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Well I guess we’ll get to see if it’s true or not that a bunch of players will leave if he’s back.

Maybe they are announcing that he’s technically said to be IUs coach for next year but he’s already agreed to retire after this season. So it makes it look like he’s being given another year, but he decides to “retire” at seasons end. I guess we’ll find out. Again, more wishful thinking here.

Ugh, I really hope this is just a ploy to quiet all the noise with rumors of future coaches and stuff until the season is over. If you think about it, news like that also backs off the rumor mill from the sides of Pearl and May so that they can concentrate on the rest of their seasons as well. Of course this is big time wishful thinking on my part.

Maybe getting rid of Woodson and getting May would make it to where we wouldn’t need a bunch of portal guys and a brand new roster. If it’s true that there’d be guys who want to leave if Woodson comes back, Dusty May could be a guy to get McNeeley to stay on board, bring a couple guys with him from FAU, and keep a few key guys from the roster we have now.

I don’t. But I know people who like to compare him coming here to Archie and I don’t think that’s fair. Just saying people shouldnt base Archie’s failure here to whether or not Dusty does.

Yeah that’s a good point

I understand Bruce Pearl being the sure fire thing with instant success and I’d love to have him, but if people don't want Dusty May because of Archie PTSD then I don’t think that’s fair. I know it can appear we’d be going down that road but it’s just hard to compare the two for handfuls of reasons. We can’t assume Dusty will fail because Archie failed, and I personally know people who like to bring up Archie when Dusty May’s name comes up. In my opinion, Dusty would create that same passion Bruce could because he gets it. Think of what Dusty is able to accomplish at a school like FAU, and consider what he’d be able to do with the resources and brand of an IU. Some may say that point could be said about Archie/Dayton/IU…but Archie wasn’t the type of guy ready to be on IUs stage. Dusty is gonna know what that stage is already and know how to handle it.

Plus I thought I saw somewhere that May had just started recruiting Mullins. Already trying to build that connection, and it’s not like he has to spill the beans to Mullins that’s he’s gonna be the next IU coach just to make that good coach/player chemistry. So if he DOES end up at IU and Mullins likes him and likes IU, then bam, there’s already a thing there.

I actually started to wonder if this could be the case. Pearl could be a big smoke screen and using the “dream job” thing helps the screen become more believable to people while they work behind the scenes with someone else. Could have even been IU people trying to leak word about the Dusty May to Ohio State possibility, which would work hand in hand with the Bruce stuff coming to IU as his dream job. Kinda like a “well looks like word is May is going to Ohio State and Bruce said IU would be his dream job so I bet we’re getting Bruce!”.

So if we can assume Dolson and Buckner get along, which can absolutely be believable, is this going to end up being a matter of Quinn being fine with getting rid of Woodson and Dolson has done what it takes to make it happen, or is Quinn going to try to push getting him a different staff and hope that Dolson sees it that way?

Then to go along with a little while back Woodson saying he wants his players to stay off social media….he doesn’t want them to see stuff and get excited about the possibility of playing for a better coach lol

Yeah I figured that’d be the case. It’d be an awful distraction and bad look for his current team while they’re still trying to win games. The speculation and rumors are gonna be crazy.

If the publicity of this happening just shoots through the roof, is there ANY way they say it’s a sure thing before the season ends or will they wait til BP is done in tournament if he’s indeed the next coach? Sooner or later players from both Auburn and IU see what’s being put out there and start to wonder. I guess I could see why they’d still wait to officially announce it til after BP is done.

Really does got me thinking back to when Pearl made that comment about him knowing that 3>2 and that some guys don’t seem to have that figured out yet…he had to have said that on purpose for certain people to hear, and if so, could have been a “come and get me, I’m what you guys need” type of message….and if that’s indeed the case, then wow, that’s exciting and would show he really does want to be here.

Here they come!

https://flywareagle.com/posts/rumor-bruce-pearl-indiana-job-today Saw this article was published a few hours ago. Has some of the tweets that were posted on here earlier in it, so not much else we haven’t seen or heard before. The fact is though, it shows that Bruce being tied to IU is certainly getting out there from more sides than one. Here’s another one that says about the same thing in a different way: https://dayynews.biz.id/180203/bruce-pearl-will-start-the-indiana-job-today-without-notice/

I remember back when Dolson first took the AD job after Glass, a lot of people were like meh, didn’t think it was the right move, thought he’d just be a yes man, etc The stuff he’s trying to get accomplished right now for the program and how he’s going about it makes him a bada$$ in my eyes and I’m sure that obviously most if not all on here sure as heck appreciate everything he’s trying to get done. We are in your corner Mr. Dolson. Save the program you and the rest of us love dearly.

If the players really do want to leave if Woodson comes back then just do us and yourselves a favor and lose out guys lol

…and then he’ll try to use the excuse of “well we’re a new team so it’s gonna take us until March to get to know each other..”

Just checked and it’s now up to 301..

Instead of booing at the games and making it feel like it’s going towards players, which it’s obviously not, they need to get some chants going that go directly at Quinn/Woody. They need to hear exactly what people think of how they’re attempting to run things.

The whole Quinn/Woodson dynamic and how Woodson has been acting honestly makes me miss Archie, ha. Just makes my blood boil that they’d be willing to destroy the program like this just because of who they think they are.

Yeah I’m hoping Dolson and Whitten have a plan to make sure Quinn doesn’t get his way. I could see her thinking Dolson is in the right here for sure. There’s gotta be way too many things that point towards Woodson needing to be gone that she ends up seeing and I’d like to think she is gonna definitely want what’s best for the future trajectory of the program.

Seems like a great day for some good ‘ol reassurance from a certain someone, ha. Hoping maybe there’s a little more juicy stuff Chris needed confirmation for that we’d be happy about, or if everything he’s already said up to this point is what he had that he needed confirmed. Maybe we are in the stage of just trying to steer things in a different direction as far as rumors go so that what’s really going on can be kept more on the down low.

That’s what I’m wondering could be a possibility. Play well for him and send out on a high note