. It’s almost as if some people here think the secret sauce with RMK was actually his controversial off-the-court behavior. Coach K and Dean Smith did just fine without the extracurricular stuff. The list of great coaches without extra baggage is long, and no, they weren’t choir boys either.
Let them do their due diligence with Beard, and see what they find. My guess is it’s not good, or he would’ve been hired by UK or Louisville.
Calm down, it’s more the fact that any good coach brought up is “but this, but that”
“Beard, Drew,Pearl, Pitino,” just not fits.
Iu cannot screw this hire up, they have to hire a winner or the program is going to continue to die
Nobody’s saying that the off-court stuff is necessary to win. That would be silly.
What we’re saying is that (within limits) it shouldn’t stand as an obstacle to hiring the best candidate we can get. Yes, of course there are limits to that. And there’s a difference between a pattern of bad behavior and isolated incidents.
“Within limits” is the key word here, and some are saying they’re fine with either the behavior itself, or the risk of it happening again, so long as we win. Not saying that’s your position, but it clearly is for others here.
My point is, there are great coaches available without these added risks. There’s simply no need to tread into that thorny thicket.
A good source? Only if you want to know how to pay players, knock up the wife of the equipment manager and pay for her abortion, or deliver hookers to his players. I'm sure I'm forgetting some of his other greatest hits.
Rock solid guy to listen to.
We can? Then why haven’t we done so the past 25 years?
