JSHoosier

Thomas was a terrible coach and executive. So that just confirms Woodson ain't it.

If he misses the tournament, maybe he'll go away. If he makes the tournament? I'd expect year 5 of this crap.

You mean retirement? This is IU, they'll let him retire instead of doing the right thing so they don't look like they fired a guy that played here forever ago. They don't care he never should've been hired and it was doomed to fail.

Odds that Woodson doesn't communicate with him after committing?

Well he never had to assemble a roster before he got this job, so what did you expect? That fact just makes hiring him even dumber.

He probably thinks he is with his friends protecting him. With how poorly run this program has been he may be right, unfortunately.

I'm sure he does love Woodson, Woodson never held him accountable.

Considering the last 25 years of incompetence a drug cocktail that Keith Richard wouldn't touch might be better for your health.

McDonald's is probably better for your health at this point.

https://hoosierhuddle.com/hoosier-blog/indiana-ad-scott-dolson-announces-next-wave-of-changes-for-2025-iu-football-season/2025/1/22

"The fans want me to stay." "Mike, those are Northwestern fans. When opposing fans want you to stay that's not good."

Typo, but point stands.

As concerned as IU is about the stupid optics there's a very real chance they'd say "we can't fire a guy that played here and has 3 tournaments in 4 years". They've lowered the standards so much that just making a 68 team field warranted a raise. The more losses now the better for the program long term; assuming IU makes a serious hire, which is another matter.

Indiana doesn't need help mismanaging the men's basketball program, they've been quite effective at that the last 25 years. Don't give them ideas.

IU has shown they don't need help doing something stupid, you don't need to give them any ideas.

Notre Dame losing OL Sam Pendleton to the portal, started 7 games for them this year.

Looks like G league pays $40,500 for a 6 month season. According to a Sports Illustrated article from this past September.

Arrives at 6, sets clock to say 4, leaves at 5.

Sounds like a candidate for Wisconsin basketball.

They showed they didn't care about winning when they hired Mike Woodson; no serious program would've even considered him.

Why would he? He did his job.

That would take time away from golf and wine and cigars.

Similar to his HS recruiting.

It'd probably take another blowout loss.

Oh I definitely agree the younger crowd remembers them more for what's happened recently; the players exist only in dusty black & white photos to them. Woodson had already shown he's a lousy coach, but Buckner wanted his buddy to be IU HC regardless of what it meant for the program (and if he didn’t see Woodson was a lousy coach it just shows he had no business being involved at all). Woodson wanted to be IU HC regardless of what happened or he would've resigned by now, he wanted to be HC didn't need to put in the work because friends were/are protecting him. Personal interest over the program; ironic since we've said they didn't want someone bigger than the program after RMK.