Indiana University's Basketball Coach Selection Debate

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00:00You know, is there any truth at all to Beard?

00:07Well, I don't know what Indiana's attitude

00:10will be toward that.

00:11I know that there are portions of the fan base

00:13that are fine with it,

00:14but I'm not sure whether that's an Indiana position,

00:20an IU position maybe would be the way to put it.

00:23It's not religious at all.

00:24I'm not sure that that's the direction

00:25that they'd want to go.

00:27I haven't asked anybody there at this point

00:30what their appetite for that would be,

00:33but there are clearly obstacles to that.

00:36And I think that there are coaches

00:38that would better fit the position.

00:40And TJ, if you gotta pay a buyout or take that on,

00:45I would pay the buyout.

00:48Yeah, I would too.

00:49Now, look, let's stop acting like, you know,

00:52Indiana's a Jesuit school or something or a Catholic.

00:57They're dealing with the diocese.

00:59Let's stop.

01:00They had Bob Knight cussing people out for 30 years.

01:03And you know what?

01:05That's what they missed, in my opinion.

01:07I want Cronan,

01:09because he's, to me, the second coming of him.

01:12And they have been soft as saltwater taffy

01:16since Bob Knight left there.

01:18Well, I think that you could make that case that,

01:22I think the exception to that possibly

01:24would be Calvin Sampson's years,

01:25and there's a lot of issues there.

01:28I'm not sure that that's, like I said, going to happen.

01:32The power to power hasn't happened

01:35with that exception of the Carolina-Kansas thing.

01:38It hasn't happened.

01:39And that, like I said,

01:41that power to power concept has expanded over time.

01:44It's not just blue blood to blue blood,

01:46but it's Alabama and what they're able to do financially,

01:49and Auburn and what they're able to do financially.

01:52It's not the same as it was 15 years ago.

01:55Indiana is still a better basketball brand,

01:58but that doesn't mean that it necessarily

02:01has huge advantages in this environment

02:04over Auburn and Alabama.

02:06So go where you find somebody that's really gifted

02:10and ready to take you to the next level.

02:12And that's why I mentioned those first two names.

02:15Yeah, and they'll lose tonight in East Lansing again, too.

02:17Like, they were five minutes into the game this weekend,

02:20and I said they were going to lose,

02:21and they lost again.

02:23All they do is lose.

02:24And Dusty May beat them.

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