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Two things are true: I am happy that we won the game last night. I will always cheer for my team. Mike Woodson is still a terrible coach and should be fired. People thinking last night changes anything with the fundamental problems with IU basketball or Mike Woodson as a coach are just giving a “visceral” response as the infamous Kathy likes to say. A data based assessment on a 4 year body of work makes it clear that he must go.

I’m a Hoosier fan living in Ohio. Everyone at my school where I teach knows I’m a huge Hoosier fan. Literally not one person- student or staff said anything about tonight‘s basketball game to me. My guess is 99% of them don’t know that it’s happening AND i’m at a basketball crazy school. Boys and girls currently a combined 22-1 ranked 1st and 2nd in the state. No one in Ohio cares at all about OSU basketball. That is not an exaggeration. Random- thank goodness our high school boys have a game tonight so I won’t be tempted to watch IU. Our boys coach has 500 wins in 20 seasons. He would do better as the coach at IU than Woody. Our teams play their @$$ off and play a way more entertaining brand of basketball.

FWIW- over on Bleacher Report a person who normally has fairly reliable information says that Beard has reached out to Pat Knight… they are apparently friends which has been mentioned somewhere in this massive thread…. And let Pat know that he is interested and would come. I have no special knowledge and sorry if someone else has previously shared this. It’s hard to keep up. I also don’t have a strong opinion about whether beard should or should not be a candidate- that has been discussed by numerous others here already.

We shouldn’t fire Woodson. We are in danger of becoming Nebraska football. Kornheiser wasn’t on board with his take. Said 35-32 in the B1G isn’t good enough and Tony is right. Sadly, I think we already are Nebraska football.

PTI just led off the show with Woodson. Mike Wilbon had a terrible take as expected.

As someone who literally spends part of his day, teaching people about decision-making, I would add to this mess of the thread by saying… 1) the best decision are not made by emotion. The people who are saying that are correct. 2) the best decisions are made by logic and by a process. Kathy is correct in saying those things. However, in this case, logic and a reasonable process of evaluating data and history, paint us to the fact that a separation is necessary. When a separation becomes necessary it’s best to do it immediately rather than dragging it out. The emotional argument here isn’t to get rid of him. The emotional argument is to keep- ie, letting him retire with dignity as a program legend. plenty of data backs up the idea that he needs to go so you do it once your processes and your logic (data) show you this. As another poster said previously when you determine a patient is ill you don’t wait and hope that the disease will miraculously turn around or cure itself… you take the necessary steps to start fixing the problem immediately. again, having said that I will say you can’t just fire someone without any plan. You have to have a logic based plan on how you are going to deal with the interim as well as the long-term solution. Based on past experience, I struggle to see IU excelling here. In summary, that someone who deals with this a lot and also is a coach, albeit at a much lower level- I think they should move on immediately, but need to rapidly have a solid plan in place. No real good solutions to this problem that they should have solved last off-season. I apologize for the length to anyone who’s stuck with this.

Tayven to the portal. Not surprising. Pressure is on to get an experienced quarterback now.

I believe we have already signed a new punter in the portal.

Likely not a lot of news this week as CCC said after Sat their total focus would be on game prep.

*4 from Indiana. Not Cigs style preferring production over potential, but??? BREAKING: Georgia True Freshman WR Nitro Tuggle plans to enter the Transfer Portal, he tells @on3sports The 6’2 195 WR appeared in 6 games this season for the Bulldogs Will have 3 years of eligibility remaining

Hoosier living in Ohio for 21 years. No one here gives a crap about OSU basketball unless they are top 5.