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It wouldn’t have been good. But here were my points of keeping him. - Save athletic department money (in this case a donor) - More hopeful* quality candidates next year (2022) - We save ourselves from hiring someone who doesn’t move the needle and losing the fan base further (TBD) Everyone’s viewpoints are different. I’m looking at the long picture here.

Could be. But when you invest in a coach that isn’t the right fit it could cost you financially and longevity. Did we not learn from Archie Miller? We’re paying him to make podcasts and sit on his beach house. If we strike out on Woodson, the IU fan base might finally call it quits.

Jerry is right on this folks.

Well I said Woodson hire was not good. We just blew a 22 point lead. I could still be right! LOL

I wanted him to stay because I didn’t trust any candidates besides Brad Stevens or Dane Fife. We make a bad hire and we set this program further down. We’ll see where Woodson takes us but this was unacceptable from Woodson and company tonight.

Like I said before, I never trust hand me down point guards from Pitt. you guys remember Josh Newkirk or whatever his name was? Yeah, we should’ve known.

Everyone knows I’m not exactly the biggest Woodson fan, but I’d like to hope people here can understand our coaching staff needs to take a majority of the blame for this L tonight. Second half was not acceptable in my opinion from Woodson and company. Looked like Archie’s offense with zero movement at times.

LOL

You’re not watching the same game. Please don’t blame it on the refs. We blew a 22 point lead.

Coaching staff needs to bus home, players can fly home. How do we not get Parker or Kopp looks in the second? Wisconsin didn’t take Anthing away.

This goes on the coaching staff tonight if we lose this.

Did Thad not travel with the team?

Yeah we’re blowing this lead and game aren’t we?

Wisconsin looks bad. Is this a big ten team?

4 bench players in at one time? Big move by Woody Regis early despite a lead.

Great early test for us on the road. Great measuring tool for fan base and coaching staff.

Had to happen.

Important game. We lose this and my fear of the remaining B1G schedule scares me.

Gotcha! Maybe he did the same thing at MSU? I'm not sure. The players seem to really respect him, always look him in the eyes during the TV timeouts that I've seen.

The turnovers are a concern. But, we do have a new PG leading the team along with Kopp and Parker. 6 turnovers for TJD is disappointing but he's play like a 1st team All-America so far this year. It's hard to prepare for the Syracuse zone. You can't replicate it in practice no matter who you are or what staff you have, it's impossible. Some turnovers were expected but it's hard to win with 26 turnovers. It could be a bad loss come March but there's plenty of time to grab some great wins. 110 points was cool to see, first time in years. - Lander played well considering he came in during the biggest moment of the game. - Race just had a bad game, it happens. - Parker and Kopp can shoot, but can they play defense? Ehh.. Did anyone else notice Dane Fife move down towards the middle of the bench? How long has that been a thing or maybe it's just a slight adjustment. Sometimes this occurs when players are bench problems. Thought that was interesting.

At least we fought. We’ll know more about this team after Nebraska and Wisconsin next week.

I owe Mr Woodson an Apology. I like you after all.

Turnovers and getting Parker and Kopp to play defense will be our season factors. I trust everyone else surprisingly.

what didwe learn today? - our freshmen are freshmen. - our defense is not as good as we thought - our turnovers are worse than last year - TJD has gotten better at least - BIG TEN will eat our guards up nightly - we have a 6 or 7 man rotation.