Five Prime

Am I the only one who is skeptical of Stewart having a large impact? I see people pencil him in as a starter but he is a huge question mark to me. I wouldn't count on him being anything more than a role player.

I don't get why Franklin would transfer. It's gonna be a restart for him regardless. He's going to have a central role on this IU team next year if he stays.

I think I have a few of their basketball cards in an old shoebox somewhere.

In case you need a quick recap of the 2 decade slide for this program's coaching hires: 1) fire a HOF coach 2) keep his lead assistant because the current players wanted him to stay 3) hold onto Davis for 5 more years because he took Knights team to the cusp of a championship, but then followed it up with "help is on the way" and "just gotta get Bracey the ball" 4) Hire a high major final four caliber coach who is (now for sure) widely accepted as one of the best coaches in college basketball but quickly fire him for NCAA infractions which became allowed a couple years later. Go on to blame it on culture and current players smoking pot. 5) Hire a high major final four coach with a D Wade endorsement. Find reasonable success but fire him because he is too inconsistent (ie: can't make deep enough runs in the tourney). 6) Hire the next up and coming mid major coach with elite 8 experience. One of a few names that year who were thought of as the hot up and coming coaches ready for the big stage. Fire him because he can't field an above .500 conference team in 4 years 7) Hire a 63 year old former player who has zero college coaching experience...ever. 8) so what's the next hire going to be? It's actually pretty terrifying

Ask someone who isn't a current Indiana recruit.

So you all think any other power 5 school would seriously consider Mike Woodson as a head basketball coach? Seriously, do you really?

What other major university would even entertain Mike Woodson as a head basketball coach?

This solidifies us a program living in the past.

I'm out for awhile. This is uninspiring. Bring in a couple old retreads to try to fix a broken program.

Yeah I'm out for awhile

Burners

This has to be Jeff Goodman right?

Nonymouse seems like a fun guy. Hope he sticks around to celebrate when Stevens is announced.

The chatter last week, then the pressor, then the silence...

If that's the case, and I don't think it is, I'm checking out for awhile.

Sums up my thoughts. I would even go so far to say the push for Stevens may have been dead from the start but Dolson had to feign a real attempt to appease the fan base.

Then it's not a good plan...no due diligence? What? This just further tarnishes an already broken program.

So there really was never a clear plan. We are just throwing **** into the wind at this point. I'm not as disappointed about the news as I am about its implications for the decision making.

This. I'm convinced this is being kept very quiet within a very tight circle.

You seem to speak in absolutes. I'm not saying you're wrong but why should I believe you?

Purely hypotheticals: -If it was known months ago Stevens would not quit the Celtics before the completion of the NBA season. -And Dolson et al were very confident, if not assured, they would get him. -And Archie had to be fired as soon as our season was over due to potential player transfers, fan backlash, recruiting fallouts. -Then Dolson and the rest of the team has to continue to throw out smoke screens and misleading information or the fan noise would be reaching a crescendo

It's a longshot but maybe it's not within Stevens nature to quit on a team mid-season. Some people actually hold on to shreds of integrity.

Or all that junk about Boston was just posturing for more money. I mean, the guy isn't dumb, he knows IU would do anything it takes to get him.

The pandering speech in the last Stevens pressor lead me to believe we still had a slim chance. It felt more like posturing from him because it seemed out of character.