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I wanted those guys gone as early as anyone and then grew to feel bad for them. Crean busted his a— and cared openly. Davis and Archie were just way over their head with no ability to correct anything and all out of answers. I don’t know if I’ll muster up any sympathy for Woody. Tbf to Bako, that is an awful play. One of the worst attempts at a ball screen you’ll see this side of a 3rd grade game to step into a long shot that clanks off the rim by a guy who’s done little but clank them off the rim. Idk…at some point the poor play will kill effort across the board.

You and I are never going to see eye to eye on this…lol. For example you could argue a team with a smart good passing big man and 3 point shooters would be the worst matchup for Syracuse’s zone. Kind of like Michigan where Mcgary tore them apart (and Michigan had just as small guards and neither Michigan or Syracuse had a guard as athletic and good as oladipo). But crean had zeller try and drive through it instead of pass through it. Crean was just bad at X’s and O’s and wasn’t beating Bohiem anymore than he was Bo Ryan. Kind of like woodys flawed defense versus any good offense that can shoot 3s and get their pace…ironically the exact opposite of Creans problem. But it’s all academic anyways. Nobody knows. I just feel there’s a reason Crean lost the games he did. Same with woody. Same with Davis. Which is why I wanted, or in woodys case actively want, them fired.

And we had a top 2 offense. Just not against a 2-3 zone.

Yep. It’s just short of bohiem openly mocking crean, but “interesting “ is code for: we’re not sure what they think they were doing but it was ineffective.

Probably like they’re rich and on a Caribbean vacation. Which is half the problem because IU has nearly zero institutional basketball knowledge.

Tbh…anyone who spent money on this is an abject moron and deserves no say in anything going forward

Same reason we haven’t for 3 years…coaching

I have witchita just on a blind fade of Minny. Also, Michigan looks good and is pounding Xavier.

He was shooting 46% on 5 attempts a game from 3 coming into the game. He made the right decision avoiding IU. Although I’m loving the UConn spiral here.

Seems low. Best you could say is we’re comparatively rested while they just came off a overtime slug fest and maybe not motivated to play for 3rd place. otoh, marquee ooc opponents who can run and put up points have pretty much ate the lunch of Woodys IU teams .

Woodson has been average or above average in pace.

Gonzaga 87 IU 66

You have way more confidence in one anomaly in the face of a lifetime of results pointing otherwise than I do.

Disagree wholeheartedly. Watching the catastrophe that is IU basketball the last twenty years, I know exactly what would happen. One of his doofus assistants would probably ride the talent just enough to be a mildly feel good story. Indiana fans and the administration, being the mildly milquetoast marks that we are, would push for him to get the job. Woody and Quinn probably would too to save face. And then we’d be stuck with another mediocre coach and 5 years of bad basketball. Make Woody earn his money and coach out the year. He should face the shame of his failures.

I’d rather disband the program entirely.

It makes more sense to reach for guys like this now because with NIL you don’t have to worry as much about the step up in recruiting. Interesting candidate. IU won’t have trouble pulling lower division guys if that’s the route they decide to go.

Same. Something came up for work. I could’ve moved it but I didn’t bother. Heard some of the game on the radio and saw a few possessions at lunch. I’m close to where I was at the end of Crean/Archie where I rarely watched.

College fans are going to learn what NBA fans do in free agency. Bad teams have lots of mediocre players who put up points. I am not saying that is Carlyle necessarily but the fit here is rough. Whatever he was doing to score points at Stanford isn’t translating over.

But more importantly they have a new coach while we have the guy who played Kenny Payne close last year

I think so…they still have to save face. They used up a lot of goodwill last year bouncing fsu in favor of Alabama. And then two (current) big ten teams sent both sec teams home. They’d look silly this year shafting the big ten and we have four solid teams. There’s no reason to shaft IU for some like SMU.

They literally just mean the SEC here. Period. IU is 99% in. (Assuming a Purdue win). I guess we could come up with scenarios but they’d all have to hit. Even an A&M SEC title —less than a 20% chance by itself—would need to find wacky scenarios that are just unlikely to happen. An ACC team will drop. It’s why I was adamant you want feel good pretenders like Army out. If they keep a two loss team in over IU it would be big names like Miami (maybe), ND, or Texas. People were dismissive when I wrote that Saturday but this really just about espn, sec, and tv ratings. Luckily this year nobody is really good enough that the committee will feel like embarrassing themselves to jump up a power team that doesn’t deserve it, imo. Indiana is in almost any way you slice it. (One caveat might be if rourke goes down…*knock on wood*)

But it’s gonna drop again by a bit after we play Purdue, so I don’t know why any IU fans worry about it either. We had a fortuitous schedule, but we’re still good.

I’d pass on OSU again. But I agree. Down year at the top and we can play with any of the teams in the first round.

Also, I’m enjoying IU fans first real foray into watching the committee…lol. It’s all performative. Technically so is the basketball one but it is less consequential since 68 is an absurd amount of teams.

That’s right. They’re penalizing Indiana because they don’t like their profile, which I said this past weekend. But we’re still gonna jump an acc team and a sec team could lose too. We’re in pretty easily at this point.