A recap of Day 1 on the coaching carousel

The last time Indiana went looking for a basketball coach, it took nine days to get from the firing to the hiring. In between, things got dumb—errrrrr ... I mean awesome. Really, it’s all about perspective.There were unconfirmed reports of real estate tours, late-night flights into the Monroe County Airport and NBA coaches making surreptitious visits to local haunts. All of it was bullshit, of course, but it all made for good fun during the week and a half that IU took to decide on its new basketball pope.May we be so lucky this time, because really, it was great fodder.We’re not quite two days into the latest search and, already, the coaching carousel is spinning at full speed. Steve Alford reportedly said he won’t pursue the job — (Editor’s note: lmaooooo) — Nate Oats is unsurprisingly out of the picture, and many of the national folks are tripping over themselves to one-up each other with absurd statements about what they think Indiana basketball is and isn’t. Coaching searches absolutely rule.