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$4M buyout to UM if we hire Dusty. Very doable.

Idk if Dusty leaves UM, but we have more NIL, easier transfer rules, and more fan support. It’s something.

It’s so funny. They will start strawman arguments over irrelevant points and ignore that their mighty Mike Woodson got completely blown out again. They are dreadful people.

Ha. If we replaced Woody with Cig and Cig was just sort of a CEO of the assistants and team, we would probably do better than the current setup. The Cig basics of accountability, not compromising standards, no self-imposed limitations, etc. would likely do wonders for this team, which currently has no such leadership.

Yea. Other way I think about it is IUBB is fast car: could be on the front row at Indy, it’s a Ferrari, whatever fast car you want to pick. We just need a driver. Woody can barely shift gears and he usually crashes during the race.

As an outsider I was excited for the hire. But, the hard part was in the interviews one would have needed to figure out he wouldn’t translate well to IU. That’s tough to do, but it’s why we pay ADs the big bucks. Oh well.

Yea, Glass was right to ignore Woody as an option, but he just got it wrong with Archie. Part of the issue was he didn’t have experience as an AD. I’m hopeful Scott has learned a lot of lessons from the failures he has observed over the years.

I think Quinn wanted to help his friend whose NBA career had hit a wall. His IU contract was 4x what he was making as an NBA assistant. Rich people love helping out their friends. They made up other nonsense to justify it -- he's an IU guy, he's a bridge, and he will be a stabilizer. The idea of hiring a coach on a shorter term basis to stabilize the program was total nonsense, nothing is more destabilizing than coaching changes. Anyways here we are. What a 3.5 years it's been.

I've got to hope for something! This is the only optimistic angle I can see with IUBB. When Scott points to FB revenue going up $10-20M and the $7M+ in free advertising Big Noon, GameDay, etc. brought the university, people are going to have to listen to him.

Yep. The one constant over the last 25 years -- people who aren't the AD meddling with the bball program. Donors, trustees, and the President do not know anything, ANY-THING, about running a successful bball program, including hiring/firing coaches. And even worse they're often severely conflicted. The meddling has happened in different ways over the years, but it's the constant. This sort of behavior will harm any organization, not just IUBB. Scott Dolson needs full autonomy and support to run the basketball program. I do not want to hear one peep about what Pete Yonkman, Cook, Simon, Ferguson, any trustee, etc. (collectively, the idiot "Stakeholders") think, want, or prefer. They have no idea what they're doing, and they all need to shut the hell up, NOT A PEEP, and let Scott do his job. The only thing they should be doing is sending donations. I am optimistic this has become clear. Scott has delivered massively on FB, everyone sees it, even people in the university not interested in sports. On top of that, Scott was right in wanting to move on from Woody last year. I'm hopeful everyone sees he is the only one who knows what he is doing and he has control now. But, there is always risk the Stakeholders can't help themselves.

Iowa might have less than half our NIL. $2-3M vs. our $6M and we got destroyed.

The rollercoaster that barely ever goes up. IUBB rollercoaster train leaves the station, does some bunny hills, and then derails and nosedives into the ground.

Woody is the King of getting blown out. Sheesh.

Thanks. I wasn’t very clear, I was talking number of season ticket holders increasing, not the price of the tickets.

How many other P4 schools would hire Mike Woodson to be their head coach? Hint: 0