AKHoosier

Honestly I'm sorry, but this post irritates me almost as much as Leal's comments do. Who are you to tell me who I need to root for? I've always been an IU fan but don't mistake that for having blind, unconditional support. A 21 year old kid who has hardly any athleticism and barely contributes to the team, yet has 6 figures in his bank account BECAUSE of the fan support, tells those same fans "there's a reason you aren't coaches" or "you just need to chill" when the team had underperformed at 18-13 just rubs me the wrong way. And thus, makes it harder to root for them. Rant over.

I don't give a ****.

Indiana 65 Nebraska 64

Yeah his comments on senior day, plus Leal's, pretty much made it impossible to cheer for them.

Nebraska is a better job than Vanderbilt. Especially right now. Also why does Hoiberg need a fresh start? Odd thing to say given that he's getting an at-large tournament berth this year.

Maybe we could pull him from either school the way Texas Tech poached Chris Beard from UNLV mere days after he was hired.

Well if you're not a huge fan of building a roster through the portal you may want us to stay away.

Do players need to officially enter the portal to field offers from other teams? Or is there enough back channel talk going on that makes that unnecessary?

I liked this, unliked it, then liked it again just so I could like it twice.

Plus Woodson knows he'd have to hit multiple home runs in the portal, in addition to retaining the guys on his roster that he wants back. That's a tough task.

Missouri went winless in conference play. That means they haven't won a game since December. Brutal. They won't win a game in 2024 until the 2024-2025 season. That's nuts.

Purdue making a deep run in the NCAAT would substantially put additional heat on Woodson, as fan pressure would exponentially increase. That's a silver lining of Purdue having success this March. If Woodson flames out in the NIT a week or 2 after defiantly telling fans "I've done my job" and then we fans watch Painter take Purdue to a Final 4, then yeah, that won't sit well with me. Those words may come back to bite him.

I get it. Maybe he could fit, and it would pay off. I would be a terrible leader for my team at work, but I'm damn good in my role now. Sometimes people aren't cut out for certain positions. And there's nothing wrong with that. However, Bob Knight used to say "Don't let mediocrity infiltrate your program." Kenny Payne would be mediocrity infiltrating our program. Adding him to a staff that already includes Woodson and Armond Hill means it's digging in and setting up a permanent home.

Yep, he and Mike Woodson can have contests on who is less to blame for the team's shortcomings next year.

It's all pointless anyway on if the meeting actually happened or what came of it. Nothing will change the fact Woodson is coming back next year.

To me that team is slightly below what we had in 2022-2023. Not great, but definitely not awful either. Without seeing a schedule, I'd guess 21 wins and a 6 seed in the NCAAT. With no foundation for the following year via 2024, we're right back where we started in 2025. The problem is that he absolutely needs to hit home runs this portal season to achieve what you've laid out. The margin for error is very small.

Good research. Sounds like a pretty good model for the coaches out there who don't have time or ability to develop talent.

They definitely cheered, but it was at that point they would have cheered anything that came out of his mouth since he is a fan favorite and it was his moment.

Just got around to watching Leal's senior day speech. Other than when he was introduced, there wasn't a thing he said that I would have applauded for. "There's a reason you guys aren't coaches." OK Anthony, and there's a reason no one else hired Woodson to be their coach. There's a reason he was fired from the Knicks after 3 seasons, and there's a reason he only won 46% of his games.

How big of a black eye is it for Oklahoma to lose their head coach to DePaul? I don't care if he's from Chicago. That's pretty shocking.

I can't help but feel like we'll win 2 in the BTT and lose on Saturday. Suppose that will make it interesting come Sunday, but the venom and vitriol will be out again at approximately 7pm after we don't make the tournament. But he'll definitely be back because Dolson/BoT will see a 20-14 record in a vacuum and say hey that doesn't look too bad. Lots of roster overhaul, and it'll be rinse and repeat next year. We're in college basketball purgatory.

It's not a rumor that our coach is the worst. Frustrating that despite a 4 game win streak to end the year, we're not going to be in the NCAAT. Where was this fight in January when we lose 4 of 5 and get blasted by a bad Penn State team at home who was without its 2nd top scorer? I wonder what Dolson or any of the powers that be think of Woodson proclaiming "I've done my job" and "I'm not going anywhere". I hope they were watching and thinking "uhh slow down there Mike, we'll talk about that."

Fair enough. I guess I like to leave out the obvious outliers when speaking in generalities. I think most people just want the bandaid ripped off because it's clear he's not getting us to where we want to be. Whatever. I'm not rooting for us to lose. I'm just not tuning in and rooting FOR us. And the team and coach essentially telling me I'm not a true fan may make it pretty difficult for me to fully embrace them again.

Just as incredibly tone deaf as Woodson. People aren't upset that we've won 4 in a row. We're upset because it's become painfully obvious that he's going to be retained, and this 4 game win streak against mediocre teams is apparently a good enough reason to give him another year. And if I'm going to get excited about next year, I'm forced to be a fan of a style of basketball I abhor, at a program who now has to resort to buying talent in the portal rather than recruit and develop players, because the coach is too lazy to recruit.

This is the first coach I've started to genuinely dislike. I won't count Knight because I was only 15 when he was fired. Davis seemed like a really good guy. Just in over his head. Sampson wasn't here long enough for me to form an opinion. Crean and Archie seemed quirky and aloof but likeable enough. Woodson has an ego that he has never backed up in his coaching career. Now he's calling out the fans who can clearly see he isn't the answer? Talk about tone deaf.