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https://x.com/NBA/status/1810073834499784734 Kel’el with a really good game today in a win over Sacramento. 26 and 11 and Sac had no matchup for him so he just punished them in the paint. Very nice.

We have some people in this thread mad about booing last year. We have others mad about comments from Sr night months ago. Classic July for IUBB. November can't get here soon enough.

Lol. Burners have infiltrated with illogic reasoning. I don’t love the Boo’ing personally. But it’s a professional sports thing. And Indiana Basketball is a professional sport. If the Coach, program, and players aren’t putting the energy, effort, and performance out that is necessary, you are probably gonna hear some boos. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners

I have a lot of respect for Ware. He had a bad freshman year and came to IU and did the work. I think is just beginning to grow into how good he can be. He has all tools to be a great NBA player.

This is a terrible analogy lmao. Mike Woodson is not our boss. A much better comparison would be to go boo your customers for complaining about a terrible product that you put out. And then hire a social media campaign to dump all over said customers. I’m sure that would go over well!

You emailed the AD on multiple occasions demanding he fire Woodson and came to multiple boards to tell everyone (brag?) about it. Out of everyone here, you were probably among the worst of the worst. People are upset he did a bad job, blamed the fans for noticing, and then parroted all of those people's complaints about him after his rich friends bailed him out. "You guys don't know basketball. Mike Woodson knows basketball. Mike Woodson thinks we need more guards because guard play is what rules college basketball." Well thanks for noticing you basketball savant. I mean Cal40Cheaney and IUbball4eva have only been screaming that on Twitter for 3 years but man have you earned that check Woody. He better win games. That is all that saves him right now. He has a group that can't stand him and he has people (like you) that will defend him when things aren't flying but will be on the horn to the AD the minute he starts to underperform. And he has pissed off enough media types that they will be more than happy to back the bus over him after the fans have thrown him under it if he doesn't win. And that is all on him.

Liars? Burners? IMO, nah. We just have a huge, passionate fan base. Everyone has their own standards for what is good or acceptable to them and their own temperament in terms of how they respond/form their views over time. To each their own. A generally decent rule of thumb that I think applies here no matter where you fall on Woodson … never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Wow. I get why a fanbase would automatically discount an IU in a recruitment like this, but CU fans being dismissive of freaking Auburn is just myopic as hell.

Committed to Indiana

Jesus Christ on a motorbike, WTH did I just watch?

https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-ncaa-news-deion-sanders-top-target-julian-lewis-accused-of-playing-mind-games-with-latest-gesture-for-auburn-and-indiana-hoosiers/

People that I encounter on a daily basis don’t make millions of dollars and are in a very visible leadership role. What he said and did on senior night was totally uncalled for, childish, and very unprofessional

Yes, should have been up by 4

I hope when Freddie calls it a career and comes home someone does a podcast with him because you just know that dude’s got stories.

Little brother transferring high schools per Samad Hines. 2026 Ethan Mgbako (@ethanmgbako) will be attending powerhouse Oak Hill Academy (VA) for the 2024-2025 high school season — the 6-foot-6 guard out of New Jersey has had a stellar AAU season — an elite pick up for Yerrick Stoneman and his staff with this one

Just for comparison. Month of July CTA first year rank: 71, 8 total commits. Rivals 2 star NFL TE Peyton Hendershot being one of them. Coach Cig rank: 49, 19 total commits.

Dem's some serious Eric Musselman vibes.

Zach Edey makes his debut tonight at 9pm on ESPN.

I didnt accuse you of anything. The million dollar thing always makes me laugh. Still talking about SR day months later? Get over it.

Malachi Moreno come on down! I know, wrong thread, but this would be another feather in our cap moving forward.

Pretty nice little ball player.

Uh, no. IU does not need a uniter. IU needs a winner. RMK was not a uniter. Unite the fans...yeah, right. Now there's a priority to put into a head coach's contract. /s

Dude even posted the emails he sent. Yet now he gets on here to lecture us every few days for wanting Woodson fired.

We might need to check the vetting process for BTB soon. Maybe the burners are filtering into the message boards. I'm just kidding so relax everyone. I spoke to someone on staff today, trying to talk him into having the team at my son's dorm on move-in day to help with everything. :-) I thought it was the least he could do for having us sit through that painful season last year. It's been a good offseason so hopefully that continues

Freddie on the move once again.

On3 drops him to 4 stars and ranks him 44th nationally. Oh man... this might actually be a very good thing for IUFB.

To no one's great surprise we're out of the running for Jordan Scott. Announced his final 3 of Michigan State, Maryland and Va Tech.

If not maybe a little worse! Wow that was definitely something!

Announcing his commitment today at 1pm. Supposedly choosing between IU, Purdue, and West Virginia. Did visit Oklahoma recently as well.

I don't think it would have mattered when he had axed their access. People would be critical of it if IU had been losing but forgiving if that had been winning.

Exactly!!!! Instead of taking accountability for his bad roster construction and decisions, he desides to divide the fanbase of true fans vs non true fans based on his only definition which is non true fans criticized him and didn’t 100% support what he was doing and the coaching job he did last year!

Piss on that. We need a winner. We had a uniter in Crean and yall couldn't get over him adjusting his pants and clapping.

No but they can be misleading. In this case his competition includes the likes of Mike Davis and Archie Miller. It's more an indictment of how incompetently run IU is than anything.

It doesn’t matter. They were openly bashing the program, regardless if they were right or not in their assessment. This isn’t hard people.

Again generalizing people. You’re afraid to go to specifics. Look I’m avid New York Knicks fan. There was a kind of respect then but the reason he got fired was because of the very same reasons we see evident now. A sense of entitlement. At New York he didn’t want to bring in meaningful assistants because he thought he knew everything. Also he couldn’t build our team because he burned a ton bridges and a lot of players were put off by him. There are degrees to these things. You’re paying a guy 3 million dollar a year and he buys himself the best roster he’s ever had….. and the best ceiling most of us have is sweet sixteen with a possible elite 8 chance. What the heck are we even doing? That’s loser mentality and defeatism. You play to win championships. Not to settle for mediocrity .

https://x.com/bbalevv/status/1809635721151500738?s=46&t=Ws42dw1Dgsw8GgM1xfIgJg

*whispers* There are a lot of people justifying Mike Woodson being an a**hole on here

I prefer Snapchat!

Soon to be followed by a "it was better in the '80s" post.

Ahh the weekly “why do you guys keep talking about this” post from Scott.

Idk. Maybe Woody should have flown to LA to meet them. Enjoy a candle lit dinner. Go shopping on Rodeo Drive. Some pillow talk maybe.

Exactly. This should have been easy. Conference call: "We are going in another direction. Thanks for your contributions."

HH are NOT employees of IU or Woodson despite what Woodson and, apparently, you seem to believe. Making him come to Bloomington for this to happen was a power play Woodson used to to stroke his own ego.

FIRE MIKE WOODSON!!!!

Cutting edge concept I wonder how it will play out.

Showing support for people that have done a lot to help you is a good quality and her approach was classy