That’s worked out so well for Indiana over the last 20 years.
The point, is he would do the same as Crean, if not worse. He has a huge body of work to prove it. We fired coaches for that, why the hell would we settle for a known product that is not elite?
Prudent not disappointing. To fire a state BB hero after failing as HC at IU would be numbing.
His coaching history.
I'm not a fan. I think he would have been terrible, but miles better than what we're witnessing today.
Agree! Alford does have college coaching experience, which would be really useful at IU right now.
He’s a good coach not an elite coach. Hes a sweet 16 level coach. There are 8-10 programs that won’t take that for long. He literally had 3 top 5 classes at ucla and did nothing with them. To say he would do better at Indiana is crazy talk.
Agree!! I get eviscerated every time I say that on this board. I really believe if we had got him, Noodle Neal and Sam Alford when we hired Crean, they would still be here and we would be a blue blood.
We will never know what he would have done at IU. I believe if we hired him when we hired Crean we would have B10 titles, deep runs in NCAA and maybe a title or two.
He literally recruited Indiana kids to ucla. His ucla run is similar to what he would’ve done at IU. Would a final 4 or elite 8 been good enough? I doubt it. Just like now. None of this is good enough. I doubt Alford changes that.
No way Sampson survives at IU regardless if we kept him. The holier than though in the fanbase and administration wouldnt have let the good outweigh the academic and off court things to continue. Hell they got rid of Knight for less.
If I were AD I would have torn up the text/call records. Who cares, UK/KU/Duke/etc are paying players big money, this little foot fault was nothing, regardless of probation or whatever.
Hindsight. So no you wouldn’t. Not one poster here at the time would.
Funny thing is the holier than though DD was on that staff. He was fine with it but all of a sudden he wasn’t. IU used him too.
I don't think you can compare his coaching history with what he might have been able to do at IU in the early 00s. His recruiting would have been advantaged to say the least and the systemic advantages at IU would have been on his side.
Shouldn't have supported the anal rapist .. and definitely shouldn't have asked the victim to go to a prayer meeting.
He's seemed to do better at mid majors than he has in the P5. Probably his best NCAAT run was his first at SWM. He's had two Painter like first round exits against 14 seeds.
Only UCLA coach since Larry Brown not to win at least one Pac 10/12 championship, despite all that 5-star talent 3rd worst winning % since Wooden retired. Career losing record in the Big 10 over 8 seasons. I'm just not seeing it.
And some will be triggered by the slightest criticism of Steve and his record.
Because there is literally no data or history to back that up in any way.
