Hoosierfan2017

Exactly this. Woodson is taking the Calipari approach to recruiting that so many people hated. All we really have to offer players is money, so we’re going to attract players whose biggest priority is money. A ‘front of the jersey’ program we are not. Guys aren’t coming to play for Indiana. They’re coming to play for a check. Which, whatever I guess. That’s how college basketball largely is now.

Calipari took over the UK job in 2009. Since then he’s gone to 7 elite eights, 4 final fours, and won a national title. Six SEC regular season titles + six SEC tournament titles. I know you’re a huge Calipari hater, but you’ll be hard pressed to find many coaches during that span with more success. Dude has gone to at least the elite eight in half of his seasons at UK. IU has gone to one elite eight in the past 30 years.

Calipari has been to 7 elite eights in 14 opportunities at UK. He was 25-6 and 1st in the SEC the year the tournament got canceled. The hate on him is copium. IU would build him a statue if we had the past 15 years UK has had.

I’m sure people will get on here and try to sell us copium based on his last season, but 3 sweet 16s (with two being elite 8 appearances) and won 76% of his games at Nevada. Just yet another B1G school with a better coach than IU.

We’ll never be great at basketball again. I’m very confident of that. The IU administration doesn’t want it to happen. Bob Knight was the reason IU was great. Without him, we’re just another mediocre program that gives out raises for making the tournament.

The article states that “Since 1992-93, when the sports-reference.com data (highest recommendation) on such things kicks in, we’ve seen 135 major-conference player-seasons that met the following criteria: 1. Freshman or sophomore 2. At least 100 three-point attempts 3. Three-point percentage under 30 4. Returned the following season Collectively, those 135 players went 6,197 of 17,753 on their threes the following season. That nets out to 34.9 percent.” 34.9% from 3 isn’t good either. Tre Jones’ 36% his sophomore year at Duke wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either given his lowish volume (3.7/game). Sure players improve and can become good shooters. It just seems like every year we’re banking on players improving over the summer, and more often than not they don’t. Jordan Geronimo was going to take a huge jump. Then Tamar Bates was going to take a jump. This past year it was going to be Gunn and Banks. IU has millions of dollars to spend on portal players. Instead of bringing in guys you hope can improve on shooting, why not spend that on a couple guards who are already shooting 40% or better from 3? Our last really good team had 5 rotation players shoot 40% or better from 3. Thomas Bryant was the only guy who shot worse than 34.7% from 3 on that team, and he was at 33.3%.

32% from 3 is definitely not a good percentage. Especially when it’s on meh volume. IU shot 32% from 3 as a team last year - good for 273rd in the country.

I think their big problems is with certain credits from transfers not counting toward degrees, which wouldn’t affect grad transfers (though I could be wrong).

Does “no” increase our chances of getting portal recruits? lol

2 elite 8s and another sweet 16 in 5 years at Arkansas. Won 76% of his games at Nevada. Would’ve loved to have been able to get him. Instead with stuck with Mediocre Mike!

I mean, Scott Dolson has shown us what he considers to be enough. A 1st round and a 2nd round appearance gets you a million dollar raise. A sweet 16 appearance? Scott would probably dish out a John Calipari-esque lifetime contract.

We’ve been an NIT-level program this decade. 6 ncaa tournament appearances in the past 16 years.

Lmaoooo ok now this makes way more sense.

In-home visit, you say? If you want to play for Mike Woodson, you come see Mike Woodson. Yes, I know that’s not what it means.

Per Anthony’s very expensive directions, I’m both relaxin and chillin.

Would you guys go to a steakhouse and rush the chef? Cmon. R.E.L.A.X. Let Woody cook. He’s doing his job. There's a reason y’all aren’t coaches.

Unfortunately, there’s really no reason to believe Woodson will change. In his first 3 seasons, we’ve finished 321st, 352nd, and 355th in the country in 3 pt attempts. The game has completely passed him by.

Even when we had a shooter, Woodson barely ran anything to get him shots. Miller Kopp shot 44.4% from 3 his last year at IU and yet he only took 4 per game. Only 3.7 per game during conference play despite shooting 45.2%.

Boy do I have good news for you… Insiders are reporting that tomorrow Dolson is unveiling a 6th banner for Woody landing his first 2024 recruit. 4 straight years of landing at least one high school player!

Woody made back to back tournaments. He’s doing his job. What more do you want from the guy?

Purdue going to the final four while we’re stuck with another season of Mediocre Mike. Fire him tomorrow.

That would be the ideal scenario and I’d happily get on board. But with what we know about Mike Woodson, I see no way he leaves voluntarily. He already acts semi-retired but gets north of $4 million a year to do it. Why give that up? The worst case scenario next year (which I see as being the most likely scenario) would be Woodson doing just enough to keep his job. I think sneaking into the tournament and making an early exit gets him a fifth season.

Sure but a good year next year keeps Woodson here for additional years. And a ‘good year’ to this administration probably doesn’t have to be any better than Woodson’s first year. So, if you want Woodson gone, the only hope is another bad season. Folks can root however they want to root, obviously, but that’s how I see it.

Trey, MM, and MR. The problem is that Ware was easily our best player, and he’s gone. During the 5 game win streak at the end of the season he averaged 22/13. Without him IU probably wins 10 games max last year. Will Woodson find a replacement?

Well if the three best returning players on a team that missed the tournament want the coach back then your hands are really tied as the AD.