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Jfc we have the worst team culture I’ve ever seen.

I’d love Scott to completely cut them off. Maybe find a reason to sue them to force them to shutdown their NIL grift — everyone can go to Hoosier Connect. They are so bad for IU.

You gotta be a “True Fan” to head to Dayton to watch this coach and team. It’s such a brutal watch.

Yea I’m not commenting on Self, who I don’t think is at the right stage in his career to hire. Just highlighting KU has had its first down year in like 20 years and it’s crazy they’re complaining. And our fanbase gets the toxic and fishbowl narrative…

Yea KU won a title three years ago and 17 of the last 20 conference titles! Those poor KU fans, one down season and they’re complaining lol.

I’ve heard he may not be thrilled with KU’s big push with football — those are resources not going to bball. I don’t think he’s likely at all, but he may be worn out with KU… he has been there forever and eventually things get old.

He also got caught out when some announcer (I forget who) said Woody told him something along the lines of he didn’t know why his results were not good enough, which implied he was fired. Woody broke his retirement narrative spin with that too. Also, of course, anyone close to the program will tell you he got fired/relieved of his duties, which makes perfect sense given his poor performance.

It’s very disingenuous to push the fans running off coaches narrative. No one even knows who IU has been targeting.

Yea. Probably closer to Chernobyl. Good thing it's made up.

The showy move is the abbreviation or one letter because you’re too busy to type out your name. - P

Finally some betting odds. Interesting. from ITH

IMO, this is a quality day in the General Coach Candidate News thread. McCollum, Wade, and good old Boy Wonder. Good stuff.

Scott didn’t hire Woodson. After 1,000 of your posts about Woody’s pals Quinn and Ferguson you of all people should know this.

True. And really, no coach midseason has ever said: “Hell yea I’d take that other job” or “You got me Mr/Mrs Reporter, I already accepted another gig I’m leaving.” It’s a denial right up until accepting.

Good points. It appears we are also seeing this in CFB where there is also an increase in parity. It’s helping us some in FB and probably hurting us a bit in bball.

Yea. Fred wasn’t too good at the big (FB, bball) hires. Issue with him is he had no experience as an AD. Like you, I’ve got to hope Scott has this hiring thing mostly figured out. I think there is a good chance he does, he likely got one right and he has observed a lot of mistakes up close over the years.

Some people are way too confident in their ability to assess coaches from a distance with little info. I know I can’t do it. People can do whatever they want, but getting upset over someone like McCollum seems silly. If it’s him, Scott made the call based on way, way more information than most people have. We’ll have to see how it actually goes for a couple years. Maybe he is awesome, maybe he is mediocre, it’s just so hard to know.

Ha. Maybe an emerging football superpower in Indiana is close enough.

That is a big number. I guess passing the collection plate really works well down there. I suspect with the rev share starting next year they are quoting NIL + rev share. Still, that has to be top-5ish, wow.

Potential mass exodus from the Celtics staff??!! ;-)

Yea. The people I know keep saying Scott is talking to absolutely no one, not even the big timers (which is great). May just be Scott, Pam, and one lawyer in the know. With that in mind, I can’t get too high or low with the rumors and chatter.

Other big programs have big fanbases too and they manage to do well. The fan stuff is an excuse. The fanbase is a big, big net positive. Even if our fans were an issue, what should we do? Have Scott and Pam somehow reach out to over a million people and tell them how to act? Shutdown all our forums? Somehow shrink interest in IUBB so we are less scary? A good coach will use our fanbase to his advantage with donations and great crowds that help win games.

Brad will always be part of the IU family.

In reality, we still know so little about what's going on... Personally I don't know enough to be legit concerned (or excited) yet.

Coach McCollum: At Assembly Hall the FT lines are 15 ft from the basket and the rims are 10 ft high. I think you'll find that's the exact same measurements as your gym back at Des Moines.