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Wouldn't be prohibitively expensive at all to implement something like this. Have the crews travel with the teams. Now that the regional component of conferences is no longer a thing, there is zero rationale to not put a national system in place if we're talking about things from a "purity of the game" perspective. The reffing system is very convoluted with different states, unions, collective groups, etc... Cut through the noise and politics of it all and just find the best of the best, then fit them into the schedule. Problem is the NCAA has shown they've got no ability/competence/vision to do something like this.

Giving Woody a buy out and some sort of emeritus role where he can pop into practice every now and then or help do some developmental work on the side with guys 1 on 1, would be great. Hate to have that tone with so much season left but after last night hard for your mind not to go immediately toward what we're doing in the offseason, where the program goes from here, etc.

Easy... Not willing to trade my head coach drunkenly beating up his wife. Got any other questions? Lol. Bruce Peal, Dusty May, Porter Moser, or Micah Shrewsburry? Much more appealing options right now.

That's basically what I'm saying lol

Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head with your last sentence. Someone else pointed out we've missed 11/22 NCAA appearances the last 22 years. That is awful, but missing the tournament is not a fireable offense at Indiana University right now and hasn't for a while. In other words, we can all - on some level - deal with a 16/17/18 win season where we miss the tournament (it will suck) but we can't deal with two of those years in a row with a coach who's on his way out of the profession soon. Right now looking at the roster, yes we are playing 2 freshmen and 2 sophomores heavy minutes but it feels like you're only likely to get 2 of those guys back (Cupps and Reneau) but nothing is guaranteed. Things look very bleak for next year too if you lose Mack and Ware (Ware almost guaranteed... I think?). When the product on the court is soooo ugly and there's little reason for hope it will change soon, you're gonna get questions about what the right long-term move is. I understand pressers are mandatory and 95% of the time meaningless coach speak, but for Woody to call out Ware specifically yesterday is curious. He's been calling players out in the press (fine in itself), snippy with reporters asking questions about his rotations (I get it but there's better ways of handling those questions than being defensive)... Yesterday he said he "hates coaching that way" where he's looking back at what he should have done differently. He's shown he can put together a decent game plan last year sometimes but way too often it's the same set of problems not getting fixed. I'd like to believe year 3 is a minor set back so we take off in year 4, but there's a lot of blanks to fill in before I can even see a scenario where we are in position to do that. Since we just gave him a raise last offseason (among other factors) seems unlikely he leaves after this offseason. Not saying that's a good or bad thing but I do think at minimum that's time to get new blood on the staff in terms of his assistants at least. Holdovers from Archie's time are going to keep on getting you Archie results.... It just sucks to watch this team right now

Ooof. I know he doesn't mean it how it sounds, but ooof. You may want to look back a little more often Woody and see what you can learn for next time around.

What frustrates me about this team is it feels like the whole is less than the sum of its parts. And that's with the backcourt still lacking real difference makers. Feels like they should be a better team... but they're not. Ware is good, not great, but also good as gone... Mack, I'm really hoping stays here for a sophomore year. The year is not over but I would be shocked if we make the tournament. Feels like a second round or quarter finals of NIT sorta season.

On the one hand, I get Ware not diving for that ball... as a lanky 7' I'd be concerned about injury on a potential collision like that. On the other hand... guy who wanted it more got the ball. ...... On the third hand, game's already decided anyway, so can't really blame Ware.

Why a time out down 21 with 2:27 left? .....

Put the walk ons in

Walker HAS to make one more pass to Mgbako in the corner on that.

These refs are a joke.

Call it boneheaded, call it having stones... for XJ to try that behind the back move after the the stretch he's been having, is really something lol. Feel bad for him at this point. Trey is playing with heart but honestly we probably needed two lead guards in the portal this past offseason.

Edey is the worst of the PU 7 footers. And I HATED Isaac Haas.

Our 3 point shooting is not where it needs to be today. If the FT situation were even close to equal, this would be a ball game. UGH

So many anticipation whistles tonight. It's a joke. These guys are some of the best refs in the nation?

How about a timeout here?

Can you maybe try giving it a break dude? JFC

Cupps took more contact there than Edey. Smh.

Gotta get it to 10 here.

I can't imagine how bad it must feel to completely letdown 17,000+ fans like that first half. Love seeing some fight. Hope they keep their foot on the gas and don't get the opportunity taken away by the stripes.

At least we're showing some signs of life. Gotta keep chipping away. Gotta ride these refs and make sure Ware doesn't pick up 4

Board and one from Mgbako! Feed him tonight.

Gotta make the free ones.

Let's go Mack over Loyer! He's too small! Down to 14. Leaving Ware in with 3 fouls, I like that. Wish Cupps kicked out to Mack there.