Fire Coach Woodson Thread

[Pagoda 972]

10 minutes ago, bodsbums said:

We shouldn’t fire Woodson. We are in danger of becoming Nebraska football.  Kornheiser wasn’t on board with his take. Said 35-32 in the B1G isn’t good enough and Tony is right. 
 

Sadly, I think we already are Nebraska football. 
 

 

Yea.  We lost our blue blood status at this point.  Replaced by UConn.

[JSHoosier 20,459]

2 hours ago, OKHOOSIER said:

Today is getting weird in here because I definitely agree with you here lol. I’ll probably get skewered for this take but…..

While I do think it would be a slam dunk hire and would be thrilled, I do think there are some questions with BS. He hasn’t coached college in a decade and hasn’t coached at all in a minute. BS isn’t the grand slam home run he would have been after Crean anymore, more like a two run bomb with the potential to be a grand slam. Forgive me for my extended analogy lol

I'd take a two run bomb. Chris Stewart once "struck out" with 2 strikes because he forgot the count and walked back to the dugout and no one stopped him, that's what we have now.

[VFury 40]

28 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Ben McCollum (Drake)

Brad Brownell (Clemson)

Jarrod Calhoun (Utah State)

Chris Jans (Mississippi State)

MEH.

Mccollum would be great. Brownell is a troll tier take and the other two are meh.

[Stuhoo 81,802]

4 minutes ago, VFury said:

Mccollum would be great. Brownell is a troll tier take and the other two are meh.

I don’t know much about Jerrod Calhoun, but he’s only 43, very experienced as a head coach, and he won consistently at Youngstown State, which is absolutely no small feat.

@Uspshoosier and @johnsoniu… care to weigh in on him?

[mdiu28 1,876]

18 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Yea.  We lost our blue blood status at this point.  Replaced by UConn.

Unfortunately we lost blue blood status a while ago and if we do still have it, the only people that think so are IU fans and maybe Dick Vitale. The rest of the world does not look at us that way anymore. We're a joke. Almost got it back with Crean winning Big Ten, #1 seed, etc, but couldn't get past the Sweet 16. Having banners only puts you there for some time. Some stats I saw earlier (maybe they're wrong but eye opening for sure):

• IU hasn't finished above Purdue in the B1G since 2016 - 9 years ago
• IU hasn't been to the Elite 8 or better since 2002 - 23 years ago
• IU's average finishing position in the B1G over the last couple decades - something like 7.3

Mediocre at best. Blue Bloods do not accept this. Our admin has accepted it for far too long. Dolson nailed it with Cignetti so I'm going to give him the chance to fix this mess. The amount of $$$ he's brought into the department since being hired as AD has got to be massive, especially with football this year. There is absolutely no reason to not give him full reign. 

[Napleshoosier 10,423]

 

[AZ Hoosier 7,674]

4 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I don’t know much about Jerrod Calhoun, but he’s only 43, very experienced as a head coach, and he won consistently at Youngstown State, which is absolutely no small feat.

@Uspshoosier and @johnsoniu… care to weigh in on him?

Yeah, Calhoun is interesting... how young is too young? Going from Youngstown State > Utah State > Indiana might trigger some culture shock... 

I'm also a fan of McCollum... could see that happening... Brownell does NOT interest me in the least, and I know nothing about Jans...

[Napleshoosier 10,423]

Brad

Dusty

Beard

shrews

 

 

 

 

[Unexpectedflash 1,098]

1 minute ago, Napleshoosier said:

Brad

Dusty

Beard

shrews

 

 

 

 

I don’t know what shrews has done to get this job other than be from Indiana

[Josh 12,720]

17 hours ago, eddy4iu said:

Extremely uninformed conjecture on your part - Scott is the catalyst that can/will return our basketball program to its rightful place in the CBB universe.

A couple things.

Isn't yours conjecture?  Lol very ironic.

Dolson has a great reputation with some here.  But he's the boss who oversees this mess.  He needs to own this and be held accountable 

[J34 1,503]

5 hours ago, KathywithaC said:

Neither of those interim solutions worked well for us. Look at the landscape of college and pro sports and provide examples of interim coaches, appointed after a coach was fired for performance, succeeded. Ed Orgeron was hired at USC after Pat Haden blew out Lane Kiffin, but his tenure there was short-lived. Temporary fixes are just that - it’s baling wire and duct tape. 

Paul Westhead and Dabo Swinney come to mind. Your excuses for not firing immediately, don't hold water. There is not one Fortune 500 company that holds on to an incompetent upper management employee until the next fiscal year.(unless there's corruption)

Not sure what your position is, or length of tenure is, but maybe you are part of the problem in the administration as well. Your "optics" argument is laughable and embarrassing. 

[Pagoda 972]

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

A couple things.

Isn't yours conjecture?  Lol very ironic.

Dolson has a great reputation with some here.  But he's the boss who oversees this mess.  He needs to own this and be held accountable 

He should be the boss, but he has not been that on the bball side yet.

[Napleshoosier 10,423]

2 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

I don’t know what shrews has done to get this job other than be from Indiana

So u pick on #4?  WTF ?

[MikeRoberts 7,191]

11 minutes ago, Napleshoosier said:

Brad

Dusty

Beard

shrews

 

 

 

 

What is it about Shrews that makes people in the slightest bit interested? 
 

whoops just saw someone said the same thing. Still..

His ND team looks really bad this year

[Unexpectedflash 1,098]

Just now, Napleshoosier said:

So u pick on #4?  WTF ?

Oh lol the first three are home runs that everyone would agree with

[jumpshot53 165]

I hope that when Dusty brings his team to Assembly Hall, we don't chant his name.  He has his team doing so well, and I think he would be uncomfortable with that display.  I don't know his personality, but  he strikes me as someone who wouldn't enjoy that, and he would also have a hard time taking a job in conference after being in Michigan first.  I could see someone like Pitino or Calipari or Bruce being okay with that, but not sure about Dusty.

Edited Wednesday at 11:24 PM by jumpshot53

[Kentuckysucks 2,414]

5 minutes ago, Unexpectedflash said:

I don’t know what shrews has done to get this job other than be from Indiana

Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.

[Napleshoosier 10,423]

1 minute ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Oh lol the first three are home runs that everyone would agree with

Ha!  Well we could go dig up Eddie Sutton for #4…….. :)

[IUHAHN81 2,269]

I don't care if Stevens laughs and hangs up, he's always the 1st call imo. May #2. Mccollum #3. Not sure I can get excited beyond that point. Ya, I know, I need to be prepared for disappointment. I get it.

[IUrocker 2,267]

I saw somewhere that the students plan to boycott the next home game against Maryland, so I guess we’ll see if that ends up happening or not.