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Unconfirmed rumor Mike Woodson turned down a bid by the selection committee to play in the NCAA tourney. He believes IU will be playing in the NBA playoffs in a few months.

It’s convenient as the AD if you have the BOT or big donors to point to why you’re not good at your job. Just imagine if the money being pumped into the athletic department was used by competent people. Just like our basketball program we’re showing the ability to do less with more.

Some people have been posting about the incompetence of the IU administration for the better part of a decade. It’ll take a lot more than throwing money at this to get over the hump. IU has become irrelevant with their ineptness in the grand scheme of college basketball. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

We are slow to make decisions which makes it look like we play with little e and e but thinks it’s a solid combo of being extremely poor coach, lack of basketball IQ, and lacking some e and e. Another tourney game we’re getting ran out of the gym against a team with a pulse. Shocked. Best win in any tourney in the Woody era?

Good couple of wins to close out the season. Hopefully IU makes a run to win the Big Ten and makes it to the Sweet 16 before Woody retires. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Something something Woody’s biggest hurdle will be recruiting something something Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Can confirm. I’ve stood in his office on the IU campus and know his backstory. No, I didn’t mean to end up in his office or go there to meet him. I think I might have put two and two together when I saw his desk name plate. He helped connect me with some people at IU when I needed too.

Absolutely, it’s amazing to hear people in foreign lands hoping we (the US) figure things out quickly so we can lead the right way. They understand their lives are better when the US is stable and leading. What caught me off guard was the ages and nationalities of the people saying this (young, old, Europeans, South Americans, and Asians) I continue to be amazed at people learning English through movies, TV (Friends is by far the #1 I’ve heard) and music. Exporting culture through arts and sports is extremely important at maintaining status. If we can get our ducks in a row we have many who want to continue their support

South America

How can they smoke inside a university building?

Remember when the success of JHS developing under Woody was going to get us guards to win? Remember when TJD developing under Woody was going to get us dominant bigs to win? Why haven’t we seen the results of this? We have a semi-retired coaching grandpa that didn’t have an inkling of understanding of what it takes to win in college (despite what the fanboys attempted to sell us). Everything starts and ends with the head coach. If you took your crimson colored glasses off for a few minutes when Woody was hired you’d have seen this coming. Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard. Woody has failed on the recruiting trail and on the court. Biggest reason.. lack of hard work.

Just returned from another overseas trip last week. It still amazes me that for all our differences in the world humans across the globe are pretty much the same. Sitting down for dinner and drinks with complete strangers to find out you wish for similar things for mankind is a great pleasure. Meeting people who have made it out of poverty and made it their life mission to lend a hand to pull others up is heartwarming.

The IU athletic clown show does a solid job with their “unseen” influence either through loyalist or useful idiots too. The athletic department would be in a much better place if they put in the work upfront as they do trying to clean shits up.

Extend him, that’s a great Northwestern team. Not sure how we could expect more from this team when we don’t have XJ, hit free throws or threes, turn it over so much, and don’t rebound. Give Woody “the IU basketball savior” a lifetime contract Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Inconvenient, how could we expect them to put that much effort for a whole game or an off-season. That would require accountability and shits. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Remember when Woody was going to be awesome, Ware was going to give effort, Cupps was going to surprise, Mbagko was going to be a shooter, CJ and others were going to make big jumps? I really can’t wait until we can get to our championship season - the summer baby!! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

This is laughable. The only way this gets better is if the band starts playing clown music. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

We tried for a bit and decided it wasn’t convenient/worth it. We Charmin soft again Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Haven’t watched the men in a few weeks. This is what we are now? The one consistent under Woody has been e and e are optional. I saw more effort by the grandma in the grocery store going after her depends. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Solid roadie against another middle of the pack Big Ten team Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Pumpers: At least things can’t get worse Woody: hold my Ensure Stevens won’t have anything to do with this program (and hasn’t for awhile) despite what some “insiders” might feed you. Why would he ever want to leave a franchise that does it the right way to a college program that doesn’t know it’s @$$ from a hole in the ground. Once you realize what has been going on for awhile the more entertaining it becomes in a “the real housewives of Medellin” kind of way. The few minutes I caught of the game today had me laughing.

**** we ***** and whine a lot Woody doesn’t have it The media doesn’t hate us for shits and gigs. Why would they give a **** to promote a dogshit program? It’s not some big conspiracy that the media hates us because RMK was here eons ago IU administration hasn’t been concerned about Ws in athletics for awhile but they’ll sellout for $$$. I believe a certain high profile coach once said he wouldn’t coach at IU unless the admin changed. I wonder why.. Glad we have our basketball history from 30+ years ago Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I liked the intensity we played with in the first half with limited mistakes for us. If we played with that same intensity for the majority of the season we would be a tourney team despite the roster makeup. We still make some incredibly boneheaded mistakes and lost our minds for long stretches. That home court advantage is nice though

Decent effort for an IU team these days. Another game that could have had a different outcome if they played with some fundamentals. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Somethings never change Back to dodging accountability and blaming fans. Fun! Back to firmly following the “do as I say not as I do” mentality. Good stuff! Is this the thread created for posters to vent so snowflakes wouldn’t have their feelings hurt or is there another thread for that? I’ve said for years that the first couple seasons had little to do with results and a lot to do with establishing culture. That wasn’t done so we are where we are. The good part of having talented players is sometimes they put it together, despite the staff, to compete. This mostly happens in the Hall where those same terrible fans show up for games to watch an undisciplined team.