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BTOWN reacted to theriverpilot in Fire Coach Woodson
Yep! Winning a conference championship sucks! Long live Woody
In all seriousness, look at his emotional response to that win and his connection with the players. I’d love to see that at IU
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BTOWN reacted to DoctorP in Fire Coach Woodson
“I’m not gonna talk about my graphic design skills. I”m just not”
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BTOWN reacted to Kentuckysucks in Fire Coach Woodson
It's just kind boggling to me. We could fire Woody now and bring in Dusty. He would have Trey, Leal, probably MM and Reneau, and bring in 3-4 starters from his top 25 FAU team and have a top 25 team here next season. He could also likely land a couple good 2025 recruits which Woody cannot do.
Or we keep Woody for one more year which will probably be a worse season than what Dusty would have here next season. Then Leal, Trey, MM, Reneau, and the 2025 class are all gone and Dusty inherits a complete dumpster fire when he takes over next spring assuming he's still available. So someone here explain to me like I'm a 5 year old...why are we not just firing him now?
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BTOWN reacted to AKHoosier in Fire Coach Woodson
Just as incredibly tone deaf as Woodson.
People aren't upset that we've won 4 in a row. We're upset because it's become painfully obvious that he's going to be retained, and this 4 game win streak against mediocre teams is apparently a good enough reason to give him another year.
And if I'm going to get excited about next year, I'm forced to be a fan of a style of basketball I abhor, at a program who now has to resort to buying talent in the portal rather than recruit and develop players, because the coach is too lazy to recruit.
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BTOWN reacted to Chris007 in Fire Coach Woodson
Give me Dusty, Abernathy, Matt Graves, and LaVall Jordan as assistants and let’s see what happens. You have everything covered. I still feel a change will be made.
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BTOWN reacted to SamIam in Fire Coach Woodson
Time for all of us former Kelley kids to start sending emails to our favorite prof Vivian Winston?
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BTOWN reacted to tyappleg in Fire Coach Woodson
If the change to a million a year allows Dolson to go around the BOT for the buyout, that would be an absolute masterclass by Dolson.
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BTOWN reacted to hper50 in Fire Coach Woodson
If you're afraid to vote against another Trustee, you shouldn't be on the Board of Trustees
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BTOWN reacted to HoosierHoopster in Maryland vs Indiana - Game Thread, Fri., 12/1 @ 7 BTN
There was convo here early on that Bako should come off the bench and he wasn’t that good. Good Lord.
Glad that convo is dead.
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BTOWN reacted to hoosierdogg in Maryland vs Indiana - Game Thread, Fri., 12/1 @ 7 BTN
Wow, starting to feel bad for Geronimo...
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BTOWN reacted to Stuhoo in 2023 SF/PF Mackenzie Mgbako to INDI-F’N-ANA
If you have time, a great session with Mack and the Hoosier Hysterics. Truly an impressive, intelligent young man.
My favorite story from the interview was at the end. Mack is torn between Kansas and Indiana; loves both programs but kind of leaning toward Kansas. He’s in the 'thinking and praying about it' stage and driving to school, when he looks up in traffic and sees that the car in front of him has an Indiana University vanity plate. He takes it as a sign from above and at that point he decides it’s going to be Indiana.
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BTOWN reacted to ElectricBoogaloo in (2015) C Thomas Bryant to IU
NBA Champion
P.S. ccgeneral we miss you dearly.
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BTOWN reacted to Demo in 2023 SF/PF Mackenzie Mgbako to INDI-F’N-ANA
Have seen a total of 3 HS games of Mgbako and parts of 2 EYBL games last summer, so I wouldn’t pretend to have his full game down, but fwiw:
Looks to be all of 6’8”. Great frame. Will probably play at something like 225. Hard to tell from streams, but looks to certainly have plus length.. Good athlete, not great. Pretty good lift, but needs to gather. Ok 1st step, but he’s not beating good defenders with explosion. Runs well, and runs hard. Pretty average laterally. So, he’s got solid traits, but that’s not the deal here. Offensively, his best element, no question, is that he’s got a great stroke with deep range. Really simple. Good elevation with a high release and nice wrist snap. Can get it off against a good contest. Can catch and shoot, off the bounce left or right, and has a step back that I watched him splash from about 24’. Likes to play in the mid-post. Faces up, has a nice jab step series, and is looking to put it down for a single bounce either way and shoot a J. Has a pump fake and uses it to drive some, but he needs to get his shoulder in front to beat a guy. Looks to have some feel on the block, but doesn’t seem super well-schooled. Plays through contact, no problem. Bottom line: he can score at every level. He’s not a shot hunter, he takes good looks, but he doesn’t facilitate much and his game appears to be very much about his offense. Assuming he’s playing primarily on the wing, he will be an exceptional rebounder for that role. He’s physical and really goes after it. His defense will hold up but he’s not like Kel’el Ware where you can just autoswitch him and he can handle anyone. But he defends hard and physically and it looked fine. 1 other thing and he shares this with Fino: he carries himself like a 25 yo man. On a team with probably 4 other high major kids, including Simeon Wilcher who will probably start at UNC, there was no question he was the Guy.
Long way of saying, he’s a rock solid player and a great fit. He can pick and roll, he can pick and pop, he creates space for X and whomever because you can’t leave him. He just looks to me like a kid who can get you 15 a night from pretty much day 1. Probably doesn’t have the highest ceiling in the class, but he might have the highest floor and I’m not really sure how he would fail. He’s a hell of a get.
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BTOWN reacted to fwgreenway in (C) Kel 'el Ware - COMMITTED TO INDIANA
Love this board (especially during info season) and all the posters that provide us with updates leading to great outcomes like this. Welcome to IU Mr Ware. Man I think I'm going to miss all the players we are losing this yr, but getting very excited to see how the rest of next yrs roster fills out!
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BTOWN reacted to Hoosierfan1901 in NCAA MBB Transfer Portal
Pretty accurate, some misses here and there every once in awhile, but I trust him
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BTOWN reacted to jbeaman9 in NCAA MBB Transfer Portal
Then there are these comments from Caleb Love's dad in the IndyStar:
"He wants to win," Dennis Love, Caleb's father, told IndyStar. "So, he wants to be on a team that plays in a manner that is open, right — not having a clogged lane. Being able to take advantage of his playmaking skills. A situation that allows him to show his skillset. He also wants to be in a situation, where he can be taught, man, improve his efficiency.
"He wants to be coached. He really wants to be coached and really have someone help him get better. And then he obviously wants to be in a situation that allows him to achieve his ultimate dream, his goal — to get to the league."
Sounds like Coach Woodson to me
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BTOWN reacted to Stuhoo in JHS— NBA Bound
VO is everything that is great about college basketball and a great example of why college basketball is wonderful. Players (including VO) can turn pro and change teams and cities every month for all I care. Vic will always be an Indiana alum and will always have his heart in Bloomington.
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BTOWN reacted to Hoosierfan2017 in Indiana Players Now In The Portal
Hearing these stories of Duncomb’s exploits makes me miss the days when we had serious players whose 1 and only priority was basketball. Guys like Hanner Perea.
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BTOWN reacted to realTomCrean in College Bball Thread
Been on here for over a decade under several different aliases. Never banned or removed, just forgot my passwords every few years. I have loved the community on this site, a ton of knowledge, wild takes, and the perfect amount of spice in interactions when someone posts something outrageous. BTB and IU Basketball are synonymous to me, without one the other isn't as fun. Kudos to everyone on here - proud to be a HOOSIER. @Uspshoosier is a big part of fostering a knowledgable fanbase on this site - thanks for all of your research.
But the BEST IS YET TO COME. This place will be banana's with a deep March run and fellas Coach Woodson is gonna get us some - writing is on the wall. Hopefully see you all in Chi-town!!
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BTOWN reacted to RaceToTheTop in IUBB vs Purdue: 2/25 @7:30 on FOX
Remember when the argument was that 'although Galloway plays with high energy, he shouldn't be a starter on a good NCAA team?'
This is Trey Galloway's team next year.
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BTOWN reacted to NashvilleHoosier in IUBB @ Michigan - Saturday, 2/11/23 @ 6:00 on ESPN
Alone in 2nd place right now with a chance to tighten that grip the next 2 games. Exactly 1 month to the day we fell to 10-6, 1-4 in conference. Unreal turnaround.
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BTOWN reacted to Hovadipo in (2022) PF Malik Reneau to INDIANA
Romeo was quietly kinda awesome in general. He would've been awesomer if he was healthy. And he would've been awesomest with Woody...or almost anyone but Archie lol.
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BTOWN reacted to Hoosiers98 in Indiana vs Undue Purversity, Thursday, 7:00 pm
What's up Btown Banners, long time lurker never posted: what a game last night I hope our return to glory is finally underway! Check out my recap:
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BTOWN reacted to Magnanimous in Indiana vs Undue Purversity, Thursday, 7:00 pm
Soapbox time. My two cents on storming the court…generally IU should be above it. Us storming the court in Crean’s second year after beating Minnesota was rock bottom for the program, and yes the expectation for this program and fanbase is it shouldn’t be a surprise for us to beat anybody at home.
HOWEVER…
I can’t imagine how much it probably sucks to be a college student these days. These kids have had a lot of joy and potential memories stripped from them these last few years because of Covid. Wear a face mask in class, if you’re even allowed to come to class at all? When I was at IU one of my classmates showed up drunk during Little 5 week, passed out in front of the teacher and broke his nose on the classroom floor. Then he got arrested in the bathroom after a janitor found him asleep on the toilet. For some of these kids they didn’t even see their classmates’ noses for over a year.
Add this on top of many of them never had a senior prom, spent weeks quarantined in their dorms, lived in a shell of one of the best college towns in the country, and may very well leave IU with a fraction of the memories most of us had when we were there. Let them eat cake, let them storm the court, and let them have some fun. They deserve it and then some. They’ll never get this time back.
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BTOWN reacted to Demo in (2023) - SG Jakai Newton to INDIANA
Was just perusing his Mom’s Twitter feed. She is objectively great and they appear to be a pretty spectacular family. Has a Master’s in Psychology and runs a non-profit that works with families of kids with disabilities. Just good, good folks. Getting happier about this one all the time.