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Absolutely not! Clark Kellogg has it trade marked.

One game closer to the inevitable! every cloud has a silver lining

He’s mentoring Armond Hill to be an AD!

No Bardo. Always a blessing!

Sadly, this seems to be a key part of the AD administration’s playbook! Strategically dump on fans in season who get extremely frustrated at poor coaching, effort and results as a root cause of the issues…then gaslight with burners turned high during the off season in order to set up false expectations for the coming year in order to cover for their internal administrative ineptitude. Rinse, repeat…the cycle continues.

He twisted an ankle working out in the portal!

@AH1971 @Ngw7183 @KathywithaC& a few others I’m probably missing. FYI peeps…this is how you eat true crow to get back into the party!! Couple of you have sniffed it and moved it around the plate…but, it’s still sitting there staring you in the eye. Take a bite, choke it down! Welcome back TF! First one’s on the house.

Imagine Dolson having private meetings with everyone on staff… ”So Kenya, here’s where we’re going and we we need you to step up and take over for us for the short term. Will be a great resume builder, and we’ll kick in an extra $100k for your efforts.” “Thanks, Scott, I’m truly honored…but, going to have to pass this time. My knee has been a little sore lately, and I really need to give it the attention it deserves. Have you tried Ya yet?” … Dolson, 4-5 meetings later to his admin…”Get me Adam Howard in here STAT!”

That’s how it worked for Huggy. When he tried to go dry, team performance would start to die.

They’re both 5th years, and highly paid ones at that. Older than many in the NBA & NFL. Buy the ticket, take the ride! If don’t like, they can just ‘chill’ like the rest of the team.

On Mack, if there was ever a ‘wish I could do that one over’ moment, it’s got to be when he tried to entrap Dino Gaudio while privately recording his ask to stay on or get paid, which immediately reversed on Mack and became the catalyst for his firing w/out a buyout! Bet he wishes he just Armond Hill’ed Gaudio and given him $200k to just sit on the bench and cheer. (I know, that’s more than Armond does most games, but same idea). He brought the AD the recording, and the AD got a huge smile and said ‘thank you so much…you don’t know how valuable this is!’ They certainly DGAF about ‘optics’. On your past…you’ve got to own it bruh! Giving Woody a FOURTH year was a really poor decision on many fronts. Optics be damned…no one cares or talks about ‘optics’ when you’re winning and making a big run in the tournament. Woody hadn’t shown much coaching chops, was carried by Trayce for two years…and had a lot of other red flag that had surfaced at the end of last season. A coach who believes in himself will step right up and accept the $10M+ to take a chance at greatness. One who’s worried about optics, shouldn’t be your guy to start with. In fact, focusing on optics and not on creating a winning culture has been at the root of the great deal of administrative malfeasance we’ve had to suffer the past 20 or so years!

So I guess Baylor was just a couple of spoonfuls short of the religious fervor during the basketball team murder scandal in the early 2000’s. Good thing Drew brought the XL ladle to force the kool aid down everyone’s gullet! ! Plus he tried to blackmail a player by threatening to report their immigration status to stop them from committing to IU during the Crean era. I’m sure it was so he could “save” them. No thanks!

Wrong! Do better. It’s tone was completely visceral, not emotional. Please get it straight before Aunty w/a K comes to correct you.

Understood. Point was that there’s much more to recruiting, than just raw NIL…at least most of the time!

Oh, really?? Fland McNeely Queen Newell Mullins +others

The lug nuts are getting real loose on all four tires!!! No Bardo…only positive.

No Bardo, always a gift!!

I think it’s waaay too late for that. Woody’s trashed the program and culture from Floyd Knobs to Munster!!! He owes TJD an incredible debt for covering up all the incompetence and dysfunction to get him 2 extra years - administrative malfeasance it wasn’t just 1. …ok, I know it’s just the ‘separation clause’ where it kicks in, but this guy should appreciate what a gift he’s been given to get this position, power, platform and resources for FOUR yrs based on his background and go away both quietly and gracefully. In good faith, he should refuse any further compensation b/c he purportedly cares about his Alma mater…and its going to take a boatload of $$$ to get over the hump he built driving things into the ground.

Cmon, course they did! It’s just no one invited Dackich…so he had house parties. ; )

It might be a soft way for the King to learn even ‘true fans’ have reassessed!

Are you talking about Woody or Leal having no problem earning $400k somewhere else if they’re worth it? I’m thinking the answer is likely the same for both.

Who could’ve seen this coming? Completely insulting the admin and powers that be forced this on us for another year! Of course they’re not going to bring him back. We deserve more than a simple ‘he built the bridge, thanks mike!’ Or even ‘we’ve decided to go in a different direction’. There needs to be a public acknowledgement of the dereliction of duty here and the wasted 4 years.

So long as he’s not a Purdue fan! Governor we need to appoint an IU Board of Trustee member…”Hmm….think we can extend that Buckner guy to a lifetime appointment? I know terms are 3 years, but let’s at least try!”

He sure is!!

100%. That’s why we hired Dolson, who ran the Varsity Club phone bank v Pat Kraft (IU alum who was super interested in the job, now AD at Penn State, was AD at Temple at the time). Quinn and the funders wanted a yes man who would let them pull the strings instead of someone w/experience who would run the show. The thing that frustrates me the most is that Dolson was forced to bring Wooody back this year, when the writing was on the wall. Powers that be thought maybe we could buy our way out of it. How’s that working. The collective gaslighting just added insult to injury. Don’t dislike Dolson, and glad he got/give him credit for a home run with Cig…although Allen was probably kept a wasted year too long as well. Worried now we might have missed the boat w/May…and simply start this absurd cycle again next year by settling for another coach that’s a risk because that’s all that’s left. He should have pushed back more vocally/publicly when forced to ‘chill’ and ‘run it back’ w/Woody. Sometimes in a leadership position you’ve got to lead even if it’s not popular.