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They win 2 games right after Xavier comes back. Guarantee Woodson brings it up again after the game like he did after the last one. He and his buddy Quinn will use it at justification to Dolson - “Look Scott, we would’ve made the tournament if we had Xavier all year! JHS blindsided is and then Xavier got hurt, otherwise we’d have been just fine. Can’t fire us now.” And Scott, of course, will dutifully go along with it. I feel sick. It shouldn’t matter but it will to this joke of an administration.

Welp, hope y’all are ready for season 4 of Woodson. Joy.

Yeah people can describe it however they want (they’d probably get mad about the word arrogant too), but him not putting in the hours other coaches put in can’t be disputed. He just doesn’t. And when you struggle recruiting and your team struggles on the court, you’re going to face a ton of heat for not putting in the work. This is a 365 day a year (366 this year!) job. Woodson’s not putting in 365 day a year effort. Which stinks. Archie sucked but I never got the sense he didn’t put in the hours.

Assembly Call’s getting bent out of shape over the ‘lazy’ comments too. If ‘lazy’ isn’t an acceptable word, what is acceptable to describe the way he does his job?

GOAT

Talking about Woody’s job performance isn’t “tearing him down personally.” He’s lazy at his job. We’ve heard that from multiple sources. The AD has to tell him to go out and recruit. He doesn’t have attention to detail. He calls recruits the wrong name. Nothing about Mike Woodson suggests he’s giving the job 100%. There’s no reason to beat around the bush and not talk about it.

Woody has landed more message board defenders in the last month than he had guards in the last two years.

So, Patrick Ewing? He should’ve been fired in 2021, but he won his conference tournament. They bring him back and go 6-25 the next year, and 0-19 in their conference. If IU is a serious basketball school, there shouldn’t be anything Woodson can do at this point to save his job. He needs to go.

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.