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What? They had to drag me away from college life kicking and screaming

I think this quote from Kopp on Woody says it all. If this translates to on court success, we may be in for a wild ride.

I sculpted and glazed this clay caricature of Coach Woodson....My favorite part is his hi-top, Adidas “All-Stars”.

Woody may not appear as an overly dynamic speaker in a public setting but he must be a wizard in the 1 on 1 conversations with recruits and their families. From the post-commitment comments we've seen he's being pretty open and honest about pointing out deficiencies and laying out a specific plan to make the kid a much better player. It's not yet been confirmed, but I've even heard he sold @ALASKA HOOSIER 10 freezers. lol

Staff didn’t want a big man. They basically let Brunk walk. We shall see how it works out but Woodsons plan is to make other teams adjust to his team not the other way around.

I’m sure there will be naysayers... but this is the type of player that has killed Indiana for years. I’m happy to have him.

It’s just insane what this staff has done in the last few weeks Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

hey y’all, just wanted to come on and give my thoughts on the newest addition to the IUBB family; Miller “Lite” Kopp. from what i heard at my brunch with Coach Woodson this morning, the kid shoots it like fu*king Wally Szczerbiak.. we were in dire need of snipers, and Morning Wood delivered.. barrels off to him. as for Miller Lite, i’m predicting he comes in and wets that hoe at an 87% clip; and if he doesn’t, i’m gonna’ give his sister the Ricky Special. - Barrel Rick, 2021

My immediate reaction to this was, “Northwestern has enough fans for a message board?”

At this point, if Kopp is the guy CMW wants I'm not questioning it. I'm 72 years old and I can't remember when a staff was put together and got results as quickly as this one. Coach Woodson obviously, at this point, connects with people. The last question is can he coach. Given the people he has around him, I'm not the least bit concerned. We finally have a direction and a leader who can execute the vision.

The whole country plays small ball. Gonzaga's 4 was 6'7, Baylor's was 6'5, Houston's was 6'7.

In back to back days we've landed kids who reportedly weren't close to deciding. This makes me think there is a lot of interest from recruits in playing here. They need to join now or miss out, so they're jumping at the chance. Fantastic job by our coaching staff

It's very nice to hear that our staff is going after a player and then they actually go out and get him. We wanted Xavier Johnson, we went out and got him. We wanted Tamar Bates, we went out and got him. We wanted Miller Kopp, we went out and got him. Coach Woodson had a vision for the roster and he went out and made it happen. Very encouraging moving forward.

Really not understanding the obsession with height on the board. The game is not the same. No one in the final four had a player taller than 6-8 average more than 15 minutes a game with the exception of Gonzaga with Timme (28). And Timme was exposed against a more athletic team of shorter dudes. Ohio State doesn't even have a guy on the roster over 6-8, Brunk is literally the tallest cat on the team now. Quite frankly, who cares if some 7-3 dude scores 25 on us? Doesn't matter if the rest of the team musters 35. This is, IMO one of the problems with the B1G in general, slow, plodding teams do not do well in march (one year of UVA notwithstanding). Small ball, the 3 and spacing are the game now. Length and speed is much more important today that height.

I WANT TO STOP WINNING

Not sure if by design or just coincidence, but all of CMW's additions to the roster have similar mental make up and playing attitude. XJ, TB, MC Highly competitive Vocal leaders After hours, any hour of the day type hard workers. Sounds like there may be some loud jawing 3 on 3 at Cook Hall at 1am next year. I think CMW wants to turn the team into a bunch of fire breathing never let up hell hounds. But I'm not excited or anything like that.

Absolutely. I didn't want him with open scholarships and I don't want him now. Stay at Kensucky, go someplace else, I don't care, but tired of being threatened with him coming to IU.

If what the coaches allegedly told Brunk about his role here is true, it doesn’t sound like they have much interest in playing two bigs unless one can shoot the ball really well.

Goodman has to realize that his trolling only hurts when IU stinks. We’ve had an A+ offseason and his petty trolling only makes him look obsessed at this point.

IMO people need to adjust their expectations under this regime. Clearly, and I mean clearly the model is going to be NBA factory/reload as apposed to rebuild. Gone are the four or five year wasted project scholarships in hopes of catching lightning in a bottle (a la VO/OG). The message is going to be clear, produce and work and get minutes, because regardless you’re getting recruited over year to year. For me, it’s how IU should be, not squabbling over “potential upside in year 3”. It should and I believe will be, most talented transfers and highly rated freshmen only from here on out. Taking a flyer on a kid because they are from Indiana but probably won’t help win games immediately appears over. And I am for it. As the kids say, iron sharpens iron. Produce or GTFO.

this aged well

It’s the NBA thread. You don’t need to post.

Makes the Kenya following Efton Reid’s mom interesting. She was the one who announced his decision day was being moved and referred to herself as mama bear. Perhaps we are talking to mama bear about a similar focus for Efton.

Mike Woodson's lone promise to Tamar Bates sounds a lot like the way Bob Knight once recruited, and probably the way Knight recruited Woodson. “Coach Woodson stressed to me that I will become a better man" And that was the main thing Bates needed to hear. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/tamar-bates-mike-woodson-promised-to-make-me-a-better-man/

Love to see he's an 88% ft shooter. With Bates, Kopp, Johnson, and Stewart all being plus ft shooters I should no longer want to pull my hair out after every miss.

I wanted a big man. We will see how this plays out. Lots of guys fighting for spots 1-3.

"More swagged up" From ESPN: Former Northwestern wing Miller Kopp, one of the best shooters in the NCAA transfer portal, told ESPN he has committed to play at Indiana next season. "Coach Woodson sees my potential as a versatile player and he has a plan for my development," Kopp said. "With the NBA experience and the respect he has around the game I was curious to at least hear him out. And obviously Indiana has such amazing history and basketball culture which was appealing to me because I'd played against them for three years." Kopp averaged 11.3 points and 3.1 rebounds per game last season for the Wildcats. He was listed as a junior last season and will have two years of college eligibility remaining. He picked Indiana from a list of offers that included Oregon State, Texas A&M, Utah, USC, Creighton, South Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Wichita State, DePaul, Oklahoma State and Xavier. A 6-foot-7 forward with a strong frame, Kopp converted 98 3-pointers in 54 games over the past two seasons, hitting 87% of his free throw attempts over that span. He was highly effective shooting off screens, but is also capable of operating out of pick-and-roll and making jumpers pulling up off the dribble. Kopp expects to be utilized differently with Indiana than he was at Northwestern . "I think the Big Ten will see a different player," he said. "Someone who's a versatile player offensively and more than a shooter. Playing in the open court, playing in ball screens and more swagged up overall, to be frank." Newly hired head coach Mike Woodson hasn't wasted any time in molding the Hoosiers roster after being hired off the New York Knicks bench three weeks ago. He was able to convince Big Ten All-Conference 2nd team member Trayce Jackson-Davis to return for his junior season within days of his hire, along with key veterans Race Thompson and Parker Stewart, and also nabbed one of the top point guards in the transfer portal in Pitt's Xavier Johnson. On Monday, he secured the commitment of one of the top available high school players in Tamar Bates, a two-way wing with impressive shot-making prowess who decommitted from Texas after the departure of Shaka Smart

I've never seen anything about Brooks even entering the portal so I'm not sure why he's even considered an "option."

A certain teammate of our most recent recruit would fit the mold perfectly

I'd agree he's killing it, hard to imagine the first month going a lot better. I would reserve the "Grand Slam" assessment for about 2-3yrs though. I really hope this is building program momentum that will steamroll everyone in it's path. But the measurement is not winning the press conference, getting recruits or uniting the fanbase, it's winning games. For that we're just gonna have to wait.

Musa Jallow, Bloomington North alum, formerly of Ohio State, going to Charlotte.

Tom Creans blows it again; former players and media sound off Joe Vitale April 20, 2021 11:33 am To say the Tom Crean experiment is off to a rough start in Athens would be a ridiculous understatement. The former Indiana and Marquette men’s basketball coach has slightly improved the team’s record year-to-year from his disastrous first season at Georgia, but that’s not the problem here. The problem is Crean was brought in to lock down the state of Georgia in basketball, or at least pluck a handful of in-state products from the likes of Auburn, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Alabama and others. Mark Fox did a solid job getting the most out of his players at Georgia prior to Crean, but many wanted to see the program take the next step with a guy like Crean who was expected to recruit. Many fans’ frustrations boiled over by the midpoint of another disappointing season in 2020-2021. However, most were on board with trusting Crean for another year, given he had developed Sahvir Wheeler, Toumani Camara, Tye Fagan and others now. Then, over half of the Bulldogs’ leading scorers left the program. Crean is left with an empty cupboard in Athens, while managing to recruit 13th out of 14 teams in the SEC for 2021. As of right now, the leading contributor returning outside of KD Johnson is walk-on Jaxon Etter. The program has hit rock bottom, even with any COVID-19 or transfer rule excuses that Crean keeps pumping along. The fact of the matter is, the Dawgs are in trouble. Every SEC team has won an NCAA Tournament game since Georgia last did in 2002, which was also vacated. The Dawgs have not won a tournament game that counted in the record books since 1996. Athletic Director Josh Brooks has been excellent with fan engagement, communication and just about everything else during his tenure as the head guy at Georgia. It’s time to see what Brooks can do with a hire in the basketball realm now. Just look at these tweets from former players within the program and members of the media. Who would want to play for this guy? And for the ‘Georgia is a football school’ crowd … Obviously the Dawgs aren’t going to be a blue blood like a Duke, UNC or Kentucky. They aren’t going to be able to get a coach like Mick Cronin who went and found success in fixing UCLA. However, they can do better than Tom Crean. Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee and Vanderbilt have all won at least a share of the regular season SEC title or the tournament in the past decade. The Tigers and South Carolina, two of Georgia’s primary basketball rivals, have made Final Four runs in the past 5 years. Georgia doesn’t have to make a run at a Final Four, but you can’t tell me the program is the best it can be right now. Especially under a guy making $3.2 million a year to do this. Look around the region. Georgia Tech, Clemson, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida State and South Carolina all seem to have figured it out to some degree. Heck, Nate Oats is over at Alabama, a perennial football power, with an arena in worse condition than Georgia’s, winning both the regular season and conference tournament title. Oats took his Tide to the Sweet 16 in year two and is recruiting with the likes of Duke, Kentucky, Kansas and UCLA. A little further to the South, you will find Auburn. Bruce Pearl and company just plucked five-star Jabari Smith out of the Atlanta metro, in addition to nabbing Georgia legacy Walker Kessler in the transfer portal. The Dawgs may never be a legitimate threat in basketball, but getting rid of Tom Crean at least opens the door for some kind of hope. And look at this. The guy puts his former standouts from other schools on wallpaper in his office, while making the UGA legends of the program a cardboard cutout on the side. You know, the guys who actually played for the G logo on their chests and in that very building. It’s time to end this disaster. Grab Jonas Hayes from Xavier and turn this program around. Hayes has key connections in the recruiting hotbed of Georgia and out-recruits Crean there from 500 miles away.

First comment on a NU board: Bet it will feel good to not be hounded by the best defenders in the league every single game. Not have to rush his shot every single time Could explain last year’s percentage.

Guarantee they will be providing some valuable minutes at some point next season. I think all of last years freshman make big jumps and Duncomb is better than you think.

The concern for some would be everybody in modern college basketball plays this way except for the B1G. I for one hope it works because like many I’m sick of how the B1G plays. Slowly coaches are moving that way in the B1G. Holtmann and Howard have shown you can have success going small

Sorry Keion, we got our guy.

Our practices are going to be so competitive now which should only make us better

Nice! Stretch four is exactly what we needed. Our team (should) be much better at shooting than last season. I'm looking forward to the first three point barrage of the Mike Woodson era in front of a packed Assembly Hall.

......Kopp looks strikingly similar to former IU great, lefty Brian Evans. ( It’s Evan’s Terre Haute South H.S. pic)

Shew.. I just can't agree that Brunk was going to see the floor much at all. Maybe if he was a shot blocking presence, but man... Idk. There is nothing about his game that shows me he could have played our style, the way we want to play now. I do really like him though. Ironically I met him in Nashville last June at a rooftop bar. He was fairly easy to spot. Edit: assume I said nothing

NIL + Woody + Kenya + Matta + Fife + Yas + IUBB Alumni + NYC connections + Relatively Diminished B1G + Shooters + Experience + Passionate players + TJD =

Welcome aboard, Miller (I feel like I was saying that about four years ago. LOL!) As a uniform geek, I found number choice in his announcement kinda interesting. Rob wears No. 10.

We really need young bigs for after Trayce/Race leave, so I’d wait for Reid I guess.

Very happy we landed another guy in the 21 class. And a good one at that. 0.9788 composite NATL.56History SG13 FL10 Now give me a 4-5

What were those options to get? I think Kopp is a fantastic pick up if true. Some games he plays 8m some he plays 28m and there's no issue.

Takes four years to learn how to deliver fries in Archie's system

I always thought Cockburns greatest move had nothing to do with how he moved his feet but rather how he convinced people that Cockburn was pronounced Coburn.