Coaching candidate spotlight: Chris Beard

This is the first edition of Crimson Quarry’s Coaching Candidate Spotlight series, where we’ll break down names that Indiana could consider to replace Archie Miller.A prediction: If Indiana hires Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard to be its next men’s basketball head coach, you’ll hear some of the national voices who cover the sport – the same ones who write stuff like, “Indiana fans just need to get over Bob Knight. It’s just not 1987 anymore. The fans’ expectations are unrealistic – cling to the fact that Beard spent seven seasons on Knight’s staff at Texas Tech in the aughts.They’ll overwrite the lede to their story with some bullshit like, “In seeking to establish the program’s new identity for the future, Indiana sought to reconnect with one of the better fragments of its past.” Actually, no one steal that. I might workshop that a little bit more.You can guarantee that would happen, though, and CQ would be first in line to point out the hypocrisy of those statements from certain corners of the media.