Fire Coach Woodson Thread

[kottke 766]

I would LOVE to get my hopes up again, believe me, but I'm having trouble getting excited when a statement was already sent out saying he'd be back next year. Are we just ignoring that? Or, are we hoping Liam leaving and the arrogant senior day speech from Woody is enough to make them backtrack on the statement?

[Hovadipo 55,116]

10 minutes ago, btownqb said:

They played at Lucas Oil for the BTT? I believe you, I just don't remember that. 

Yep, so they had more space for social distancing, inconsistent testing, etc. Capacity was 8,000.

[monskisprodigy 1,814]

Do we have an update on Trey? See some rumors of meniscus tear, but nothing confirmed by anyone on his status....

 

(Mods, feel free to move this if needed...just the most active board where I thought I'd get an answer haha)

[ISP 924]

Hey ya'll, 

I've been abroad the past 10 days or so, just got back yesterday. Wanted to follow up on my previous bit about Trey, where he was planning on opening up his playing options at the end of the year. Suffice to say I was taken back by his announcement to return. Yesterday, I saw the person who gave me this info. Again, I will say that this person is legit and I know them well - zero reason to make up BS and has very close ties. They said that they were also shocked by the announcement, it was completely opposite of what he had been saying to his small circle most of the season. We both believe that at some point in the past week he was offered a substantial (like 2x) NIL package to stay at IU. As we know, IU's NIL for next year was substantially increased over the past 2 weeks. My person should get more official word from the family on what exactly went down and I will pass that along when I get it. 

 

[JF87 1,413]

57 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

The check has already been deposited so who do we want spending the money, Woodson or Pearl or May

Or Oats.  :)

[IUHoosierJoe 1,101]

18 minutes ago, KNOBYDOX said:

One of the things I noticed about Cathy is she answers questions with questions!

And when she does give answers, they contradict.

[Chris007 43,567]

7 minutes ago, kottke said:

I would LOVE to get my hopes up again, believe me, but I'm having trouble getting excited when a statement was already sent out saying he'd be back next year. Are we just ignoring that? Or, are we hoping Liam leaving and the arrogant senior day speech from Woody is enough to make them backtrack on the statement?

It said it was a source from the athletic department saying he would be back. Didn't have a name attached to it. It could be NGW for all we know. 

[LamarCheeks 18,070]

I've seen a handful of references to last week's "statement" saying Woody would return. 

Just an FYI -- there was no such statement. It was information that apparently was leaked from someone within the athletic department to the media. 

There has never been such a statement and TBH, I wouldn't necessarily expect one. Well, except for Woody's defiant declaration on Senior Day. 

[Golfman25 5,017]

6 minutes ago, ISP said:

Hey ya'll, 

I've been abroad the past 10 days or so, just got back yesterday. Wanted to follow up on my previous bit about Trey, where he was planning on opening up his playing options at the end of the year. Suffice to say I was taken back by his announcement to return. Yesterday, I saw the person who gave me this info. Again, I will say that this person is legit and I know them well - zero reason to make up BS and has very close ties. They said that they were also shocked by the announcement, it was completely opposite of what he had been saying to his small circle most of the season. We both believe that at some point in the past week he was offered a substantial (like 2x) NIL package to stay at IU. As we know, IU's NIL for next year was substantially increased over the past 2 weeks. My person should get more official word from the family on what exactly went down and I will pass that along when I get it. 

 

Well it was clearly Ben Franklin was our best recruiter.  

[Trish 11,505]

1 minute ago, LamarCheeks said:

I've seen a handful of references to last week's "statement" saying Woody would return. 

Just an FYI -- there was no such statement. It was information that apparently was leaked from someone within the athletic department to the media. 

There has never been such a statement and TBH, I wouldn't necessarily expect one. Well, except for Woody's defiant declaration on Senior Day. 

It was from Scott. Zach is connected. 

[kottke 766]

Just now, Chris007 said:

It said it was a source from the athletic department saying he would be back. Didn't have a name attached to it. It could be NGW for all we know. 

 

2 minutes ago, Trish said:

It was from Scott. Zach is connected. 

This is why I'm having trouble getting my hopes up. The information came from the IU beat writer from the largest paper (or whatever you call it these days) in the state. Surely he wouldn't run with it unless he had 100% credible intel.

[Hoosier DaDa 2,165]

1 hour ago, tyappleg said:

We're back.  Thanks for the copium Chris. 

Since I had to look it up I thought I would post it for all that is not up to date on the word "COPIUM" 

 

What does copium mean in slang?

 

 

"Copium" is a term that originated on Twitch and is a combination of the words "cope" and "opium." It is often used to describe the act of denying reality or a difficult truth by clinging to a false or overly optimistic belief as if it were a drug.

[Chris007 43,567]

13 minutes ago, ISP said:

Hey ya'll, 

I've been abroad the past 10 days or so, just got back yesterday. Wanted to follow up on my previous bit about Trey, where he was planning on opening up his playing options at the end of the year. Suffice to say I was taken back by his announcement to return. Yesterday, I saw the person who gave me this info. Again, I will say that this person is legit and I know them well - zero reason to make up BS and has very close ties. They said that they were also shocked by the announcement, it was completely opposite of what he had been saying to his small circle most of the season. We both believe that at some point in the past week he was offered a substantial (like 2x) NIL package to stay at IU. As we know, IU's NIL for next year was substantially increased over the past 2 weeks. My person should get more official word from the family on what exactly went down and I will pass that along when I get it. 

 

Yes I was told that Woodson met with Trey and Leal on Saturday to give them their deal. This week he has met with Malik, and might hear him announce soon that he'll be back. 

[IUHoosierJoe 1,101]

7 minutes ago, Trish said:

It was from Scott. Zach is connected. 

There could be reasons for Scott giving that out other than it being a final decision 

[Stuhoo 79,751]

2 hours ago, Chris007 said:

I've heard some rumblings he's not pleased. Some would even go as far as saying Seething

He HAS to be. 

Clearly, my “it doesn’t bother me that much” take on ‘salty-Woody’ is in the minority, and given that, if I was Dolson I’d be massively pissed.

[IUrocker 2,145]

19 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

It said it was a source from the athletic department saying he would be back. Didn't have a name attached to it. It could be NGW for all we know. 

Yep, and then Dolson could have been fine with that coming out the way it did because it’d quiet the noise of what he could trying to get done behind the scenes. 

[Stuhoo 79,751]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

Worst case we have another year.

Best case we fire Mike Woodson

“Again, I’ve done my job. Because of that, I will be retiring to spend more time with my grandchildren.”

[MrBBall 94]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

He HAS to be. 

Clearly, my “it doesn’t bother me that much” take on ‘salty-Woody’ is in the minority, and given that, if I was Dolson I’d be massively pissed.

Which is why his name isn’t attached to the piece 

[kottke 766]

10 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

There could be reasons for Scott giving that out other than it being a final decision 

 

1 minute ago, IUrocker said:

Yep, and then Dolson could have been fine with that coming out the way it did because it’d quiet the noise of what he could trying to get done behind the scenes. 

Alright, that's convincing enough for me! I'm back on the hope train baby! Bring on Pearl, or May, or whoever the hell isn't Woodson!

[AKHoosier 6,739]

1 hour ago, IUrocker said:

It just baffles my mind that instead of spending money on getting a good coach now for the future, certain people would rather just spend money to help Woodson try to cover up his flaws as a coach by essentially buying him a team to try to make him look good. Just ridiculous and pathetic. Especially with the way Woodson acts. Get him the heck outta here. 

I liked this, unliked it, then liked it again just so I could like it twice.