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To say DY is the best AD since Casey is setting an awfully low bar don’t you think? IMHO, her replacement is THE most important hire to be made by this program. Get it right and you can get back to where we are relevant once again in the major sports. Get it wrong and literally you can throw dirt on the program for the remainder of my life. That is where we find ourselves after four or five horrid mistakes.
Do I think she has been a good AD? Not really. Do we need to hit a homerun on with her replacement, absolutely! Hope is eternal and I’m afraid another poor choice could be eternal as well.
I have not posted here in years but I have read most of the articles and rants through the years. Something with the WordPress configuration along with moving away from RDU but anyhow. I think it is such an absolute crap shoot on any head coach hiring. VAWolf82’s point on Gillen being a prime example and there are so many others. There are only a very small handful of coaches you could take and replant anywhere in the country and they would be year in and year out S-16, E8, or F4 contenders. Mostly it is catching lighting in a bottle for 90+% of them.
Now for our latest attempt, I was not really pleased with the overall process but at least it was not as appalling as the previous fiasco. The jury is definitely out on Keatts but I am hopeful. I am certainly willing to support him. So far he has said and done the right things from what I have seen and heard from afar. Who knows, Keatts may become the next Valvano, or Bubas, or Driesell. None of those three coaches had ever taken a power 5 program to the promised land before coming to the ACC. Heck, one of them never was a head coach anywhere before largely making Duke a household name. Maybe Keatts will be that
kind of guy.Finally, the real dilemma as I see it is not so much the HBBC or HFC but the next AD. We have had some dooseys over the past 30 years. IMHO our problems are a direct result of the horrible “leadership” we have “enjoyed” from our administration. If we get another Turner, Fowler type of dunce as our AD you can
hang it up, because then it will not matter if this hire turns out to be the next Bubas or the next Robinson, Lowe etc. They will ruin the program regardless.I say good for Archie. Now he has to earn his keep on a much larger stage and only time will tell if he is ready for the real spotlight. I think he’ll do fine but he better get at least a couple of S-16’s in the first 5 years or the Crimson and Cream
will blister him. IU fans have very high expectations and very little patience, especially after the past couple of coaches. And it’s not only the Big Ten programs but the constant comparisons to Kentucky’s program makes things really tough. Better job than our’s? Probably. Easier job than ours? Probably not.
