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

[Artie86]

1 minute ago, southsidehoosier said:

CTA looks like he road in on a chopper to meet Woody. CTA is so freakin cool!

Woody’s a BIG man....

[DWB]

1 minute ago, Artie86 said:

Woody’s a BIG man....

I think he was listed at 6'-7" on the basketball roster. Didn't weigh as much then....

[Chris007]

6 minutes ago, southsidehoosier said:

CTA looks like he road in on a chopper to meet Woody. CTA is so freakin cool!

He loves that leather jacket. He wears it everywhere

[Banksyrules]

6 minutes ago, southsidehoosier said:

CTA looks like he road in on a chopper to meet Woody. CTA is so freakin cool!

They make IU leather jackets? Lol 

[bleedhoosier]

1 hour ago, Capt. Crimson said:

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

That made me laugh out loud during a Webex at work

[CSP]

4 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

They make IU leather jackets? Lol 

For him

[Demo]

1 hour ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Interesting tweet from Jarrad Odle 

Coach Woodson made a great point. Don’t think transfers out are a bad thing. Some of these players are used to doing half the work and he will expect all the work. There were hidden non buy in guys all over this team. Cant win championships with selfishness.

Great call by Odle. Unassailably true. Will also be curious to see how Woody handles kids that after watching them decides they  just aren’t good enough or are a poor fit for his scheme, though they may be really good kids. Is he ready to be that guy from the jump. Would think so, but I want to see it.

[Kentuckysucks]

1 minute ago, Demo said:

Great call by Odle. Unassailably true. Will also be curious to see how Woody handles kids that after watching them decides they  just aren’t good enough or are a poor fit for his scheme, though they may be really good kids. Is he ready to be that guy from the jump. Would thinks so, but I want to see it.

I like the mindset but unfortunately today most kids are soft.  It's not the 1980s anymore.  I just think he's going to have trouble getting recruits with that old school mindset.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Mike Schumann confirming that @Mike_WoodsonIU is his new twitter account and already with over 4,000 followers!!

[FrenchConnection]

2 minutes ago, Demo said:

Great call by Odle. Unassailably true. Will also be curious to see how Woody handles kids that after watching them decides they  just aren’t good enough or are a poor fit for his scheme, though they may be really good kids. Is he ready to be that guy from the jump. Would thinks so, but I want to see it.

I would have to think so. Cutting a kid loose when he can just go to another school is a lot less traumatic than cutting a second-round pick, thereby crushing someone's NBA dreams. 

[bleedhoosier]

4 minutes ago, Demo said:

Great call by Odle. Unassailably true. Will also be curious to see how Woody handles kids that after watching them decides they  just aren’t good enough or are a poor fit for his scheme, though they may be really good kids. Is he ready to be that guy from the jump. Would thinks so, but I want to see it.

Probably a hard convo he's navigated before. Like look kid, u don't fit anything I'm willing to do from the footage I see. Do you want to reinvent your game in these ways, or do you want me to help you find a suitor with a system that highlights your current game (plus distance from home, etc etc)

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Transcript of the press conference -

https://www.insidethehall.com/2021/03/29/transcript-mike-woodson-introductory-press-conference/

[Bgaines99]

Just getting around to watching the press conference and 25 minutes in I’m in tears with Woody’s humility and emotion. 

[bleedhoosier]

I love the mix of humility and referring to himself in the 3rd person

[Artie86]

3 minutes ago, Bgaines99 said:

Just getting around to watching the press conference and 25 minutes in I’m in tears with Woody’s humility and emotion. 

Same.....I wiped my face 3 time, luckily I was at lunch, at my desk.

[Willkie71]

34 minutes ago, Stromboli said:

 

After a day of consideration and learning about Coach Woody, I’m a big fan of the hire. Very different from Archie’s energy, for sure. Hearing Dolson talk about the three main concerns of the players was telling: relationship with coach, skill development, overall style of play. I’d say this is in line with what we all suspected. I agree with the sentiment that Woodson will be a players’ coach. Personally I view that as a great thing. Woodson is calm and self-assured and large and accomplished. He’s got some swag about him, has so much more to his resume than a Lewis or Fife or even Cheaney. And I think he’s going to have real rapport with these guys having come from Indy and succeeded and has awesome pics with the hair and records that still hold up. And the dude wants to bring our offense and defense current! Yeah. The more I think about him the more I like it. My reservations before were really just ignorance. Oh, lastly, his reverence for IU ball. Hard to imagine many more qualified to connect and instill that in young players. 

The announcement of Matta simultaneous to Woodson was an interesting choice. We’ve talked about making a splash with the hire, and this I think was an effort towards that, which could be seen as a recognition that Woodson himself doesn’t make that splash. Hard to imagine a fiery guy like Matta can sit back and not try to take some ownership along the way. Regardless, he has to be viewed as an asset. 
 

As for transfers vs retention, I’m nearing ambiguity. I do like our players, but will like the new ones, too. Let Coach build his own team. 

Regarding the Matta hire, SD mentioned hiring a "CEO of basketball operations" or something like that in his initial press conference regarding the new coach hire criteria.  So, he must have been thinking of this all along even before deciding on Woody.   Not sure how this would have worked for the Masshole, but should work great with Woody. Perfect situation for Matta also, allowing him to stay involved in bball, but not so demanding or stressful on his health.  Love the hires, excitement is back.

[Willkie71]

6 minutes ago, Bgaines99 said:

Just getting around to watching the press conference and 25 minutes in I’m in tears with Woody’s humility and emotion. 

I thought it was just me lol.  I thought he was having a hard time holding it together too. Would have been epic if he had teared up too haha

[Woodsonshump]

2 hours ago, Trish said:

His ability to recruit the teams own players coming back will give us a sign of his recruiting abilities, stop. He said he would beg for them to stay. Let's see how good he is. 

Again, players come and go all the time when coaching changes are made. If they want to be here, fine. If not, fine. I'm quite confident in Woodson's tone meaning that he wants them to see that IU is a great place to be and to play ball. He's dealt with more finicky personalities in the NBA. In the end, if they want to go, he's gonna say go. I'm quite certain that when the day is done, whoever leaves will have left not because Mike Woodson is the coach, but rather that they didn't like what Mike Woodson was going to expect of them. Stop.

[hoosrnight]

I didn’t get to see the presser, but from everything I’m reading here, I’m liking the hire more. It’s nice to have a head coach that truly WANTS to be here as opposed to getting paid to be here.

[DChoosier]

25 minutes ago, Kentuckysucks said:

I like the mindset but unfortunately today most kids are soft.  It's not the 1980s anymore.  I just think he's going to have trouble getting recruits with that old school mindset.

I’m an old dude that sees a lot of tough minded kids still playing in the tourney .The “tougher” ‘70’s, 80’s” mentality is romanticized these days as there were plenty of screw ups back then, hard partiers, they didn’t have to deal with constant social media scrutiny and many of them didn’t do squat in the off-season.