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Giving up 54 in the second half was good “tank.”

Getting hard to fire…

Weak crowd for Northwestern.

In general, the more we win, the chances of Woody leaving after this season decrease. So, I get some folks want IU to keep winning games, and that's fine I get it, but it does create more risk with our coaching situation next year. Looking back on last year, we had a late season five game winning streak. Most fans generally liked the run, though we still missed the tourney by a mile, making those wins fairly meaningless. But, that five game run may have kept Woody around another year. If he lost most of those games he might be gone. We'll never know. Top-5 finish in the B1G this year and win a tournament game... even with a more powerful Dolson it's not a certainty he's gone. After all, "It's Indiana."

Good for him. He seemed all business and dedicated when he was at IU, and he even played through injury a few times. He is a great fit for the NBA and it’s cool to it start to click for him this year. Shame we couldn’t achieve much with him when he was here. Oh well.

I bet he is closer to 11 hours per week.

That is one of the least believable things I've ever read.

Depends. The NET has a precedent of declaring Palestra games home games. PSU controls the ticketing and game operations, and it was a home game atmosphere.

That would be shocking. Maybe a fake job with no travel within the Pacers organization the Simons gifted him. I put this one at 0.1% chance of being true, I would guess he heads south for retirement after he is done at IU.

I see Brian Evans went back on the Hysterics pod. I'm not a fan of the HH to say the least, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend I guess. If you want an hour of disappointed and dejected Brian Evans and coaching change talk, you know where to find it.

This friggin’ program man. So badly run.

Yea, it sure seems like some people in the program have been putting out this narrative the last year or so to anyone who will listen: Woody is good and it's everyone else's fault, notably the fans. Hopefully the new coach/staff gets rid of whoever is spreading the aforementioned narrative that produces the Tymes, SDBs, and other similar posters around the boards. Anyone inside the program thinking this way doesn't understand leadership/accountability and is toxic.

I know this post references Dolson not hiring an interim coach, but I'll chime in and say I think Scott can break our losing steak with bball coaches and get the next one right. Scott has been at IU forever. Working at IU isn't exactly the ideal place to learn how to be a great AD, but it appears he's figured it out over the past few years, sometimes the hard way unfortunately, but that's life. I know he constantly seeks to learn more from more experienced ADs at other schools and he keeps in touch with coaching targets well in advance of coaching searches (/wink). That's a sign of a good leader/executive. One benefit of being at IU for such a long time is Scott has seen a lot of mistakes, A LOT! -- from the search committee interviewing no one and hiring Davis to whatever Glass missed when he hired Archie (and Wilson and Allen). He knows who/what to avoid. And in fairness he's seen some good non-rev sport hires too. I'm optimistic he knows what sort of bball coach candidate will work at IU. It certainly appears he figured out what football coach would do well here, and that was a harder task than what he faces with bball. In the end, Scott is all we have at IU to fix basketball. We've seen the serious incompetence and conflicts from those outside the athletic dept. Fortunately, I think their influence is materially diminished. I get being pessimistic with bball hires, it's hard to argue with the history, but there are reasons to be optimistic that Scott gets the next one right.

Good. Time to enforce contracts. Players are getting paid big money, which is great; but now they need to act like pros. It will be nice with the House Settlement is finalized and a lot of this uncertainty ends.

Spot on. And in the end this is all entertainment and an optional part of the IU fan experience.

In my opinion this is what message boards are for. Little bits of info get posted and yes posters need to piece it together for themselves and figure out what’s likely true or not. I prefer this to waiting for the IndyStar or HT to run an article. For example, the boards have been all over Buckner and Ferguson for years vs Doyel finally writing about it this week.

At worst Woody has a winning 5-4 conference record going into the Maryland game at home. If he wants to coach, and he will, I can’t imagine IU not letting him, especially with Quinn and Steve around. He’s still trying to save his season.

With our top-5 payroll $6M+ roster.

The zone of pain. That win last night probably significantly reduces whatever chance there was at a midseason change. Woody has demonstrated he can still win games with this team, and while that's a depressingly low bar, it is enough to avoid getting replaced midseason. This is not enough of a meltdown to replace him. The next two games are not too hard either.

Ooof. This is cringey. Just stay home dude.

The “mass exodus” is back on.

Spot on. Cig was huge, assuming he likely works out, which appears to be the case!, we've got the biggest and most important sport moving in the right direction. Cig also demonstrates the proper Org Chart. He reports to Scott, but also has a good relationship and support from Pam. I never hear about what donors or trustees want with FB, the donors just send money without a peep like they should, and the trustees stay out of it. We've got the blueprint. Time to implement it again with basketball.

I suspect Scott and Pam need to show they’re in charge now and the stupid idiots are either gone (Quinn) or will be boxed into the background (other trustees/donors). The IU job has some great things going for it, but I’ve always worried coaches see how we manage our program and it’s a big negative.

Yea. A raise is fine if Woody was performing exceptionally well. I don’t think he was. Kinda funny he got that extra $1M/yr and $4.2M higher buyout and then immediately after the wheels totally came off. Classic IU.

It was, but the total buyout was increased by $4.2M at the same time.