American HoosierX

If I'm an assistant coach, not sure I'd love being called out for privately discussing a player's deficiencies.

I can concede your point, but we are barely a top 100 team in the country right now. And our resources, especially moving forward, far exceed at least half of them.

I'm kind of shocked this made the headlines of the ESPN's NCAAF page.

I wish he would provide a little context to his statement of needing to come a long way to fulfill expectations.

Agreed. The simple fact is that we couldn't risk him taking first team reps all spring and then getting hurt again. I'm happy for him and am cheering for him but letting him walk was absolutely the right decision.

Please continue with your brilliant commentary and analysis.

Although I obviously don’t know him or his thoughts, I see no reason that McCollough would come back next season. Go to a winning program and make more NIL money.

I’m still incensed over that. You had the first down plus a couple more yards, just go out of bounds. Great, you made one man miss, there are two more guys right there to tackle you immediately. If he hadn’t just thrown it in the air he would have fumbled when one of those guys popped him. Huge risk for literally almost zero prospect of return.

I hope Coby never touches the ball again. That was so unbelievably f’ing dumb on his part.

That made laugh out loud. While I don't think it's a big deal, it seems strange from someone who had no other Power 5 offers.

I agree and wasn't all that upset about the extension at the time. However, I think a big-time program hiring him with the thought that he would instill "LEO" and change the culture was always pretty far-fetched. Any AD, especially at an SEC school for example, would know that if Allen doesn't turn the program around quickly, people would sour on the rah rah culture stuff very quickly.

And yet no one is going to pay him anywhere near that amount moving forward, so how good is he really?

This was almost certainly a thing and almost certainly f’ed us over

No one cares about IU football enough to make those kinds of decisions.

Is it a better jumper? His elbow is flaring pretty far out.

Seriously XJ almost doubled him up in points, rebounds, and assists in less minutes.

We have a problem with irrational exuberance after short periods of success.

Ultimately, do you think Dolson even gives him a choice after this year? I mean, Dolson could technically fire him himself correct?

Kopp is the best weak side defender and communicator on the team. There's a reason he played as much as he did last season.

Ha, I watched this game for the first time today due to a slow work day. Yeah I don't think RMK hated it too much that game. Alford missed his first couple and then basically couldn't miss again until the end of the game. One of them he practically faked a pass and shot it in the same motion, it was amazing. Also, how the hell did Derrick Coleman end up playing college basketball for four years?

That is a crazy high percentage, hard to even imagine nowadays. Although I guess the three point line is over 2 feet further back these days. He also shot 38% from 2 that year haha.

Also, is DeBoer going to be at UW for more than a season?

Was this best 3 point shooting at the time?

His injury during the Covid year happened when we ran a designed run for him which worked beautifully because we almost never had him run (due to injury issues). He easily picked up the first down and was going to try for the end zone, but then he saw that there were two defenders that were likely going to stop him from getting there and he pivoted to go out of bounds. As he was running out of bounds he hurt himself...so unfortunate as he was trying to avoid contact. I think he can stay healthy if he nevers runs the ball. But in the end, that's going to limit Washington a bit offensively.

Do I love absolutely everything these guys do? No. But you know what, I like and respect these guys. They are out there living their lives and having fun. And they are being their genuine selves while they do it, whether you like those people or not. It seems like a lot of people have no concept of how to do that anymore because they are too busy bitching and moaning about everything that is wrong with the world and the people in it.