What's Dakich's take on this?
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Caught part of his show today. Didn't agree with firing Crean. Says he will support whoever is hired. Preference is Alford. But, he wants IU to be good and says this hire MUST have ties to IU. "we've tried outsiders, had a meltdown, sanctions, and losses. Need to go back to someone who knows the state, can be respected by HS coaches, etc." Hard to disagree with some of his stuff. Said last year there were 5 top-50 HS players, and none came to IU. If true, that's telling.
He wants an "IU guy." That's it.
He ripped Wilson for 6 years for being a bad coach and guy, then ripped on Glass for having him "resign." My point being his opinions change based on what will get people fired up. He's up in arms right now, and to be honest I have no idea why. He's all over the place.
Don't be a dick.
Why not?
He has a huge platform, experience with the position and the university and conflicted feelings about the entire situation (i.e. Knight, Sampson). He's outspoken and it would be interesting to know what he's thinking. There will be others - Bilas, Vitale and others - in the media with opinions. Will be interesting to hear them all.
This "outsiders" stuff just makes us sound like a bunch of hicks. Just get the best coach available.
Thanks for the reply. Not sure the "IU ties" position is going to work. I'm not seeing Alford as the go-to choice.
As I recall Dan did okay playing for a coach from Ohio.
All the "no outsiders" crap is just that, crap.
Davis, Sampson, and Crean didn't fail to have success because they were "outsiders". They failed because they were in over their head (Davis), were a cheater that had already been caught (Sampson), or they were just a mediocre coach (Crean). They didn't have success because they were crap hires in the first place.
It doesn't have to be Alford or any "Indiana guy" for that matter. It has to be a good coach who doesn't have his head up his ass when it comes to recruiting Indiana.
Is that right? When did you figure all this out? He probably is friends with the coach and everyone since his son plays there. Once Andrew is gone he probably won't give a rip.
Yeah, it totally doesn't make sense for Dan to have some love for Michigan
Look at all the Indiana kids playing in this NCAA tourney from Indiana NOT enrolled in Indiana. That is a huge reason he is gone. Who will fix that? Knight ruled the recruiting of IU kids. The next coach must embrace the state of Indiana roots not necessarily have IU roots. Glass made the right decision, now he has to make another for IU to have even a chance to return to long term success.
Exactly.
BTW, once you get past Coach K, just how deep is RMK's coaching tree legacy, anyway? So far as I know, the only guy who's made a lasting career out of D1 basketball coaching is Alford. Woodson, Wittman and Smart did OK coaching in the NBA . . . but Isiah crapped out at both the college and NBA levels. Buckner tried coaching in the NBA . . . but it didn't work out well.
Fife and Lewis are assistants at decent to very good college programs.
Who else from IU's teams under RMK are making good as college level coaches, and where are they?
ON EDIT: Looks like I missed Crews and Simmons . . . OK, but neither of those guys seems like a candidate. The interesting tidbit is that a couple of RMK's managers are making careers as HCs in college; Matthew Bowen at Bemidji State and Joe Pasternak at New Orleans. That's in addition to Lawrence Frank, who coached in the NBA for a while. Go figure, it was the managers all along who were soaking that stuff up . . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching_legacy_of_Bob_Knight
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