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Feel terrible saying this, but I honestly don't even really care about this season. I'm so detached from this roster and coaching staff, all I care about is whatever gets us to a coaching search in March/April.

1 of the truly under-appreciated legends of IU basketball. High School All-American. Mr Basketball at Manual with his twin brother, Tom as well as Trester Award winner. All American at IU. Multiple time NBA All Star. Exemplary representative for the school for basically 60 years. Hell of a run.

There's no "unless." This is Woody's last year as the IU coach.

I noticed that too. Today I learned at least 7 AP voters don't watch college basketball.

Another season of Woody...I'd rather stuff a Lego in my boots and walk around in them all day while not wearing socks to be honest.

He also said that many of our new players came from schools that play mostly zone defense, which is why we were having trouble on D., which is not true. Also said we played good defense against Nebraska. So Delusional

Best reply on X to Rabjohns' post...

You mean like new coach Pat Kelsey did at Louisville with TWELVE new players? Kicked Woodson's @$$ in the Bahamas... he just needs to STFU and go away.

Don’t worry, as soon as I win this mega millions you can rest easy, I will keep the money flowing in. Got a lot of eggs in that basket so things are looking up!

Vermont wins the National Championship, Marshall got a taste of the 2020 Championship by losing on a golden goal

I see alot of doom and gloomers in here. I am not as convinced as some that Woodson was brought back this year all because of Buckner. I believe they may have been as dumb as we think. I feel they didn't want to fire another coach already and look like they don't know what they are doing lol. I believe they felt Woodson could do good enough to get the fans back on board if they bought enough talent. I mean they did go pretty much all in on that. I feel it worked for the off season as I think with the ranking and the hype the fans were on board. Unfortunately the season started and we fell flat so far. I believe it is that simple. If this continues he will be fired because fan support is gone and the administration looks as terrible as ever. I believe they were dumb enough to attempt this and it hasn't worked. That's my belief Sent from my SM-A326U using Tapatalk

The when-it-rains-it-pours tweet ... Crazy thought -- but any chance that just refers to the death of Richard Van Arsdale? That, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse -- an IU legend passes?

If it is an injury then we won't hear about it till Saturday most likely. It's finals week and everything is super quiet around here with a lot of people going home and off work.

He picked these guys. So adapt and play zone. :)

Generally? It's not as bad as you think. And it's not as good as you think. With that guidance, this feels like an 8 to 11 B1G win team.

Woodson missed the memo. The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.Everyone wants to win but not everyone wants to prepare to win. preparing to win is where the determination that you will win, is made. Once the game or test or project is underway, it is too late to prepare to win. The actual game, test or projetc is just the end of a long process of getting ready, in which the outcome was really determined. So if you want to win, you must want to prepare to win. Once you prepare to win, winning is almost anti climatic." - Bobby Knight Bobby Knight Sent from my SM-A146U using Tapatalk

One of my earliest memories of watching Indiana basketball with my dad was the '63-64 team with the Van Arsdales, Jon McGlocklin, Vern Pfaff and Steve Redenbaugh on WTTV Channel 4 on a little 14" black and white television... I was 10 years old, and didn't understand (at the time) why my dad was constantly yelling at the tv... :D

Maybe they are announcing that Woodson is fired or stepping down. One can only dream!

I said it a while ago but people were really underselling how important getting a quality win and competent performance in the Bahamas was. The B1G is not well regarded this season. 10-10 with zero good non-con wins isn’t getting us in IMO. Then look at the data you’ve provided… Woody has not over performed at any time in this tenure. TJD was a killer, and JHS periodically went unconscious. So expecting 11 or 12+ B1G wins is living in fantasyland. You had to have noticed that stretch starting with @ PU on 1/31. That is a brutal stretch of games in February. Squint and tell me how many wins you see there with how this team has looked… PSU at home? UW on the road? OSU at home? That stretch looks like 2-8 to me, maybe 3-7. I think you’re right this could get a lot uglier.

I was doing some thinking about the rest of the year last night. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like this season really might go completely off the rails. Thought my bias may be clouding my ideas, so I looked at the NET Rankings and Woody's winning percentage vs. each Quad. My back of the napkin math: as it stands today - we have 13 Q1 games, 3 Q2 games, 4 Q3 games left. As it stands today there are 6 games that could be Q1/Q2 (Michigan, Purdue, PSU, OSU) or Q2/Q3 (Rutgers, at Washington). Woody has a 31% winning pct vs Q1, 64% vs Q2, and 89% vs Q3. That would be good for 10 more wins. That'd put us at 18-13 overall. I have a hard time seeing us finishing better than 21-10 absolute best case. 18-13 or worse more likely IMO.

I just hope they don’t stop. Only chance in todays landscape. Just gotta have the right guy making the roster. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

Free flow offense is what our opponents enjoy when they play us.

Two really good B1G backs are in tonight. Roman Hemby and Dante Dowdell. Hemby is a jackhammer.

So, I had the pleasure of going to a home game this year and was seated in the 76-club area. Very nice by the way. While there I talked with a former player on many topics. One being the current coach. Not good.... He confirmed that he is protected by the Board (Buckner and one or two others) and that if you go against him (Woodson), you are out. Fife and Matta were in place before Woodson was hired, and he did not like that at all and you see where they ended up. Looking back, I don' t remember who was in place before whom but I thought Woodson was announced before Fife or Matta so assumed he hired them. He also confirmed that Dolson had a different path, and it was shot down. He did not say who that was but said it was a homerun. He mentioned that Dusty May is not off the table once Buckner is out. Said the buyout is low on purpose. Other former players are no longer welcome around the team (see Brian Evans comments). I was really in shock with all he shared with me. How can the IU program allow this to happen? How can the boosters allow this. The program has to be bigger than one or two people. So sad. Take it for what it's worth. Which may not be much lol.

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