Jeff Flabjohns

Yo did Woody erase the whiteboard and start over two separate times in five seconds? This play is gonna be @$$

On cue

Myles Rice with another complete no-show.

Maybe Rice can have a moment finally

10 point lead gone like that wooooof

Woody never gets the chance to work the refs during a timeout because there’s nobody else on staff who can meaningfully coach

We’ve had to say that all too often this year.

Still time to blow this one

OSU is poooooop

Lets lose by double digits

Mgbako is such a dud. What a bust. Painful to watch him dribble the ball

Feels like just a third of the conference is even good. Rest is mid to garbage.

KC 7 for his last 38, MM 3/25

I don’t know whether I want us to win.

We were all told this. By Woody in his postgame presser after Illinoizzz

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What a finish!! Good for Garcia Wolf is gonna be a good pro

The noise is why Crean gushed “It’s Indiana, it’s Indiana” from day one. If we as a fanbase didn’t bring the noise after what we’ve seen these last 8 years then just disband the program now. We aren’t expecting Banners. Just get us into this expanded tournament most years and every 3-4 years we should be a top 4 seed. There’s around 80 P5 teams? With our history, resources, and love for basketball in this state we should be consistently among the top half of that 80. We should not be having 8 year periods like we just did—especially in this new era of transfer/NIL

It was rumored Pearl wanted this gig last cycle. He openly gushed about our fanbase in a press conference just last year!! There are myriad reasons why a guy might not uproot his family and take this job. Way down the list, for the vast majority of coaches, is “noise”. You can keep highlighting it in every other post but that doesn’t suddenly make it a real consideration for people. In fact, it’s more likely to motivate someone to take this job. Now stop responding to me. As you put it eloquently earlier IDGAF what you think.

Some fans here will have you believe this job becomes undesirable to some because of the supposed noise. Because of the desire to win and a remarkable fanbase in terms of energy, knowledge, and scope. Any coach worth their salt (and whose family approves, etc) wants this gig because winning here makes you a King. No coach worth having is turned off by the supposed noise, rather they are motivated by it, they embrace it—like Pope at UK.

I’ll answer this and then be done responding to him or questions on his posts. The first one might be me reading too much into it. But when you consider the source, “players quit on their coach” was taken by me to continue to shift blame away from CMW. Not to be pedantic, but the words literally are putting the active verbiage of quitting on the players. I take issue with the repeated highlighting of IUBB “noise”. I find it insulting to what’s been a consistently patient and knowledgeable fanbase. We’ve given every previous coach ample time to get it going. We haven’t been to an E8 since 2002. We aren’t asking for much given the resources a coach has at their disposal here. We want effort, a team that understands the fundamentals and a foundation for somewhat consistent success. He repeatedly keeps bringing up “noise” as a reason coaches would/should either be turned off or wouldn’t be able to handle the job when the “noise” is the only thing this damn program has left for it. In any way blaming the noise or fans in general for current or future issues continues to be the laziest take. Any program thats endured what we have this century and with fan interest, desire to win, and $$$ like this would have as much if not more noise.

Fair enough, agreed

“players quit on their coach” ”a program with this kind of noise” Always using language to subtly shift the onus away from Woodson and to either the players or fanbase. Just awful stuff. Meanwhile we’re approaching a quarter century without seeing an E8. Crean and Archie, Woodson all received ample time to build a foundation and somewhat consistent winner. Surely UK has more “noise” than us and you definitely never would have thought last season that Pope could handle that noise. You use noise like Woody uses the term hump.

“Visceral”

I don’t even think Stevens is coming here. Any change will be welcome change, we are at rock bottom.