JerryYeagley23

You have to call timeout and get Goode in the game when the matchups are not working. The announcer even called it when they went up 10.

I guess we’re at the point where we have to feel good about being close at the half at home? I don’t know. Felt like Maryland played poorly and we managed to let them have a lead into the break.

Two of the better teams in the country. (Auburn the best in my opinion) But the game is 22-20 at the half. Ha. Those are old school Wisconsin offensives numbers right there. 13 of the points were free throws too. Teams shooting 21% and 28% from the field respectively. Combined 1-21 from 3pt. Yikes.

In my opinion you’re missing a few, but either way I wouldn’t want to be pitching against UNC because they’re likely looking for a home run hire of their own if it came to that.

Didn’t know about all that. From a distance I would be shocked if he turned over the keys any time soon. He’s only 62. And he has Adidas in his pocket and a recruiting pipeline that never stops. I guess Father Time comes for all of us, but he seems awnry (sp?) and unlikely to leave because of concerns and instead run it until it breaks. I could be wrong.

But will either of them be a JuJu Watkins, Paige Buekers, Caitlin Clark type player? Or will they be more like Sydney Parrish who was a top 50 recruit. Good player. Program changer, very far from it. I’m rooting for it. But it’s more likely we’re going to need to stack classes of good to great 4-star kids four or five deep to have sustained success like we’ve become accustomed to now. Because without a JuJu or Paige or Caitlin, you need a bunch of high end players i.e. Ohio State or Maryland right now.

Is this a thing? I honestly haven’t heard of him having any concerns.

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.