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Hoosierfan2017

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  1. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  2. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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?)
  3. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  4. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  5. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  6. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    Wait how do I get mentioned here??
  7. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  8. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  9. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  10. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  11. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  12. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  13. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  14. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    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.
  15. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    If you want Mike Woodson back next year, sure. If you want him fired this was the worst outcome. Wanting IU to win these games and wanting Mike Woodson fired are irreconcilable positions.
  16. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    The absolute only thing wins do at this point in the season is secure Mike Woodson’s fourth season. A fourth Mike Woodson season would be disastrous for the program. This, it’s impossible to be anything but pissed. This sucks.
  17. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    Absolutely brutal for the tank. One more win and Woodson will 100% be back for another miserable season next year. IU will never be great again.
  18. Hoosierfan2017

    IUBB vs Wisconsin - Tuesday, 02.27.24 @ 7:00 on Peacock

    “I put the blame on myself, but I’m not the guy pulling fire alarms”
  19. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    This sucks. Woodson will 100% use this as proof that Xavier’s injuries were the reason we sucked, and Quinn will hold Us hostage for a fourth Woodson season.
  20. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    This is a hot take, but I don’t think fake classes would even really bother me. Many athletes are “student” athletes in name only. They have advisors to ‘help’ them with their work. They often do anything but pay attention to class (when they show up, that is). I don’t view fake classes as much worse than the current wink wink charade that often happens.
  21. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    Did you mean to include the bolded? Roy’s players took fake classes, and Izzo’s players assaulted women. Painter and Jay Wright aren’t clean either, but wanted to separate them out from the other two.
  22. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    Pearl’s sleaziness doesn’t bother me in even the slightest. It’s entirely in the context of college basketball. He’s not out there doing the Beard. He just does what it takes to succeed in college basketball, and he does it well. Sign me up. The IU way gets us 4 sweet 16s in 30 years.
  23. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    I don’t disagree, but my hope is that this means that Dolson recognizes that the “IU way” doesn’t win in 21st century college basketball.
  24. Hoosierfan2017

    IUBB vs Wisconsin - Tuesday, 02.27.24 @ 7:00 on Peacock

    IU already sold the tickets so they probably don’t care, though they’ll lose out on concessions, etc. if people don’t show up.
  25. Hoosierfan2017

    Fire Coach Woodson

    I don’t see Donovan and Stevens as being comparable to this situation. Neither of them were even coaching college basketball at the time. Stevens hated recruiting, and Donovan had literally zero connection to IU. Pearl just gushed about the IU job this past November. Doesn’t mean he’ll come here, but it’s not nothing.
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