go iu bb

Mmm, I can't wait.

Never said. Thought that even divulging what level he played at would give away his identity. lol Very inflated sense of importance.

Dang, we missed out on Foster and you, back-to-back. Tough day to be a fan.

I thought when he was here that NGW was hired by Woodson, his agent, or someone invested in Woodson being IU's coach to go on message boards and social media to talk him up. I still haven't changed my mind on that.

This makes me sad. I was looking forward to it.

Where are the promised staff changes? I don't remember who said that, but I think it was NGW.

IU has so far landed 0 players from the portal despite supposedly already having interest from some players before the season even ended and having a ton of money to spend. His explanation (excuse) is that IU will just have to "choose wisely," ignoring that they have 1/2 a team worth of scholarships to fill. At this point, IU doesn't have to be picky.

Built in excuse. 25 games into the season he can use the "it's a new team" excuse after another loss.

Sounds like he'd fit in well at MSU.

AD's office still: It seems they really don't care about the basketball team or the fans. I'm about done with IU basketball.

I get what you're saying but do you actually think that Woodson will change?

Fingers crossed for Pitino. I would love that.

Those two might be the same person. Think about it, have we ever seen NGW and Buckner in the same room at the same time?

Power rankings before the meet have the men at #4. Starts tomorrow. https://swimswam.com/2023-24-ncaa-mens-power-rankings-final-edition/

Don't forget Cupps. As of right now, we're returning 2 starting guards and Leal. That much talent will scare everyone away. That's why we won't land anyone, certainly not because of the archaic offense and a lame duck coach. So screwed.

So that is the number you're actually hearing? I think that is what Old fart was trying to get to. If it was a number you were hearing or a number that you made up. But that sounds like it is the number you're hearing. Crazy. They don't even just need to overpay players to come here, they need to overpay the current players to stay just to save face.

I like that hire for them. They'll continue to suck and would make IU look less dysfunctional in comparison.

Rating of coaches is a pretty subjective matter so that would obviously be opinion. We're talking about about money amounts which are objective. Also, Sampson is way more than 3 times better than Woodson so you would probably have to justify why you had that number so low.

Mike Woodson is doing his job. He shouldn't have to answer questions about the women's team, and won't do it.

So it's basically going how many of us thought it would.

To me it doesn't look like what Old fart said was an attack. I think where he is coming from is "3 times" is a very specific number, while "big raise" isn't. A specific number seems like a hard fact, even if it isn't. A big raise could be 50% or double which are both less than tripling the pay. Since you do hear stuff, people take stuff that seems like fact as fact. Hell, they take stuff that is obviously opinion as fact so definitely take something that seems like a fact as a fact, even if it's you being hyperbolic. So the fact of a big raise can quickly turn to them earning 3 times what they did, even if the big raise wasn't that much.

Seriously, though, I'm glad he came to IU for the year. As bad as this season was, it would've been way worse without him. He came in and proved a lot of people wrong about him. He also seems like a really great kid. Good luck to him, wish him well.

Oh, great. Our football coach is just relaxing and taking time off to go to games during spring practices instead of being in the office. Unlike our hard working basketball coach who is so dedicated to winning that he couldn't show up because he's probably watching film on portal players or recruiting (definitely NOT vacationing for his birthday). Looks like the football team will be bad again because the coach doesn't want to work.

The men could get a big boost from the divers, who have done well at the zones. This projects IU to finish 4th. https://swimswam.com/ncaa-mens-diving-preview-how-zone-scores-project-to-impact-the-team-race/

I've heard plenty of McGinnis. HIs name is brought often when discussing IU greats. I cant help it that Woodson's name doesn't come up, I just know that it doesn't. Not by the people I talked to growing up nor on IU message boards, which I've been on for nearly 30 years. Don't know what else to tell you. /shrug