IUHoosierJoe

Woodson wasn’t on that team. He was a freshman the next year.

I often think what would have happened is Pat would have taken over and the results would have been equivalent to or worse than Crean’s first year and he’d have gotten fired, with basically the same ugly aftermath as after Bob was fired.

I always find myself rooting for Pat because I think his level of honesty is really rare, especially these days. Unfortunately, he inherited some personality flaws that have really hurt him, and he didn’t inherit a shred of the coaching gene.

My youngest son is just the opposite—writes right-handed but plays sports left-handed.

Indiana 81, USC 77

My conclusion from that is that KenPom does not consider home court advantage. I could be wrong about that because I am not a subscriber, but that would be about the only way to explain the post-game movement in this case.

Indiana 72, UCLA 71

I was 100% serious when I predicted 12-0 in the record prediction thread for the 2025 season. And for 2026, my prediction is, once again, 12-0. Great times!

Purdue 76, Indiana 74

Of course, kids can be motivated by whatever they want. But to leave a coaching staff that proven they can develop players—and therefore, their future earnings potential—far better than any other coaching staff in the country, is indeed objectively foolish.

You might find out it isn’t as easy as just deciding who you want and they automatically come here.

Indiana 80, Rutgers 68

So, from your last two posts…nobody wants to play for us, but great coaches want to coach for us…and apparently you think Dolson just hired the worst applicant of all the great coaches? I think some of you just self-soothe by pissing on the program no matter how little sense you make.

I think having the best rebounder on the team available for minutes would help with rebounding. It wouldn’t make us a good rebounding team, but it would make a glaring weakness a little less weak. How would his offense and defense translate? I don’t know. I haven’t seen him enough. But having him available would give us 5 more fouls and some rebounding once in a while.

What aren’t you sure about? Was Harris actually healthy in Puerto Rico? I mean, the stats are the stats, and everybody else’s rebounds per minute has pretty much translated.

One thing I would add that I don’t think anyone is considering or has posted…not having Josh Harris has hurt this team significantly. Yes, anyone could look at this roster and stats from last year and see that it was going to be a weak rebounding team. Josh Harris grabbed .314 rebounds per minute last season, the best of anyone on the roster. And while big men don’t usually have as much success with offensive numbers when they go from a mid-major to a power school, rebounding often translates. So, not having Harris has made a glaring weakness much worse.

In all fairness, we’re in the “Fire Darian DeVries” thread, which is not grounded in reality to begin with.

Lost mine in 2010 as well. He was never as big into IU football as he was basketball, but I feel like he would have really been into it the past couple years and would have loved Cignetti.

Michigan 90, Indiana 71

For me, the "I'm pissed because I've already decided we'll suck next year" takes the cake, lol.

I get it. The program has been mismanaged. There's a lot of things that should have happened that didn't happen. But we can't go back and change it, and these current players and coaches had nothing to do with it. Punishing them for it now just sets us up for more failure down the road.

You make some assumptions, with regard to resources and NIL for example, with no evidence to back it up. I suspect that has led to the inflated expectations that have you so disappointed. Consider this: my son is a sophomore at IU. He has 1 NCAA Tournament win by IU in his entire memory bank. So comparing us to schools like Kentucky, Louisville, and Michigan—for kids who are choosing where to play basketball right now, those comparisons are laughable. Reality makes you a happier, smarter person in the long run.

If fan appetite for a rebuild is zero, maybe it’s time for some fans to walk away. I get the frustration and disappointment. This program, with the exception of maybe 5 seasons, has accomplished nothing since 1992. We all know that. The program has been mismanaged for the better part of 34 years. So, with that reality in place, why would anyone expect a coach to come in, having to replace an entire 13-man roster, and people think he is going to snap his fingers and collect enough talent in one portal haul to be a national contender in Year 1? It makes zero sense. And that is why this fan base is ridiculed nation-wide. That’s why Malik Reneau tweeted what he tweeted. Yes, Curt Cignetti did it here. And now every dumb fan base in America—including ours, apparently—thinks every coach they hire should be able to do it, because Cignetti, I guess, is really nothing special. Reality isn’t going to change just because some folks don’t like it. So, there’s going to be a rebuild, whether there’s an appetite for it or not, no matter who you hire.

That seems strange. He was only 19-15 in his first year there last season, and if this board is to be believed, there’s little hope of getting better from year 1 to year 2.

Indiana 73, Iowa 72