go iu bb

Give them a break. They only had 2 years before last to evaluate him.

So you're saying Woodson is the best that IU can get? That isn't a very compelling argument. He didn't even make a top 50 list that came out after the season. That means that there are plenty of coaches out there that are better than him even if they aren't the caliber of Hurley or Stevens.

Way to jinx them, @OliviaPope40. lol

That is quite different than not letting someone wearing a fire the coach shirt into AH.

I think the probability of him not starting 2 bigs at the beginning of the season is so small that it's practically 0.

The few (4? 5?) games he played at the end of his senior season will the only significant playing Newton will have seen in over 2 years. He might be physically ready (at least fully healed) this year but I still wouldn't expect too much of him this year.

That makes more sense. Dropping it from 91% on 24 attempts (not a small sample) down to 58% would be terrible shooting in those other games. Did you accidentally put a very large number into the attempts sum?

You're reading it wrong. Might be getting rendered incorrectly on whatever you're viewing this site on. On that day, he hit 2 of 4 3-pointers and was 7 of 8 on FT. So you're looking at the 3PA and FTM columns.

Yeah, they all appear to be off. This only the FT, I didn't check the other percentages. These are only for the listed games so maybe the percentages includes games not shown, but that would mean that Mullins FT shooting in those other games was horrendous. Moreno: 13/22 is 59% Mullins: 22/24 is over 91%. Sisley: 23/18 is 72%.

Is he earning his doctorate this year?

FiRe cOaCh wOoDsOn tHrEaD

The new Adidas deal is almost done. Unless I'm misunderstanding something it doesn't look as good as the previous deal. 10 years, $54M for this deal versus 8 years, $53.6M from the previous deal. Unless there are ways to increase that amount, that's over $1M/year less. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-athletics-and-adidas-finalize-10-year-contract-extension/

So if you have a bad year? Fired/demoted. - This already happens. They ride the bench or transfer. Unionization is a bridge too far for me though. Once they demand double pay to play on holidays or strike to get a bigger share of the Adidas contract, I'll focus my time & attention elsewhere. - It's always confusing to me how the players getting paid detracts from someone's ability to enjoy the watching them play. Unionization would likely also lead to a collective bargaining agreement which might limit how much schools can directly pay the players, might limit NIL without actual work, and might restrict the currently unrestricted free transfers.

The hits just keep coming. The NCAA is still looking for Congress to save them from themselves. Next step is unionization and collective bargaining agreements. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40541501/court-ruling-seeks-test-decide-athletes-employees

In the past, I would've agreed with this but the transfer portal and NIL really changes that. A team can be completely rebuilt in a short amount of time. Miller and Woodson have shown that IU still has enough clout to land good HS talent. IU has had talent, they've just had bad coaches.

Similar to how they blew out Army, Louisville, and Morehead State by 30 points last year? They should be 30 point blowouts but this is still a Mike Woodson coached team.

It's Dukie V.

Spoiler: He didn't include IU. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/40534336/****-vitale-early-mens-sweet-16-teams-2024-25

I wonder if he even remembers the name of the school they were at before CU. He just refers to it as "HBCU." "Everyone's Super Bowl." They were 4-8. lmao

This schedule works out well if Woodson is able to get his team to blow out the teams they're supposed to blow out. if they have close wins against those teams like they did last year, this schedule will hurt them. If they lose to teams they should beat in addition to not winning by very much against others, it'll really hurt them. If they have more than 2 loses in the non-conference, that won't be good.

So if IU was a better team their NET ranking would've been better? Ground breaking stuff right there.

That doesn't work with this coach. His teams tend to get blown out by good teams, even his best team did.

Mods: this mod is trying to derail this thread. Might need a timeout.

Good for them. I don't believe our goal is to be like Penn State, Nebraska, Maryland, or Iowa so how they schedule is moot.

I hope the current players aren't trying to learn from him.