Magnanimous

During our last few coaching searches I have casually, half-heartedly, and with some curiosity, thrown this guy’s name around as someone to consider as a wildcard coaching candidate. He was incredibly dominant at the D-2 level with a .800 winning percentage and won four national championships. He’s also young, only being 43. Naturally, most people on this board scoffed at the idea. Division 1, let alone Indiana, is a whole other animal than coaching D-2; he needs to prove himself elsewhere first; if we’re going with a lower-level coach then it needs to be Michael Lewis because “he gets Indiana basketball”; etc. It made sense to be dismissive at the time, but I remained intrigued. Anyway, Drake finally pried him away this season, so we’re now getting a chance to see him coach in the Missouri Valley Conference, but with this still being pre-conference basketball he hasn’t been coaching against MVC teams. Instead he’s 6-0 already and racked up double digit wins over Miami and Vanderbilt. I know our season is just getting going, but assuming we continue to see the results we’re expecting out of Woodson, I hope that we seriously keep an eye on this guy as an actual coaching candidate. He’s going to get his chance at a P5 program very soon at this rate, and if Cig’s success at football shows us anything it’s that maybe it’s the unconventional guy from a smaller school who consistently wins that we’re looking for. Here’s his wiki page if you want to see his resume. That head coaching record section is something else - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_McCollum

17-2

There hasn’t been a great college basketball team in like six years. Most teams today can be beaten by competently average teams on most nights if they let up a bit.

It shouldn’t be this hard to be good at basketball at one of the few schools that wants to be good at basketball…

Kurtis Rourke threw more TD passes against Purdue than Herbstreit threw in his entire career at OSU.

Every playoff coach’s halftime speech:

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Would love for Georgia to lose to ND by 21, Texas to lose to ASU of all teams, and after that I’m done watching

When it’s all said and done, we’ll likely have played the closest game of the first round road teams.

Ben McCollum would’ve won this game.

Cig today

Cig calling this game like a £#@$/

Does someone mind telling me WTF is going on? Was That a fake Fg on 3rd down? Watching at a bar and no audio.

Rourke is not playing like this is win or go home.

He also has never lost a D1 game yet either haha.

Give the best go-kart racer a Ferrari and see if that makes a difference. He’s currently coaching a roster that would be in a dogfight with the best intramural players at IU.

He’s kicking the crap out of KSU right now.

Is K201 still a thing? Lol

Indiana is the most complete football team in this tournament.

Per the committee chair, nothing will change amongst teams that didn’t play. So Bama theoretically has no path to jump us, nor Miami over them. Well see if SMU drops a spot behind us or not…but they deserve to be in over Bama.

I think that whole thing about not penalizing a team needs to be confined to each respective conference. For example (taking Alabama out of the equation) Miami shouldn’t get in over SMU because SMU lost an extra game. But these games also have to mean something and should still serve as a data point for seeding and evaluating bubble teams.

We play like a mid-level NBA team, which makes for awful college basketball.