Hoosierfan2017

Like the dude literally had to be bullied on social media to show up to a high school game lol. He simply doesn’t want to do vital parts of his job.

Better than what? Better than criticizing our terrible basketball coach? No thanks. He gets paid $4 million to do a job he half-a***s. His lack of effort 100% deserves criticism, and so does his poor coaching.

When you come into a Fire Mike Woodson thread and can’t believe the posts are all about firing Mike Woodson.

I wouldn’t personally do it, but we often hear comments like “you keyboard warriors would never say stuff like this in real life!” Well, that person did.

“If you want to complain about Mike Woodson, you come to Mike Woodson.”

I don’t feel good about him being there… At all. If Dolson planned to fire him in a few weeks, why bother telling him to show up to high school games?

He was 63 years old and hadn’t coached a day of college basketball in his life. He hasn’t been a head coach for 7 years, and hadn’t been a coach at all for two of the three preceding years. When he was a head coach, he was mediocre at best. Won 46% of his games and 39% of his playoff games. ’Deserve’ might be subjective, but he 100% never would’ve gotten the job if he hadn’t played at IU. No other team in the nba or in college was going to give him a job.

If Woodson gets a fourth year it’ll be for the same reason he got the job in the first place: because he played for IU 40+ years ago. He didn’t deserve the job then, and he doesn’t deserve to keep it now.

Kenny Payne was very helpful during a pre-NIL landscape. His skill set isn’t nearly as valuable these days.

Dusty May would 100% say yes to the job. Thus, there’s no reason to bring back Woodson for a 4th season. And I don’t even want the Dust. But if X number of big-name coaches don’t want the job now, they definitely won’t want it after an even worse season next season. So let’s get Dusty. There’s no possible way he’ll be worse than Woodson. At the very least, he won’t half-a*** the job like a certain somebody.

My opinion (not that it matters) on Woody would definitely do a 180 if he agrees to ‘retire’ at the end of this season.

They can put out whatever excuses they can come out with, but the reality is Woody is just lazy. He simply doesn't want to go out to high school games on a Wednesday night, so he doesn’t. Bring in someone who actually wants to do the job and doesn’t just want the title.

As an OG #FireMikeWoodson guy circa March 2021, it’s good to see the fan base unite. Let’s go find us a gem (perhaps a Pearl?)

How did it kill Crean’s career trajectory? He took a year off and then got a job at a school in a better basketball conference. It’s not IU’s fault that he only won 38.5% of his games there.

I thought he was from Woodson’s inner circle, but the account was made in early 2019. Would’ve had to have been a long-term approach.

Beat you by one post (though a couple of others beat us to it). I started the inaugural Fire Tom Allen thread after the loss to MSU in 2019. He hit me back with a strong right hook the rest of 2019 and 2020, but I was ultimately vindicated! lol.

Wait how do I get mentioned here??

Heck, Woody got a $1 million raise for winning 1 tournament game in two years. It’s not out of the realm of possibility to believe that winning a couple more to end the year would be enough to save his job. We’re talking about the same people who gave him the job in the first place. Not exactly a competent bunch.

At this point I’ve fully bought in to the “Scott wants to make a move but Quinn and the donors don’t” angle. Idk if it’s true, but it makes sense. I view these comments as pleas for his job as well. I’m worried that they’ll work, though, because the people he's pleading to already don’t want to fire him.

Your analogy makes no sense. Boycotting games is one of the few ways fans can influence the administration. A company isn’t incentivized to improve its crappy product when it sells out every day. IU is perfectly happy putting out a crappy team year in and year out because fans keep buying all the tickets.

Yeah this dude is 100% getting another season. Quinn and Woodson will sell this to the donors and Scott’s hands will be tied. He may be cooking something up, but Quinn’s closing down the kitchen.

That’s fine (mostly surprised to hear that someone generally likes my posts). I lost a lot of my interest when IU hired Mike Woodson. That was a clear signal to me of the importance (or lack thereof) that basketball has to the IU administration. I tried to give him a chance but the interest just hasn’t been there for me. As for not watching the games, by the time I get home from work and get done at the gym, it’s like 8:00 at night. Our games usually start at 7:00, so they’re half over by then. I used to build my schedule around our games. Not anymore. if you’ve watched one IU basketball game this year, you’ve watched most of them. It’s the same thing game in and game out. We play an ugly style of basketball. Even the wins usually aren’t fun. So I don’t sit and watch a game that will likely just piss me off I’m ‘invested’ in the sense that I’m dying for IU to be great again. The potential coaching search is the most excitement I’ve felt in years toward IU basketball. But I’m tired of caring more about IU basketball than the IU administration does. We as fans pour all this passion into the program just for the administration to do utterly unserious things like give the head coaching job to a semi-retired 63 year old with zero college experience. It’s beyond frustrating. I obviously still care. Otherwise I wouldn’t spend time b******* and moaning on here. But I care a lot less than I used to. And the fact that passionate fans like me are losing interest isn’t a good sign for the long-term health of the IU basketball program. It’s not a good sign when your tickets are selling for less than a McChicken on stubhub. The fanbase is the last vestige of the past that the program has left. Once that goes, we’re just another team.

Honestly? I root for losses but I don’t watch the games. I’ve watched maybe 3-4 games this season, and only parts of those. There’s little to enjoy with watching this team, and the big ten as a whole is such an ugly style of basketball that I can’t really enjoy a good game from the opposition either. Since my rooting interests have no impact on the team, I just root for what I think is best for the program. Given the reports that Quinn/donors don’t want Woodson gone, I don’t see a scenario where Woodson is gone if IU wins any of the last 3 games.

People can root for whatever they want. But rooting for wins + rooting for Woodson to be fired are two illogical and irreconcilable positions. You can’t have both. It’s like rooting for a snow day but then rooting for it not to snow.

This is the same mentality we see from the administration. I want to win as many games as possible. Keeping Mike Woodson around ensures that doesn’t happen.