I haven’t seen anywhere that he’s taken the job yet. WVU is not a bad job and is less brutal than the Big Ten.
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I’m not sure if that tweet on premie was from a valid source. I haven’t seen it anywhere else.
Why would we want that guy? 4 ncaa tourney games. Won one. Going to wvu to see how he does seems fitting.
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He's been at Drake, who Ben McCollum just took over for. He's got a 71% winning percentage. He would have made the tournament this year, and still should have, but they lost their second leading scorer for all but 8 games this year.
He's also under 50. Dude can coach.
He will be 50 in a month. Was at a mid major and has won one NCAA tournament game. Went to wvu and missed the tournament. In ten years from now if he has a 70 percent winning percentage in a major conf with two final fours he’d be a good iu hire. Iu is on par with wvu now in hoops? Not by resources. Completely uninspired and just rolling the dice on a nobody
No that we have our coach but doesn’t know who. But that was incorrect also, he just said he’d heard it from two different sources.
Right. Hopefully it’s just rumors. That’s who you hire at the bottom or lower middle of a P4 conf. An Indiana football hire not a Michigan football hire
Exactly. After he was there 7 years. Won the conference multiple times. Won big bowl games. If this guy wins the conf 4 times is multiple coach of the year and has deep tourney runs THEN he should be a candidate
He just got to the next rung. Prove he can do it at that level then jump to the big boys
At this point, it would be a bunt for base hit hire. Certainly not a home run.
Meh...It's a slightly better hire than McCollum and Brownell, that's about it.
How many big time cb teams have made a “home run hire” in the last 10-15 years, as judged at the time of the signing? A huge name that was a big winner in college and would continue to do so?
Calipari for Kentucky a while back. Anyone else?
Resources is our only big advantage these days. We been average for years. This is on par with what Louisville and Kentucky just hired. In fact Kentucky probably has more reasons to complain given how superior they have been to us.
Breaking all over that it's Devries. And it's from solid sources, not dbm style twits.
I have to say, I was wondering why people weren’t mentioning him earlier. If you’re impressed by McCollum’s resume, seems you’d like Devries, too.
Yeah, I think he's going to do well here. Dude can coach.
According to Goodman, we're gonna be getting his son as well.
It's not often, but to be fair there aren't many schools who are able to do it. Bill Self and Roy Williams are two examples from further back.
Some more recent examples of great hires are Beard at Texas and Ole Miss. Rick Barnes at Tennessee, Beilein at Michigan, and Pearl at Auburn. I'd put McDermott very close to that category.
The strategy should be to try and hire coaches who have been successful at Power 5 schools. Sampson fit that criteria and he was a great hire (besides the cheating). I thought Cronin at UCLA was bad hire, but he'a winning 69% currently and made the tourney every year, but one. People fall in love with all these mid major coaches, but most of them end up meh or flaming out.
I broke it on the free board last night at 8:41 but was doubted. 😄
No, No we re not. But we aspire to be that good, again.
Fired a guy who just missed the tourney to hire a guy who just missed the tourney and has one tourney game win to his credit
I don't mind it. Many on the IU boards were fixated in guys who were never coming. Plus we won't look at anyone with the slightest dirt. So here we are.
We were turned down by multiple people. Recently a candidate backed out that had a verbal agreement.
Hope for the best. Expect the worst.
McCollum was my choice, but this is quite fine. McDonalds is a huge name, but not a great burger. Some were just too fixated on name.
I need a favor...lets say around 5 years from now and I could be dead by then. So what I need is for somebody with a bit more confidence of still being around bookmark this thread for a down the road necro and post this as a reply to snarlcakes?
Thanks much...
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