re: Nate Oats and Eric Musselman on the first Indiana hot board to replace Archie Miller

I predict if Oats ever leaves, it will be for the NBA. And he's going to have to do a lot more winning to get their attention.

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His dad coached there 1971-1975 and then coached the Timberwolves 1989-1991...Eric actually grew up in Minneapolis until high school.

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From ages 7-12 if I remember right. Looked it up awhile back. His dad also had an interesting relationship with the school.

IU would be fools not to give the Drake coach a look. Mark Pope as well.

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Oats will definitely take the IU job. Basketball will always be second to football at Bama. He is from Wisconsin.

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Muss knows he's only second fiddle in the west every year behind the General Will Wade and Oats

He gone!

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I think you have that backwards. I'm pretty sure Cheatin' Wade finished behind Muss this year.



and Muss isn't going anywhere, especially not to God Awful Minnesota or Indiana. He's about to get a phat raise like Oats did, and it'll be well deserved.

My guess is one takes the IU job and the other takes over Tennessee football.

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Honestly I don't think Bama's situation is that much different. If Oates gets run over by UCONN/Terps or god forbid Pitino pulls a miracle out of his arse your fans would be singing a different tune with all the seniors leaving and a 20m buyout.

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We really wouldn't, but we aren't nearly as picky as you guys are due to the different histories of our programs. Things like SEC Titles matter a lot to us, and the way his teams play is so much better than anything we've had in so long........he's bought himself a whole helluva lot of rope.

Now, if he won regular season games then shite his pants in the tournament for 4-5 straight years? Then we'd get frustrated (see Mark Gottfried).

Brad Stevens should give IU a look, Celtics might not even make the playoffs this year.

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We gave Anthony Grant six years.

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Gottfried - 1 NCAA in his last 4 years (10 seed)
Grant - 1 NCAA in 6 years (9 seed)
Avery - 1 NCAA in 4 years (9 seed)

I mean we're really a pretty great job when you think about it. If you produce hard playing teams, win 20+ games and got to the NCAAT most years you will get all the money you need to win and have a packed house for conference games.

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Maybe. Oates might have created the monster than Nolan Richardson is so fond of referencing.

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Yea - it'll happen eventually. It happened with Gottfried even before he stopped making tournaments. People got tired of winning 18-20 games a year, making the tournament and losing early with a team that made the same mistakes every year. Then he stopped recruiting great players, stopped making tournaments and he got fired.