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Well, I mean, Dolson DID hire Woodson. And gave him a 4th year, so...

I have some bad news about this show called "Game of Thrones"...

There will be a lot of people in Tanzania wearing "It's Turgeon Time" along with their "Purdue National Champs 2024" shirts. LOL

IU wins every off-season, regardless of the coach. It's the IU way at this point. LOL

Or just go straight Patton with the announcement. LOL

Mike Woodson did in his final year exactly what anyone who was paying attention knew what he would do in his final year. Underachieve.

Good coach. He's older than Woody, though. I think he's like 70. One pre-requisite should be that they should be younger than 70, I think. LOL

Way more than 20 coaches. How long did it take Woody to figure out that playing Reneau and Ballo together was a bad idea? He stopped doing it only initially when Reneau got hurt.

Well, Pope has been pretty good, but Kelsey has been great. Absolutely great, so obviously no regret there, but I get your point.

It depends on...

Well, not only to come to a message board, but then complain to said message board for lack of relevant information.

Yeah, that's kind of where I was going with my gently asked question earlier.

Admittedly, I only came to BTB in 2021 - I was a peegs guy for looong time before that, so I'm definitely one of the new guys here. I was one of the many people who came for the last coaching search and because peegs have zero real info regarding the actual search (and it sounds like little has changed this time around). Can anyone explain to me why there would be so much subterfuge on IU's part? I mean, I hear some of the craziest stories of distraction - things that would be almost CIA-worthy. I understand that some of it is jokes, but I think a lot of it is actually serious. Why would Dolson need to work so hard to fool people and send them in the wrong direction? I can understand his reluctance to publicize certain details of the search, and he's doing a good job of keeping details to himself and his circle, but what does he actually gain by sending out even a fourth of the false flags that people are proposing? Don't get me wrong - I find this board loads of fun and I've been reading it a lot. I guess a big part of me is just baffled by some of misdirection theorized by people here. It would only seem necessary in a Robert Ludlum novel. LOL

Well, but to be fair, most of those 2,000 pages of discussion is by the same 10 or 15 people, so...LOL

More likely that you're Woody. After all, Brownell actually has a game to prepare for. Woody, well, we all know he doesn't work very hard, so he has plenty of time to hang out on this forum, like the rest of us degenerates...LOL

We can usually find consolation in that double-digit seed that upsets Purdue, though.

Yes, of course this is what logically should happen. But, this is IU we're talking about here...

Yes. Even in this scenario, Woodson was STILL Plan C. It was still an absolutely baffling hire. LOL Remember what I said earlier about what it's like to work with academia and how messed up it is?

Because a meddling or incompetent college admin hired an unqualifed coach w/o any college basketball experience to be their ... ya know... head college basketball coach? Who would've thought that possibly would've ended up badly? Go figure. LOL

So we've had an Isaac and KathyC sighting now. Who else is going to grace us with their presence on quite a stellar Friday?

Does WVU really have more money than Iowa? Why? I thought with B1G money, a school like Iowa would have all sorts of advantages over a school like WVU. What am I missing here?

This might have been the big reveal of the day. Not the Brownell news...LOL

This is the answer.

Good job, mods. The perfect storm of engagement farming: Brownell and a KathyC sighting. LOL