I'm surprised Fuente isn't in the conversation. I had this sneaking feeling that IU might be bringing in their coach in waiting.
Extremely underwhelming list. Does anyone believe that any of these guys would move the needle whatsoever?
No and it is insane if people are seeing these coaches as solid hires for Indiana. We should be shooting to look like Minnesota: bowl games 75% of the time, 8+ wins half the time, and once in a blue moon a double digit win season. What did Minnesota do? They went out and got a young coach who had gone from 1-11 his first season to back to back 8-5 seasons and capping his WMU tenure with a 13-1 season where the only loss was in a NY6 bowl.
Fuentes isn't even around, all he did was look at tape, left fir for Texas a few weeks ago
Dude you are trolling extremely hard right now. I’m impressed, I think.
Creighton and Martin aren't on any lists. Believe IU has reached out to Mike Hart (RB coach Michigan), Jason Candle (Toledo), Ryan Silverfield (Memphis HC), Paul Chryst (former Wiscon head coach/current Texas analyst), Justin Frye (CO-OC Ohio State and former alum), Sean Lewis (current Colorado OC/former Kent St HC) along with Rod Carey.
Sean Lewis is the only name on this list that even partially excites me. He's a better offensive mind than Kevin Wilson but with prior head coaching experience. Commit the resources to an all out star studded defensive staff and you may have something, but in all honesty it's probably a coin flip.
Man, that list is not particularly great either. Still holding out a shred of hope for Tom Herman.
These are the names that I've heard that have either interviewed or been granted an interview.
Oh, not questioning that at all and I’ve seen a similar list. Just honestly would be a little disappointed if that’s the end of it.
Forget MAC coaches, let's aim higher. Much higher
Lewis may be able to bring that Elite 11 QB from Cathedral that just decommitted from Colorado.
Meh and that's coming from a huge Cathedral fan.
I think ACC teams have figured out how to defend the slow mesh, which makes him a less compelling option, IMO.
W-L record doesn't jump off the page as great, but all things considered, Kent State is probably the worst job in the MAC and he had a fair amount of success there before leaving to take the OC job at Colorado.
I find it difficult to believe that Dolson has contacted 7 coaches since firing Allen on Sunday. If he has shame on him. If he was doing his job as AD he should have already completed his homework on potential coaches these past few weeks and narrowed his list to no more than 2-3 possibilities. Like everyone else posting comments I have no idea who IU will select as the next head coach, but I will make a guess that he did do his homework and we will have a new coach in the next few days. I also believe it will definitely be someone who is presently a head coach and has his staff in place.
Unless you had no choice but to fire the guy, and the directive came late, and previous to that you were planning to save 15 million if we won a couple games.
