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.
How things have changed. Pre-NIL/portal, there would have been talk about how good he could be by the time he's a senior. Now he's an underperforming 4 year college NIL grifter.
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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.
Well there were people who claimed they knew brad stevens family too and he was coming to IU a done deal so yeah sorry I dont believe this because until a firm hard offer is made and turned down anyone can say anything. The fact is we did not even try and he will now probably win several title at least at Michigan