RUMORS circulating that Brad Stevens has met and been offered by Illinois

[Indy_BB]

This was never even a remote possibility. Butler will be a top 15/20 team next year and are about to announce its move to the a10 along with coincidentally Shaka and VCU and George Mason. Still deciding if they want to bring along Creighton.

It'll be a top 5 league annually.

[TheAsianSensation]

This was never even a remote possibility. Butler will be a top 15/20 team next year and are about to announce its move to the a10 along with coincidentally Shaka and VCU and George Mason. Still deciding if they want to bring along Creighton.

It'll be a top 5 league annually.

It's a sideplot, but if the A-10 does bring in Butler, VCU, and Mason, they'll leave Creighton (and everyone else) alone.

[Old Coach]

This was never even a remote possibility. Butler will be a top 15/20 team next year and are about to announce its move to the a10 along with coincidentally Shaka and VCU and George Mason. Still deciding if they want to bring along Creighton.

It'll be a top 5 league annually.

Creighton would be insane to move to the A10. The travel would be brutal for all of the non-revenue sports (15-17 hour bus trips).

[Old Coach]

Within the last 10 years, Pittsburgh has made the NCAA tournament all 10 times, they have been a 1-seed twice (including last year), a 2-seed once, a 3-seed 4 times, and a 4th, 5th, and 9th seed. That sounds like a national power, and they're playing in the CBI.

How many early outs for Pitt?

Remind me of how many Final 4 appearances they've made. Heck, remind me of how many times they've made the Elite 8. The 8th place team goes to the NCAA tournament from the big east every year. Just getting to the tournament doesn't make you a national power. I think you have to causally win some games.

[Rick LeHew]

Over the past few years, Brad Stevens is on the record as saying he is VERY happy at Butler and not looking to leave. His wife has a great job in Indy and his job is low stress!! Why leave happiness??

[Da Coach]

Good article about how the Illinois coaching search has been fumbled so far. But apparently Frank Martin is still in play.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoopsreport/2012/03/just_cant_get_enough_of_illino.html