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Should we just go ahead and merge this thread with the Fire Mike Woodson one?

Much like the oven tomorrow, need to get this warm early

So does Woodson make it to the Bahamas?

Wisconsin looking like the freaking juggernaut ... they put up 100+ points, don't know how you deal with that - especially at Kohl Center

I know nothing about the Ark St coach. Does he have loose ties to Indiana or IU? Is he the next up and coming coach we collectively fall in love with only to have our hearts ripped out when the IU BOT keeps Woodson for his 8th year (see: Dusty May, Josh Schertz)?

Wouldn't Dolson be Woody's boss? Sure doesn't seem like this dynamic plays out in that relationship. This hero worship nonsense is significant in why IU is in this situation with Woodson. That sort of thing has no place in high functioning teams, sports or otherwise. It's a cancer and we are seeing all of the expected symptoms.

He, uhh, didn't exactly look to be in game shape

TJD and Leal at the end of the bench after halftime - in street clothes of course

He's on the bench

If I had to guess, I say Woody's lineup later in the season is more contingent on the games in Nov/early-Dec than it will be on development through the season. He'll start with a single big, and do the NBA-style platoon substitutions he's done in previous early games. If that goes well, then great, he'll stick with it later in the year. If not, it'll probably be back to two bigs and everything goes through the middle.

Change is life, the only things that don't change are dead

I was at the game. If any of those last 3 three-point shots had gone in, there definitely would've been a court storming.

He is waaaay into it as well. I bet we hear some claps any time now.

You can either play golf and recruit the portal OR play golf and compete in the NIT - can't do both tho

Can't coach a full game, can't show up to presser, sounds like someone quit on the program to me

The fire Woodson thread is on the court currently

They only thing stopping this runaway train is the Mike Woodson: No longer IU basketball coach thread popping up.

May as well just re-platform to BOTBanners.com

IU disrespect train is rolling: ESPN ticker says Queen picked "Maryland over Kansas and Houston".

How about no more than one loss by more than 15 points?

New guy is still going to have to appease stakeholders in the donor crowd, on the BoT, who are fans of Woodson. This idea goes a long way to ease transition-in AND transition-out.

Have to ask where those funds were put together and how the offer was handled. Money has strings attached, always. My guess is that in this case the strings for "taking a long shot on Stevens" were "if you miss, hire this guy".

Counterpoint: you've brought nothing to this board beyond repetitive criticism and vitriol. Some of that is welcome, but preferably balanced if not outweighed by insight, humor, rumors - anything other than pot-shots at other posters really. It's cool that you've got a line on Beard's finders fee or whatever. We get it.

Might take awhile to get to the actual firing, but it is definitely time for this thread to exist. Sadly, lame duck college coach is the worst thing in sports - welcome to it for the third time in a decade.

No North Carolina?