HoosierFaithful

Hi all - this is something I need to be cognizant of too, but we don't really need to tell others how to think. I'm on the optimistic/positive side just generally as a person, but if someone is a bit more negative and sour - that's their right, so long as they aren't breaking the rules. Calling them out on being negative isn't breaking the rules either, per se, but we generally prefer to debate someone's point, not the particular poster. Otherwise, we just get into a back-and-forth where posters try to be mind readers about someone else's motivations or feelings. That never goes well.

Agree that Dolson just has that “it” factor that makes me feel like I should trust him.

We will see very, very quickly just how good or not good Woodson is at recruiting, which is probably the most important part of all of this. I'd suggest people let our own transfers + potentially transfers from other teams play out. If he sucks, it'll be quite plainly obvious IMO.

I'm excited for normalcy too, but normalcy may be a bit of a misnomer: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/when-will-covid-end-we-must-start-planning-for-a-permanent-pandemic?sref=Yg3sQEZ2&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business

I was driving when the server hit the fan - can someone recap the last 6 hours? Any early player news or anything? tl;dr?

This site is getting too damn big.

What an incredible amount of assumptions you make so flippantly, and with no real evidence, in only three sentences.

My post came off a bit preachier than I intended, and I totally get what you’re saying - there are a small minority who seem to cherish finding negative angles about every piece of IU news. Perhaps I should be more liberal with my ignore button lol

Literally none of our feelings will make one iota of a difference. Not supporting the program (its players, coaches, etc) WILL make a huge difference. The team and recruits will recognize. Woodson has been an NBA coach for quite a while. It sounds like he’s going to be overseen or assisted by Matta, himself quite an accomplished coach. And he’s an IU guy. IU stands to benefit significantly from the NIL money players can now make. It matters to me a great deal more that we have a forward thinking approach to fully helping players capitalize on all of our collective IUBB mania/fandom. Scott Dolson didn’t ask for my opinion and the job is done, so I can be underwhelmed but it seems like some of you enjoy being mad more than anything else. If this all makes you so angry, maybe it isn’t really a hobby.

Got my shot Tuesday. Arm was a little sore, felt fine. Headed back for the second Pfizer dose in about two weeks. good luck to all still hunting for an appointment! The process was painless for me.

If we truly can offer big bucks, we will get someone good.

Not necessary.

3pm ET has come and gone. This clearly has legs but be wary of what people on Twitter are saying unless they’re a reporter.

Oddsmakers are great at predicting who will win a game - they have computers full of data to run regression analyses on and apply big data to. Trust them on that. oddsmakers on a coaching hire? They have literally no insight. That’s why if someone starts to lay heavy money on something, they’ll pull it down just as a CYA. Vegas has no idea if the person putting money down is wrong, but Vegas doesn’t play a game it isn’t sure it will win.

If someone else is charging for it, that’s their business. Just a mutual respect thing.

Yep. Right after a big weekend. Any time in the next 2 weeks and we can be the talk of the town really.

I am high as hell on hopium.

I can’t begin to tell them how little their opinion keeps me up at night. like, seriously, I think many of us are arguably too invested in the performance of the IUBB team. To be that invested... in the vis a vis rankings of sites that discuss it?! Read a book, fellas.

Agree, I see the other sites as friends. Hell, a good few of our former mods helped build that site. We are all multiple sides of the same crazy coin.

Moronic. But some people have miserable lives, so tribalism suits them.

What's the smoke that has everyone thinking something is about to happen??

We doubled the size of our own, dedicated server. The problem is I'm past my knowledge of how to best configure it, so we'll work on getting some professionals to help us do it right.

It will all be worth it if it delivers us the chosen one. At those offering donations: thank you for your generosity. Hold tight. We want to make sure we can continue to offer this community the stable support it needs as we grow, so we're looking into some minor upgrades to ensure that.

I've been staring at database code for days, what the hell did I miss?!

This thread has been helpful in figuring out how old some of you fogies are.