You heard it here first

because rampant speculation is what blogs are all about, i like Kevin Stallings as the next coach at Indiana. the AD Rick Greenspan hired him at Illinois State, and Stallings played and coached under Gene Keady's hair at Purdue.

of course, this is assuming Greenspan survives - not a lock since neither Sampson nor Greenspan were hired by the current IU president. i'm sure there will be an outpouring of support from fans and alumni to stay within the family, but it was pretty clear two years ago that there aren't a lot of viable IU-related candidates out there.

it is a nice pipe dream that Northwestern could throw the bank at Stallings, but it would make no sense at all for him to leave what he's built into a top-third SEC program for our sorry asses. and that's too bad, since our coach can't even get into his own locker room.