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It’s pretty clear Quinn and Ferguson were behind everything Woody. Indy Star even wrote about it. Scott had to fight tooth and nail to get rid of Woody in year 4.

In reality it isn’t. CFB is king and drives 70-75% of athletic dept revenue and 100% of a school’s influence in college sports. That’s fine you’re bball first, people like what they like, but this is the reality of college athletics, even at IU.

So earlier you were all concerned about IU athletics as a whole. And now you say you would like to do the worst possible thing for IU athletics. Interesting.

I'd love for Matt to leave, but I think the chance is more or less zero. There are about 25 coaches you can place a bet on to take the UNC job, including insane long shots, and Matt isn't even on the board. He's comfortable in his little world at Purdue and it works for his style of recruiting and coaching. I'm not sure he'd do much better with the high dollar players given how he likes to run things. The "star" guys have given him some issues in the past. My hope is PU has peaked and realistically a best case is they're generally ranked #12-25 going forward and not really in the mix for big prizes. Matt is a very good coach that has had things working very well for over a decade and I doubt they fade from the top-25 anytime soon.

He can't do his job when the guy who approves the bball coach hire and contract decides he wants to make the decision. It's not a "balls" thing, it's the org chart. The Chairman is one of Scott's bosses.

You're just ranting because you like being mad. 1) It's obvious who pushed to hire the unqualified NBA reject no other college would consider AND kept him around for a 4th year. Was it the brand new AD hire? Or was it the NBA reject's best friend who is the powerful Chairman of the Board of Trustees? I wonder who did it. Ask people around IU and they'll tell you, it was Quinny. 2) You can't chalk up a 16-0 +479 point differential B1G and Football National Title to nothing but luck. Too much goes into it. First off, the whole CFB world missed Cig except Scott. Then once IUFB took off Cig could have went to basically any "big/prestigious" program, yet he stayed at IU. In fact, he signed his new contracts at IU faster than any other coach being mentioned with other jobs. That's impressive and Scott made that happen. Would Cig work with an incompetent admin? No. He even specified this group has to be around or else his buyout falls. 3) Since Scott took over, athletic dept revenue is up ~50%. We went from the bottom third to the top third of the B1G. That is not a "pretty shitty" athletics program. That's a stunning achievement. All the above doesn't mean Scott can't make errors with IUBB or other sports. Of course he's not perfect and criticism can be warranted. CDD looks like an iffy hire right now. But it's not like Scott ruined IUBB, that happened a long time ago. However, doing silly mental gymnastics to ignore the huge positives of the past few years is dumb. If this stretch of IU athletics has you this unhappy, I don't know why you follow IU.

He's talking about Arizona's storied past, present, and future in a reverential way. No way he intended to signal he's leaving right before the Final Four, which would create a huge distraction. I just can't see why he'd go to UNC. No ties (in fact he's been out west his whole life) and he already has a program about as good as you can get it. Coaches just don't seem to leave this sort of situation so they can try to recreate it somewhere else. My $ is on him leveraging this into a better contract and more NIL. This may take some time so his name may be out there for awhile with the UNC job. Arizona is a big school they'll give him whatever he needs.

I think people are reading into this too much. Coaches don’t flat out say they’re leaving and he’s talking about Arizona past present and future. I still think he uses UNC to get a big raise and more NIL at Arizona, so it may take some time for him to sign a new deal. Leaving a program that’s rolling for a place he has no ties would be surprising.

Yea they’re gonna keep making the tourney, I just want to see that B1G title/F4 threat continue to fade…

Thank goodness. Should be a bit of a rebuild now. Finally. Hopefully.

Aaron I like your posts but you’ve lost me on this one! Agree to disagree haha. And PU in a home Final Four is playing with fire. Personally I need them out of this tourney ASAP. And it’s not looking good.

Not good, friggin’ Purdue “home” Final Four. I don’t want to deal with that.

Yea, he gained weight in the late 2000’s or so (I can’t exactly recall when) and that nickname started on the IU boards.

The Dusty and Ben thing hurts -- I feel it too. And I'm worried about CDD. Fingers crossed we are good again someday...

He's been in charge for two key hires. One was great, one is TBD but off to a slow start. Still a long way to go before this can be concluded.

He’s a great tournament coach. Ability to make effective in-game adjustments is amplified in importance with the short prep times in between games. Impressive. It hurts to see…

Yea, let's see if Iowa goes undefeated and wins it all. CBB is a sideshow compared to CFB. You really can't compare them. Some of our fans don't appreciate what happened in football.

I get your point, but this is shortchanging what IU has accomplished. What IUFB did in CFB is substantially more difficult and significant than a CBB tourney run. Iowa has a long way to go to rival our football story. CBB is so much smaller than CFB it's not really possible.

I hope so, but I suspect the PU game is close and they have a chance. Painter has one of his hard to beat postseason teams, which is annoying. If they get to a home F4 that would be unpleasant. Illinois Iowa idk, that is probably less close.

Yet mighty IUBB still took Rod Clark from Tennessee. ;-)

Opening SP+ for ‘26 just came out. We’re 5th. A good read: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48306284/2026-college-football-sp+-rankings-138-fbs-teams

True. Though I suspect for some of them it won't be their choice. Some players are gonna get DeVries'd and/or Carr'd.

Another easy match up for Purdue. I’ve got little hope.