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9 Power Fowards/Centers would look really weird..

Wouldn’t the fact that players wanting to leave if Woodson came back make Dolson want to get rid of him even more, or not really? Didn’t know if that’d be something that would be cause of concern for Dolson, or it’d be more of a “fine let them go, we’ll find other players in the portal”. Obviously I’m hoping that if the players are wanting to leave if he comes back then it should be all the more reason to say goodbye to the coach.

Hopefully Woodson is just kinda being told to change his tone and what he says in the pressers to try and easy the transition of him leaving and someone else coming in so that he doesn’t appear to be the “I’m never wrong and this isn’t my fault” type of guy when he makes his exit. On the other hand, if it’s just him trying to do it on his own to save his own butt and thinking he needs to be the guy next year, then yikes, we’re not buying it. The more quotes that come out of what he’s saying just make me think he’s clueless, untouchable, and unaware of what needs to change, and it won’t happen unless someone tells him he’s gotta go.

Next thing he’s gonna say to REALLY make you know he’s full of it now is probably gonna be something like “Guys listen, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve never mentioned any kind of hump…”

Get a different one! Yay! I win!

Another way you know it’s time to move on and hope he’s gone is when you have friends, coworkers, and just general people online through message boards, forums, facebook, who are fans of other Big Ten schools, all hope that IU keeps Woodson. We’ve just become a big joke and it’s ridiculous. I know people who aren’t IU fans think we have unrealistic expectations of our program, but I’d like to think we are surely correct when I say we are NOT where we belong.

Maybe I missed this being discussed, but let’s say they know 100% for sure they are going to move on from Woodson. Will they let him know before the season ends and discuss a plan on how they can make it be announced, or will they not let him know until the season is finished?

Yep, like others have said, I could see some of the in-state 25s being committed to us already if it weren’t for Woodson being coach. He plays a style they don’t want to be a part of. Get the right guy in here and there should be no reason we lose all hope on missing out on any of them…would probably help. I’m sure they’re well aware, especially now, that Woodson return is in limbo and are probably in wait and see mode. If announced that he’ll for sure be back, then we’ll prob see them pop for a different school. I think Sisley wants to be here big time but is afraid to play in the system we’re playing now. Get a new exciting coach in here, keep Liam on the train, get some of the 25s to climb aboard, and start rolling.

I was just about to request another shot at a “We did it guys. He’s gone” Chris post, but this one is at least blowing in that direction a bit! Ha

Definitely did seem odd that he all of a sudden directed the blame solely toward himself. Agree with others who said it’s almost like someone talked to him about what he says to the press and calling kids out. “I won’t blame my players. I will always blame Mike Woodson.” He knows people haven’t liked his tone and is either being told to change it, or is in desperation BS mode of just trying to make the right people think he’s changing. When he said “I’m not happy with the way I coached this team”, I can see how people may hope that’s some type of message of saying he knows he’s done, but honestly I could see him saying it past tense like that as just speaking about a season that is almost over and looking back on it……. …..but im hoping it’s him knowing he’s done.

Something else I was wondering…let’s say Dolson has for sure already started the back channels of speaking with other candidates to replace Woodson and working through all the details involved with it. Isn’t that something the BoTs would have a grasp on as well? Like if Dolson has made the choice by now that we need to move on then would Buckner know about it, and therefore since he’s buddy buddy with Woodson, would let him know already that it’s happening? Maybe this is all stuff that happens behind the scenes that Dolson does on his own without the board even knowing, but if they do then you’d think Buckner would be telling Woodson what’s going on.

Sorry, just now kinda catching up on some posts…. You’re 100% sure it’s someone other than Woody after THIS season?

Listening to some of the HH podcast with Brian Evans. The Hysterics guys talk like they’ve had enough and don’t like the direction the program is headed. Ward asked Evans how, as fans, we can “provoke change without hurting the program.” Went on to say “nobody wants to say this isn’t working and that it not going to work…but at a certain point you just feel like that’s where it’s at. It hasn’t been working, and I don’t see a scenario where it will be working next year or the year after, and that’s part of the frustration….we really don’t have any way to affect it other than ok we won’t give to NIL, we won’t go to games…i have to actively hurt my program because I think that’s what’s gonna make it better in the long run? It sucks.” He also thought it was ridiculous for Woodson to go off on a player like Galloway the way he did.

Ok, since we’re about to reach page 200, let’s get a consensus on everything that has transpired. As of right now, do we think Woodson will be gone after this season or not? I need to see a bunch of “after this season 100%” haha

It’s crazy to know we have to lose out to feel confident we will make a change. Even if we happen to win a couple more, it’s not like it’s gonna make the fans think it’s worth staying the course with this coach. The way Woodson is acting, the way media is really starting to get vocal about a change, the way we’ve already lost games in ways we have no business losing them….this needs to end. Sucks that we think the only way administration 100% moves on is if we lose out. They should already be thinking we should with everything that has transpired up until today. It’s shameful.

Must be getting an overwhelming amount of emails/complaints and have set up an auto response because they can’t keep up.

Let’s get Dusty May in here, have him bring assistant Abernethy and some players with him, and keep Walsh on staff. I bet he’d be able to keep McNeeley on board.

I just don’t want to have to wait til the end of the season to know 100% sure whether we are making the move. Obviously they probably wouldn’t announce it until then, but having some concrete reassurance aside from the obvious dumpster fire would be great ha.

Yep I feel bad for Trey. He doesn’t deserve to be going through this. Epitome of working his butt off for the university he loves and then stuff gets taken out on him for coach’s heat. Type of guy you really don’t want to leave and play elsewhere but at the same time not blame one bit for leaving for not wanting to play for a guy using him as an excuse.

I know Woodson wants to look like a savior and not a quitter, but at this point, most fans would consider him a savior by quitting…

I’ve reached the point of wanting the season to be over with just to hurry up and see if there’s gonna be a change made. Heck, I was probably already there, but last night just can’t happen. I don’t want the next game to get here because I want to watch it, I want it to get here because it means it’s one more loss to add to hoping we get a different coach, and dangit that’s sad and ridiculous.

Seeing a lot of people saying this team has quit. Isn’t that a sign of them tuning out their coach and wanting to be done with him. Shouldn’t that give Dolson and anyone else of importance the hint that we need to move on? Or is that just gonna make them think “Woodson needs to get a different group of players in here that won’t tune him out.” If that ends up being the case then yikes. I reallllly hope they don’t see it that way.

Please tell me that moves the needle on him being gone after this year. Only two chances we have left to win in front of our home crowd now are against Wisconsin and Michigan State. Literally let a winless road team in conference come in and beat us pretty easily. Listening to Fischer on the radio during the game, obviously there wasn’t much to cheer about, but when they happened to do so, you could tell there were a lot less people there because of the lack of volume it seemed to have. Plus when they booed, boy did you hear it clearly.

Nebraska 0-7 on the road in Big Ten and just beat IU in Assembly Hall by 15….let’s seriously be done with this. Woodson will say they did a good job getting it all the way back down to a 3 point deficit…you had no business being down by 20 at half to begin with!

I REALLY REALLY hope Dolson doesn’t see this as Woodson just needs a new group of players on the team. Get new leadership in here who can get the program where it’s supposed to be.