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Good dude to have on your side if you want to win.  Recruiting is a game of relationships and very few people have more relationships than WWW.  Been that way since the late 80s or early 90s.  I know Dajuan Wagner at Memphis was the first kid WWW helped Cal with.  That dude should have been an absolute stud in the NBA.  Pretty much any other name kid for about 10-15 years after was associated with WWW.  

Hey, Bow.
At the risk of someone changing my answer spending 4 years blabbing about things I didn't say just so he can follow me around like a child and criticize me like he has nothing better to do....
I like it.   I talked to a friend last night who is very close to Butch Carter and by proxy Mike Woodson, and I know the IU basketball "family" is behind it.  That matters to me.  Woodson wants the job and won''t listen to any of the exterior BS.  He's not afraid of the task at hand, believes in player development and local recruiting.   I like all of that.   Archie wasn't willing to work a room or really change anything.   Woodson will be.
 If you take the names off the resumes, I love Matta and would stack his resume against, say Matt Painter's.    Woodson has 20+ years of NBA experience with teams that got better when he was the head coach.  Players  respect him and like him.  That matters.   A reality?  I wanted Brad Stevens.  He was the holy grail.   But on second thought and looking at it after stepping back, he really hasn't done anything Woodson hasn't done save coach in college successfully for a short time.   
Woodson played at Broad Ripple, played at Indiana, and played in the NBA for 10 years.  That will resonate w kids whether they have heard of him or not.   He may be the most under-rated player in the history of the Big Ten.  He was a 2000 point scorer in only 114 games at Indiana.   He was Big Ten player of the year having played just FIVE Big Ten games his senior year.   As Dakich said today, Woodson has dealt with the egos of Carmelo Anthony and Blake Griffin.  He can handle players' mommies.  The minutiae won't bother him.  Matta will help him with the ins and outs of running a college basketball program; and I think that combo will really be fun.
My opinion?  I think Indiana - shown by Matta w Woodson, are getting back to their own culture (no longer running it like a mid major), and at the same time, running IU men's basketball like a top tier basketball program for the first time in 21 years.   I see a whole lot of questioning and doubt above; and I had it too at first reaction.    Having had some time to think about it, I really like it and think he deserves this shot.  The "family" will now be united and that can do nothing but help.    
Edit :  Bob Kravitz doesn't like it which means I love it.    He and so many others are so damned unable to look beneath the surface.  Why journalism guys like he and Zac Osterman (whose experience is playing Madden and NCAA Basketball on XBox) are asked for their input on sports.   I digress..

Bozich and his dad said that on Assembly Call. It sure looked like it but I'm not sure I buy it. IF it's true, that is on Fred Glass for not doing his due diligence. 

Thank god he knows the fanbase or he might be offended.  Welcome coach.  Hope for your sake and our sanity you are successful.  Best of luck coach.

Thank god he knows the fanbase or he might be offended.  Welcome coach.  Hope for your sake and our sanity you are successful.  Best of luck coach.

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

dumber decisions have been made...
see: Chicago Bears 

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

Moses Abraham remembers...

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

Those Zeller threads were epic!

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

My god this is the only thread that has rivaled the old Cody Zeller recruitment threads with optimism, hope, and unison.  Pretty please come home Brad!  I promise I won’t ***** about any of my sports teams for at least 6 months.

That would be a truly impressive feat with no search committee handling all logistics of this (legal, travel, food, etc.).  If Dolson can do that I will be very impressed.

Hey guys (stu I will be good for my short trip).  @chris, just curious if you have heard on the starting point of 10/$65m?  I have heard that number a couple of times today.  
 
Edit:  Testing the waters to see if the info is consistent or if this is how this search is gonna go with rumors and whatnot.

That would be a truly impressive feat with no search committee handling all logistics of this (legal, travel, food, etc.).  If Dolson can do that I will be very impressed.

Hey guys (stu I will be good for my short trip).  @chris, just curious if you have heard on the starting point of 10/$65m?  I have heard that number a couple of times today.  
 
Edit:  Testing the waters to see if the info is consistent or if this is how this search is gonna go with rumors and whatnot.

That would be a truly impressive feat with no search committee handling all logistics of this (legal, travel, food, etc.).  If Dolson can do that I will be very impressed.

Doesn't really make me slow down, the question is compound and inherently produced an unclear answer. Let me try with an extended, not dissimilar hypothetical:
"Mr. Smith, I want to understand what you're telling us.  you're telling us you're guilty of robbing 47 banks this morning and can long jump over the Grand Canyon...is that what you're telling us?"   "I am not." Brad Stevens when asked if what he was telling them was that he was not leaving, also answered "I am not." 
The unclarity? Did the "I am not" relate to 'the leaving' or the 'that's what you're telling us.'

That would be a truly impressive feat with no search committee handling all logistics of this (legal, travel, food, etc.).  If Dolson can do that I will be very impressed.

That would be a truly impressive feat with no search committee handling all logistics of this (legal, travel, food, etc.).  If Dolson can do that I will be very impressed.

I heard pretty specific contract items that made the spidey senses go off.  It was pretty much the same from 2 people that don’t know each other.  But it was odd in that it wasn’t completely over the top and sounded plausible. Completely different than the last coaching search.  But another interesting tidbit I hadn’t thought of is with this one not coming from a committee, there will be more info out there.  This should be fun.

I heard pretty specific contract items that made the spidey senses go off.  It was pretty much the same from 2 people that don’t know each other.  But it was odd in that it wasn’t completely over the top and sounded plausible. Completely different than the last coaching search.  But another interesting tidbit I hadn’t thought of is with this one not coming from a committee, there will be more info out there.  This should be fun.