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We are the rubes. The Leal stuff, the Woodson stuff, DD, the hysterics, AC, fill in the blank. The only reason any of this even exists is the fan base. I said hundreds of pages ago, the only blue blood descriptor left for IU was the fan base. It’s all about dollar signs, and clicks=dollar signs. We are a huge and easily triggered fan base and rightfully so. Doyle is an idiot, DD is an idiot, trilly is half troll, but they all have one thing in common: they know the IU fanbase is good for clicks, and that means the IU fan base is good for money.

You forgot synergy. I’ve gotten job offers for using synergy when talking about nothing in interviews.

My wife and I use it ironically to each other all the time. “Did you get the dishes done?” “Let’s circle back when you get home.” It’s the worst.

That was quick lol

I feel for XJ.

1000 pages is back on the menu.

CJ Gunn going to single-handedly prevent us from losing by 40

Stoooooopppppppppp lmao

What just happened????

Banks Sighting!!!!

Getting the full MR experience tonight. foul out!

We are in no position to turn down the NIT unless we simply don’t have the bodies.

Welp, this Basil Hayden isn’t gonna drink itself.

Seriously someone smarter than me figure out if a team has fouled more shooters on 3PT shots than IU.

I have really changed my opinion on MM, I guess that’s not earth shattering news but I really like how he’s developed.

You’re wrong because they have all been involved policing it. But even if you weren’t, it’s not that serious bro.

Pretty sure anytime that’s happened it’s been mostly tongue in cheek since we are wallowing in the fire thread unless I missed someone being belligerent about positivity lol

Maybe we can come out and slash the lead down a la OSU. I suppose it’s possible. I would turn it off, but I know in a month when the tournament is over I will be counting the days until HH woody or otherwise. Is there a 12 step program for that??

It’s almost like we just beat a bunch of teams either A. Struggling (MSU, Wisky) or B. Bad.

Okay I love Joe the cameraman.

Will it mean IU isn’t the only P5 school in the country without a high school commit for 2024? If no, then yes. He has a lot of work to do this offseason before I am willing to say he deserves another year. It isn’t that I want Woodson fired so much as it is I want to be relevant and good. If this is some weird aberration and he’s the guy, fine. But we are neither relevant or good, Wins or otherwise. Because what I’ve seen in these wins are adjustments leading to more successful basketball. Adjustments many of us had been asking for since Army and FGCU. It stopped being about this seasons results for me when dropped out of the top-75 and went 1-31 in recruiting. A position it took 5 straight B1G wins to get us back to (Torvik, not Kenpom where we are still 80s). It’s way more nuanced than a run at the end of the season. I have said from the jump, if we had even a top-25 recruiting class, he deserves another year and I would have not even really cared how the end of the season played out. All of this is before you start talking about availability next season if he were to retire or get fired. It is not simply jumping ship in a down year. At least for me, YMMV.

That was why when all this happened I said Gallo I really didn’t care about. Talk all you want.

Indebted? No. Does his success have a direct correlation to them? Yes. He averaged 0.0 points the season he went Uber viral for being able to pay off his sisters loans. That doesn’t happen at a place with “chill” fans. So it comes with the reward. That aside, it also didn’t happen in a vacuum, and my guess is Woodys comments spotlighted Leals making people more sensitive— because I agree generally they were pretty mild and Really didn’t bother me much. But I can see where they would.

Would it have been different for you if he had also said the quiet part out loud? “You guys need to chill, but please don’t stop buying from my NIL store and making sure I make money.” Again, I don’t personally care too much and after some reflection I can almost appreciate his loyalty to Woody whether or not I think it’s misguided. I am just trying to point out that there is a level of hypocrisy in his comments, and that’s probably what annoyed most people.

I said before I don’t really care that much about Leals comments, it’s whatever he was emotional. Poor taste for someone who profits off fan support. That’s it. The cues were taken from the coach, which is why in some ways I think the vitriol aimed at Leal is somewhat misguided. If people don’t like his comments, the anger should probably be directed at Woody, the leader, not Leal. Just my opinion a few days removed from it. I’ll push back some on the Xavier thing though, for the most part, any grief he’s gotten has been warranted throughout the season. It was not that long ago he pulled a Draymond on someone and Don Fischer was “embarrassed.” He didn’t miss a single game after that incident. But, again, it’s on the leader at least in part.