According to today's Indianapolis Star ... A source close to Mark Few said Monday the Gonzaga coach has been contacted and told he is not considered a candidate at Indiana.
That would tell me that Indiana is very close to making their hire. UPDATE --- In fact they are and the Hoosiers have hired former Cougar Head Coach Kelvin Sampson from Oklahome. Nothing like losing in the first round in back to back years and picking up a new gig.
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Big mistake by IU -- if Few ever got a job at a school like that, where he could really recruit (not that he's done badly at GU), he'd be incredible.
As it is, it looks like they're sticking with that old grind-it-out style. Another mistake -- the consistently elite programs of the recent past (Duke, UNC, Kansas, UConn, Arizona, Pitino's Kentucky) have pretty uniformly run rather high octane systems. Really, I can only think of two national champs in the last fifteen years that could plausibly be described as grinders: Michigan State and Syracuse (with a good chance that a third team will be added this year). Sampson's a good coach, and I suspect that IU will step up its performance under his watch, but I'd be surprised if they rejoin the elite.
As a Big 12 man, I like Kelvin Sampson a lot, and I'm sad to see him go. (This will make 4 coaches leaving the league this season.) He definitely coaches grind-it-out basketball, though. Given that such games are not really favored by fans, and that Sampson has zero IU pedigree, I'm surprised to see him heading to the Hoosiers.
Few is overrated, IMO
Ariel, isn't that a girls name? Oh my bad I hadn't looked at your picture that explains alot. carry on.
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