JerryYeagley23

Feels like he rode fifth year guys Bacot and Love from the previous administration. Now that he’s working on his own the results are starting to show some cracks in his coaching abilities. The risks of hiring former players continues to rear its ugly head.

One thing we haven’t really talked about is how interesting things get at the end of the season if UNC is also looking for a coach. They’re sort of in a similar situation to us. Feels like they’d have first pick over us in the blue blood pecking order.

I hear what you’re saying and don’t disagree largely. I will say CTM is a hell of a coach and were lucky to have her. It HAS been disappointing we haven’t turned our on court success into recruiting success needed to sustain a winning program especially coming from a history as a very poor program. I think the biggest difference is the large disparity in the women’s game between a top 20 recruit and a top 150 recruit. The truly athletic generational type of talent is SO much better than the average bball player. Some of that is the rarity of tall, very coordinated girls. You see the disparity when you look at the scores of the UCONN, SC, LSU, UCLA, USC versus middle of the road teams. They win games by 40 or 50 points against average teams with recruits in the range that we have on our team. But there are less elite talent to go around in the women’s game, and if we’re being honest most of them end up at the same 5-10 programs. Parity is not very good in the women’s game. Watch the first round of March Madness or fill out a bracket. Not many good games or upsets. I feel like this makes it extra difficult for a program like Indiana to sustain success. When you DO catch lighting in a bottle and one of your top 100 players becomes generational (Holmes, Buss, Berger) you have trouble duplicating it after they leave. Heck, look at Iowa this year struggling after CC left. I genuinely hope CTM can work the portal and get things rolling again next year. Losing Chloe, Syd and Striplin is gonna hurt. Because like many of you, I’ve really enjoyed the last half decade developing a joy from watching the women’s team that I never had before because we weren’t relevant. I’d hate to see the crowds die down and enthusiasm wane. Let’s see how we rally the troops and if we can salvage the season to some extent. Every program has transition years. We just need to make sure that’s what this is, and it isn’t falling back to second tier as a program long term.

The big ten is toughhh this year. And we just lost a generational player and the best 3-pt shooter in the country. Always going to be a rebuilding year. But I have concerns going forward because our recruiting hasn’t taken the next step. We will lose CMM and Syd this year and have not developed young women to replace them. Hopefully CTM hits the portal. And we need to start bringing in better classes or we’re going to fall back to a middle of the pack conference team even though we have a strong coaching staff.

16 turnovers and 25% from deep on the road isn’t gonna win you a lot of games.

We only go 7 deep. Not a lot of options to “try.” One negative mark on Moren’s teams historically is depth.

Almost forgot this is kind of a homecoming game for Syd tonight. I’m sure she’s wanting to show well. Really need to get more from Ciezki the last few games. She should be our sharp shooter.

What time do you think these girls go to bed? It’s 9:30pm east coast time.

Watched MD last night for the first time. He’s really good. Reminds me of a more athletic Thomas Bryant.

I wish I could agree about matching up well. I hadn’t watched MD play until tonight. But they use those two bigs on the floor MUCH differently than we do. They’re long and athletic and move well around the perimeter. I actually think they might be a problem for our defense even though on paper it looks good.

He’s done at the end of the season regardless. The admin is just being cautious about a mid-season change because not every coach and media person in the country has been watching for four years and understands. It’s maybe not a good look as a program to be moving on from a coach with a winning record and above .500 conference record. Unless a string of games or bad loss is in the forefront of things. Just let it play out. Our schedule is about to get hairy, and Woody isn’t learning to coach suddenly in February.

Double negatives. Tricky.

I’m not counting on it. Think we need to drop a bit more in the standings or get blown out again for optics to be right for the rip chord move. Sit tight.

It’s not over, but will be tough to close this gap. We played them tough. Think we’ll look back on that Shay missed three when wide open to put us up 8 as a big turning point. Syd missing two free throws to cut it back to 4 was big too.

Good basketball game. Announcers in love with JuJu. But exciting game.

So, word I’ve gotten today from someone very close to the situation is “eerily quiet” today. I think the plans are finalized and ready. But Dolson and Co. are being very intentional about optics and want it to go down when the timing is right so that it doesn’t crate red flags in the media and coaching world. I’d say 30% chance a bad loss at NW does it, but a 60% chance blowout losses in Feb. to Purdue, Wiscy, Mich, Mich St. will be the need for the mid-season plan.

Positive. We won’t go down that road again. Former player with no head coaching experience. Dolson won’t take that chance again. Also Calbert isn’t interested.

Agree completely. However, no concern there. We have nobody on our coaching staff the admin would ever consider hiring as the head coach on a permanent basis. Mark that down. Fact.

I’m having Deja Vu I think. Woodson team looks terrible and it’s obvious he’s going to be fired, and the team wins an ugly game in support of him enough to make it hard for Dolson to pull the trigger. That was an ugly game between two bottom of the conference teams. But somehow this will get used to erase how far from expectations we are. Great job! You beat a 2-5 team in overtime! I don’t know, but after NW we’re going to lose six or seven in a row to the top half of the conference. It’s just a matter of time. I wish we would just fully implode for once and stop saving mediocrity.

10-30 from the field. 1-9 from 3pt. Ugly. Our offensive system is offensive.

We ALMOST scored half of the number of points Illinois had against us at halftime last game. Improvement?

You can say the effort looks better than the last two games, but I think it’s more that we’re watching two really mediocre teams.

There’s a lot going on. Think it’s just about timing and setting up everything for successful transition. Wouldn’t surprise me if we got a Sunday or first thing Monday morning announcement.

A women’s bball thread troll?? I guess it means we’re becoming more relevant, but that’s a first.

Did Yarden foul out? We need threes and curious to see her on the bench otherwise.