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Get ready for another massive Tuesday night of college hoops. Tuesday rock Auburn/Vandy Florida/Miss St Tenn/Kentucky Purdue/Michigan Iowa st/UCF BYU/West Virginia UCLA/Illinois Bama/Texas UConn/Creighton

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Did everyone catch Woody telling everyone in the press conference that he has done a terrible job of preparing these guys and then 2 min later a reporter ask a question using his quote to ask what he could of done differently and he said it was a false quote or something like that. lol. Hysterics podcast played it back to back. That’s the type of crap this program has had to deal with the last 4 years

From my point of view I’m going to be over the moon for any high major college basketball coach or mid major or D2 grinder or the white whale to take over this program. Imagine loving college basketball as much as I do and having a NBA guy with 0 college basketball coaching experience to over the program you are invested in. Most on here know my passion for all college basketball and not just IU. I gave it a chance but knew it was doomed from the start. These last 4 years have been a grind to watch and follow however from my view No doubt IU has better days ahead. No matter who is hired most on here is going to give that head coach a chance. Good discussions so far today. Keep them coming

High level success at a place like Auburn. Sec has done of great job of pumping money into basketball so that’s helped however is results at Auburn are crazy when you look at them. Auburn didn’t have much history before he arrived and since he has been there he has 5 seasons soon to be 6 where they have won 25 or mores games. 4 seasons soon to 5 where he has had single digits losses in a season. Been to a final 4 and earned multiple protected seeds in the tourney (however did lose to Yale last year as a 2 seed) Danny Wolf turned out to be a pretty good player for Yale. This year has a team that is easily the number 1 overall seed with 4 weeks to go. Plus he beat the living dog crap out of Purdue this year if he can get these results at Auburn what kind of results could he get at a blue blood type of school

Yep it’s LA and people have better things to do then go to ucla basketball games. Not sure if their attendance has improved any since he got there but for a blue blood type program their attendance has been embarrassing in the past

Wouldn’t that mean he could coach some then if he took a team from first 4 that wasn’t a final 4 contender and beat Izzo and then Oats and a good Michigan team to reach a final 4 and to lose to the Zags on a buzzer beater to reach the finals? I get it there are better candidates out there however if that type of coach is your floor for hiring a coach then IU is going to be fine. IU as a program needs a reboot. Honestly I don’t care who that person is as long as they gain an identity and resemble a college basketball program again.

Their NIL is non existent. Cronin himself had to go out a raise money for NIL. That’s a bad spot to be in as a head coach when you have to basically be the NIL coordinator for your program

Which championship caliber team are you referring to?

Loaded deck?

For me people need to stop worrying about moving the needle and hire someone that actually can come in here and build the program back. Cronin would do that. His history says IU would be competing in top half of the conference something IU hasn’t done on a consistent basis in a long time. If your floor as a coach for hiring cycle is Cronin then IU should be just fine. IU as a program is past the quick fix faze in my opinion and that’s where most are getting hung up on. In their opinion IU is a quick fix away from being back on top. I disagree for me IU needs a grinder that brings back a winning culture. If that’s a white whale awesome, if that’s former manager that has proven he can make it to the Final 4 great, however if it’s a grinder like Cronin that turns it around then let’s ride

I disagree I think this place will be just fine. A couple posters will be a mess however the majority will give it a minute and then rally around whoever is hired.

Cronin would bring IU back to winning and competing for conference titles however most this fanbase would hate the hire. After watching 8 years of whatever the IU program has put out I’m surprised he gets as much pushback as he gets. Wouldn’t be my first choice however I would have no problem with him leading the program. Makes the tourney every year and that is something this fanbase hasn’t experienced in a long time. Has had a winning conference record 11 out of the past 12 years and the one that wasn’t a winning conference record was 10-10. I pointed out couple days ago IU has had 1 winning conference record in the last 9 years. 4 years ago he wanted no part of the IU job and called it a train wreck (saw the texts) however things change and with the NIL at IU I could see it happening this time around.

Easier to just go to Mod board like a kid running to tell a parent someone is doing something wrong and the parent(Stu, Hova, Dalton) takes care of it. lol

Instant ban to anyone that derailed a recruiting thread for any of the recruits IU was on

More strict than me. I’ve been a Mod for over 8 years now and still probably don’t know how to warn or ban anyone.

They could literally get to option 14 in this coaching cycle and IU will be in better position as a program then they have been the last 4 years. Personally can not wait and I know Old Fart feels the same way to get back to a point to where we are followIng high school recruiting again. This place will be busy in the recruiting threads once again during the offseason which use to be just as fun on this board then it is during the regular season. Lots of things to be excited about moving forward for the program we love.

NBA kicking this game to Espnu to finish this game. Give me a break espn

Louisville and Vandy last cycle. Everyone thought he was Louisville bound and Michigan came in late

Just posters posting their opinions nothing in absolutes as far as I can see. Free message boards are full of people that can post an opinion on who the next coach will be I personally don’t think that thread is pointless. A lot of good discussion in there

Still top 30 in the NET with some nice wins and easily a tourney team. His success has made it to where a season like they are having is a down year. Sign me up. FWIW IU has never finished better then 30 in the NET era

Actually it’s making a free message board during a coaching search more fun. Keep them coming boys. Got to keep this place entertained until March. The actual team isn’t going to do it so find the fun elsewhere. Now since it is a free message board everyone has their own choice on if they believe the posts or not.

When Woody is out the door do you think you will still spend time posting about him when IU gets a new coach?

Lurked on the scout boards first. Moved to wherever the next place was can’t remember but lurked over there as well. Loved the community and started posting. Mods were Jaybob, Mdn82, CCGeneral(rip), Stuhoo, Hoosierpap(I believe) and Milehiiu rip who was a really great poster and you could tell by his posting he was just as good of person in real life. When people started leaving that place to come here I got a PM to join over here. Started posting frequently and got asked at some point to become a Mod. Never looked back and truly look at this place and community as a family. No better place for an IU fan and college basketball fan to hang out and talk ball. We fight occasionally amongst ourselves but so do all family members. We all want the same thing. IU to be back in the conversation on a national level. This place is awesome now when we are down just imagine what it will be like when we are rolling. For all you lurkers out there come on in and join the fun. It’s worth it to join in on the fun