Hoosier987

The Staff is low energy / looks uninterested and it reflects in our play.

Woodson can get all the talented guards in the world but he has to CHANGE his system….which so far, there is zero indication he will. If he doesn’t, it won’t make a difference.

@Scotty R was this your email to the admin? I kid…lol. This guy went on quite the email. Apparently posted on a different board. To whom It May Concern: My name is Dr. Douglas J. Wilson. I am a two time IU alum and a season ticket holder in both football and basketball. I have been a donor of IU athletics for over 20 years. I am seriously considering severing all ties with my once beloved university. The pride I use to feel as an IU alumni and supporter of the university is gone. I am embarrassed by both the lack of committment and the tolerance of mediocrity to IU athletics by the IU administration. The neglect, mismangement of funds, direct siphoning of funds from the Big Ten tv contract, and the total ignorance of IU athletics over the past 20 years is unacceptable. Specifically, the IU football and basketball programs. The survey of possible football upgrades and what I would be willing to pay for those upgrades has not set well with me. Why would I spend more money and donate more for continued mediocrity. If IU does not want to commit to athletics both financially and administrative support wise then why should I spend anymore money on IU or IU athletics? The contract extension and huge buyout on Tom Allen's contract was a very poor decision. The firing of coach Archie Miller was welcomed by most alumni. But after an extensive search IU hires Mike Woodson. Mike seems to be a nice guy but here are the facts. He had been coaching in the NBA for 35+ years. He was an assistant coach and was a very mediocre head coach. He had not coached in the college game ever. Had he not played at IU he would have never been considered. No other division 1 program would have even considered him as a candidate for the head coach position. But alas, IU did so I tried to support him but its been an abysmal failure. Let's look at the results and where the IU bb program stands 2.75 year later. His roster construction should be a fireable offense. Everyone knows IU needed shooters in the spring. But IU not only didn't land any guards, but Mike chose to enter the season with an unused scholarship. That is neglect of duty and should be a fireable offense. He has failed to land any high school kids, let alone quality shooters in over 2 years, until Liam this year. He appears to hate recruiting and lets the assistants do all the legwork. He chose to have an elective knee procedure during an active recruiting cycle. Thus, he cancelled some visits with recruits and then they chose to go elsewhere. That surgery was elective and could have been done during a dead recruiting period. That is neglect and should be a fireable offense. He runs a slow plodding, pound the ball down load offense. This was a good offense in the 1970's and maybe even the 1980's. But it is 2023. The 3 point shot has changed the college game. In today's game the 3 point shot has to be a major focal point of your offense and Mike has totally ignored that in almost 3 years as a coach. He continues to use NBA type substitutions where you pull all 5 starters and go with a second unit. This isn't the NBA. It's college basketball. 3 starters must be on the floor at all times. There are many games to date where IU had an 8-10 point lead, he pulls 4-5 starters and 5 minutes later we are down by 10 and then we never recover. Everyone knows that except Mike. In addition he appears to be a very low energy and uninspired guy. Our teams reflect that. We seem to be low energy, uninspired, uninterested team. We are very undisciplined. It appears the team is uninspired, lacks motivation, and uninterested in the games. They often look like a team that doesn't care if they win or lose. Since he has been here here we had half the team sneak out of the hotel the night before the Northwestern game, a player caught speeding and going 90 mph up walnut, then when stopped by police tried to change seats with a passenger, we have a player who got in a dispute at Taco Bell because he refused to leave, we have a player that has received multiple technicals, and now three straight game with a flagrant foul and 2 out of the last 3 games a player was ejected for a flagrant 2 foul. There appears to be no accountability and no repercussions. I AM embarrased by our IU bb team. So too is Don Fischer apparently. Does the IU administration even care? It's time to pull the plug on this terrible Mike Woodson experiment. He is too old, too stubborn, too far removed from playing in college to understand how the college game is played. In todays NIL era it's time for IU to dump their holier then thou atttitude and do what's right. Either terminate iis athletic department and stop pretending it cares about athletics OR do what is right and hire the best candidate for the job. IU should be able to spend $10 million/year on its head BB coach. Use that money to get one of Scott Drew, Billy Donovan, or Chris Beard. Or spend $7 million a year on either Dusty May or Porter Moser. I would love to discuss this further with anyone from the IU Administration. Sincerely, Douglas J. Wilson, O.D. IU grad 1993 & 1997

Relax…it’s a rant thread. You don’t have to like Dakich, I get it, but it’s appropriate for this thread.

Wow

Yup and yet here we are…playing the worst lineup combinations, continued long 2s, 2 fouls and your out, clogging lanes with 2 big men, flagrant fouls, Miller Kopp stand in corner role…the list goes on. All fixable but he’s unable to do so. We will be wasting some talent on this team.

I agree with this

We could see some interesting tid bits in the coming days/weeks. This has gotten really bad.

Woodson is completely lost this program. The actual wheels are coming off the tracks…Buckner and May talking him into stepping down seems more probable by the day.

This is what Indiana basketball has become. Rock bottom

Gunn ejected. What an embarrassment

LOL. You can’t make this up.

Can someone please ask Woodson why we take more long 2s than anyone else? Hell, go ahead and ask him about his awful scheme.

Well…looks like another blowout to add to Woodson’s blowout statistics

That’s coaching for you.

We’re clogging up the lane with Sparks in there further indicating Woodson’s grand scheme of playing 2 bigs at once.

Maybe Cupps can get that mid range down. Other teams are certainly giving it to him.

Yup…on the same token I remember the Gordon / White team lost 62-49 at the Kohl Center. It never happens.

Don’t think we stand a chance…and I hope you get the opportunity to post this after the game lol

I guess this is a remark towards me? though it has nothing to do with tonight's game or being negative...just a personal opinion of mine. Calbert's name came up....I was simply stating that I wish he was not sitting behind the bench and that there are others that I would swap him out. Still stand by that comment. He's part of the IU family and was a legend.

FYI - also like the pic on your profile. I'm pretty sure that was from when we curb-stomped UK at the RCA dome. Killingsworth was a beast.

Yup. You're right. I was insinuating that there are a handful of people sitting on our bench that deserve to swap places with CC but their positions won't warrant it.