FKIM01 Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 9 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said: Apparently Coach Woodson is already reading this forum... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 16 minutes ago, Sea Turtle said: With this hire and now word that Archie Miller didn't really want the job and had to be talked into it, you have to think that no serious candidate wants to work for this university. Insert Clint Eastwood disgusted gif, and that's coaches reaction to IU basketball.  I doubt it had to do with the University as much as the fishbowl that is IU basketball. Also coaches today can win and make big money anywhere so what is the insensitive to keep moving their families Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotIThatLives Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Just now, FKIM01 said: Apparently Coach Woodson is already reading this forum... Sweet.  Coach, Go check out the transfer portal. And also, while you are at it, would you please bring on 2 or 3 of the top juco guys? Thanks, Love the hire(think you are about to kill it and not play games) Notithatlives P.S. Also, take advice from my guy @BGleas, in fact hire him. He has celtics marketing skills with Hoosier blood and passion.  Let me know if you seek any other advice on how to run the program.  The @BGleas advice is legit though, you should listen, seriously. #cmw #coachmike #coachmikewoodson #lol  2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizard Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Underestimate Mike Woodson at your own peril. This combo is better than Brad. There. I said it. Woody is better at developing talent and just as good as Brad at x and o. AND he was an all-american player. Where y'at Brad? Oh right 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H00sier Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Disheartening the negativity around this hire, ain’t no damn wonder it’s hard to hire a coach - if indeed it is a hard sell. Give me the man who wants the job with his heart and soul. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePaulieWalnuts Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 7 hours ago, Indykev said: Is anyone at all concerned about Mike's close friendship with World Wide Wes and the talk that Wes can get IU into a lot of doors? or are you ok with it? myself i'm ok with it. Nope, not concerned. I don't care at this point. Use every single possible advantage. Just win. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fundamentals Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 9 hours ago, Indykev said: Is anyone at all concerned about Mike's close friendship with World Wide Wes and the talk that Wes can get IU into a lot of doors? or are you ok with it? myself i'm ok with it. I approve of this message. Â Have no issue with a person of influence pointing toward us as a destination for a recruit, but no payments or benefits, please. Â 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H00sier Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 40 minutes ago, Fundamentals said: I approve of this message. Â Have no issue with a person of influence pointing toward us as a destination for a recruit, but no payments or benefits, please. Â Wanna point out that though I also approve and have been talking about working the grey/edges, not condoning any cheating. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmhoosier Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Quality isn't the best but here is Woody's final home game. The crowd sure seemed to love him. Â Â 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, dbmhoosier said: Quality isn't the best but here is Woody's final home game. The crowd sure seemed to love him. Â Â I guess that intro was made to appease the viewers on acid... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addictedtoIU Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 13 hours ago, Indykev said:  Holy Sh!t! Juwan Howard's Merlin/Gandalf is Martelli, which I thought was pretty cool, but coach Woodson trying to bring in Larry Freaking Brown? That right there is the difference in class. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrsStoller Posted March 30, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 I admit to initially being disappointed that our new coach wasn't going to be Brad Stevens. I know, I know, I hung on to that dream too long. I processed it during a drive on I-69, and then the more I thought about it, the more I was like, "Heck, yeah! Mike Woodson!" My basketball knowledge is limited to watching games, Don Fischer, instruction from Coach Knight on his shows, all of you talking about the plays, etc., so I'm not a great person to ask if he'll succeed. So he hasn't coached in college, but he has in the NBA, with many different players and personalities and media; well-liked by any and all who know him, from what I can tell; terrific player back in the day; Thad Matta is a major addition - honestly goosebumps that he's in the cream and crimson now - because something that Butler was doing at that time and at least 2-3 coaches later was RIGHT and why not bring that here; and WOW THE ROLODEX. Larry Brown?? WOW WOW WOW. The guy is a basketball genius, and I loved him when he coached the Pacers.  I have big hopes, and I think this is going to turn out to be a great hire. I am ALL IN! Let's go, Hoosiers!! 13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addictedtoIU Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Personally, I have absolutely positively no problem with coach Woodson's personal relationship with Worldwide Wes. Coach has been working with this guy at NYK, and probably known him for a long time in NBA circle. It was said that Uncle Wes knows everybody and that's how he thrives by connecting people. I don't care if Wes asks some famous rappers to go check out Indiana men's basketball and shake hands with our players. I'd be happy if Wes advises real good high school players to consider playing for coach Woodson simply because coach Woodson is a really good coach. Now if Wes gives kids money to send kids to IU, that's a problem, but why would Wes do that for coach Woodson? Wes is not an IU alum. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledies22 Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 For @NCHoosier32 and anyone else that may be still hum ho.... I listened to the Assembly Call this morning.  one of the guys basically mentioned that he didn’t like the hire. With Thad Matta changed his mind. Thad Matta is a terrific college coach. He wouldn’t have taken the position he took, is Thad didn’t believe that this would work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daily Hoosier Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 IU basketball alums ‘giddy’ about hire of Mike Woodson https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-alums-giddy-about-hire-of-mike-woodson/ 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmhoosier Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 37 minutes ago, addictedtoIU said: Holy Sh!t! Juwan Howard's Merlin/Gandalf is Martelli, which I thought was pretty cool, but coach Woodson trying to bring in Larry Freaking Brown? That right there is the difference in class. Larry Brown is the same age as RMK though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritzIam4IU Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 10 hours ago, Sea Turtle said: With this hire and now word that Archie Miller didn't really want the job and had to be talked into it, you have to think that no serious candidate wants to work for this university. Insert Clint Eastwood disgusted gif, and that's coaches reaction to IU basketball. Â I have read several posts lately saying Archie didn't really want the job. Honest question...where did this come from? I never heard of anything like this until the last week. I'm not saying it's not true, but I am a little skeptical that he didn't want the position. I thought Cal told him that he can't turn down a position like IU if offered, but that is all I remember hearing over the years until recently. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Just now, FritzIam4IU said: I have read several posts lately saying Archie didn't really want the job. Honest question...where did this come from? I never heard of anything like this until the last week. I'm not saying it's not true, but I am a little skeptical that he didn't want the position. I thought Cal told him that he can't turn down a position like IU if offered, but that is all I remember hearing over the years until recently. Just more piling on, if you ask me... If someone can produce a link to a solid source I might buy it... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier51 Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, The Daily Hoosier said: IU basketball alums ‘giddy’ about hire of Mike Woodson https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-alums-giddy-about-hire-of-mike-woodson/ Hopefully they are still giddy in three or four years, since it sounds like this hire was done to appease most of them. While I didn't like this hire, if we are in the middle of the next B1G season and go on a six or seven game winning streak it would be one of the happiest times I have ever admitted to being wrong. Edited March 30, 2021 by Hoosier51 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCHoosier32 Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 Okay, just for kicks, I am going to post all of the optimistic view that I acknowledge could make this great! This is not sarcasm, and this is NOT how I see this playing out, but plausible? Sure... Matta and Brown come in as great advisors and extremely well respected. Woodson has crazy level of support from former players and many of those players will be visible and more involved. All o the excited people are right that Woodson is an offensive genius and at the same time much better at player development than Archie and staff. IN HS and AAU coaches embrace Woodson, Matta, and Brown. We maybe get one more young former IU player to be an assistant. WWW helps us get high level recruits. Woodson may be fun to have out front and talking on talk shows, etc. Trying to think of what I'm leaving out... other than... getting us off on the right foot by recruiting our returning players to stay. I will say again that while I don't think it is an extremely talented group, if we have Lander, Franklin, Hunter, Thompson, TJD with Stewart, Brunk, Duncomb, RP, Leal, Geronimo, and Galloway, that group can win. They will have to progress and also be used extremely well, but here's to hoping... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegrassIU Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, FritzIam4IU said: I have read several posts lately saying Archie didn't really want the job. Honest question...where did this come from? I never heard of anything like this until the last week. I'm not saying it's not true, but I am a little skeptical that he didn't want the position. I thought Cal told him that he can't turn down a position like IU if offered, but that is all I remember hearing over the years until recently. Who has said this? I saw Sea,Turtle mention it, but he was a way of dropping negative IU comments discreetly.....so I didn't think much of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritzIam4IU Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, bluegrassIU said: Who has said this? I saw Sea,Turtle mention it, but he was a way of dropping negative IU comments discreetly.....so I didn't think much of it. I have read so many posts lately, I can't keep them straight. It might have even been on another board (BTB)...but I have seen it mentioned by others...I am just curious if I missed something. Edited March 30, 2021 by FritzIam4IU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier51 Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, bluegrassIU said: Who has said this? I saw Sea,Turtle mention it, but he was a way of dropping negative IU comments discreetly.....so I didn't think much of it. Yeah I haven't seen it anywhere other then him mentioning it, so I wouldn't put much faith in it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoyeCowbell Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 1 minute ago, bluegrassIU said: Who has said this? I saw Sea,Turtle mention it, but he was a way of dropping negative IU comments discreetly.....so I didn't think much of it. Saw that too. It's so odd and doesn't make sense. The idea that CAM didn't want the job and was 'forced/pressured/[insert word]' to take it reeks of sour grapes and postmortem frustration. 5 year olds are forced to finish their vegetables. 40+ year old men are not forced to accept multimillion dollar jobs that many others covet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdhoosier Posted March 30, 2021 Report Share Posted March 30, 2021 12 minutes ago, FritzIam4IU said: I have read several posts lately saying Archie didn't really want the job. Honest question...where did this come from? I never heard of anything like this until the last week. I'm not saying it's not true, but I am a little skeptical that he didn't want the position. I thought Cal told him that he can't turn down a position like IU if offered, but that is all I remember hearing over the years until recently. I heard it on one of the many podcasts I've listened to in the last 3 days....just can't remember which one. It was either Crimson Cast or Assembly Call. Who knows if there is any truth behind it. Maybe it's CAM's personality but it did kinda seem that way. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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