Fire Coach Woodson Thread

[JSHoosier 20,612]

13 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

That’s fine (mostly surprised to hear that someone generally likes my posts). 

I lost a lot of my interest when IU hired Mike Woodson. That was a clear signal to me of the importance (or lack thereof) that basketball has to the IU administration. I tried to give him a chance but the interest just hasn’t been there for me. 

As for not watching the games, by the time I get home from work and get done at the gym, it’s like 8:00 at night. Our games usually start at 7:00, so they’re half over by then. I used to build my schedule around our games. Not anymore. if you’ve watched one IU basketball game this year, you’ve watched most of them. It’s the same thing game in and game out. We play an ugly style of basketball. Even the wins usually aren’t fun. So I don’t sit and watch a game that will likely just piss me off  

I’m ‘invested’ in the sense that I’m dying for IU to be great again. The potential coaching search is the most excitement I’ve felt in years toward IU basketball. But I’m tired of caring more about IU basketball than the IU administration does. We as fans pour all this passion into the program just for the administration to do utterly unserious things like give the head coaching job to a semi-retired 63 year old with zero college experience. It’s beyond frustrating. 

I obviously still care. Otherwise I wouldn’t spend time b******* and moaning on here. But I care a lot less than I used to. And the fact that passionate fans like me are losing interest isn’t a good sign for the long-term health of the IU basketball program. It’s not a good sign when your tickets are selling for less than a McChicken on stubhub. The fanbase is the last vestige of the past that the program has left. Once that goes, we’re just another team. 

And each with botched (or in this case deeply unserious) hire they have greater risk losing an entire generation of fans because younger fans have really only seen, at best, mediocrity.

Hiring Woodson was just saying "whatever, screw it". If he didn't play here 40 years ago it'd be beyond laughable.

[Hornsby 2,473]

And each with botched (or in this case deeply unserious) hire they have greater risk losing an entire generation of fans because younger fans have really only seen, at best, mediocrity.

Hiring Woodson was just saying "whatever, screw it". If he didn't play here 40 years ago it'd be beyond laughable.

I only hang on cause I saw the cheaney years if not I would probably care less anymore but it's getting harder to care each year. We hope for a change that never comes. The 2002 run was one fun time but did not last

 

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[IUrocker 2,282]

 
Yikes. A game that Ware went off and we happened to play against a sinking Wisconsin team. It takes our best player to have a super human performance for a Mike Woodson team to win (and we squeezed it out by 4 points even after the excellent game Ware had).

 

I don’t want to be what I saw tonight as “Indiana basketball at its best.” My fear of him getting 8 centers in the portal is coming to life lol 

[IUrocker 2,282]

 

[Scotty R 2,384]

4 hours ago, rcs29 said:

I generally like your posts, but damn....your opinion holds much less hearing this. How can you be so opinionated having only watched maybe 10% of the games? Not to be a jerk, but your opinion means nothing to me from here on out, and that sucks. I mean, seriously, I thought you were all in. You post as if you're invested, but in reality, you're not at all.

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Amen to that

He would be like the kid in school when you had a group project and did none of the work but still complained in the grade we got

[IU Prof 922]

8 hours ago, AH1971 said:

There’s zero reasoning behind this logic. What’s the difference between going 14-17 and 15-16? Absolutely nothing. 

I agree with this. But I do think there is potentially a difference between 15-16 and 16-15 (or, perhaps, 16-16), if the administration is looking for a reason not to move on. So in that sense, last night means one more IU win now guarantees a non-losing season, which isn't nothing.

[RaceToTheTop 26,694]

3 hours ago, Ngw7183 said:

If there was a deeper look and understanding of team psychology you might see it. If you have played at a high level, you might. If your extent of bb knowledge is watching and understanding analytics you might not. 

It does seem that you’ve already decided that we aren’t worthy of giving an answer….so why would we?

[Henryville Hoosier 978]

My opinion of Woody is already baked in, and a 4 point win doesn’t change anything. He still needs to go. 

[HoosierHoopster 7,271]

Ware was a monster last night, he brought and left everything on the floor. We don’t win without that effort, but I do think X being back wad part of it. He’s there engaged and bringing his own energy and some leadership, and Bako’s 14 came with 30 plus minutes and a couple good 3’s on good shooting. It was a team effort, it was a fun game and good to see the team fighting hard again.

[str8baller 5,713]

8 hours ago, TheWatShot said:

Disagree that we would know about it. I know it's more fun to rag on our administration for being incompetent, but a big sign of incompetence is having leaks all over the place and stuff getting out before any kind of announcement can be made. 

Who said anything about leaks?

We’d know because they’d announce, which any competent administration would since the number of people you’d have to clear this through would inevitably lead to leaks. OSU just did it. We did it with Davis. Think about who our coach is in relation to this program. You think the AD, the President, and the BoT led by Woodys good friend would move on Woody and not tell him and let him dangle in the wind like a fool? C’mon… 

 

Also, I’m glad this is fun for you. Very little about the last 25 years is fun. Sad, sure. Fun….hardly. 

[str8baller 5,713]

I heard from a good source if we go 1-1-1 down the stretch Woody is out. The Board of Trustees is said to hate ties, likening them to kissing a board of their sisters. 

[IU22 166]

4 hours ago, IUrocker said:

 

X was a -12 last night. Terrible.

[AnotherSznOnTheBrink 285]

4 hours ago, IUrocker said:

 

Does he think people forget he literally benched him earlier this year? 

[BleedCubbieBlue 1,454]

4 hours ago, Ngw7183 said:

If there was a deeper look and understanding of team psychology you might see it. If you have played at a high level, you might. If your extent of bb knowledge is watching and understanding analytics you might not. 

 

1 hour ago, RaceToTheTop said:

It does seem that you’ve already decided that we aren’t worthy of giving an answer….so why would we?

we be to stoopid to anser. we dont no nuthin bout brain stuf and basketbal stuf. ngw kobe freud no all the brain basketbal stuf.

[IUrocker 2,282]

I really hope the administration/Dolson can see past the nonsense Woodson has been spewing lately to try to save his job. He’s really starting to backpedal and contradict himself.  I’m glad for the players that they played hard and won (especially knowing it was against Wisconsin), but Woodson patting himself on the back saying that was Indiana basketball at its best is ridiculous. His comments from last night were basically “see, we played my way by going through our big, and X was available, and we won because of it.”….no. Ware saved your slim 4 point win by having a JHS at Purdue type of game. Good college basketball coaches don’t have to rely on the JHSs and Wares of the world to go off to convincingly win a dang game. 

[Geometry Hoosier 1,151]

When my wife told me that IU hired Mike Woodson as the new coach, I said “you’ve gotta be kidding me”! I definitely wasn’t excited about the hire. I’m curious if anyone on here really thought YES, we hired Mike Woodson?

[Five Prime 1,114]

4 hours ago, Ngw7183 said:

For all you “Woody needs to go” guys - this doesn’t change a damn thing. Calm the heck down. You may still get your wish or may not but this doesn’t change it. 

The real question you should be asking is why did they play so much harder? Why when so many have said he has “lost the locker room”

If there was a deeper look and understanding of team psychology you might see it. If you have played at a high level, you might. If your extent of bb knowledge is watching and understanding analytics you might not. 

Feel free to answer that honestly. I promise you no matter how it may seem as a positive for Woody, your reply won’t be used in court when deciding Woody’s fate. 

Your tone sucks, you give off the "smartest guy in the room" vibes.  Perhaps try some self reflection before doling out all this free advice.  

[Chris007 46,609]

5 hours ago, IUrocker said:

 

His 5pts 1 assists and 5 turnovers were the difference. On the season we're minus 12 with him on the floor. He was benched earlier this season. So yeah sweet dreams of X coach. My goodness quit sending this guy out to talk to the media.

I got to bed each night dreaming we have a new coach, then I wake up realizing it was a nightmare and we still have Woody.

[Herotime 771]

2 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

His 5pts 1 assists and 5 turnovers were the difference. On the season we're minus 12 with him on the floor. He was benched earlier this season. So yeah sweet dreams of X coach. My goodness quit sending this guy out to talk to the media.

I got to bed each night dreaming we have a new coach, then I wake up realizing it was a nightmare and we still have Woody.

I would have accepted, “I go to bed every night wishing I hadn’t sat on an open scholarship.” This answer, however, is a joke.

[tyappleg 3,407]

5 hours ago, Ngw7183 said:

For all you “Woody needs to go” guys - this doesn’t change a damn thing. Calm the heck down. You may still get your wish or may not but this doesn’t change it. 

The real question you should be asking is why did they play so much harder? Why when so many have said he has “lost the locker room”

If there was a deeper look and understanding of team psychology you might see it. If you have played at a high level, you might. If your extent of bb knowledge is watching and understanding analytics you might not. 

Feel free to answer that honestly. I promise you no matter how it may seem as a positive for Woody, your reply won’t be used in court when deciding Woody’s fate.