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17 minutes ago, bobknightsghost said:

If you’re only two choices are Beard or Cronin, who you taking?

Considering keeping Woody

[iubb 4,816]

Seriously, this is the last thing IU needs... espicially after Woody

[Kentuckysucks 4,332]

5 minutes ago, iubb said:

https://awfulannouncing.com/college-basketball/jay-bilas-mick-cronin-blame-game.html

So many burned bridges

Bilas is a moron.  UCLA rattled off 7 straight wins after Cronin made those comments.  

[JSHoosier 22,210]

21 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

 

I'll see your Tim Priller and raise you

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1 hour ago, Home Jersey said:

Any more than 3 shakes and you’re playing with yourself. Lol

Holy s*it ..was just catching up and I started to post the same damn thing...

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1 minute ago, AZ Hoosier said:

I haven't followed Cronin or UCLA... so the question I have relates to context. Have the fans consistently  booed the team in similar situations? Have they generally been supportive of the team, and this was a "one-off"?

Compare this to Woodson at IU ... the toxic booing didn't happen until he completely crapped the bed this year ... the fans reached a point of frustration where we had a $6M payroll and were losing by 30 at home  to Illinois ... from where I sit, it appears to be a vastly different situation in LA than here in Bloomington.

 

Good questions, I don’t know the answers. I’ll speculate because this is a message board so keep in mind it’s just one guys opinion.

My experience with UCLA fans is that they’re typical fair weather fans and because of the program’s tradition, the expectation is very high (similar to ours). He’s commented about being frustrated with NIL and the transfer portal out there. And they’re hardly at the stadium. So you get all the expectations of a blue blood and not a commensurate amount of support / resources. Then when the fans do show up, because of their high expectations, they don’t really create a home court advantage and sometimes boo, which in an already half empty stadium, can be deflating at home. So I can see that getting a guy worked up after losing the game enough to say that the fans “make it worse.”

I’m sure there are many examples of him being callous toward fans at Cincy too, but I think IU fans wouldn’t present the same challenges he’s had to call out at UCLA to try and help the program. We support our teams - to your point - only after things were totally off the rails did we boo. And we put our money where our mouth is. Too many other things going on in LA, have to fight for it… served on a silver platter here. A parallel for our current reality may be if Cronin were hired and after his first year talked about fans needing to reign each other in when they act crazy on social media. Could people stomach that? Some better than others. But I think it would largely depend on how it’s presented to fans. 

I’m not trying to be a Cronin guy at all, but I think people are making way too much hay out of “what will fly with fans” or not.

IMO Cronin, a coach’s son, who left his alma mater Cincinnati for UCLA, is a guy that’s a proven winner and wants a title as bad as anybody. He’s not afraid of the expectations that come with a blue blood - he chased the prestige but LA doesn’t seem like a personality fit. Think he’d win over the majority of the fanbase in due time because we haven’t seen a coach who is visibly dying to win on the IU sidelines in what feels like forever. 

Yes he’s a curmudgeon. He’s also about to be the youngest active coach to 500 wins. Again just one guys opinion. IMO probably doesn’t happen coz of the buyout anyway. But I wouldn’t be upset if it does.

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5 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

I'll see your Tim Priller and raise you

Who is that?  Tijan Jobe, Bawa Munuri, Peter Jurkin, Guy Marchel, Daryl Pegram?

We’ve had so many big man studs the past 25 years it’s hard to keep track.

[IUFAN1976 4,320]

13 minutes ago, iubb said:

https://awfulannouncing.com/college-basketball/jay-bilas-mick-cronin-blame-game.html

So many burned bridges

Don’t we already have a coach like that?  We don’t want to go backwards!  Go forwards!  At least he didn’t say anything about a hump!

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2 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

Who is that?  Tijan Jobe, Bawa Munuri, Peter Jurkin, Guy Marchel, Daryl Pegram?

We’ve had so many big man studs the past 25 years it’s hard to keep track.

You Jurkin my gherkin?

[iu eyedoc 4,422]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Exactly. This isn’t a one off thing. That guy is miserable and has been for as long as I’ve been paying attention. I have no interest in personally disliking the IUBB coach again. 

Yeah 4 years is enough for me, ehh maybe only the last 2

[JF87 2,149]

50 minutes ago, eddy4iu said:

Looking forward to hearing Dallas address the crowd on Senior Day. DWS

Speaking of senior night, do Leal and Galloway get recognized again?  It made zero sense to have them go through the ceremony last year when they had already announced they were coming back.  Senior night used to seem special.  I feel like it has lost its specialness over the years.  

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Just now, JF87 said:

Speaking of senior night, do Leal and Galloway get recognized again?  It made zero sense to have them go through the ceremony last year when they had already announced they were coming back.  Senior night used to seem special.  I feel like it has lost its specialness over the years.  

Especially w the transfer rules 

[maharkn 1,948]

Especially w the transfer rules 

I'm just going to assume that with Woodson there isn't going to be one or at least he won't be taking a part in it

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30 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Jeremiah April 

I’ve shared my Jeremiah April story here before but since his name is rarely mentioned I’ll take the opportunity to share it again. Psych 101 lecture. Sitting a few rows back from the front when Priller and April sit next to me. April asked if I could share notes for the entire semester with him and Priller slaps him on the shoulder, goes “dude we have to take our own” lol. Then they were talking amongst themselves and Jeremiah randomly goes “man… if basketball doesn’t work out, I’m moving to Colorado and becoming a Rastafarian man…”

Sometimes I wonder if he’s living his dream out there…

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4 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Speaking of senior night, do Leal and Galloway get recognized again?  It made zero sense to have them go through the ceremony last year when they had already announced they were coming back.  Senior night used to seem special.  I feel like it has lost its specialness over the years.  

They will... someone has to remind us to chill... 

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3 minutes ago, maharkn said:

I'm just going to assume that with Woodson there isn't going to be one or at least he won't be taking a part in it

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My guess is it’ll be videos. 

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7 minutes ago, maharkn said:

I'm just going to assume that with Woodson there isn't going to be one or at least he won't be taking a part in it

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Man, that would be SO disappointing... can you imagine how that would go? Would be epic...

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7 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Speaking of senior night, do Leal and Galloway get recognized again?  It made zero sense to have them go through the ceremony last year when they had already announced they were coming back.  Senior night used to seem special.  I feel like it has lost its specialness over the years.  

It will be interesting in a couple years when someone finally does a study on the transfer portal and average time at one school. I imagine we are quickly moving towards where dudes doing 4 years at one school is going to be a very low percentage. It’s gotten absurd in football with guys making multiple high major changes. Basketball seems to have money distributed differently where big transfers mostly don’t hop to second big school. 

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I’ve had several PM’s so wanted to drop a quick line to the broader board. Love this group and fully intend to continue to contribute to the community, Im not going anywhere. (Sorry to a few of you) But I have been asked to quiet down and I’m going to respect that. Talked to another guy in the know and he got the same messsage. The things being worked out right now they want to do with less heat and smoke. I’ll give some more insight when I can. Think things should be pretty quiet until after the B1G tourney. All is well.

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BRAD ******* STEVENS

 

You should get that trademarked @68Hoosier Lol

Tis a joke before anyone takes this sh!tpost seriously…