Cliche

Anyone even going to try to claim that Woodson hasn't lost this team?

1/3 of the way there!

Mgbako dominating? Better pull him.

Team was taken completely out of its rhythm

BTN: "SIUE hanging in, not giving up" Actuality: Woodson pulled everyone

The reason isn't official yet but there's been word for a while that admissions was going to be a problem. UM has had a lot of trouble clearing transfers in the last few years.

Caleb Love available again. Michigan admissions denied him.

Fair enough, I misread it.

The nice thing about the editing feature is that you can replace a silly thing you said in the heat of the moment.

I will happily be unemployed for 1.9M per year

Rabjohns just said that no one close to the program would be surprised at Fife's firing. Rather, they'd be surprised if he wasn't fired. Wait, am I allowed to say that now that it was taken down? I don't know the rules. I'm just some schmuck stuck in Michigan.

Maybe he's not a bad dude, but maybe he screwed up. You've got multiple people in this thread referring to instances in the year where he went against Woodson's express orders. I don't know him either, but it seems like there's a lot of smoke. If that's the case, letting him go now is the way of having it be handled smoother. This is the time for coaching changes, it will get lost in the dozens of other schools making switches. This firing is not going to torpedo Fife's career. If that could do it, Archie Miller would be unemployed today.

What smells about it? If he didn't fit with Woodson, he's gone. They gave it a year, it didn't work. College programs make these changes all the time. There's a reason they call it a coaching carousel.

Exactly. It didn't work out, move on. People are acting like there was some multi-generational grand plan that's now dead and IU basketball has taken some huge hit. He'll be fine, he'll find another well-paying job. Another person will come in. Life will continue and I'm willing to put money down that IU is better next year than this.

At least we know the team should come out fired up.

I tried to post when things were at their darkest and was told I was locked out of my account. Don't know why, but it sure kept me from publically making a fool of myself. Edit: at least that time

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm feeling really good right now. Road win, Woody clearly using this as a teaching game, X making this his team. Need the Rutgers game to feel good about the tournament but if we dropped this we'd be about done. Minnesota went nuts for a while, but IU did enough to hold them off. Q2 win, beat the spread, above average game for the offense, below average turnovers, and a team that has not reached its ceiling. Bring on Rutgers.

So we're now at the "maybe we can make a run in the B1G tournament" stage.

IU 68 OSU 67

Lander just hasn't made the switch to the college game yet.

I can't think of any player I've hated more in the last ten years than Davison

Hearing from trusted sources that Trayce and Race have invited Trey to be their new roommate.

IU- 73 Wisc- 62

It was an ugly game (and being at the game, a terrible sound system). I haven’t lost hope in this team but they seemed snakebit today. For some reason, I think they aren’t experiencing the February-March slide from the past few years. I think they’re in the ‘dark night of the soul’ this week. I suspect we’ll be having a different conversation in a couple weeks.

Phinisee is out of his boot, at least.