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Genuinely admire your lack of defensiveness — don’t think anyone has anything personal, they’re just keeping guard up. Keep bringing us the good news, we all hope you’re plugged in.

First sentence is true for me too; not sure if it’s the same person nor the source but I’m feeling good.

I don’t know Isaac but recall his only time on the board prior to this week was 3/6/24 when he was early with rumblings of a keep Woody/not BoT discussion, then later that night the “Woody’s back next year” need broke. Can’t verify his stuff but I’ve heard good things from people with longer track records that I trust too.

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I credited R. Bozich for Woodson but I believe we’re both right, in a sense; going from memory Rick media source to say like “IU’s close with Woodson” and then Woj had an actual announcement within a few minutes. Anyway I’m feeling great

If I were guessing who’d break anything I would shortlist Shams, Thamel, Osterman, maybe Rick Bozich (he had Woody’s hiring first)

Genuinely would be a good idea for an enterprising media school student. A UM student staked out the airport for Harbaugh’s arrival and has parlayed that into a journalism career

EDITING TO ADD: I’m wrong they’re the same airport. Keeping the post as it was for transparency other than this note Would add: Celts don’t travel from Bedford, they travel from Lanscom, but if it’s not official C’s business and you even have reason to want to dodge folks you’d recognize, you might use a different base

Yes that’s called an executive session, they’re permitted to do those for some things

Depending on who you believe, this is a similar spot to last time. Other opinions differ, based on who’s getting what story from whom

I mean the Cs won’t necessarily know? And if there’s a signed agreement you don’t need to keep it under wraps, both because it would eventually be eligible for FOIA since IU is public, and because you have no reason to hide it. You can just say you’ve agreed in principle to make him coach after Woody and hold the presser after the season.

Probably so — still think someone could tell us an executive session is happening or scheduled, or we could get a little more from a source with different connections, but I do wonder if it’s all happening (TM @JerryYeagley23 that it might come out reasonably quickly.

Anyone know if there’s an executive session for the BOT scheduled before the standing meeting next Thursday? https://trustees.iu.edu/meetings-minutes/index.html#exec

Well well well. I hope you’re right! Was wracking my brain trying to figure out what the impressive feat Dolson pulled might be and wondered if it was like a stake in Pacers ownership via Simon Skojt connections or something.

Does anyone know the uh “nature” of connections RTZ, GP, or IsaacTor have? Not trying to snitch anyone, just curious if it’s the athletic dept., agents, AAU, coaching networks, etc

Even before this morning’s flurry I was thinking that the long break between games after tonight is an ideal time for any early agreement announcement.

Now seems like a good time to say something I said last time around: if you’ve got info that’s too hot, I would be willing to launder it for you @GP711 @IsaacTor etc.

Yes, right, I excluded some context from my message. Need Jerry and AP to get in here with some color

Wait the Philly charter given the earlier flights and the insider posturing seems more like it might be something than your usual message board flight stuff.

AP, you’re posting like you’re sitting on good news but I can’t tell if you’re just feeling good or we’ll know what you know soon

Substabtially? Not that we know, though the Bradposting on Twitter was fun today. Whaddaya know?

Yeah @Hovadipo is right, I think Albert’s was Rivals staff st the time, had done the rounds at ITH and maybe 247. He reported Donovan news that no one else verified (though there was board chatter) and I think history has borne out that he was incorrect

Nothing wrong with saying this, so I’m not criticizing you here, but these are not news sources, they’re just people with bad track records sharing their opinions. Plenty of those

Aside from the explanations others have offered, the media folks have journalistic standards to meet before reporting something. Others can probably outline those better than I but usually they’d have to get 2 or more sources on background to print something. And that’s setting aside their considerations about continuing relationships with sources. If you know something about a coaching search it doesn’t mean you can print it

Roughly time for the second of our twice daily leak of Actual Information