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Wow. Why? These guys aren't blind and they know basketball. Surely they can clearly see Woody isn't the guy. They're willing to put friendship over the best interest of the program?

Poor guy probably still has nightmares from that incident at the Kyrie Irving household ;-)

I know a guy...

Even if Matta or Fife were still on staff Woody would never listen to them.

If a change is made, very unlikely after this season but almost guaranteed after year 4, it will almost certainly be Dusty May unless by some extremely remote chance he who shall not be named makes it known through the back channels that he finally wants the job.

Yikes.

Hey Mike...

Woody is never gonna make it. We can either cut bait now and get a lot better or continue on for years of misery.

I remember walking to AH from Teter and back in a massive blizzard. Never even fazed me. These Jersey people are weak I tell ya. Weak.

I think it was fine.

SnookieU 77 IU 68

Was a good must have win. I was worried they'd lay down and the season would be over. Now the Colts...

Awesome.

77 - 74 IU

I see what you did there.

They did to buyout Archie. I think his buyout was set to drop to a little over $3M a year later.

If we eat enough White Castle we can land another Movement.

I've always thought guys like Beard and Marshall would kill it here. I go back to what the Marquette beat writer said when we hired Crean. It's exactly what I was getting at when I said outside of Sampson the fans have hated all the hires. "That's not to say that Crean's a perfect fit. In my estimation, his biggest strength and biggest weakness are horribly mismatched with Indiana. Crean's biggest strength is his ability as a promoter. His pre-game Jumbotron messages to fans, a mind-blowing number of promotional give-aways, and his tradition of shaking hands with the student section on the way out to the court all helped to build interest in the program. And while it never hurts to be a great promoter (just ask Bruce Pearl), I'm not sure that that's what Indiana needs. Indiana basketball has never seemed to me like one of those things that needs much promotion. People in Indiana are always going to be basketball crazy, even if you don't give then a bobblehead and constantly shake their hands. They don't need to put butts in the seats--they just need someone that knows basketball. And that brings me to what I see as possibly Crean's biggest weakness--he's a pretty shaky game coach. Simply put, if there are 15 seconds left on the clock and my team's down 2 points, I'm not feeling real confident if I look over at the bench and see Tom Crean putting together the plan (why do I feel like I'm foreshadowing a Wisconsin loss at Indiana next year where I end the night feeling like I'm being repeatedly kicked in the groin). I could be wrong, but Indiana seems to me, more than almost anywhere else, to be a place where they'd value an Xs and Os genius. Tom Crean is not that. His ability to get guys to run through walls for him can mitigate this weakness a lot of the time, but I have to think that his lack of remarkable basketball acumen with not play well with a fan base that expects their coach to be a skillful tactician." https://chriswesthoops.blogspot.com/2008/04/tom-creans-leaving-huh.html?m=1

Strangely Crean was even worse and got 9 years.

Offer Chris Beard close to that and see what happens. He'd win big here. I'm just saying this can be fixed. All depends on how bad the administration wants it.

Everyone considered him to be a very good coach. I knew plenty that had ethical issues with his hiring but everyone thought he was a great coach. That's really what I was getting at.

The Hoosier Hysterics guys belong in an asylum.

Dad, what was it like to be an IU basketball fan from 1973-1993?