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Redshirting? Ha, just kidding. Considering he barely saw the floor at South Carolina State (35 games / 7.5 min/game in 4 years), it was expected he wouldn't get PT at IU. His father is Jerome James, who played for the Knicks, so Woodson probably gave the scholarship as a favor.

Would the person who wears this one be a literal a$$hat? At very least they'd have one on their head.

So they had no problem getting body-to-body with them and breathing in their faces the whole game but the hand shake line would've been too much? Umm, ok. I think hand shake lines are kind of dumb and pointless so them not doing one doesn't bother me at all. I never liked them when I was in sports. It was just everyone going through the motions so not really meaningful. These always look pretty much the same. I'm not going to buy that excuse, though.

Disappointing that he's that high.

It's really not worth arguing about at this point. I've stopped. We know he won't be hired and no amount of some people on message boards and social media trying to wish the hire into existence won't be any more effective than everyone trying to wish the Brad Stevens hire into existence. He has the drinking which IU doesn't tolerate (see Kevin Wilson) as well as at least 1 DV incident (unlikely his first, especially considering the severity). Even if they disregard that, they know it would fracture the fanbase. No way IU signs up for that despite some people on the internet thinking it's not a big deal. It is interesting to see who is willing to overlook or, worse, downplay DV in favor of hypothetically winning. I say hypothetically since his record isn't really all that impressive at the P5 level outside of 2 seasons that he hasn't been able to replicate. Coach Facial Hair won't be hired. My advise is to just ignore talk about him.

Grant McCasland

Coaches get "retired" or straight out fired during the season all the time. Almost never do the ADs at those schools already have the replacement already lined up and ready to go. They do it because it calms the fans and lets them get started on the search earlier. It might also salvage a season. Basically, it's what's best for the program without concern for what other schools may or may not do. ADs (and the public in general) already have an idea of which jobs will open up at the end of the season. If they want to extend their current coach, it's not because they're panicking because a school got rid of their coach during the season. Was anyone surprised that Woodson won't be back next year? Other than Woodson, that is. Sometimes coaches turn coaching searches into ways to get raises/extensions. That'll happen regardless of when the other schools' coaches were fired. In other words, I think people are reading too much into the timing behind Woodson's "retirement" announcement. It says nothing about whether IU had someone else ready to take the job or whether they were concerned about May getting an extension. I think in this case, it was partially to save Woodson from himself, to try to preserve some of his legacy. The booing would've just gotten worse.

Nothing new. May, Drew, Cronin are who are being talked about a lot. It'll be a while before a coach is named. Dolson probably isn't doing much searching this week since the B1G and SEC ADs are meeting. Says it won't be Stevens from multiple sources.

But, but... they could do it like a recruit announcement. He'll have 2 hats and 2 contracts in front of him, IU and Celtics, and whichever hat he picks up and puts on will be who he's signing a contract with. He'll do the fake-out thing a few times to mess with everyone then put on the hat of his choice. When asked questions, he'll say he hadn't decided until right before (or maybe during) the press conference. Original and riveting. Cliche and boring. Yeah, it's not happening. When it doesn't we'll surely be told a later date at which it will "definitely" happen.

I must've missed it. What was the reason he gave for it not happening yesterday? Stevens' pen ran out of ink or something?

Note that I said "during the season", not if he stays at UM. He knows the IU job is open but if he's in such a hurry to sign the extension during the season, then I just don't think he was ever really interested in coaching at IU at all. If it's after the season, he listens to IU's pitch and then says no, then I could see how year 4 Woodson might have cost us May. But not a during the season extension. There was the report that May turned down UL because it was a fishbowl, so maybe he never would have ended up at IU. Woodson still should not have gotten year 4, regardless. It's sad that we're arguing these hypotheticals because of that.

If he signs an extension during the season with the IU position open, then he never really had much interest in the IU job. In this case, I would say that keeping Woodson another year probably didn't cost us May.

He'd actually be somewhat successful. I'm surprised you're not saying it'll be Brownell. That'd be more of your doom and gloom style.

Preferably a successful one in his time there. Any experience is important but seeing success and what it takes to achieve it at the high major level would be great. I pretty much agree with your list. I'll add a few: - has had recruiting success against his peers - post season success of some sort - teams have an identity - coaches a modern style - always learning and adapting - willing to listen to advice from assistants - somewhat balanced offense/defense - has shown success at player development