Mike Woodson to be next IUBB coach. Thad Matta to be associate AD

[Vauxhall and IU]

9 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I thought his “IU basketball will always be Bob Knight” comment was really interesting. With our other coaches, and other candidates out there, they’d want IU to be their program. They wouldn’t want to live in the shadows of Bob Knight. Such a polarizing former coach creates a divide. Other guys might not feel as comfortable embracing the past. With Woody, I get a different feeling. Obviously he’s the guy in charge of IU basketball now. Saying “it’s not his program” sounds weird, but from listening to him talk I get the feeling that he sees IU basketball as Bob Knight’s program. It’s Bob Knight’s program, and it’s now Coach Woodson’s job to get it back to a place Bob Knight would be proud of. 

I just took that as CMW acknowledging the shadow Knight still casts over the program, which has been kind of an elephant in the room for the last few coaches. Just the optics of seeing the new IU coach talk so much Knight right at the top of his introductory press conference was extraordinary. That would've been unimaginable with the last few hires. I'm not saying it's better one way or the other, but it is a signal that there's some sort of weight that's lifted, and that the way the program connects its past and present is going to be different going forward.

[ap2345]

Woodson is meeting with players individually today. 
 

Franklin has some options like Louisville and Virginia.

Louisville is trying to hire Kenya Hunter too.

The meetings today will be huge.

[ThompsonHoosier]

Well if we're going to shoot more 3's we better get a good shooting coach!

[Trish]

6 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

The more I think about it, the more I think he won’t have any problem relating to younger guys. The Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul is good and all for the name dropping aspect, but I think his current stuff is more important. A week ago he was coaching guys like RJ Barrett (20), Kevin Knox (21), Immanuel Quickley (21), Obi Toppin (23) and Mitchell Robinson (22), among other young guys on the Knicks. The Knicks have a bunch of guys on the team who are college age or just past college age. 

But he wasn't their head coach! Nor did he recruit those specific players there as it's the NBA.

We'll see if he can relate to young players and coach them in today's college basketball! 

[Hoosierfan1901]

Jerome Hunter approves 

 

[Capt. Crimson]

1 minute ago, ThompsonHoosier said:

Well if we're going to shoot more 3's we better get a good shooting coach!

Woodson: "Someone get Jordan Hulls on the phone for Mike Woodson" 

[Trish]

I wonder if his defense will drive Woody up the wall like it did Archie lol

[Hoosierfan222]

2 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

Woodson is meeting with players individually today. 
 

Franklin has some options like Louisville and Virginia.

Louisville is trying to hire Kenya Hunter too.

The meetings today will be huge.

Yeeep.

I think Franklin is a must have. 

[ap2345]

1 minute ago, ThompsonHoosier said:

Well if we're going to shoot more 3's we better get a good shooting coach!

What was Woodson really good at doing as a player? 

[sirhoosierlot]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;I&#39;m not gonna puff my chest out and be like &#39;Indiana just hit a home run and everyone else should be scared&#39; but Mike Woodson is awesome.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/clubtrillion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@clubtrillion</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/tatefrazier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tatefrazier</a> react to <a href="https://twitter.com/IndianaMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IndianaMBB</a> hiring Mike Woodson to be its next Head Coach ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/0uakP6T1LW">pic.twitter.com/0uakP6T1LW</a></p>&mdash; FOX College Hoops (@CBBonFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1376557260399255554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Edit: **** 

https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1376557260399255554?s=20

[HoosierAloha]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

I started a (much appreciated) Private Message conversation with a very respected poster on this board about six days ago when Woody's name first became a real possibility. The other poster knows a lot about Woody, and I started to research just how highly his NBA players thought of him. That's when I started to post YouTube videos of those testimonials. The conclusion from our conversation stated:

"This is the guy we should have hired both five and thirteen years ago."

Better late than never y'all. Better late than never.

 

No concern about age?

[Hoosierfan2017]

1 minute ago, Trish said:

But he wasn't their head coach! Nor did he recruit those specific players there as it's the NBA.

We'll see if he can relate to young players and coach them in today's college basketball! 

Why is your name Trish now haha. 

That's fair that he wasn't their head coach and he didn't recruit them, but it shows he's not some old head who has no idea what kids are like these days. He's not going to come in and ask if they've got the new LL Cool J album on their Walkmans yet. 

[pumpfake]

Just now, ap2345 said:

What was Woodson really good at doing as a player? 

Gettin' buckets, midrange and from the baseline.  Like a lot of IU players in that era he had great shooting form.

[Trish]

Just now, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Why is your name Trish now haha. 

That's fair that he wasn't their head coach and he didn't recruit them, but it shows he's not some old head who has no idea what kids are like these days. He's not going to come in and ask if they've got the new LL Cool J album on their Walkmans yet. 

In case I get hired by Woody. ;) 

Chris said he would send him my resume. I think he and I are grabbing dinner tonight! I'll tell him who he needs to hire. 

[Stuhoo]

Just now, HoosierAloha said:

No concern about age?

That's a concern. Hence the "we should have hired him X years ago".

But at least we get through multiple recruiting cycles with Woody. I still believe that with Beilein, who is a great coach, we would have suffered from that on day one.

[Hoosierfan1901]

He is not fooling around

 

[WRSMick55]

The part of the press conference where Dolson said he talked to the players before the hire on what they wanted and they mentioned having a coach they could have a relationship with  and style of play ( mentioned twice) was very interesting. Sounded to me maybe the players didn’t like Miller’s style of play or maybe had “soured” on Miller.

[rcbowla]

Ok my take away from the PC:

-Let's get this out of the way. Not sure how I feel about the 3rd person stuff lol. Generally makes me cringe

-Passion. The man clearly loves IU and there is zero doubt his wants and our wants for the program are in line.

-Self awareness. He knows what his weaknesses are and will be but being able to embrace them and be transparent about it can't be understated.

-Confidence. He knows what works and has worked. Gave me the impression he's got a system and plan that will work and he knows it. I liked his answer about the current players and seeing where their heart is. Heart and determination is what I grew up knowing IUBB to be about.

He definitely takes his time to get his message across and seemed to float into reminiscing in his mind during some of his answers. Upon completion of this post yeah.....PR people probably should correct the 3rd person stuff lol.

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[SteelerHoosier]

The 3rd person stuff was weird lol

[ap2345]

4 minutes ago, pumpfake said:

Gettin' buckets, midrange and from the baseline.  Like a lot of IU players in that era he had great shooting form.

We’ve got a winner. Hopefully the days of bad shooting form that doesn’t improve are over.