IUHoosierJoe

Woodson is but Dusty isn’t? Priceless.

It looks a little bit dusty.

Certainly. I’m just not sure giving him a purportedly serious interview with no intent to hire him constitutes “better treatment,” but I can see where some people would disagree with that.

I’m certainly not privy to any communication between Glass and Woodson, but does deciding someone is not even qualified enough to get an interview necessarily constitute blowing someone off? Does your company interview every single person that applies for a job?

He was, just not very high at all. I don’t think even the people listing him as a candidate actually believed IU would hire him. But he was on some lists.

I don’t know….it seems like Archie and Woodson were on people’s lists. Archie was pretty close to the top of a lot of lists, although not mine.

So Buckner hired Crean, Miller, and Woodson?

He put it in the college bball thread yesterday

Yes it can, but the school losing the coach would want something in return for lowering the buyout. For example, IU could agree to play a road game at Auburn in the future …. I’m not sure if that kind of thing happens often or not.

It could be, but I’m not sure if anyone has had much success negotiating that figure down.

Technically, I think the contracts normally state that the coach breaking the contract owes the buyout, but the hiring university almost always agrees to pay it. So, I’d assume anyone could pay it, as long as it gets paid.

Well he hired Archie too, so he should look at it as Buckner got 7.

I agree his intentions were good at the beginning. But three seasons into this, he has to know that he either can't or doesn't want to do what's required of the job, particularly in recruiting, which would result in anything but a further flushing of this program down the drain. So, him continuing after this season in the job, with this, let's say, lack of effort, would cause me to think much differently as to his what his intentions are now.

And regardless of what you think of Rabby, Rabby wouldn’t have put it out there without assurances that it was factual.

If I’m Dusty I’m not going anywhere near that job with someone—even if it’s LeBron—thinking they are going to be pulling strings. Sounds an awful lot like being an athletic director and having a trustee thinking he can do my job. No thanks.

You might be amazed what people are swayed by. That’s why we have literally thousands of media outlets pushing agendas. It’s legitimately a strategy.

Minnesota 77, Indiana 70

Curious of y'all's opinion on this: who would recruit Indiana better, and who has a better reputation with Indiana high school coaches, Pearl or May? (and I'm just asking. I don't know the answer, and I'm not suggesting this should be the deciding factor as to which one should get the job)

Computer rankings through 3/3/24 games: 1 Houston 26 - 3 ( 1 ) 2 Purdue 26 - 3 ( 2 ) 3 Arizona 23 - 6 ( 3 ) 4 Connecticut 26 - 3 ( 4 ) 5 Tennessee 23 - 6 ( 5 ) 6 Alabama 20 - 9 ( 6 ) 7 Auburn 22 - 7 ( 7 ) 8 Iowa St 23 - 6 ( 9 ) 9 North Carolina 23 - 6 ( 8 ) 10 Duke 23 - 6 ( 11 ) 11 Baylor 20 - 8 ( 16 ) 12 Creighton 22 - 8 ( 15 ) 13 Marquette 22 - 7 ( 10 ) 14 Illinois 22 - 7 ( 13 ) 15 BYU 21 - 8 ( 17 ) 16 San Diego St 20 - 7 ( 14 ) 17 Kansas 20 - 8 ( 12 ) 18 Gonzaga 23 - 6 ( 25 ) 19 Kentucky 21 - 8 ( 20 ) 20 New Mexico 20 - 8 ( 18 ) 21 Utah St 22 - 5 ( 19 ) 22 St Mary's CA 23 - 7 ( 23 ) 23 Dayton 22 - 6 ( 22 ) 24 Clemson 20 - 9 ( 21 ) 25 Boise St 19 - 8 ( 38 )

And I don’t believe anybody is completely risk free. You can poke holes in anybody’s resume, although the holes in Pearl’s would be very small.

I could see that happening. But also have a fear that the parting of ways could get ugly.

They both look like someone told him to be there.

Agree. Woodson should have been told it was a condition of him getting the job that he would accept the structure put in place around him.

Maryland 71, Indiana 62

Maybe he was talking about the recruiting trail and not his job.