I’m starting to get the feeling it’s gonna be….

[BayernFan]

Chuck Martin. Can’t go wrong with Miami (OH) right?? 16 years of HC experience in Michigan and Ohio. OC at ND in 2012 when the Irish took a 12-0 record into the BCS championship Game. Then took over a floundering Miami program and brought it to respectability and has a 10-2 team now. Familiar with Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio recruiting.

 

[kmathum]

Chuck Martin. Can’t go wrong with Miami (OH) right?? 16 years of HC experience in Michigan and Ohio. OC at ND in 2012 when the Irish took a 12-0 record into the BCS championship Game. Then took over a floundering Miami program and brought it to respectability and has a 10-2 team now. Familiar with Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio recruiting.

I can hardly contain my excitement.

 

[Pazhoosier85]

Cradle of coaches. Not my top choice but we could do worse.

 

[ams66]

Cradle of coaches. Not my top choice but we could do worse.

You can only hire those willing to come.

 

[BayernFan]

He of course has quite a few players from Indiana and looks like also a pipeline to Georgia.

 

[JBT Assoc]

Regardless who IU hires, a fair percentage of us fans will be whining “Is that the best they could do?”
The new hire isn’t going to be someone well-known, who is currently coaching a top 25 team.

 

[MMcCormick]

Martin would be better than Tom Allen, but not the best hire in my estimation. To his credit he seems to have gotten it together this year, but it took for ever to get here. To say it was a slow build is understatement. At ND he was a terrific DB coach, and thoroughly mediocre as an OC. He's an above average recruiter and he's smarter than Tom Allen. But I don't rate his as high as Jason Candle. Both teams have similar talent and Candle has done a lot more with it.

 

[BayernFan]

If IU hired him, they would roll him out as he coaches Miami in the MAC championship game like they did with Hoeppner.

 

[IUNorth]

Chuck Martin. Can’t go wrong with Miami (OH) right?? 16 years of HC experience in Michigan and Ohio. OC at ND in 2012 when the Irish took a 12-0 record into the BCS championship Game. Then took over a floundering Miami program and brought it to respectability and has a 10-2 team now. Familiar with Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio recruiting.

Why are you getting the feeling its him?

 

[BayernFan]

No inside into. He just seems to check off boxes that I think IU has in mind.

Plus IU likes that Miami Ohio thing on the resumes. Pont, Mallory, Hoeppner. Especially when the chips are down.

Plus it’s said he has an “interesting” personality. lol.

 

[abraxis]

Cradle of coaches. Not my top choice but we could do worse.

It would be going from the Cradle of Coaches to the Revolving Door of Coaches. We could do worse and so could he.

 

[BayernFan]

Although Mike Hart has apparently interviewed for the job, per Peegs.

 

[sparkeyreturns]

Although Mike Hart has apparently interviewed for the job, per Peegs.

You're kidding me? This AD is a freaking clown. F' IU sports.

 

[BayernFan]

He is undefeated as a head coach. (1-0).

Seriously, didn’t he have a seizure on the sideline in Bloomington last year and was carted off?

 

[Pazhoosier85]

You're kidding me? This AD is a freaking clown. F' IU sports.

Lol. You're mad that the AD interviewed a coach. The horror.

 

[ulrey]

He is undefeated as a head coach. (1-0).

Seriously, didn’t he have a seizure on the sideline in Bloomington last year and was carted off?

Well. Some people are wanting Jerry Kill 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[dbmhoosier]

You're kidding me? This AD is a freaking clown. F' IU sports.

At this point I'm expecting Walt Bell to be introduced as the next HC. It's IU and Dolson after all.

 

[Univee2]

Chuck Martin. Can’t go wrong with Miami (OH) right?? 16 years of HC experience in Michigan and Ohio. OC at ND in 2012 when the Irish took a 12-0 record into the BCS championship Game. Then took over a floundering Miami program and brought it to respectability and has a 10-2 team now. Familiar with Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio recruiting.

Miami University. Oxford, OH.

University of Miami is in Florida.

Miami U. grads hate: Miami (OH) or Miami of Ohio.

(Much like University of Indiana drives IU people up a wall.)

 

[ulrey]

At this point I'm expecting Walt Bell to be introduced as the next HC. It's IU and Dolson after all.

Stop it..

 

[CraigHo]

Deland McCullough! Welcome back back back again! Definitely would take the OC job. Hahahaha

 

[kpbucks4454]

Candle, Martin, And Hart in that order. Successful head coaches, in the MAC , have done well Moving on . Candle is an offensive coach with a good staff. Toledo is a Blue Blood program and Candle has lifted it even higher. Martin is a proven commodity as a head coach. I love Mike Hart. He could do the job if we gave him enough $ to build a staff. Sadly, we won’t. Go with Candle if we are lucky enough to grit him.

 

[MadMax4]

Although Mike Hart has apparently interviewed for the job, per Peegs.

Thought someone on here said assistants are not being considered??

 

[bdhman]

Mike Hart? He wasn’t even named interim HC when Harbaugh was suspended, plus, he has ZERO head coaching experience.

 

[BayernFan]

Mike Hart? He wasn’t even named interim HC when Harbaugh was suspended, plus, he has ZERO head coaching experience.

Apparently he was interim HC the second half vs UNLV.

 

[td75]

Mike Hart could probably recruit like a boss. Just don't think he's experienced enough...This job needs a proven winner, IMO.

 

[sparkeyreturns]

Lol. You're mad that the AD interviewed a coach. The horror.

Are you seriously that dumb?

 

[OpenWheels]

At this point I'm expecting Walt Bell to be introduced as the next HC. It's IU and Dolson after all.

Tom Allen and Rod Carey were holding Walt Bell down.

 

[OpenWheels]

(Much like University of Indiana drives IU people up a wall.)

The live emcee guy for basketball games at Illinois used to love to use that one.

I felt sure he knew better... Which actually made it a good needle.

 

[edub72]

I hope not Martin
Ugh

 

[Willdog7]

Chuck Martin. Can’t go wrong with Miami (OH) right?? 16 years of HC experience in Michigan and Ohio. OC at ND in 2012 when the Irish took a 12-0 record into the BCS championship Game. Then took over a floundering Miami program and brought it to respectability and has a 10-2 team now. Familiar with Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio recruiting.

Why would he leave a winning situation?

 

[UncleMark]

Why are you getting the feeling its him?

Bayern is having the time of his life with this circus. He lives for these times. He'll be bummed when they finally do pick someone.

 

[Jssanto]

Chuck Martin. Can’t go wrong with Miami (OH) right?? 16 years of HC experience in Michigan and Ohio. OC at ND in 2012 when the Irish took a 12-0 record into the BCS championship Game. Then took over a floundering Miami program and brought it to respectability and has a 10-2 team now. Familiar with Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio recruiting.

Do you think we would be better off with a coach with recruiting ties to Florida or Texas?

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Deland McCullough! Welcome back back back again! Definitely would take the OC job. Hahahaha

Don’t want that guy near the university. His whole game is about self-promotion. His last time here, his unit was a trainwreck. No more McColloughs near this school. Him or his kids. He’s a soap opera.

 

[BayernFan]

Bayern is having the time of his life with this circus. He lives for these times. He'll be bummed when the finally do pick someone.

Remember in 2004 when IU almost hired Tim Murphy, Harvard head coach? Well he’s still available and still at Harvard. Just won another Ivy League Champiobship.

 

[SRThoosier]

Hart jumped to Michigan. No loyalty here.

 

[oldcougar77]

Hart jumped to Michigan. No loyalty here.

Hart would be a hard no for me. I wouldn't be able to escape the belief that he would only be at IU to get experience and audition for the UM job when Harbaugh leaves or gets canned.

 

[jopajackson]

👀👀

 

[bdhman]

Martin would be ok, but I’m hoping for a more splashy hire and a HC with more success.

 

[oldcougar77]

Martin would be ok, but I’m hoping for a more splashy hire and a HC with more success.

I prefer to look at the coaches in conferences like the MAC or Sunbelt in terms of their conference records. I think it's important to consider that these guys are often faced with the pressure to fund their programs ( and sometimes their school's entire athletic program) by serving as cannon fodder for P5 teams outside of the conference schedule. They also are more likely to groom a good class by taking their lumps playing young players, developing them into a formidable team as upperclassmen, and then completely rebuilding when they leave. If they're lucky, they make it to the in-conference part of the schedule without having their best players beat to hell in those early road games against the big boys from the SEC, B1G, Big 12, ACC, and PAC schools.

 

[Big Red Crimson Buffalo]

Candle, Martin, And Hart in that order. Successful head coaches, in the MAC , have done well Moving on . Candle is an offensive coach with a good staff. Toledo is a Blue Blood program and Candle has lifted it even higher. Martin is a proven commodity as a head coach. I love Mike Hart. He could do the job if we gave him enough $ to build a staff. Sadly, we won’t. Go with Candle if we are lucky enough to grit him.

No way to Mike Hart.
If he’s so good, let Michigan hire him when Harbaugh leaves after this year. He’s right there and ready to step in and he’s a legacy there. Let him take the UM job.