Brad Stevens

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hmanvolfan said:
Does his wife also have such a disdain for huge amounts of cash?
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She just jumped from about 250k to 1M so for now I wouldn't be surprised if she's happy with the raise he just got.

Although I've said I don't think we can get him based on what I hear around indy.....I certainly think we jshould to do our due diligence. It is worth the phone call and throwing out some numbers....just in case!
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#34
#34
I'm sure we'll call Stevens whenever Butler is eliminated from the tournament.

But if he was going anywhere, I think he would have done it a year ago. He'd just took Butler to the final buzzer in the national championship game. His stock will never be higher than it was then.

Not everybody needs the big-name school to be happy. Mark Few clearly doesn't, and perhaps Stevens doesn't, either. He may even believe, based on what happened a year ago, that he can win the national championship at Butler, and since he likes it there, why leave?
 
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jsc1973 said:
I'm sure we'll call Stevens whenever Butler is eliminated from the tournament.

But if he was going anywhere, I think he would have done it a year ago. He'd just took Butler to the final buzzer in the national championship game. His stock will never be higher than it was then.

Not everybody needs the big-name school to be happy. Mark Few clearly doesn't, and perhaps Stevens doesn't, either. He may even believe, based on what happened a year ago, that he can win the national championship at Butler, and since he likes it there, why leave?
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There are many many reasons why he will leave. And he will leave. He may or may not be interested in the Tennessee job -- though I would love to have him -- but he isn't going to stay at Butler in the long term.
 
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The_Orange_Pearl said:
Did you see how the fans treated Pearl as they chased him out of town with pitchforks?

I wouldn't come here either at the moment.
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Yeah, that's why the media payed all the attention to the Keep Bruce Pearl rallies.
 
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TheVolunteer said:
Given the right amount of money, he would come, but alot of coaches are weary of the NCAA looming over our shoulders right now. Although I believe we will have a much lighter sentence now that Pearl is out of the picture.
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I get it "Pearl is out of the picture" Was that supposed to be cute???
 
#41
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Stevens said last year in the Indy Star he has no intrest in coaching at IU now or in the future. He said he was more than happy to be at Butler and it would take the ideal situation for him to leave. I don't see us as that "ideal" situation right now. As far as the money, according to reports he turned down $3 million to go to Oregon.
 
#42
#42
After last year's NC game, one of Stevens' first interviews was with his good friend Dan Dakich (who wouldn't make a bad coach candidate himself). During that interview Stevens stated that he would stay at Butler until they didn't want him anymore. Stevens also went so far as to throw Thad Matta and Todd Licklighter under the bus for leaving Butler.
Butler's administration, alumni, and donors have all come out in full support of Stevens and the program all talking about wanting Butler to be mentioned in the same sentence with the basket ball powers (i.e. Kansas, Duke, UNC, etc.).
If Stevens eventually does go anywhere, it would be to IU...but only after Tom Creen wins a couple of NCs and retires on top of the game...
 
#44
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hmanvolfan said:
if Arkansas can get Mike Anderson. Anderson told the hogs a bunch of times he was staying in Missouri but they didn't take no for an answer.
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Hard to pass up that Walmart money. So much for "I want to retire as MU's head coach"

Anyone can be bought.
 
#45
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TheVolunteer said:
Given the right amount of money, he would come, but alot of coaches are weary of the NCAA looming over our shoulders right now. Although I believe we will have a much lighter sentence now that Pearl is out of the picture.
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lot are also skeptical of who they are going to be working for. the NCAA potential sanctions and who they report to are the biggest drawbacks for some of the prospects. they up and coming guys will jump regardless but for guys established, like Stevens and Grant, no way.
 
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LWSVOL said:
lot are also skeptical of who they are going to be working for. the NCAA potential sanctions and who they report to are the biggest drawbacks for some of the prospects. they up and coming guys will jump regardless but for guys established, like Stevens and Grant, no way.
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Larry -

Is this pretty much centered on Frank, Turgeon and Marshall at this point? Or are there any other big-name guys you've heard about that have expressed interest, but are otherwise under the radar?
 
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Crazed Vol said:
Stevens said last year in the Indy Star he has no intrest in coaching at IU now or in the future. He said he was more than happy to be at Butler and it would take the ideal situation for him to leave. I don't see us as that "ideal" situation right now. As far as the money, according to reports he turned down $3 million to go to Oregon.
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But the Oregon job is in, well, Oregon. Helluva long way from Indy.

IndianaVol said:
After last year's NC game, one of Stevens' first interviews was with his good friend Dan Dakich (who wouldn't make a bad coach candidate himself). During that interview Stevens stated that he would stay at Butler until they didn't want him anymore. Stevens also went so far as to throw Thad Matta and Todd Licklighter under the bus for leaving Butler.
Butler's administration, alumni, and donors have all come out in full support of Stevens and the program all talking about wanting Butler to be mentioned in the same sentence with the basket ball powers (i.e. Kansas, Duke, UNC, etc.).
If Stevens eventually does go anywhere, it would be to IU...but only after Tom Creen wins a couple of NCs and retires on top of the game...
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That could be a long wait for a young coach with a family.

golfballs03 said:
I think he is like Mark Few and won't leave.
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See above post. Again, I think Brad would be a good fit for Tennessee, Knoxville is close to Indiana and money talks. The whole point of this exercise is the administration needs to decide who they want for the basketball coach, go after them and don't take no for an answer.
 
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Tenacious D said:
Larry -

Is this pretty much centered on Frank, Turgeon and Marshall at this point? Or are there any other big-name guys you've heard about that have expressed interest, but are otherwise under the radar?
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I'm not so certain that anything really serious has transpired yet. the search committe was all in the office today so no one is out having interviews yet. sounds like we are still preliminary. We wer told no by Wright so there is some calling going on.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
if Arkansas can get Mike Anderson. Anderson told the hogs a bunch of times he was staying in Missouri but they didn't take no for an answer.
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Because Mike Hamilton has shown time and again when it comes to coaching searches that he definitely takes no as an answer.
 
#50
#50
make him an offer he can't refuse


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