I think too much is made about the Iowa connection. When you are a young coach working up the ranks then you aspire to the major program you know, but life changes and so do your dreams. May wanted to be IUs coach apparently. Then he got offered a good gig and his aspirations changed. It’s not like NFL players are all signing with their childhood team.
A good coach that can awaken this sleeping giant and compete for BIG titles and consistently, at least, get us to sweet sixteens and this is back to being a top 5 job in the country.
And how many people really participate regularly here? A few dozen? Maybe more are lurkers. But it's not a big number relative to the overall fan base.
The Right Coach is literally the only thing missing from the equation.
Sounds like years ago he did but who knows about the last couple years the job has tons of pressure and archie did not handle it well. Maybe he wants no part of the fishbowl.
Would we be considered the equivalent of the college basketball version of the Cubs fans?
It's not, overall it's great, but at least 1/3 of the seats are not really very good. A lot of the greatness is the history of what has happened there and just being there when the place is blowing your eardrums out.
Nothing like this. Someone has a video of him hanging out at a bar when he was at TT. He didn’t do anything silly though.
Not worth replying to that fella.
And people scoffed at Cignetti. Tried to say he wasn’t a big hire. Said he’d fail bringing JMU kids here.
Why in the world would he not try for McCollum at Drake? He trumps both those guys.
Woodson is about 12th highest paid with his 0.500 ball.
No credible source knows who is and is not on Dolson's radar. Tabloid fodder for news-starved folks like us.
Pretty interesting data points that seem to say coaches are less worried about their pay and more worried about player pay.
That would be the smart move, him or Texas Techs coach. Maybe take a chance on Drake coach but Indiana is long past the time to be able to take a chance. They need a guarantee.
I disagree, I think their only shot is to take a chance. Assuming they can't get Pearl, Wright, Stevens... Hiring a proven middle tier guy like Brownell will get the same results he's had for 15 years at Clemson. We fire coaches with those results. So might as well take a chance on younger potentially great guy, if you have to do this again in 4 years you're no worse off.
This is where I'm at. The only risk I see with McCollum is he's such a good basketball coach, that pretty much no matter what, he'll win enough to keep his job at IU for a very long time... But if, for some reason, his approach and style don't jive with NBA level talent, we'll have ourselves a Purdue/Wisconsin like program. It sounds lovely now, compared to what we've had, but get in to years 4,5,6 of having teams that "look" like those teams...that we know have little chance at a natty, despite winning 14-15 B10 games... And we'll all start to get pretty ancy.
If we can do it in one year in football then basketball is a no brainer. It's insane that we think we should be happy with 20 win seasons or coaches that have one good year.
