IUHoosierJoe

Well, I’ll share my perspective on it. I’m not on Twitter, and I’m not really a Woodson defender. I wanted him gone last year for not only on-court performance but for things I heard happened off the court. But I’m not going to bash him on message boards constantly because I don’t think that does any good. Regarding the Trillys of the world—my son and several of his friends were recruited high school athletes over the past 2 years or so. Now, I’m here and certainly a consumer of the rumors, but the notion that someone absolutely knows where a kid is going to college weeks and months before he announces is nonsense. The kids themselves don’t even know. Family members don’t know. Sometimes they think they know, and then they get more information or more offers, or a lot of times they just simply change their mind for whatever reason. If it’s a couple days before a set announcement day and they’re letting their decision leak, then yeah, people probably know.

If I’m Scott Dolson, when Woodson’s done at IU and if Dusty’s been successful at Michigan, I’m going to call Dusty. Whether Dusty says yes or not is something I’ll let you speculate about.

I was just going to post the same thing. Dolson's first box to check with the Cig hire was successful experience running a program. Of course, spending a few days talking to these guys in interviews reveals a lot that we don't know. Winning at programs that don't typically win usually reveals a lot. If Schertz wins at Saint Louis, I would think he'd be at the top of the list. If Dusty wins at Michigan, he'll be right there, too.

I bet he’d change his pick the day before it was actually announced. :)

Player's Perspective: Curt Cignetti - YouTube This is excellent. Best interview of Cignetti I've seen. They even address whether he will want to leave after he builds success here.

I think this is reasonable, and I would add compete for or win the Big Ten tournament. No reason to keep embarrassing ourselves almost every year in that event.

Indiana 37, Nebraska 14

Dayton appears to be doing just fine without him.

I can’t see this, but I saw a picture of him a few days ago and thought the same thing.

Guys aspiring to play on Sundays shouldn’t have to find a weaker college team to get playing time.

Indiana 42, Northwestern 9

This has been spot on. Hopefully Mullins makes it 4 for 4 correct.

And 10 years ago, Archie was supposedly a basketball savant, sort of like people think of Shrewsberry now. Sorry, but I don’t see it. I mean, at least Archie has a successful tenure at Dayton on his resume.

Indiana 37, Maryland 19

Fine. Cig doesn’t seem like a guy who wants to finish his career winning games in a half empty stadium. So I suspect a lot of folks will be able to go back to bitching about the quality of football before long.

Indiana 50, Charlotte 14

Indiana 23, UCLA 17

Agree with you. I was at the game and Rourke had immediate pressure on him several times, especially after the middle of the second quarter.

Indiana 53, W Illinois 9

And Steve Downing being the AD.

Indiana 37, Florida Intl 17.

Unfortunately, I think this says it all.

Archie never really impressed me, even at Dayton. Dayton has always been a very good, well-supported program at their level. Archie certainly had a good record there, but he still lost a lot of games he shouldn’t have lost, and had quite a few close, lucky wins over inferior competition. That Elite 8 team caught fire at the right time. He was about to be run out of town in the middle of that season (started 1-5 in conference, I believe).

Valid point that makes one wonder why we’d hire a 63 year old coach in the first place given all the recent turnover in coaches we’ve already had. And no, I’m not suggesting that Woodson be fired, just a question I’ve always had given your valid point.

I guess that’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is he was given a policy to follow and he chose, on his own terms, not to follow it.