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5fouls

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  1. If some guy named Lnecht visited, that could be what caused the confusion. Coaches were expecting a Knecht.
  2. To put that into perspective, if you're Rick Pitino, that's two illicit trysts at Porcinis.
  3. I'm not for advocating Woodson be the coach next year. The product on the floor and the lack of recruiting speaks for itself. I feel quite the opposite. But, some of the stories coming out on social media are rivaling the 'Crean clogged toilet' level of absurdity. And, I think (my opinion) that people who know NOTHING about how the decisions are really being made are grasping onto the Buckner/Woodson thing, embellishing a lot of the details, if not even going to tu he level of making some of the stuff up, just so they can be 'heard' on social media.
  4. The Buckner / Woodson conspiracy rumors are getting out of control. Not denying they are friends, nor that Buckner wasn't instrumental in Woodson's hire. But, putting his friend through this kind of abuse and going all Hiroshima on IU's basketball program make no sense. There are people out there spreading things as fact that are simply rumors, many of them blown way out of proportion. Other people are spreading opinions as facts. I think Pearl would be a better coach than Woodson, but that's still just my opinion, and I shouldn't be pouring gas and tossing a match on it by taking to Twitter and embellishing every little thing to push my agenda as factual instead of opinion.
  5. 10 wins is a higher number than I am envisioning.
  6. I see Crean's tenure as inconsistent, but trending in the wrong direction at the end. There were some good times though. Archie was a disaster. Woodson's first two years were acceptable, though not quite what we were hoping. This season, however, has reached a disaster level that makes Archie look like Coach of the Year. My main point though is that you are being unfair to Crean.
  7. If Woodson is here next season, the Hoosiers aren't squeaking into the BTT, let alone the NCAA. It will seriously be on par with Crean's first year or UL last season. There will be 1-2 current players, at most, that will stick around, and the roster additions will be from Quad 4 level environments.
  8. Louisville is going to move on from Payne at the end of the season. 100% guaranteed. Michigan just won a championship in the sport they care about most. Indiana over DePaul. Bruce Pearl wants to come to Indiana. In the <2% chance Woodson quits at the end of the season, the Hoosiers could land a good coach with a bigger than life personality, which is exactly what the program needs. Knight was a GREAT coach with a bigger than life personality. He succeeded at IU Sampson was a GREAT coach with no personality at all, but would have succeeded at IU because of his coaching acumen. Pearl is a GOOD coach, but with a bigger than life personality and passion for what he does. that would help make him successful at IU. not to Knight's level, because Perl isn't that level of a coach. To succeed, IU needs a great coach (Sampson), a larger than life personality (Pearl), or both (Knight). Without either f those things, the job will swallow the coach whole.
  9. Look, it's senseless to talk about the 'why' at this point. It's happened. For all we know, Kansas promised to change the name of Allen Fieldhouse to Liam's Lair. And, honestly, if someone tweeted that, there would be people that believed it. Quit hanging on every word some dude with a twitter account, blog, or super-secret friend of a booster says. Put yourself in this kid, or any kid's shoes. If you, as Liam, wanted to fill a lifetime goal of playing in the NBA, and your game was perimeter oriented, would you choose to play for IU after what you watched over the course of 30 games so far this season. I wouldn't. I wouldn't want my son to do it. There are so many other places for a perimeter player to go that will better prepare him for that dream. And, can we use this opportunity to put the NIL myth to bed? I don't know for certain, but I'm fairly comfortable in my belief that Kansas did not lure him away from IU with the promise of more NIL than what IU offered, They were able to lure him away based on what I said earlier in the post. And, if you think that money is going to sway top talent in the portal this offseason (and we may need about 8 new bodies), then why would you think those players would take the money route when Dalton Knecht, Caleb Love, and Liam Mcneeley didn't? We're going to die on the belief that we can buy ourselves a successful team.
  10. Woody still wouldn't put the walk-ons in.
  11. No, it wasn't. Race did not come close to spending as much time in the lane as Reneau.
  12. Our style of play this year was significantly more painful to watch than the previous two years.
  13. It was in the works because McNeeley wanted no part of the style of basketball he saw when he turned on the Big Ten Network. Let's agree he was probably going to leave no matter what happened with the coaching staff, and that Kansas played it well. But, the door opened in the first place because of how awful our style of play was. I won't even take the easy route and say Purdue. Let's use Illinois instead. Do you think Kansas is able to lure him away from IU if the Hoosiers had the kind of year the Illini had? I don't.
  14. Crean would have been 300 times more successful filling a roster this season than this staff will be. I truly think it has a chance to be as bad, if not worse. IU might be 2023 Louisville level bad next season.
  15. Think Dalton Knecht and multiply that times 10. The top portal targets will go elsewhere. We'll overpay for mid-major talent just to field a team.
  16. I think we already have a thread about that. Stay on topic.
  17. He's watched the games, just like all of us. At some point, he decided whatever money he was getting is not worth it. The fact that he does this right after Woodson is announced to be returning is not a coincidence. If he still thought someone like Bruce pearly could end up at IU, he may have waited for that to play out first.
  18. I've been saving this for about 6 weeks, and I have no connections. But, it's not hard to read the room. IU does not play a style of ball that is going to attract top talent. And, I still have people telling me NIL is going to fix it. It's not. Players will gladly take a few dollars left to play somewhere like Kansas. IU will not make the tournament next year, and I'm not talking the NCAA or even NIT. Indiana, as I said weeks ago, is not going to make the Big Ten Tournament.
  19. My point is not against NIL. My point is that, if I have a chance at a guard who wants to play at IU for a chance to win and to improve as a player versus a guard who is playing for the money, I want the guy who is looking to improve and win. Problem is that type of guard may be reluctant to come to IU based on how the IU backcourt was utilized this year.
  20. And, those players that make it both Reason 1 and Reason 2 are usually not winners.
  21. JHS didn't come from the transfer portal. And, JHS didn't make his decision based o what we saw this season. Two pretty critical factors to my point.
  22. I grew up in Indiana idolizing the Hoosiers. But, if I was a 20 year old elite college guard, and IU offered me more NIL money than any other school, I'm not taking it. As a guard, I would not want to play in this system or for the coaching staff that runs this system. I would leave a few NIL dollars on the table to play in a system where I could succeed, even if pkaying for that team was my childhood dream. Can IU overpay for a 2nd tier guard? Sure they can. But, how much does that help the team? On the flip side, if I'm an athletic big like TJD and Ware, I'm begging this staff to take me.
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