Here we go... Hutchens is setting the stage for Davis. I've been telling everyone all along this is how it would play out. Davis gets the message from Greenspan that he must win. Davis can't get any recruits, but is able to blame it on his uncertain future. Davis gets the IU schedule weakened, and when his team goes 8-3 with one big win at home over either Duke or UConn, Davis will be posturing for a contract extension. And IU will give it to him prior to the B10 season, where the team will finish 4th... where Davis can proudly proclaim again "We are the 4 Seed!!!" Then Davis will have 8 more years and the program will fall even further than it currently resides. Mark my words... and this article is just the first of many setting up a Davis contract extension.
IU's recruiting made complicated by Davis' status - Indy Star - Terry Hutchens
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I think Davis will get offered an extension, but I don't think he'll be around to accept it. Here's my theory:
IU will definitely underachieve next season. Despite the loads of supposed talent I think Davis's lack of ability to achieve team chemistry will be the team's undoing.
Davis will get the team to do just well enough to finish somewhere between the "four seed" and the one seed (second or third in other words) and they'll at least get out of the first round of the NCAA.
Once the season ends and contract negotiations begin, I believe Davis will leave of his own accord. I think Greenspan et al are giving Davis this one last year to clean up his resume so that another school will actually hire him. This saves the spineless administration from having to fire him and ups Davis's stock just enough to allow him to land a job at a second-tier southern school.
No bitter firings. No contract extentions that will drive the alumni crazy. All parties involved get to act like they won a moral victory and everything is all smiles and IU can get on with conducting an actual coaching search like they should have done 5 years ago.
In a perfect world... we could only dream that your scenario would work out.
The problem though is that Davis is making $900,000 a year. A second tier southern school might pay him $100,000. He may be a bad coach, but I don't think he is dumb.
He'll negotiate the contract extension, then continue with his excuses as the program continues to falter. Maybe 5 years from now, IU will fire him. But in that time he will have added $6-7 million to his bank account. He can't get that anywhere else.
Not to mention he just burned his Alabama A&M bridge with his most recent comments.
Yeah, but a guy can dream can't he?
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