Kentuckysucks

They do work in a completely different vacuum and that's the problem. It's hard to succeed when half the fan base is tweeting at recruits, telling them to go elsewhere, and rooting for loses to pile up in order to speed up the firing process before the coach has even coached his first game. That's what happens when you hire the guy no one wanted.

Maybe the administration could do the one thing they've refused to do since the RMK firing...go out and hire who the fans want. For once give the fan base what it wants. Pearl, Drew, or Beard would all suffice. If the fans aren't completely on board the hire is doomed to fail from the start.

Man's got a family to feed. An 8 figure net worth just doesn't mean what it used with all the inflation.

Why not just promote Armond Hill? He has college coaching experience where he led Columbia to its single worst season in the programs 103 year history.

Yep. What were they thinking?

They aren't this dumb but we can hope.

They must have been designed by Kayne.

Mike Woodson needs $12.5M to pack Mike Woodson's bags.

Would suck. After Trey Galloway committed to Indiana, his mom put all his Purdue T-shirts out on the front lawn for other kids to wear. "We didn't need them anymore,'' she said. https://www.si.com/college/indiana/recruiting/indiana-basketball-recruiting-trey-galloway-family-affair

He probably hates losing and having a coach who has no idea what he is doing.

Pretty easy to sell. "Mike Woodson was far, far worse than anyone could've possibly imagined and the program is now on life support. Given that, we cannot take anymore chances and must hire a sure-fire winner. That man is Bruce Pearl."

Rabby is just a mouthpiece for the administration. He's going to say that no matter what.

Well any possible recruiting Woody could do is now gone regardless.

I can tell you what my reaction would be after getting fired and paid over $20M for 3 years of coaching basketball where I was very subpar and put in little effort and was hired for a job I wasn't remotely qualified for.

Honestly at this point I feel like the NY Jets are better at drafting quarterbacks than IU is at hiring basketball coaches.

He's owed around $12.5M I believe.

If OSU hired him they would insist on an insanely massive buyout should he ever leave for the IU job. They aren't stupid in Columbus like Surfboard was with Sharon Versyp.

The B1G is about to get a whole lot better. OSU and UM aren't messing around this time. We're in trouble.

They realize we underachieved both seasons and any success was almost all Trayce? Right? Tell me they aren't this stupid.

You could tell he had a massive ego from the jump how he always talked about himself in 3rd person. Like him detailing his initial interview with Dolson. "Scott wanted to do a Zoom. I told him if you want to talk to Mike Woodson you gotta fly out to Mike Woodson. Or you can fly Mike Woodson out to you. Mike Woodson doesn't do zoom or phone calls". Something like that. He's not going to change.

Told ya. We're going to begin the Michael Lewis era after next season. So predictable.

We're not a serious program anymore.