Unexpectedflash

I can't help but laugh how Jeff Goodman said Thad would have no interest in the IU job when he's a giant Hoosiers fan. Of course the guy would love to be a coach at one of his favorite teams. I'm really happy that he's a part of the program

If nothing else, I'd feel very safe as a parent sending my kid to play for Mike.

Hopefully we finally have a guy that values the three ball. Glad Mike acknowledges the game has changed.

It's interesting hearing him thank Wes. Kentucky was getting every top recruit when he was helping Calipari. Wouldn't mind having that asset on our side.

As long he can motivate a team and sell recruits on Indiana, I could care less how exciting the press conference is.

I see a lot of Indiana names in this thread. I'm sure Woodson has a lot of contacts in the NBA. I'd love if he could poach an assistant from another NBA team to help with player development. I hope the other two assistants are young, elite recruiters. Everyone talks about Phil Martelli but Juwan Howard was also able to keep Saadi Washington on the staff, who's one of the best recruiters in the country. Surrounding Woodson with the best staff in the country will be one of the keys to success.

Jeff Goodman would have an aneurysm if this happens.

So I thought about this but Depaul is trying to hire Kenny Payne away from the Knicks so it'd be kind of weird if they were able to do that before the season is done but we couldn't.

If this goes on much past the tournament, then people will start to get suspicious and the questions and rumors will ramp back up. Next weekend always felt like the best date to announce this in my opinion but I also don't know a single thing.

The offense is very reliant on guards creating things but Drew's last 3 years of offensive efficiency ratings have been 3, 17, and 20. The offense isn't something I'd worry about with him because he's proven he can consistently field an elite one. They also shoot over 40% from three on the year. I don't know if Archie even had one guy that high. The defense has taken a huge step up these last two years though which is why I really like him now.

Aren't most college basketball coaches salesmen. I think this is a pretty lazy comparison.

He thinks he's Tom Crean 2.0 because of the cheesy pregame antics.

I think the correct term is the Muss bus.

I'm going to hold out hope that no one knows anything so if there is chatter about Moser it won't be him. Would really be disappointed if Moser was who we end up with after all this.

We'd be lucky to get Scott Drew. I get not wanting him because the rumors of his shadiness but it's kind of amazing to me people wouldn't want someone whose team has been ranked in the top 5 for basically two years straight. Especially at a school who has no basketball history before he came.

I’m hoping when players are able to get paid the playing field evens a little because we definitely won’t try and even it ourselves. If we must be squeaky clean then hopefully we can figure out some other way to gain an advantage once that is passed.

Hopefully that’s true. He has a good thing going.

MSU is almost certainly in the grey by getting Emoni Bates. Villanova has been getting 5 stars recently. Just don’t blatantly cheat like Will Wade and I’m fine with doing what other schools do. It’s naive thinking we’ll win at the level we want putting ourselves at such a disadvantage.

I’m all for great defense but this game looks like too many of our games under Archie. You have to score to win and I’m not sold Moser’s offense will get enough wins to keep everyone happy.

At least one national media guy is on our side.

Apparently IU fans are some unique breed of fandom that is so much worse than every other fanbase in the country. It doesn't matter that the Liddel at OSU needed security after social media threats, or that UNC and UK fans want their coaches fired after one bad year. No IU fans are so scary because after 20 years with minimal success we're hoping not to settle for mediocrity. I'm tired of this notion that IU fans are somehow so much harder to deal with than other fanbases. If UNC, Kentucky, or Kansas fans had to deal with the lack of success that we have the last twenty years I'm sure they would be even worse than us.

What exactly is embarrassing? Nothing has happened.

Goodman is such a knob by using the phrase "zeroed in on". It makes it sounds like he's our first choice and turned us down. Maybe we did put a call in who knows but Goodman is definitely trying to make us look worse by the way he phrased his tweet.

I wish we'd let Dolson actually hire someone before calling him clueless and freaking out. Rumors are just that. UCLA's search took 100 days, they were laughed at during the entire way, and they ended up getting a good coach and are in the Sweet 16 two years later. We have no idea what Dolson's going to be like when it comes to hiring people so everyone should just be patient as hard as that may be.

Did I miss something? Don’t they play in the sweet 16?