go iu bb

I wonder if that question really got him thinking about it. Still, kind of odd to do it now rather than the end of the season.

But, but, we're told how great he is.

They haven't been said about him yet, no, but most of these are pretty standard excuses that always seem to come out after missing on a recruit. Just getting a head start on the excuse making.

We just have too much talent that could return and that scared him off. We didn't really want him, the coaching staff must have backed off. He's not that good anyways, very overrated. He might be a good shooter, but how is his entry pass? Probably not up to snuff for IU. UConn obviously cheated. Paying players is allowed now but they must have cheated some other way. He didn't want to play in the B1G.

Articles about Cignetti and IUI from the Washington Post and New York Times so he's being noticed for what he's done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/16/curt-cignetti-indiana-football/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5848674/2024/10/17/curt-cignetti-indiana-hoosiers-nebraska/

I can't really blame him for thinking UConn would be better for himself than IU at this time.

With this roster that would be a bad year. We've been told all summer how great this roster is and how deep the team will be.

I said a good year, not a great year. That is the somewhere in between.

You very well could be right. After this season, he'll have 2 years left on his contract so it's extend or do not extend decision time. If Dolson was kept from firing Woodson as some have alleged (I'm not sure I believe that), I have a hard time believing that he could be forced to extend if he doesn't want to. A bad year gives another reason to fire. A good year can let Woodson retire feeling he did something, although they may have to strongly nudge or straight up push him to do that.

In general, I agree. For a home game against a west coast team? Noon seems like an advantage to IU.

This was posted in another thread but it deserves some attention here. Woodson is 3 for 3 in underperforming KenPom preseason rankings. His average has been -25.67 which is pretty bad. Since IU is only 39th this year, it should be easy for him to change that trend. If not? Then he should be shown the door. This is also why some people aren't convinced this year will be as great as the roster indicates it should be.

Wow. Texas has raised over $1B and is trying to get to $7B. https://swimswam.com/texas-athletics-surpasses-1-billion-in-fundraising/

I can guarantee that we won't be relying on freshman Moreno as our center next year.

Hoosiers had both the SMU Classic and their intrasquad meet this weekend. https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2024/10/10/mens-swimming-and-diving-no-4-6-hoosiers-split-squad-for-opening-weekend The 9 men IU sent to the SMU classic won, even with a relay DQ. They had a bunch of NCAA B qualifications and the 400 medley relay got an A qualification. https://smumustangs.com/documents/2024/10/12/SMU_Classic_Full_Results.pdf https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/louisville-women-indiana-men-top-smu-classic-owen-mcdonald-impressive-in-indiana-debut/ Anna Peplowski interview about her great season last year and the Olympics. It looks like Brendan Burns is a podcast host now. https://swimswam.com/anna-peplowski-breaks-down-ius-big-ten-championship-olympic-silvercollege-swimming-podcast/

IU lands another good distance swimmer. Distance is becoming a strength. https://swimswam.com/2026-best-of-the-rest-distance-freestyler-cooper-zakorchemny-verbally-commits-to-indiana/

This thread was in full swing during the spring and early summer. It's been quiet recently because there hasn't been anything new. I don't know that you're the one who should be calling people out since you were calling all season for Woodson to be fired and emailed Dolson about it multiple times. Even now you're not exactly positive as shown by this one from yesterday in another thread:

It just means what we already knew: IU hasn't beat a good team yet. Thankfully, they have taken care of business and beat each of them handily. The Nebraska game will be the first good team and I think IU gets it done.

I'm not sure I buy that bolded part. IU has been recruiting him for more than a year and got in when he was ranked around 100. UConn jumped in after he blew up. So that doesn't really seem to fit that statement if he ends up there. The rest of it I believe, since we have 3 years of Woodson's inside out offense as well as him on record saying that the offense needs to be run that way, that they shoot enough 3s, and his job isn't to get 3 point shooters (Kopp) shots. Supposedly they've adjusted the offense this year and the Mullins have seen that in a practice but maybe it wasn't enough. The old and low energy mentioned in other comments also makes sense. I'm going to wait for the announcement before declaring Mullins gone, though, but Woodson doesn't have a good track record in these types of recruitments.

I see we're at stage 8. Last week was positive IU on the board now the assumption is he's gone.

National Letter of Intent is being removed. It was basically worthless anyways since recruits are pretty much always released from it if they change their minds. There have been rare times when a coach/school wouldn't release a recruit from their NLI but they would get shredded in the court of public opinion each time and back eventually back release him so all they did was hurt themselves. Without this formal step of signing and then requesting a release, I wonder if other sports recruitment will become more like football where a "commitment" is more a sign of the current leader rather than an actual commitment. This is a swimming article but I'm pretty sure this applies to all sports: https://swimswam.com/ncaa-removing-national-letter-of-intent-nli-program/ Speaking of swimming, IU has very good teams pretty much every year and this year the men have a legit chance at winning the national championship.

The Hoosiers pick up a big distance swimmer commitment. #2 in his class who already has an NCAA point scoring time in the mile (A final). https://swimswam.com/gabe-manteufel-2-in-the-class-of-2026-hands-verbal-commitment-to-indiana/

Man, the byes certainly aren't in IU's favor. So far 2 road B1G games against teams coming off a bye week and for our bye week so does the other team so no advantage there.

1 more win ensures a winning season, even if the bowl game is lost.

Trading the undefeated guy for the guy that just got upset big time by Vandy? I'm not sure that's a good trade. :)

UCLA was also coming off a bye week. IU's first 2 B1G road games are against teams which had 2 weeks to prepare but they should end up 2-0 regardless. Just another sign of progress.