Hoosierfan2017

Steuby doo would shut down the entire forum if he could.

He’s two weeks into the job and has literally an empty roster. The only priority right now is fielding a competitive team for next year. Everything else can wait a few weeks, imo. I have no doubt he understands the importance of in-state recruiting/making his face known, but right now it’s tunnel vision time.

Why not? This is the first time I’ve felt excitement for IU basketball since March 2021, and honestly it feels great. We’ll see how the portal goes, but I view it as a great sign all our players left.

(1) Portal doesn’t open until after the National Championship. It’s crazy to force coaches to deal with the portal when their season is still happening. (2) you sit out a season unless you’re a grad transfer or your head coach leaves. People make the argument “but coaches can leave whenever they want!” First off, players and coaches are different. Coaches have contracts with financial implications if they leave. Players right now can really do whatever they want. It needs to be reigned in.

NIL money is crazy to me. A guy like Cupps, imo, is worth a scholarship and maybe some meal vouchers in the Big 10. Hundreds of thousands for a player of his caliber is wild. But I guess that’s where we’re headed with the amount of money going into NIL.

The guys Woodson brought in last year (except maybe Goode) came for the money. It doesn’t mean they’re bad kids, or that money is all they care about, but it’s why they came to play for Mike Woodson. I’m ready for a completely fresh start, so I’m glad to see everyone hitting the portal, as harsh as that may sound. After listening to DD’s interview yesterday, he sounds like a normal, down to earth, hardworking guy, and I’m excited to see who he brings in.

He won 68% of his games and 67% of his Big East games during his second stint at Xavier. I don’t think he’s a top tier coach, but I think it was a good hire for Texas.

Why is the portal open right now? I understand the “need” for it to be open during the CFB playoff because of academic calendars, but that’s not the case for CBB. There seems to be no good reason why the portal is open during the NCAA Tournament.

Beard’s a great coach. It’s been a (self-inflicted) up and down past few years for him, but he moved to 14-5 in the NCAA tournament last night. I hope DD succeeds so we don’t have to think of Beard as yet another coach who got away.

Calimari to the Sweet 16 for the 16th time.

Many people wanted an “indiana guy” because he would “get it,” but you don’t have to be from Indiana/have went to Indiana to be a Hoosier. From everything I’ve seen/heard thus far I think we got ourselves one this time.

Not to make this about Woodson, but the way he conducted himself was a huge reason why the fanbase went so hard against him. At the end of the day you have to win, but like in any setting, people will have more patience and grace for someone they like.

I saw Upstairs. Not sure about others

Idk, but I want the coach who doesn’t need time to think about it. By the looks of it, DD touched down in Bloomington before the ink was even dry.

No clue how we’ll survive next season without the Big Snooze on the sideline.

No offense to him, but committing to Woodson when he did suggests that it was purely a financial decision for him. We had enough of those guys last year.

I love seeing the WVU fan crash outs. It’s good to have a new coach whose fanbase is angry about him leaving.

The latest Brad Stevens creative writing exercise, lol. Assignment’s due by COB today, gotta hurry to get initial drafts out the door.

No, but it was very obvious that certain “insiders” were coming on here just to troll people. Thankfully we have a coach now and we can hopefully put all the Brad Stevens stuff behind us.

If you play three years at IU and still can’t get the name right then you’re probably not what we’re looking for.

$7 million in NIL will go a lot farther this year too now that the coach won’t be paying role players $500k to say nice things about him/dump on the fans.

I won’t pretend to know much about him. However, I believed going into the search that there were quite a few coaches who, given IU’s NIL resources, fan support, and brand, could have success. Those are the coaches who have won at their current levels and are willing to roll up their sleeves and work their butt off. Sounds like DD fits that mold. I’m excited to see where things go.

So did we hire DD? I’m generally a very negative/hard to please fan, but this would get my stamp of approval. Still not a huge fan of Dolson if true that he let his foot off the gas because he thought Brad was locked in, but DD is a legit hire so props to Scott if this happens.

Maybe. But a big source of the heat on Woodson were the facts that he behaved like an utter j******, simply refused to do many aspects of his job, and intentional drove an enormous wedge between the players and fans because his narcissistic personality refused to accept that he was the reason why the team failed. You’ve got guys like TJD referring to the fans as trolls and pretending like Woodson was some kind of martyr for taking the job no one wanted him to have. If DD were to behave like a normal person and recruit likable players those two things alone would take off some heat.

I’m at the “anyone but Brownell” stage of the coaching search.