Fire Coach Woodson Thread

[Scotty R 2,205]

39 minutes ago, mbredenk101 said:

Didn't he even take a "sick day" when we played Iowa at home that year because he was feeling the heat and Alford was coming to town?

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Yep, and our fans treated him terribly over the years

[str8baller 5,336]

22 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

Yep, and our fans treated him terribly over the years

Not really. He was welcomed back warmly. 
 

He was treated like any other failure coach prone to a series of foot-shooting gaffes. The one difference being back then certain standards still seem to exist among most of the fan base and we felt entitled to return to greatness sooner rather than later. 

[Scotty R 2,205]

Just now, str8baller said:

Not really. He was welcomed back warmly. 
 

He was treated like any other failure coach prone to a series of foot-shooting gaffes. The one difference being back then certain standards still seem to exist among most of the fan base and we felt entitled to return to greatness sooner rather than later. 

I have heard about some of the letters he received through the years wasn't your typical failure coach letters

[str8baller 5,336]

2 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

I have heard about some of the letters he received through the years wasn't your typical failure coach letters

Anyone in his position reading letters from pissed off fans is just wallowing in their own pity, looking for sympathy. Any respectable coach would just have their secretary dump them in the garbage.  His agent and supporters were all too happy to plead to the press to try and curry sympathy and deflect from Davis’s own missteps. 
 

He was in way over his head and I have some appreciation for that fact which is why he wasn’t able to successfully navigate fairly easy and common obstacles. But as the wise poet Coughlin once said, “all things end badly, or else they wouldn’t end.”

[TheWatShot 14,082]

1 hour ago, Scotty R said:

Yep, and our fans treated him terribly over the years

He brought a lot of it on himself. From publicly complaining about his salary to openly talking about his desire to coach in the NBA some day, he never came off as someone the fans should rally behind. 

 

I think a lot of the mythologies about how IU is a bad job because the fans aren't good to the coaches started with his whining about how he was treated here. 

[J34 1,487]

1 hour ago, Hornsby said:

Teams will start adjusting to iu with only one big now if he isn't coming back soon. They will certainly scout out running the one in. The better teams will defend iu well on the perimeter.

 

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Wouldn't that leave one on one matchups in the post? Not many bigs are stopping Ballo on the block.(or Malik for that matter). 

[Hornsby 2,088]

Wouldn't that leave one on one matchups in the post? Not many bigs are stopping Ballo on the block.(or Malik for that matter). 

My point is the better teams will adjust. Wisconsin took down the mighty Rutgers at Rutgers tonight by 12 and limited baily to 9 points. Teams like wisconson will be a whole different level. 

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[Stuhoo 81,280]

15 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

My point is the better teams will adjust. Wisconsin took down the mighty Rutgers at Rutgers tonight by 12 and limited baily to 9 points. Teams like wisconson will be a whole different level. 

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Really? We had a much more easily secured win against Rutger. The final margin was about the same but our lead hovered between 10 and 15 for almost all of the 2nd half; Wisconsin was up 3 with 6:45 left in the game before they pulled away.

 

[Hornsby 2,088]

Yep, and our fans treated him terribly over the years

He had it pretty brutal on the message boards. Way worse than any coach since from what I remember. There were people who wanted him gone right after making the title game. Standards were still pretty high back then and following knight was no win situation.

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[Home Jersey 7,952]

2 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Woody had Walsh fill in for him lol.

Too funny… you just have to laugh. 

At the PSU game, it was about 10 mins to tip off and the guy next to me goes “Where is Woodson? Have you guys seen Mike Woodson? Anybody know where Bigfoot is?” and nobody had… There were about 2 minutes where everyone in our section thought he may have not shown up to Philly and we all just missed the news. Then he came out and people were relieved… sorta. Lol

[MikeRoberts 7,047]

20 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

He had it pretty brutal on the message boards. Way worse than any coach since from what I remember. There were people who wanted him gone right after making the title game. Standards were still pretty high back then and following knight was no win situation.

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He did have it hard but he also brought some of it on himself. As others noted he was out of his comfort zone being the head coach of a school like Indiana. He was whiny him screwing up the oden/conley recruitment was one of many blunders that drove a lot of the fan criticism

[IUCrazy2 2,444]

11 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Woody had Walsh fill in for him lol.

Well with all the snow he might slip and break a hip.....

[Pagoda 539]

19 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

Well with all the snow he might slip and break a hip.....

Fair point.  But they said it was moved to zoom/dial-in before Mike no-showed, so it wasn't even that.  Just some classic Woody at the end of the day.

[Hoosier DaDa 2,542]

10 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Really? We had a much more easily secured win against Rutger. The final margin was about the same but our lead hovered between 10 and 15 for almost all of the 2nd half; Wisconsin was up 3 with 6:45 left in the game before they pulled away.

 

But we were at home and Harper didn’t play, so bit easier path for us.

[Stuhoo 81,280]

2 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

But we were at home and Harper didn’t play, so bit easier path for us.

We were at home.

Harper tried to play against Wisconsin; he was 0-2 from the floor for zero points in 15 minutes and then shut it down for the night.

[AH1971 1,500]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We were at home.

Harper tried to play against Wisconsin; he was 0-2 from the floor for zero points in 15 minutes and then shut it down for the night.

Harper “trying” to play probably doomed Rutgers. Harper looked awful and disinterested and probably shouldn’t have played. 
 

But why ruin a good narrative?