They “Retired” Coach Woodson Thread

[IUHAHN81 3,247]

Look, as long as Mike is above .500 winning percentage, he's doing his job ok?! Guys got 6 losses in a row he can have before he gets a little nervous about the situation. Even then, he's only 1 win away from a 2 games above .500 record. To him, that breathing room! 

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49 minutes ago, Ramrod said:

Someone told me Smith grew up an IU fan. Any truth to that?

I believe he did.

So did Matt Painter.

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22 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Of If I remember correctly Smith’s family told IU ahead of time that if Purdue offers they were going to take it. Trying to get IU to offer. I remember Criss Byers saying IU should be all over this kid.

Painter said today on Dakich Smith accepted the Purdue offer within 48 hours and not because it was Purdue but because they were the only HM. He said it could have been anyone because he was just waiting on a HM offer. 

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10 minutes ago, JSHoosier said:

Not a geographic location, but put a copy of Woodson's contract on Armond Hill's napping chair. 

Just saying:

”Armond Hill’s Napping Chair” would be a great handle to post under.

Would also be an excellent name for a fantasy football team or emo band.

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50 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

That's not a very good reason for a kid playing in the 2nd best basketball conference in our state and at a time where our guards were trash. You can't miss on Braden Smith if you're Archie. 

Not exactly a glowing endorsement.....'kid playing in the second best basketball conference in our state'.  If it's all about just getting kids playing in good basketball conferences in Indiana, then IU was correct in prioritizing C.J. Gunn over him.

Braden Smith was ranked 216th in his class.  Kudos to Painter for seeing something in him that others didn't, but it's not like the kid had any other high major offers.

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1 hour ago, BannerVille said:

"If we get in a game and call something and somebody doesn’t know what they’re doing, it’s like, ****, I shouldn’t be coaching."

That's classic!  It would seem he watched the tape.

This from Painter is all you need to know about why Purdue is winning and we are not.  Compare this to Woodson's "our guys are still getting to know one another" last year. 

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37 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

I've been away from Bloomington for too long.  Is there a geographic spot that after Woody's gone could be renamed 'The Hump'?

Lower Cascades Parking Lot

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Hammer and Rails had an interesting piece about IU/Purdue. Don't know that I agree about their view of how we recruit/don't recruit the state however. I think we just suck at recruiting the state. They seemed to believe that IU believes they're above recruiting the state 

Obviously, Mike Woodson thinks that he’s above it.

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38 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Only difference was IU did offer him and was about to get a commitment from him and then Anderson and Hunter committed the next day and Henry went elsewhere 

I remember Hunter committing the next day but knew that he was coming in a year after Henry.  Forgot about Anderson.  I do recall that it LOOKED like there was going to be a log jam at small forward and that although IU had looked at Henry, wasn't sure they had actually offered.

Man, Damezi Anderson.  Funny thing is scouts LOVED him.  I recall asking someone that had seen him play that season about him and they liked him but they said he was surrounded by immense amount of talent (they won their first 26 games before losing to Carmel at Semi-State, I believe).  Blake Wesley (Notre Dame and now the Spurs) was a freshman on that team and there were at least two other seniors alongside Anderson that played D1.

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1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I remember Hunter committing the next day but knew that he was coming in a year after Henry.  Forgot about Anderson.  I do recall that it LOOKED like there was going to be a log jam at small forward and that although IU had looked at Henry, wasn't sure they had actually offered.

Man, Damezi Anderson.  Funny thing is scouts LOVED him.  I recall asking someone that had seen him play that season about him and they liked him but they said he was surrounded by immense amount of talent (they won their first 26 games before losing to Carmel at Semi-State, I believe).  Blake Wesley (Notre Dame and now the Spurs) was a freshman on that team and there were at least two other seniors alongside Anderson that played D1.

Damezi was advertised as a great shooter but he couldn’t hit a thing.

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Just now, Kentuckysucks said:

Damezi was advertised as a great shooter but he couldn’t hit a thing.

I don't know what he shot as a high school senior, but his three point shooting percentage went down each of his first three years of high school -- from 43, to 38, to 35% from three.  I know he averaged 24 ppg as a junior (Riley really pushed tempo and averaged like 75 as a team).

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3 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I remember Hunter committing the next day but knew that he was coming in a year after Henry.

Hunter was the same year as Henry he just had to red shirt his freshman year when he got there 

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36 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I believe he did.

So did Matt Painter.

From Matt Painter…“I grew up a diehard Indiana fan,” he said. “If Bob Knight would have offered me, it just would have been over.” I was disappointed when he when he went to Purdue.  I thought he could have helped IU at that time.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Hunter was the same year as Henry he just had to red shirt his freshman year when he got there 

Hunter was 51st in the 247 rankings for 2018 and still is playing college basketball today.  lol 

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Purdue plays like IU should. IU really screwed up by not looking at Braden Smith.

Iu really screwed up!! Period. I think we could point to a million things!

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56 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Doubt it they are from Arkansas 

Longtime lurker here.

Kind of.  I have some perspective here as my kid grew up with Braden and we were around the Westfield program.

His mom was Miss Basketball in Arkansas and met his Dad at Arkansas Tech.  His Dad grew up in Kokomo area (I think played at Western) and then Ark Tech.  Braden lived most of his life in Indiana.  I believe he liked the Crean Zeller teams as a kid but I never saw him in any IU gear.  A lot of MSU gear tho.  My son laughed when I told him people said he was a big IU fan.
He was smaller and played for his Dad’s AAU team on a lower circuit instead of Indy Heat (which he could have), thus the lack of early HM offers.  He also popped for Purdue before the summer of his senior year, where I think he would have garnered plenty of HM offers.  Belmont was the first offer and he was telling people he was going to go there (until Purdue offered).  He did an unofficial to IU for the PSU game before the world shut down.  Lander was there too and then committed soon after.  Plenty of people were telling Archie the kid was special- smartest player and one of the best passers I’ve seen in Indiana HS basketball.  It wasn’t hard to figure out and Painter has admitted as much once he saw his tape.

Anyway, enough about a Purdue player and back to firing this clown that is torpedoing our program into the ground.

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Hunter was 51st in the 247 rankings for 2018 and still is playing college basketball today.  lol 

It's ridiculous 25 year olds playing against 18 year olds. Provably need an age limit. 23 and your done

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2 minutes ago, MonteMarcaccini said:

Longtime lurker here.

Kind of.  I have some perspective here as my kid grew up with Braden and we were around the Westfield program.

His mom was Miss Basketball in Arkansas and met his Dad at Arkansas Tech.  His Dad grew up in Kokomo area (I think played at Western) and then Ark Tech.  Braden lived most of his life in Indiana.  I believe he liked the Crean Zeller teams as a kid but I never saw him in any IU gear.  A lot of MSU gear tho.  My son laughed when I told him people said he was a big IU fan.
He was smaller and played for his Dad’s AAU team on a lower circuit instead of Indy Heat (which he could have), thus the lack of early HM offers.  He also popped for Purdue before the summer of his senior year, where I think he would have garnered plenty of HM offers.  Belmont was the first offer and he was telling people he was going to go there (until Purdue offered).  He did an unofficial to IU for the PSU game before the world shut down.  Lander was there too and then committed soon after.  Plenty of people were telling Archie the kid was special- smartest player and one of the best passers I’ve seen in Indiana HS basketball.  It wasn’t hard to figure out and Painter has admitted as much once he saw his tape.

Anyway, enough about a Purdue player and back to firing this clown that is torpedoing our program into the ground.

Thanks for the response and welcome. Don’t be a stranger and a lot good posters here that love IU and college basketball 

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@MonteMarcaccini welcome to btb and a great first post.  Hope we see you as an active poster.

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4 minutes ago, MonteMarcaccini said:

Longtime lurker here.

Kind of.  I have some perspective here as my kid grew up with Braden and we were around the Westfield program.

His mom was Miss Basketball in Arkansas and met his Dad at Arkansas Tech.  His Dad grew up in Kokomo area (I think played at Western) and then Ark Tech.  Braden lived most of his life in Indiana.  I believe he liked the Crean Zeller teams as a kid but I never saw him in any IU gear.  A lot of MSU gear tho.  My son laughed when I told him people said he was a big IU fan.
He was smaller and played for his Dad’s AAU team on a lower circuit instead of Indy Heat (which he could have), thus the lack of early HM offers.  He also popped for Purdue before the summer of his senior year, where I think he would have garnered plenty of HM offers.  Belmont was the first offer and he was telling people he was going to go there (until Purdue offered).  He did an unofficial to IU for the PSU game before the world shut down.  Lander was there too and then committed soon after.  Plenty of people were telling Archie the kid was special- smartest player and one of the best passers I’ve seen in Indiana HS basketball.  It wasn’t hard to figure out and Painter has admitted as much once he saw his tape.

Anyway, enough about a Purdue player and back to firing this clown that is torpedoing our program into the ground.

I am not the official welcoming committee, but welcome to the board!