Indiana Basketball coach search 2.0 - "Legit candidates" and "not gonna happen."

[Jim Coyle]

There are a litany of names being cast about as potential replacements for the soon to be vacant head coaching job at Indiana. The Hoosiers "aren't what they used to be." "The Indiana job is no longer a valued position." You can add whatever other ill-informed quote there, but Indiana is still Indiana, they haven't been Indiana for too long. But the truth of the matter is that the program, is a sleeping giant in need of the right guy. That is the only thing missing for Assembly Hall to become a forbidden zone to opponents as it was for so many years. I believe Indian will get this one right. While there are plenty of named candidates, which are legit and more importantly actually doable from a financial standpoint. Let's take a look


https://indiana.rivals.com/news/indiana-basketball-coaching-hot-board-version-1-0

 

[dr.jb]

that's a pretty long list

 

[dbmhoosier]

 

[TMB333]

Horrible arena, fans still hung up on having a guy with IU and RMK connections.

 

[bsmitty08]

Horrible arena, fans still hung up on having a guy with IU and RMK connections.

Most top blue blood programs did hire with guys that gave connections to the program
UK- Pope
UNC- Davis
Duke- Scheyer
Villanova- Neptune
He’ll even PU and MSU. In Painter and Izzo

 

[IUNorth]

Most top blue blood programs did hire with guys that gave connections to the program
UK- Pope
UNC- Davis
Duke- Scheyer
Villanova- Neptune
He’ll even PU and MSU. In Painter and Izzo

IU - Woodson

Lets just get a really damn good basketball coach, and not give a rip where he came from.

 

[bsmitty08]

IU - Woodson

Lets just get a really damn good basketball coach, and not give a rip where he came from.

I don’t disagree, just saying that most of the historic program went the “connection route”
Football is all about the coaching tree.
ND hired Freeman who was assistant for Brian Kelly