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Not to be a downer, but these players while they would be nice additions, they are not program changers. None will have the impact of Ware and they are still being coached by the same group that added 2 5 star players last off season and way under produced and are, in there own words, more inside out then...well...everybody. In all honesty, this unbridled excitement is over first or second off the bench guys at the program IU once was and strive to be.

Just think what Woodrow could cook up with a knock down shooter like this!!

Freshman wall doesn't really explain away his bad 3pt shooting. He shot .228 against P5 opponents, even just .291 if you remove the 0 for 22. After November against opponents not named Prarie View, Utah Tech, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Rhode Island, Miss St, he shot just.239 the remainder of the year. Haven't seen him play a lick, so can't make a fair judgement, but those trying to explain away his poor 3pt shooting by freshman wall or except for... are being disingenuous.

Race coming back as one of those senior citizens that go back to college?

My apologies to @OKHOOSIER

You don't know what dead week is, do you? Hint: It only refers to the portal and recruits. Another hint, John Calapari is working on his departure from UK and his arrival at ARK during"dead week." Here is a little help:

If he does I hope they get video of him paying the extra for it so he can be scandalously fired.

Good God, what would it look like when you are trying to stop someone from having a differing opinion. oh....and all those other coaches you mentioned made the tournament, are ultra successful at their job, and don't have 6 empty roster spots or have the reputation as lazy recruiters. Other than that they are exactly the same as Woodrow.

Is it possible that he gets hit in the head by a golf ball or doesnt get hit in the head with a golf ball and can coach ?

Will you laugh in 10 months when he proclaims only real fans understand his 19-14 ish, bottom 5% 3pt shooting, inside out coaching scuttles another season?

The 2nd round of the Big Ten tournament signals the conclusion of IU basketball's season and the beginning of Woodrow's 4 month dead period.

That the powers that be are content with IU being a borderline top 50 program is unconscionable.

Woodrow seems well equipped to coach the 4 and 5. MM went from awful to, by the end of the year, about what was expected from the jump from a 5* recruit. That doesn't make him HC material that makes him a great special assistant.

If Woodrow was special assistant in charge of centers and keeping players happy with NIL money that would be totally cool. HC...not so much

Maybe Woodrow plan is to go with a starting 6? Rice Tucker Gallo MM Reneau C (TBD) He is calling it the 2-4 Inside Out+ offense and good luck breaking our 6 man press defense.

He had an ultra experience ultra talented roster in 22-23 in: 1st yrJHS 5th yr XJ 5th yr Kopp 6th yr Race 4th yr TJD with first 3 off the bench Reneau Galloway Bates and finished a distant 2nd/3rd in the Big Ten and got shellacked in the round of 32. There are all kinds of reasons he will not build a top 25 team

Would they be responsible for spending their NIL money on someone that would coach that style?

This. Woodrow has no desire to run a modern offense that can function in this age of college basketball. There is absolutely no one available in the talent neighborhood of 4th yr TJD or a 7 foot #7 nationally ranked player looking to transfer in to buoy his archaic style. A top 4 seed NIT bid next season seems like a good O/U for next season. The only thing Coach Inside Out seems to consistently produce is apathy.

More like you are enjoying the brief sunshine from inside the eye of hurricane Michael as it passes over. Which I have done twice living in the FL panhandle.

I get it, but how does the powers that be not? I don't expect undying IU loyalty, but sadly bringing in some 5* wing to play in Woodrow's 1986 offense doesn't move the needle for me. That the next season is nothing more than some sacrificial season to stroke Woodson's ego and that he will most assuredly check out ( even more than he is now) by midseason is just aggravating, well at least as much as I can muster anymore with relation to IU hoops.

Well, IU wasn't in the conversation a few days ago, but soon after the backers of the First Bank of Inside Out ball ponied up more to prop up the failing institution, he suddenly visits and commits in 2 days. It doesn't take a lot of guessing what his motivation is. And there is nothing wrong with him getting all he can, but overpaying a coveted recruit, overpaying the 4th to 6th man off the bench and overpaying a fan favorite shitty 3 point shooting guard should be 6th man is far from a recipe for success. As for Ware, he was a nice one season get and surely kept IU from being stone cold awful, but never did I sense any strong tie IU hoops. And again that isn't an awful thing, but anyone thinking overpaying mercenary talent is some panacea just look a few hundred miles south. What you get is a cheap knockoff version of chronically underperforming UK basketball with a disinterested outdated Dollar Store coach.

There is a difference between a great player that wants to play at IU getting paid, and a great player that wants to be paid to play at IU. Maybe that subtle nuance is lost on you.

The roster is decidedly worse than last years at this point, not sure why anyone thinks a 5* coming to be paid moves the needle. He is still being coach by a guy that doesn't understand college BB. At this point this is a sub .500 team.

So it seems Woodson may buy a few high high talent players. But as far as cooking that is like the line cook at Taco Bell buying some truffles to add to his special recipe for inside out tacos. Then the same cook blaming the truffles when the meat falls all over the floor and the patrons are left with an empty shell and demand someone be held responsible. But the cook ain't worried, his bff is the manger and the two just swill Olde English and smoke Swisher Sweets by the dumpster while watching the Golf Channel while on break.

I mean this was as predictable as the sunrise. You don't have to be a rocket surgeon to realize Woody would have a hard time getting any guard worth a flip and then he piled on with the stupid Inside Out take that was akin to scuttling your already sinking ship. Next year will be unwatchable. And spare me the true fan sh*t, when the administration and coaching doesn't care about the quality of the product why should I buy it? Do you think wealthy American Serbs climbed over each other to buy a Yugo out of loyalty just because the were made in Serbia?