Unless you’ve been living miles underneath the earth’s crust in a lair completely excommunicated from modern society, you know that Steve Alford’s been strongly linked to the Indiana opening since Tom Crean was fired by Fred Glass yesterday.
There’s plenty of reasons to dismiss Alford as an candidate for the opening out of hand. He’s coming off a losing season at UCLA in 2016, and his resume in Westwood at best looks similar to Crean’s in Bloomington. He just had to give back a year of his contract to keep him in the school’s good graces, and fans there want to fire him into deep space.