I wouldn’t doubt if Dolson spoke to many coaches, including McCollum. I also think McCollum would be a good fit and could nail it. There is just a little more risk there IMO. His numbers have been gaudy, but that’s not the whole picture. Like we found out with May, timing is a big factor, and CDD seems like a good fit all around.
I give him two years given the nil and new landscape. We will again likely have the top nil in the conference
Hopefully the injtial contract is no more than 4 seasons. AD's give these guys 7 or 8 years to begin and its very dangerous. Especially with NIL. You'll have a better idea after year 2 to extend or not.
Listen to the AfterDark podcast. Goodman said Dolson talked to McCollum a couple of times. They also had Doug McDermott on who knows DD extremely well and loves him. Said that everyone assumes he went to Creighton because of his Dad, but DD recruited him before his Dad was even there and he loved him and wanted to play for him. The general consensus is DD works his ass off and knows bball and plays a modern style offense, and his teams will defend. Should have made the tourney and had some really impressive wins, losing one of his top players after 8 games. Is he the guy that can get us to a NC? I don't know, that's a really high bar to clear, but from all I've heard we're going to have a team that gives effort and plays hard and I am convinced will get us back to the top quarter of the conference and in the tournament every year.
And if SD spoke to McCollum more than once....its possible he turned IU down, not the other way around. There's plenty of crying over spilled milk going on here. These decisions go both ways, which narrows the window dramatically. I think IU got lucky with the timing. My guess is that the other shoe to drop was Brownell after the tournament.
Yeah, not buying that. Organizations give people multiple interviews before not hiring them for entry level sales positions. I don’t think Dolson having multiple conversations with him indicates anything beyond that he did his due diligence. I also don’t believe there was another shoe. When you find the right fit then you box them up and go home. Dolson thinks he found the fit. We will see.
We have to give the guy a chance. But with NIL, our level of NIL, and the transfer portal, you need to succeed very quickly. No more recruit and let them develop, no more expectations of a weak first and second year while the new guy builds the program.
Here's my response: have you talked with both DD and BM about the IU job? Maybe trust the guy who did, and not a bunch of folks on a fan board who think they know better than the guy who has talked with both? Whether SD decided on DD, or was turned down by BM, listening to After Dark and Aaron Torres, both feel that DD is a better fit at IU.
You don’t get a guy like him with a 4 year contract. Standard is 5 years but he got 6.
