I’ve seen enough shitty D1 coaches to know that just because they coach at that level, doesn’t mean they deserve to do so.
Coaching at a D1 program isn’t some certified seal of approval.
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Coaching at a D1 program isn’t some certified seal of approval.
Yes that's true but would u hire a kid right out of college to be the CEO of your company.
Awful example.
Better one is a guy that has a decade long resume of driving incredible growth, profit, market share improvements at smaller companies…then stepped up to an already successful multi billion dollar company, and immediately had them more profitable than they’d ever been in their history.
Then, at that point, a historically strong Fortune 500 company, who’s been struggling for the better part of 2 decades, comes calling looking for new direction.
That’s fairly common. IU isn’t Apple. And McCollum isn’t some intern right out of college.
Why in the last cycle did "big time" coaches avoid UK, UNC and Duke?
All three were previous players and didn't two of them have no head coaching experience?
Most big time coaches are pretty happy with where they are. Once you get a train rolling you don't jump off.
20 years...not 1 cycle.
If IU is a desirable job, coaches wouldn't avoid it. Yet, nobody can explain why they do?....
Psstt...Painter told you 3 weeks ago.
WTH are you talking about.
Those three schools have gotten new coaches recently. Why didn't they make the "BIG" hire?
Are their fans complete garbage or whatever you called the IU fan base.
You do realize that if you are an IU fan, you are also talking about yourself too?
If he’s smart and mature beyond his years, yes. But the “kid” we’re talking about here in this debate has been out of college for 20 years and been head coaching for 15 of those.
I’m not sure any “big time” coaches are avoiding IU? The guys that are the top coaches in college basketball right now weren’t all big names for the duration of all the past IU hires. Some were not even head coaches.
There is a guy out there who would probably crawl across broken glass right now to come here. He’s not avoiding IU.
IU just has to have the balls to hire him.
Brownell and McCollum are very close if you look at the numbers both offensive and defensive efficiency both elite top 50.
Correct. The donors are not in these conversations. You only know what you know as a FACT. Hence, maybe that is why incorrect reports that Chris Beard was back in play, (only to be walked back a week later) and now Bryson Tucker had entered the portal, only to have Tucker himself refute that, are still being sent out.
Pretty much why if you are going to get a bigger name to move its going to be one with some baggage. Guys like pitino, wade, sampson, beard , sean miller, etc. Guys who had issues but then took other jobs
I know two of the million dollar donors, or should I say my wife does I've held off having her call them and ask. lol
Seriously I do know two and they are extremely close to Dolson, lobbied for him to get the job, but I doubt they know anything. This will all be over soon and if IU does IU things there will be an let down. If we get McCollum we will be lucky and that is saying something since by all accounts he should have been way down the list.
Interesting thought, at least to me. Matt Painter was a successful coach at the MVC level and then Purdue hires him as the transition coach to Keady. Steve Alford was a successful MVC coach and chose to go to Iowa. IF... somehow Alford never goes to Iowa before CBK was let go, Alford is probably hired at IU. I would wager that he would have cleaned up in recruiting Indiana kids and the fanbase would have loved him. I think he would have had the same or better success as what Painter has had.
I'm not saying he would be my guy this hiring cyle (see Chris Beard) but IU basketball would have been much better over the past 25 years.
Other than recruiting Indiana, we had Alford when we had Crean. He would have been fired, and it would have been very ugly.
yeah 25 looong freaking years.
davis
sampson
crean
archie
woodson.......
history has crean looking more and more favorable
SD...please get it right this time
When Glass let Crean go, if someone had told me that they were from the year 2025 and we were canning the most successful coach IU would have in the first quarter of the 21st century, I would have ordered a double of whatever they were drinking. If I knew it was true, I would have kept ordering them until I blacked out and didn't remember the conversation.
Crean put us on quite a roller coaster. I can’t imagine the same extreme highs and lows with SA.
Bob Kravitz was saying we were insane to fire crean and I was laughing at him at that time.
