He was a student manager. Do most people include that in their defintion of "IU Guy" or are they talking mostly about former players?
Dusty May
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If he turns out to be our guy I'll support him 100%. I just happen to think there are much more qualified candidates out there.
I gave 11 other reasons besides him being an IU alum to hire him, so... yeah, of course.
UM felt that way too.
I'm not sure I can root for a guy who wears these glasses.
I'm getting MSU Tom Crean vibes....
I'm getting MSU Tom Crean vibes....
If i were a betting man.
Unless he says no… He is IU head coach. Next season and on. May on forward err March-April.
Of course after Brad turns us down.
Unless he says no… He is IU head coach. Next season and on. May on forward err March-April.
Of course after Brad turns us down.
I agree... Given that his mom is an usher at IU games, you would think there would be some familial pressure to lead the team. Now that Michigan has started to re-do his contract, I think if there is not an announcement of a raise/extension before the NCAA Tournament begins, it's all but certain we'll be seeing those goofy glasses in every post-game conference next year.
May is unproven. One lucky run doesn't make him a genius. The brackets, upsets and matchups determine so much. Stevens caught lightening in a bottle then ran. He knew he couldn't sustain it. Beard has too much baggage and Pearl is too old. Ben McCollum is the right answer.
I agree with a lot of your comments, but how is McCollum proven when he hasn't even played a game against a ranked team? Plus, he runs an offensive system that prioritizes three point shooting less than Woody... Could be great, but unproven.
He does seem to have a bit of the "high school science teacher" look
I'm not sure I can root for a guy who wears these glasses.
I'm getting MSU Tom Crean vibes....
Maybe Woodson can leave his glasses on his desk for the new coach.
May and Michigan took down PU tonight. Redemption. I’m warming up to May but doubt he leaves.
Your evaluations of coaching prowess doesn’t exactly carry a lot of weight. If you say the guy is a “reject,” he’s probably pretty good.
What more does he need to prove, and for how long? He has a final four at a backwater school, he never finished a season with a losing record, he turned around the program at Michigan and has them ranked #1 in the conference currently in his first year there. He is doing everything we defined as our criteria for success.
May would have to be very confident in himself to jump to IU after this season. If he fails to get IU to a Final Four in 4 years he is a bum and the calls for his head will start up. With how he left Michigan after one year, he would not get another P4 job except at a cellar dweller like Wake Forest. May taking the IU job is going all in on with 4 cards to a straight hoping to pull the middle card. If you win you win big, but odds are you lose everything. Braum at least stayed at Purdue for several years before going back to Louisville.
That isn’t the expectation here.
Card analogy doesn’t make sense, the odds aren’t bad at IU.
UM is a very good job, question is does he want the extra NIL, transfer flexibility, and bigger spotlight. Who knows.
Depends on his personality, but if we wanted May, we needed to act last year, and should have regardless if it was him. Being at a football school will shield him from down years, but higher academic standards (supposedly, they've had plenty of questionable recruits: Fab 5, Higgins, Traylor, etc...) and less NIL, plus the support and history make it harder to win there. Plus at IU, if there's a dollar in the athletic budget it's more likely to be spent on bball, and UM it's always going to football.
I don't think IU would have hired Dusty last year. There are still skeptics today.
