OGIUAndy

PSU offered immediately.

Just said "...we're going to thrive in the portal..." "70-80%" staff has been "hired" Will not being doing much in regards to JMU's bowl game. Said we'll be playing in the Big Ten Championship game next year.

I guess I don't understand how these guys already know what they are getting before even stepping foot on the campus. And wink and nod I guess. I wonder if any of these players will ever agree to the deal then not go to the school.

By who? Safe to say this is illegal correct?

I hope this is true. Seems like a home run hire if so.

He definitely doesn't seem old. People are in much better shape than they used to be. https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-key-figure-emerges-in-indiana-search

IMO this is a great hire.

I am so confused!!

I am starting to get on the Hart train for these reasons. Mainly the guy has been on staff before so he knows what he's getting into and probably knows what needs corrected. It'll be interesting to see what was impressive about his staff too.

I think this got reignited by a Tayven Jackson Tweet. My guess he was drinking and having some fun. It worked.

From the other board: Rabby just released the info to Peegs that I said this morning Candle, Hart, and Chryst will meet in person. Herman and Creighton would be next, then Frye. Some people's posts are becoming unhinged as well. Take a deep breath.

Cignetti. People still keep talking about him or listing him and I haven't heard anything about him or IU being interested.

He did? I haven't seen that reported, but I haven't been hawking the boards as much as I did yesterday. So who has been reported as being interviewed or lined up for an interview? So far I heard it was Herman, Chryst, Frye, Hart, and Candle. Not sure if ARE was interviewed. Then you have all the Gruden stuff, which I am suspicious of besides being click bait and Twitter rumors.

I have not heard Cignetti's name mentioned in any of the rumblings. Is he even being considered?

I believe that too. But he could. What we believe or hope is not always the reality. He's been coaching in the NFL and not at IU. So he could have aspirations of being a HC in the NFL for all we know.

Man, IUFB isn't the end all be all. Unless we hire a guy ready to retire, there's always a chance a coach or HC leave for a better job. Even guys like Frye or ARE could leave if they have success.

I think we'd just prolong the inevitable and we might not have seen much better results. The last three games were really pathetic. We had no business losing any of them, and yet we found a way to do it.

And that dried up pretty quickly did it not? The longer CTA was here the drier that pool got.

I think the overall point is we're not necessarily going to get who we want any more than a lot of these schools being mentioned did. It's about who wants to come here. Vanderbilt's current HC is Clark Lea, who got a three year extension after going 5-7. I wonder who was on their initial list before they hired him? I wonder who the fans wanted?

Yes. Yes it is. Especially right now, today.

I am willing to bet most programs wouldn't have hired him though. And in the NFL these days, they aren't so shy about canning guys after one or two years. Little bit harder to do that in college especially at IU. They shouldn't be risk adverse, but I do think they have to hire someone with a lot of DC/OC/HC experience. I will be weirdly optimistic no matter who they hire because I tend to think sports are more fun when you think you're team will be better or do well regardless of what might be most realistic. Everyone bashing Dolson needs to let this play out first. I think he's done a pretty good job myself. People ripping the Woodson hire tend to forget where IU was during and after Archie. We stunk. Woody righted the ship, and hopefully levels so he can hand off the baton to a "sexier" hire who should be walking into a better situation. Who knows, maybe it's Stevens (again).

I'd be okay with Hart. Frye has been an OC at OSU and UCLA. Better resume' but Hart could be a Mike Tomlin type guy. If you hire a non-head coach then it should be from a big time program. If you hire a head coach from smaller school then I would like to see sustained success over many years preferably at different places.

Interviewing a guy doesn't mean he's getting hired.