Today’s Chicago Sun-Times reports that Indiana University is expected to contact Scott Skiles about potentially taking over the program:

Skiles was born in LaPorte, Ind., and led Plymouth High School to the 1982 state championship. He has maintained a house in Bloomington, Ind., where he is now and lives during the NBA offseason.

”If they’re smart enough to hire him, they’ll win a national championship in one or two years,” said Bulls coach Jim Boylan, a former Skiles assistant who succeeded Skiles after he was fired by the Bulls on Dec. 24.

”I can see Scott coaching anywhere. He’s a great coach and would do a great job at your local high school, grade school and he’d be a great coach at Indiana.”

Skiles went 165-172 with the Bulls from 2003-07 and helped turn around a laughingstock of an organization into a playoff team that reached the second round last year.

Skiles also is expected to be considered for NBA head coaching jobs this summer. He would not comment on the possibility of coaching Indiana.

”He’ll relate well to college players, because he needs everybody on the same page to fall into his system,” Bulls center Joakim Noah said. ”And he could definitely do that on the college level.”

Good idea or bad idea? It seems pretty obvious his personality isn’t so compatible with today’s NBA player. But if Skiles wants to stay in the League, college ball might not be the way to go because he may never find his way back…