Fire Coach Woodson Thread

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Does MW still have a chance to win CCOY.

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9 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Crazy that UNC’s coach has two sweet 16s in 3 years, a title game appearance, a conference title, and a 71% winning percentage in the ACC and they want him gone.  Meanwhile we’re on pins and needles wondering if Mike Woodson will be fired when he hasn’t accomplished a fraction of what Davis has.

Just shows the enormous difference between IU and a real basketball school. 

Well we fired Crean who won two Big Ten Championships and made 3 sweet 16's in a 5 year span 

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7 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

They are much more serious than we are.

yeah they would not have self-reported on freaking phone calls...

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10 minutes ago, KNOBYDOX said:

Does MW still have a chance to win CCOY.

Least Valuable in Big Ten award finalist 

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10 minutes ago, KNOBYDOX said:

Does MW still have a chance to win CCOY.

Did they start giving that to the worst coach?

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14 minutes ago, KNOBYDOX said:

Does MW still have a chance to win CCOY.

Yea, all the other B1G coaches are voting for him. 

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29 minutes ago, KNOBYDOX said:

Does MW still have a chance to win CCOY.

He's a lock:

Crappy Coach of the Year

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47 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Crazy that UNC’s coach has two sweet 16s in 3 years, a title game appearance, a conference title, and a 71% winning percentage in the ACC and they want him gone.  Meanwhile we’re on pins and needles wondering if Mike Woodson will be fired when he hasn’t accomplished a fraction of what Davis has.

Just shows the enormous difference between IU and a real basketball school. 

Not seeing anybody accuse their fanbase of being toxic or the reason for their underperformance either. 

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3 hours ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

One thing we haven’t really talked about is how interesting things get at the end of the season if UNC is also looking for a coach. They’re sort of in a similar situation to us. Feels like they’d have first pick over us in the blue blood pecking order. 

I would not be surprised to see Kansas open too- Self and his health.

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1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

Well we fired Crean who won two Big Ten Championships and made 3 sweet 16's in a 5 year span 

Sure, but (1) Crean has been here 9 years when we fired him and (2) when we fired him, he had one good year in the past four and had two missed tournaments. He also had ruined many recruiting relationships

Given our results since I wonder if firing him was the right move, but his tenure had run its course. 

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13 minutes ago, deserthoosier said:

I would not be surprised to see Kansas open too- Self and his health.

Is this a thing? I honestly haven’t heard of him having any concerns. 

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3 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

Is this a thing? I honestly haven’t heard of him having any concerns. 

He had a heart attack a couple of years ago right before the tournament. I haven't heard of anything since then but with that as his history, health has to always be a concern.

Edit: there is denial that he had a heart attack but he did have a sudden, unplanned surgery right before the tournament to put in two stents. I personally call BS on the denial.

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3 hours ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

One thing we haven’t really talked about is how interesting things get at the end of the season if UNC is also looking for a coach. They’re sort of in a similar situation to us. Feels like they’d have first pick over us in the blue blood pecking order. 

That seems irrelevant given Dolson’s shortlist, Stevens, May

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5 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

He had a heart attack a couple of years ago right before the tournament. I haven't heard of anything since then but with that as his history, health has to always be a concern.

Edit: there is denial that he had a heart attack but he did have a sudden, unplanned surgery right before the tournament to put in two stents. I personally call BS on the denial.

Didn’t know about all that. From a distance I would be shocked if he turned over the keys any time soon. He’s only 62. And he has Adidas in his pocket and a recruiting pipeline that never stops. I guess Father Time comes for all of us, but he seems awnry (sp?) and unlikely to leave because of concerns and instead run it until it breaks. I could be wrong. 

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1 minute ago, MikeRoberts said:

That seems irrelevant given Dolson’s shortlist, Stevens, May

In my opinion you’re missing a few, but either way I wouldn’t want to be pitching against UNC because they’re likely looking for a home run hire of their own if it came to that. 

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15 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Sure, but (1) Crean has been here 9 years when we fired him and (2) when we fired him, he had one good year in the past four and had two missed tournaments. He also had ruined many recruiting relationships

Given our results since I wonder if firing him was the right move, but his tenure had run its course. 

I thought it was at the time, little did I know IU would get to the point of hiring a guy simply because he played here about a hundred years ago.

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3 hours ago, IU - Kaulie said:

Tough decisions.  Idk what to do.  Watch or not watch.  Root for us to win, or hope we look like we did against Illinois.  If the latter happens, it’s Black Monday I would think.

Does it really matter?  He is gone at the end of the season anyways.  Fire him now might give us some hope as fans to finish the season the right way.  Let’s just do the totally cool thing and Fire Mike Woodson now and let Tom Crean finish the season.

I would support that!  I’ve been saying that exact thing too. Crean is available, probably wants to coach, and this will be a great audition for him to get another coaching job; however, many on here thinks with another interim coach it could turn into another Mike Davis debacle.  Dolson isn’t going to make that mistake, he’s hiring a good coach but he could have Crean or Fife, who would be a kick in the teeth to Woodson, finish out the season.  I’m just glad somebody else likes this idea too.  

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2 minutes ago, IUFAN1976 said:

I would support that!  I’ve been saying that exact thing too. Crean is available, probably wants to coach, and this will be a great audition for him to get another coaching job; however, many on here thinks with another interim coach it could turn into another Mike Davis debacle.  Dolson isn’t going to make that mistake, he’s hiring a good coach but he could have Crean or Fife, who would be a kick in the teeth to Woodson, finish out the season.  I’m just glad somebody else likes this idea too.  

I don’t think Woodson retires mid season…but if for some reason he did, Calbert is probably our guy in the interim…also, he’s not looking to be a head coach so we wouldn’t have to worry about a Mike Davis situation. But my God, I’m beginning to miss those years in comparison to this. Let’s not forget…Davis’ last year, we were a 6th seed in the tournament ousted in the 2nd round by 3 seed Gonzaga and Adam Morrison. If we got a 6th seed, The King would be looking for another raise. Just shows you how much times have changed 

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6 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

I thought it was at the time, little did I know IU would get to the point of hiring a guy simply because he played here about a hundred years ago.

Yeah I was fully on board at the time, but I really don’t think he could’ve done worse than what we’ve gotten the last 8 years from Miller/Woodson.