Another great game by Mullins.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
POTFB
God: Indiana fans, we're going to let you win a football national championship.
IU fans: Fantastic! What will it cost us?
God: Braylon Mullins vs. Dusty May for a national championship... in Indy.
I’m really failing to understand some on here saying May at FAU would refuse to come to IU, had Dolson been able to actually be the AD and get rid of Woodson at the appropriate time. Was that not the sentiment on the boards? Buckner and his people tied Dolson’s hands for a year and that’s why he went to Michigan.
I do think we have a legit shot at Mullens in this scenario.
@paterade The claim is that his family is too close to Bloomington, and he didn't want to expose them to the more unhinged segment of the IU fanbase. He knew he could land a great job elsewhere, and didn't want to risk that.
I have no idea if it's true, personally.
Woodson still being employed had nothing to do with it. He wasn't coming here with his family so close.@gros-louis This is certainly the info that I have. The people I heard it from, definitely would know. But the only variable that they can't, and really no one can verify...if IU had actually fired Woodson, and went "all in" on May... what would he have done? I'm pretty confident one of the reasons Woodson was retained was May said he wasn't interested. But its very possible he said that because we still had a coach at the time of the conversations.
We have no idea. If they had fired woodson and made a serious run with big money you cannot say 100% he would not have come.
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@paterade The claim is that his family is too close to Bloomington, and he didn't want to expose them to the more unhinged segment of the IU fanbase. He knew he could land a great job elsewhere, and didn't want to risk that.
I have no idea if it's true, personally.
I don’t think his family had anything to worry about if he won at IU the way he has at Michigan.
@paterade The claim is that his family is too close to Bloomington, and he didn't want to expose them to the more unhinged segment of the IU fanbase. He knew he could land a great job elsewhere, and didn't want to risk that.
I have no idea if it's true, personally.
I love that IU is the only place that gets penalized for having a large fanbase. Can you imagine an alumni of any other Blue Blood being afraid to coach there? The absurdity of it.
If he had been offered the job and turned us down to go to a conference rival, how would he think the fans would react to that?
I love that IU is the only place that gets penalized for having a large fanbase. Can you imagine an alumni of any other Blue Blood being afraid to coach there? The absurdity of it.
UNC hasn't had any problem, and they're more ruthless with underperforming coaches than we are by a long shot.
@surjay As I said, no idea whether it's true. You'd have to ask Dusty, and I highly doubt he'd indulge you with an answer. But it's the claim made by the people who say he was never coming to IU.
You get that there's more to it than that, right? That Dusty was around and saw how Davis was treated by fans at the end. That he was with Mike White at Florida when White had to move his family out of Gainesville because of how it impacted his family when things weren't hunky dory. And that Dusty has both his family and his wife's family all live in Bloomington or Greene Co.@paterade The claim is that his family is too close to Bloomington, and he didn't want to expose them to the more unhinged segment of the IU fanbase. He knew he could land a great job elsewhere, and didn't want to risk that.
I have no idea if it's true, personally.
I love that IU is the only place that gets penalized for having a large fanbase. Can you imagine an alumni of any other Blue Blood being afraid to coach there? The absurdity of it.
If he had been offered the job and turned us down to go to a conference rival, how would he think the fans would react to that?
Dusty not wanting to coach IU has nothing to do with Dusty not being able to handle it, it's about him not wanting to put his family through it. If Dusty was an IU alum whose family was in Springfield, IL, he'd probably consider (or would have considered) coaching here. But that's not the deal and he's not interested under the circumstances.
Dusty May is an elite coach. He never had to worry about his family.
Imagine Braylon Mullins being coached by Dusty May…at Indiana. It was so possible if morons weren’t running things.
And the biggest moron will be on center court at half with a big huge smile on his face. One of two things will happen tonight.
1. Michigan wins by 25 and its not even close.
2. Mullins hits the game winning three with under 5 seconds to go.
I guess I was wrong about michigan by 25 but there was really do doubt in the second half. Michigan hit zero threes in the first and were still up 4 just too much talent and too may athletes.
That story is logical.You get that there's more to it than that, right? That Dusty was around and saw how Davis was treated by fans at the end. That he was with Mike White at Florida when White had to move his family out of Gainesville because of how it impacted his family when things weren't hunky dory. And that Dusty has both his family and his wife's family all live in Bloomington or Greene Co.@paterade The claim is that his family is too close to Bloomington, and he didn't want to expose them to the more unhinged segment of the IU fanbase. He knew he could land a great job elsewhere, and didn't want to risk that.
I have no idea if it's true, personally.
I love that IU is the only place that gets penalized for having a large fanbase. Can you imagine an alumni of any other Blue Blood being afraid to coach there? The absurdity of it.
If he had been offered the job and turned us down to go to a conference rival, how would he think the fans would react to that?
Dusty not wanting to coach IU has nothing to do with Dusty not being able to handle it, it's about him not wanting to put his family through it. If Dusty was an IU alum whose family was in Springfield, IL, he'd probably consider (or would have considered) coaching here. But that's not the deal and he's not interested under the circumstances.
How do you know this? Someone told you or you are just piecing things together?
That story is logical.You get that there's more to it than that, right? That Dusty was around and saw how Davis was treated by fans at the end. That he was with Mike White at Florida when White had to move his family out of Gainesville because of how it impacted his family when things weren't hunky dory. And that Dusty has both his family and his wife's family all live in Bloomington or Greene Co.@paterade The claim is that his family is too close to Bloomington, and he didn't want to expose them to the more unhinged segment of the IU fanbase. He knew he could land a great job elsewhere, and didn't want to risk that.
I have no idea if it's true, personally.
I love that IU is the only place that gets penalized for having a large fanbase. Can you imagine an alumni of any other Blue Blood being afraid to coach there? The absurdity of it.
If he had been offered the job and turned us down to go to a conference rival, how would he think the fans would react to that?
Dusty not wanting to coach IU has nothing to do with Dusty not being able to handle it, it's about him not wanting to put his family through it. If Dusty was an IU alum whose family was in Springfield, IL, he'd probably consider (or would have considered) coaching here. But that's not the deal and he's not interested under the circumstances.
How do you know this? Someone told you or you are just piecing things together?
I know/am friends with people who were managers the same time that Dusty was, as well as when he came back to be on staff. People that see and talk to Dusty regularly still.
Less directly, I have several friends who know his mom directly and are from GC/were classmates with Dusty in HS.
Mullins tourney stats are pretty gross, is he a 4 year college NIL grifter now?
36 FG%. Under 30% from three in his six tourney games.
He moves and has bounce like a gazelle though which fits Uconn awfully well, questionable handle by my eye.