Looks like there’s a 6 year difference, but yeah, Woodson isn’t exactly young for a coach either.
The Juwan hire is going to throw off a lot of expectations - can’t just hire an alum and expect it’s going to go this well.
And I think people miss that Juwan wasn’t just any NBA guy, he was a product of the Pat Riley/Erik Spoelstra coaching tree. He learned from some of the best.
If IU can find a guy that was groomed by say, Popovich, then maybe it’s comparable.
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I saw an SI article that suggested Keith Smart would be IU’s Juwan Howard. I haven’t seen Keith Smart mentioned in any of the other lists of potential replacements, so this may be just one guy’s opinion.
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have they mentioned Isiah Thomas yet?
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what about Calbert Cheaney?
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There’s only one answer, and it rhymes with fan jock itch.
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Man, Spock’s rich?
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Let’s get Rico, Brandon, and Luke on the scoreboard against Mount Saint Texas Southern.
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One of the Zeller octuplets has got to be available.
My new hobby is reading and laughing at IU coaching search message boards. Mod is implying that Mike Woodson will be the fallback once they swing and miss on Beard / Drew / Stevens, and the IU fans are eating it up. I can’t believe how bad of a hire that would be
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Haha in what world is Woodson a better hire than Beilein? I thought IU fans were smarter than that
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Agree, the Indiana brand is a classic and Assembly Hall is an architectural gem.
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I was able to be there once and just be in the arena, no game, no practice and you can tell it’s such a legendary facility. I grew up detesting Indiana a lot to do with my fathers hate towards candy stripe pants and it was elevated because the Fab Five didn’t have a lot of success against them. I still dislike Indiana but I believe college basketball is better when Indiana is some kind of threat.
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The delusion of these schools talking themselves into hiring former nba players is something. Juwan is the only one having a lot of success.
Pat Riley? Phil Jackson? KC Jones? Jerry West?
Nba coaches not ncaa coaches
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Yes, my point is that lots of former players have succeeded as coaches. In fact, most coaches are former players. The idea that guys who made it to the top of the game as players somehow can’t succeed, or–indeed–that teams are ‘delusional’ to think they would. . . just isn’t founded on much evidence. (In fact, it would be curious to assume that the best players somehow couldn’t do it.) Far more likely that the undercurrent of the conversation is Black coaches, and that they haven’t historically been given the chance, both to succeed and fail, in proportionate numbers, like they had the right to do. So we can all stop talking about it.
In short, I don’t agree with your inference that former NBA players can’t coach. Now, whether lusting after this or that former player because they went to your school means they can succeed in any given situation. . . whole other set of criteria in play. . .
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The former player coach is a tricky situation. Juwan Howard’s case has obviously worked out well. There’s also the very real problem that former players are getting head coaching jobs that Black assistant coaches who have been in the college game for decades deserve.
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Point taken. Had not thought about that.