Hoosierfan2017

It is when you have zero recruits committed if you’re a serious basketball program.

No way. He took 9 threes today. He averages 8.2 threes per game. That’s more than Woodson’s per game allotment for the entire team.

It’s both. We’re severely lacking in perimeter talent and shooting talent. And our coach is bad at maximizing the talent that we do have.

I don’t want Dusty here but it won’t surprise me at all if he goes to OSU and has a lot of success. That’s a program that takes sports incredibly seriously and has plenty of money to spend.

Sure, but Smith went from good to really good. We’d be expecting Cupps to go from unplayable to good. Anything is possible, but right now Cupps isn’t a big ten caliber player. You can chalk it up to Smith playing with “much better talent, but you don’t play 30 mpg on a 29-6 team if you aren’t a good player.

He played poorly in his last two games. He had 14/5/5 on 100/100/100 shooting in the BTT semifinals. If Cupps had played this year like Smith played last year, (a) we would’ve had a much better season and (b) we’d all be much more excited about a sophomore Cupps. Cupps is averaging 2.4 ppg on 44% TS in Big 10 play. That’s… not good.

Since when? Smith averaged 10/5/4 last year and shot 40% from 3 on the best team in the big 10. If that’s struggling, sign me up for some struggling guards.

Tom Crean walked into a situation with no scholarship players, no transfer portal, and no NIL. Mike Woodson walked into a situation with an all-American center, the transfer portal, and NIL shortly after taking the job. It’s absolutely laughable to compare the two situations. Mike Woodson’s team stinks this year because of Mike Woodson. Mike Woodson has zero recruits signed this year because of Mike Woodson. His failures are the reason for the situation he’s in right now. Period.

All the “it’s the fans’ fault” bullsh** coming from the administration and the people they send out to social media/message boards makes me want to stop being a fan, honestly. Let’s see how well the team does playing in front of 3k fans every night. Let’s see how well the coach does in recruiting when fans stop donating to NIL. Let’s see how the university likes it when fans stop buying tickets. They’re begging for a boycott at this point.

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UnNamed Mullins is the name on Woody’s cheat sheet for this weekend.

Yes, yes. The fans complaining about the terrible coach are the problem. Not the terrible coach himself.

50% ain’t too bad. Welcome aboard.

Is there any part of the job that Woody actually does? Like this is absolute bottle of the barrel stuff that he’s not doing. It’s legitimately like he thinks showing up ~30 nights a year on game day is his only job responsibility.

This has been his consistent answer throughout this season on most topics that aren’t “boy Mike Woodson sure was a great player at IU!” It shouldn’t be acceptable. He’s being paid $4 million a year to be the head coach at IU. Part of the job is speaking to the media and answering tough questions. Except he thinks that’s beneath him, just like he thinks of most of the job responsibilities are beneath him. He’s Mike Woodson dang it. Mike Woodson doesn’t need to answer questions. Mike Woodson doesn’t need to recruit. He’s Mike Woodson.

I despise this man so freaking much. One of the most arrogant coaches I’ve ever seen at the college level with zero of the success to back it up.

They’re fed up after 25 years of pain and suffering. We’re so far removed from ‘blue blood’ status it’s not even funny. But hey, at least we could cure the broken heart Mikey Woodson suffered when Fred Glass wouldn’t come to him for an interview. That’s what’s really important here.

“I shouldn’t have to discuss my recruiting. I feel good in my skin about my recruiting.”

If you’re a 5 star recruit, Mike Woodson’s team is the last place you want to be. Especially if you aren’t a post player. Money is the only reason to come here, and guys as good as Liam can get money anywhere. So we’ll be stuck overpaying for mediocre mercenaries.

I just can’t see that at all. If he was going to retire they’d announce it beforehand so he could get the send off he thinks he deserves. Now that our only recruit just bounced he’s just going to get boos.

I wonder if Liam came to Woody to decommit or if he did it by Zoom. Equally as important, I wonder if Woody remembered his name.

Your sole recruit decommitting 24 hours after your coach gets the vote of confidence is just horrible optics. Watch them say the fan reaction to the Woody announcement was what did it lol.

The IU syndicates will be out in droves blaming the fans for this. Because the fans complaining about the terrible coach are totally the problem, not the terrible coach himself.

Ironic coming from the dudes who write love letters on Twitter to high school basketball players.

Ahahahahahahahaha. Good thing we kept Woody around!