Hoosierfan2017

I’m not a billionaire so I know I don’t matter to IU, but I, along with many fans, have the disposable income to travel to games, buy gear, etc., maybe even donate some to NIL. I know it’s meaningless to the school because it’s an insignificant amount, but when you add it up across the fanbase it’s not insignificant. Your head coach flipping the fans the bird isn’t exactly a great business strategy. The old donors won’t be here forever. 25 years from now the ‘donor class’ will be people who have never known a successful IU basketball team. How willing will they be to spend money?

Who has shat on Anthony Leal and Trey Galloway? Especially to the point where they feel the need to shat on the fanbase during their senior day speeches? If Mike Woodson spent as much time recruiting as he does telling the peons that he’s the coach, his 2024 class wouldn’t look like this.

Melo is the guy playing on the Hornets to kids nowadays.

“Thankful for my guys Dray and Antonio. They know a true coach when they see one. A true coach.”

Mike Woodson whenever he’s asked about the fanbase

Is there a word for the opposite of endearing oneself to the fans? Because that’s exactly what Woodson is doing. The narrative was always how likable of a guy he is, but he’s making sure that does a 180.

Agree to disagree. I 100% view it as dumping on the fans. Same as I view Woodson’s comments.

You mean the same players who just took big ole dumps on the fans? They’ve had a very mediocre season. Criticizing coaching is perfectly fine, and so is criticizing player performance.

Lmao. So comments about players’ contributions (or lack thereof) are off limits now, prez?

Leal can’t even really contribute on this team, let alone a good one.

They’re making it clear what they think of the fans. An unlikeable team coached by an incredibly unlikeable coach.

When it comes to basketball, IU has made wrong decisions every single step of the way dating all the way back to firing Bob Knight.

There is quite literally zero risk to firing Mike Woodson. None. He has zero recruits coming in, so no worry of losing them if he’s fired. He turns 66 years old in two weeks, so no worry about firing a long-term answer. Instead of starting over with a 66 year old and hoping he can start doing all the things he’s failed to do for the past 3 seasons, why not start over with someone new? Even in the absolute best case scenario, Woodson’s only here for a few more years anyway. No way this dude is still coaching in his 70s. He barely does the job now.

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.

BOT

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.