Comments on: Should Indiana be interested in Scott Skiles?

By: SocksShortsSwish

SocksShortsSwish — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:37:30 +0000

It's not NCAA Football 2k8. You can't go deep to Hardy every play.

Outside of a QB and a WR, what talent “was there” as you insist???

By: Willis

Willis — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:04:56 +0000

you already said he was a terrible coach in your post above.

By: SocksShortsSwish

SocksShortsSwish — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:37:30 +0000

It's not NCAA Football 2k8. You can't go deep to Hardy every play.

Outside of a QB and a WR, what talent “was there” as you insist???

By: Willis

Willis — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:04:56 +0000

you already said he was a terrible coach in your post above.

By: ricbraun

ricbraun — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:42:49 +0000

i'm sry, i just get upset when they run the same play over and over and over and over and over again. i swear, putting ray fisher in motion and then running a draw play worked once, that is out of the more than 100 times we ran that play. the team showed no improvement. there was talent there, but the same mistakes were made and we were 100% unprepared for the bowl game. so i will say it again. he is a very very very very bad football coach

By: Newtonian

Newtonian — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:30:10 +0000

Cool. All the players will take key bumps with their coach before warm-ups. What another DUMB mistake by R Greenspan? P*ss off all the old school alumni with all the money for donations….RG could mess up a cup of coffee….They should have a search committee for a new AD….

By: kylehornsbyrules

kylehornsbyrules — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:25:33 +0000

ha nba jam

By: kylehornsbyrules

kylehornsbyrules — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:20:29 +0000

How about Mark Fox? I have voiced this opinion multiple times and only now do I feel like he is coming up

By: Boyo

Boyo — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:43:23 +0000

I pass: I'd much prefer Miller, Bennett or Dixon. Interestingly, both Miller and Dixon are already recruiting some of the same 2009 and 2010 prospects IU is (was?).

By: kelin

kelin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:42:47 +0000

Has anyone ever seen skiles smile?
I know Big A , E and R won't take this personally but sometimes it is hard for me to come to this site (my only IU source) because I dread the day of this hire and I see a MASSIVE picture on the front that reads…IU hires the coach for the future (mike montgomory, scott skiles, larry brown, randy whitman) and I see 342 responses….if that day comes I may have to go and buy some Purdue gear…….

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:37:29 +0000

No.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:47:18 +0000

Other than a lack of recruiting/coaching at the college level what is wrong with hiring Skiles? He'll satisfy the Knight “my way or the highway” types – he's got credibility with any Indiana high school coach (being the point guard on the last of the small school single class champions), he was a great college player and decent to above average NBA player and coach which gives him credibilty in any kid's kitchen in the country “I can prepare your son for the NBA better than any other coach who is going to have your kid for one or two seasons” in other words how tired of him as a coach is a kid going to get who will only be at IU for a year or two (you need one or two of these skill level kids every year to win a championship). As to the kids who will be at IU for four years under Skiles my guess is they would be the types who wouldn't have any problem dealing with his no nonsense attitude (he may be hard on me but he is making me a better player). Last but not least we can afford him – don't have to give him a house or pay to move him. I say keep Coach Ray Mc to help him recruit and put Skiles near the top of candidates. (Don't under estimate the affordability angle – if you think UT can't blow away any offer IU can make to somebody like Pearl you're kidding yourself).

By: tberry

tberry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:36:18 +0000

No University recruiting experience, no name, no long term multilevel experience, no Skiles.

By: SocksShortsSwish

SocksShortsSwish — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:35:57 +0000

Dude, you're a homophobe. Absolutely no reason to use that kind of talk.

By: Sherron Wilkerson

Sherron Wilkerson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:34:30 +0000

If Skiles (or Tom Crene) is hired I will never watch an IU game that he coaches. I think that is what the powers that be want, to completely alienate IU fans so only they and their gay friends attend IU games

By: Ryan_Btown

Ryan_Btown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:44:22 +0000

Also want to mention that I've said several times on here there is no way he would come here…

By: Ryan_Btown

Ryan_Btown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:43:35 +0000

I honestly don't know enough about the guy to really comment. I did want to mention though that Pat Forde wrote a descent article on Pearl ( http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?co… ). Should be worth mentioning that Forde did a nice job of highlighting the face that Illinois fans hate Pearl. One good reason for possibly hiring him.

By: RobertSchell

RobertSchell — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:42:13 +0000

ha, wow….Looks like it's either hit or miss with Skiles….

For those saying he always had the Bulls “prepared” for each game, that's definitely something he learned from his high school coach, Jack Edison….many fellow coaches across the state felt, win or lose, nobody prepared his players better than Edison…

Do I think Skiles would be a good fit at IU? Personally, I could go both ways.

I can understand the “lack of college coaching” argument, but I wouldn't completely write him off simply due to that reason.

By: SocksShortsSwish

SocksShortsSwish — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:39:46 +0000

See, these are comments I can at least respectfully agree to disagree on.

Words like "awful" or "f%%%%%% Bill Lynch" get me fired up though.

I'll totally agree with you on one thing. There's only one Coach Hep.

By: Ryan_Btown

Ryan_Btown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:36:40 +0000

I have to disagree a little here. Saying that he si a great coach for taking us to a bowl game is kind of like saying Mike Davis was a great coach for taking us to the Final Four. Everything was in place for that team to succeed.

I won't go as far to say that he's a TERRIBLE hire, but I will say that he has not gone far enough to embrace the IU and Bloomington community like Coach Hep did (I know no one is Coach Hep but meet us half way!) and I don't know that the guy has the carisma and excitement to turn around a lackluster program. I think those are two key elements necessary (see Terry Hoepner, Bruce Pearl, Mark Mangino).

I would say that we were stuck between a rock and a hard place. He did do a nice job of getting the current roster to focus through a difficult time. However, I disagree that he's going to be the guy to turn the program around.