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.
I did watch that, after that particular post so wasn’t sure at the time. I also think Dolson is capable of making good decisions and trust he feels CDD is the right fit. None of us were in any of those discussions, so it’s all conjecture. People making idiotic claims that McCollum was who Dolson wanted and he said NO, are just that. Idiots.
I told you guys in February they would probably go for DeVries over McCollum due to less risk. Obviously I had no way of knowing who they would interview, but it makes sense considering Devries blazed the trail then knocked off major teams , on the road even, this season at WVU. That is more impressive than taking a 26 win team up to 30, although McCollum did that Cignetti style by importing an entire group of D2 guys. Still, DeVries is less risky.
Won mutiple national championships at d2 and took Drake to the tournament his first season only 43.
It can be argued that he was given a great program, which happened to be the one that DeVries’ built from scratch. DeVries has built two programs from scratch, and improved them dramatically over the prior coach, which I would argue, in the day of NIL and the degree of yearly roster changes, is much more valuable than anything McCollum did.
Yeah, that might be a better idea. I've just simply had a brick all these years.
IU will regret not having BMC, imo.
Yep. The remote control being thrown was a little bit too much for my wife many years back. I got the foam brick after that.
In that After Dark podcast, Goodman said he thinks May is a better fit at UM, and it's a better fit for him. Maybe likes being a little less under the microscope at a football-first school. Maybe why he passed on Lville, who was certain they had him, and chose UM. They feel that DeVries is a better fit here than UM, and vice versa for May.
In fairness, I think they had a pretty complete roster turnover like at Lville or UK. McCollum I believe had a similar rebuild with maybe only a player or 2 sticking around? I'm not certain about that, but I thought I heard that somewhere. Still think it helps being at a program that's had success. The Xs and Joes guys had an interesting factoid that almost all NCAA champion coaches for several decades had set the record for wins at a previous school. I believe there were a couple exceptions (Drew and guessing Steve Fischer?), but I would guess that Devries set the record for most wins at Drake, and now presumably McCollum has raised it. Doubtful he's gonna do that at IU! (yes, it's a joke)
We don't even know what BMC's intentions or thoughts are about IU. He may not even have been an option...regardless of respect and interest from our side.
Nobody takes you seriously. You gripe about everything. Had we hired Collins, you would have complained about something else. It's who you are.Chris Collins getting considered for Villanova job.. I think most fans would of been happier with Collins then DeVries I know I would of.
Insider John Fanta Gives Update on Chris Collins Villanova Rumors
There has been some buzz around Collins potentially leaving Evanston.www.si.com
Who knows if Dolson preferred DeVries? Perhaps BMC turned down IU, and Devo was Plan B.
