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Holy hell, this is baaaaaad basketball.

Who do we get to hire the next coach?  Dolson chose this guy.  Quinn picked Woodson.  Clearly neither of them can be trusted.

Our basketball program is pretty much a circus, maybe we let the fans pick the next coach with an online poll?

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Just now, WayneFleekHoosier said:

lol. Not realistic but might prove highly accurate in a couple years. 

Agreed. We might have to suffer for a while. Some say he needs to go ASAP, but...come on thats not realistic. 

On the plus side, basketball tickets are gonna be cheap as hell for a couple years. Might get in free with a canned food donation next year. 

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19 minutes ago, Josh said:

Holy hell, this is baaaaaad basketball.

Who do we get to hire the next coach?  Dolson chose this guy.  Quinn picked Woodson.  Clearly neither of them can be trusted.

Our basketball program is pretty much a circus, maybe we let the fans pick the next coach with an online poll?

Sure as hell couldn't be any worse than the last 3 hires!

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5 minutes ago, BtownStrength said:

Agreed. We might have to suffer for a while. Some say he needs to go ASAP, but...come on thats not realistic. 

On the plus side, basketball tickets are gonna be cheap as hell for a couple years. Might get in free with a canned food donation next year. 

Yea, CDD’s buyout is 80% of his contract, which is $18-19M right now.  It’s gonna be three years at least…

Well, whenever the next hiring process happens, I would put Cig on the search committee and he interviews the candidates.  He can weed out a bad coach in any sport and recognize the ones that have “it.” 

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24 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

the money is available to DeVries to try not to be an embarrassment to the  University and Alumni.

That’s not really how rich people work. They know better than to throw good money after bad

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Wow, Woodson never should've been hired and it took longer than this for the fire thread to get started. Impressive, impressively awful but impressive.

I had the same feeling about Devries that I had about Miller. I was right the first time, we'll see if I'm right again. Should've been a red flag when the only player from his last team that wanted to follow him was his son.

Of course, this is IU and if this administration was capable of good basketball decisions the last 25+ years wouldn't have happened. They've been so utterly incompetent you'd be forgiven for thinking they were intentionally ruining the program.

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27 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

What I hope is we suck bad enough, the money is available to DeVries to try not to be an embarrassment to the  University and Alumni.

Take some donor money and build an intimidating roster like Woodson was allowed to do his final year. 
 

Because let’s face it, miss the tourney 2 years in a row l, it’s already over. 

Money seems the only way out of this. We're trying to recruit an entirely new team again, and with basically zero momentum. 

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1 minute ago, JSHoosier said:

Rich people threw good money to try and buy a roster that Woodson couldn't screw up. Rich doesn't mean smart.

Cause Woody and Buckner were IU legends around their age whom they likely consider friends. And once burned they seem to have pulled the purse strings.  
 

I haven’t done it in the sense of NIL, but I’ve been part of a group and in the room asking billionaires for a paltry few million. That’s nothing to them. Literally nothing. The decision can be made on a whim (and often are in mind-blowing ways to us mere mortals) but they usually don’t like waste and certainly don’t like public embarrassment. You can’t go in and say “give us a couple mil so we’re not embarrassed. We won’t be good but our idiot brigade will get to 17 wins instead of 12.”  It’s easier to just not give.  
 

Watch how the next couple seasons play out and see for yourself.  
 

(Btw, Cig is the opposite of this. Everyone loves to bandwagon a winner. Ask yourself why Cuban is giving tons to a football program that doesn’t even need it but little to a basketball program that obviously does.)

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38 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Money seems the only way out of this. We're trying to recruit an entirely new team again, and with basically zero momentum. 

Wish we would have landed 1 of the 5 star fresh.  But I think we don’t appeal in any way right now. 
 

Money, and probably overseas money is the only hope of an immediate turnaround. But who is our scout to be trusted?  Because we don’t have one. We brought over 2 unplayable ones already.  

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