HoosierDPU95

5 minutes ago, Hoosierinbham said:

Best team vs best player. Team always wins. Wasn't close.

Just like the Women's final. 

1 hour ago, Coach Robby said:

Conversation/argument: as an IU fan, do you root for PU tonight?

my take: I can respect good basketball, be jealous of recent success, etc. 

NO

I picked PU to win in my HSN bracket, if they do then I come in first. With that, I'll still be rooting for UCON tonight

https://www.reuters.com/sports/houstons-kelvin-sampson-voted-coach-year-2024-04-05/

Oh what could have been...

55 minutes ago, kyhoosier29 said:

That stinks…. 

Just now, iuswingman said:

Do you look a bit like Steve Eyl?  jj

I wish!! 🙂

14 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said:

And there's the big we need.  Defensive oriented, can crash the boards on both ends.  Him, Reneau, MM and two sharpshooting guards. 

My mom always said, "you have to have some janitors on your team." Play solid D and clean up the misses on both ends. She referred to Steve Eyl a lot as an example. Thinking back on how much she talked about him, I think she thought he was a hotty too.

18 minutes ago, ledies22 said:

I appreciate the apology. While you’re at it you should start bitching that IU is already winless next season. 

10 minutes ago, Indykev said:

yes keep saying more dumb shit. going to see myself out before i get banned.

If you two are gonna go some rounds, can I respectfully ask one of you to change your avatar? They are so similar that a glance on my phone had me thinking one of you was arguing with yourself.

Duke could still make a run but they can't hit anything. Burns vs Edey will be entertaining even though I can't see NC State being able to hang with PU

Zona just got completely out coached. Way to represent the Hoosier state and old DePauw coach Brownell

10 hours ago, DC2345 said:

There are some rumors that there will be some visitors on campus this week

I took my son there today for a college visit. I really hope you're not talking about us.

P.S. He loves it

19 minutes ago, SawatchHoosier said:

You all gotta read the Time to Get banned thread. https://kentucky.forums.rivals.com/threads/time-to-get-banned.409516/ This link is NSFW

They pulled it before I could read it

40 minutes ago, kyhoosier29 said:

So are you agreeing with me or disagreeing with me? 😂

Haha...agreeing

2 hours ago, tdhoosier said:

you talkin to me?

1. Jay Wright 
2. Bill Self
3. Bob Knight's ghost

1. time machine to go back and not hire Mike Davis

2. time machine to go back and not fire Kelvin Sampson

3. time machine to do whatever the hell I want

4 minutes ago, kyhoosier29 said:

Huh? 

Occam’s razor, principle stated by the Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1285–1347/49) that pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate, “plurality should not be posited without necessity.” The principle gives precedence to simplicity: of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred. The principle is also expressed as “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”

The simplest reason a player chooses to go somewhere other than IU is because IU is currently a !@#$ show (as you stated).

47 minutes ago, kyhoosier29 said:

Or Indiana is a shit show right now and Arizona is winning. 

Occam's Razor

9 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

So much for IU being his dream school. Probably should have stayed at BSU which was a good fit for him.

He probably has a dream of playing in the tournament as well. 

1 minute ago, NCHoosier32 said:

my number one hope is that we go absolutely insane in the portal.  of course then we have no idea how they will gel and what kind of bball they'll play, but i can at least get excited heading into the season.  i mean this way i can at least keep checking out who is available and hoping we get good ones just like recruiting?  that said, i am super curious if we lose 6?  7?  8?  9?  guys?  if we lose as many as 8 or 9 and he doesn't do a good job even with all this money thrown at trying to save him, maybe there is still a chance even Buckner can't save him?

I have the same hope plus one of two more

1. That Dolson has told CMW  BigTen championship and/or Final 4 is your bar. Anything less an you're out.

Or

2. That CMW/Buckner have an agreement with Dolson that CMW will announce his retirement at the start of the season and use it as a "last hurrah" 

47 minutes ago, tdhoosier said:

Over/Under?

1. We’ll ultimately have 5.5 open scholarships

2. We use 12.5 scholarships (of the 13 available)

3. We get 3.5 guards in the portal 

1. Under

2. Under (based on the the lack of explanation about leaving that scholarship open this year, I'm convinced CMW just thinks filling the 13th scholarship is bad luck)

3. Under (he'll have 2 4's & a 5 or 3 4's playing 3-5 because that's what he does).

13 minutes ago, DC2345 said:

Well the AD isn’t committed to Woodson. That’s just reality. Also Dolson didn’t inform the media of anything 

I asked a week or so again and didn't get an answer. Was there ever an "official" statement released by the AD or just the "sources report" stuff? 

Filled out my bracket this morning. I went at it from the "how could this season get any worse" approach.

Feeling sick to my stomach at the moment.

Let's hope I come in dead last in the challenge 

10 minutes ago, Danomatic said:

Today marks the 12th time in 20 years that Indiana has missed out on the tournament. This isn’t particularly a Woodson knock, but a knock at how bad our coaching and administration have been in general. Give me a guy that will breathe fire into the program and give us consistency from a competitive standpoint. 

Meanwhile ... Kelvin Sampson has a 1 seed and he is in the "Hall of fame" conversation based on the announcers in yesterday's Big12 championship. 

3 hours ago, HoosierDom said:

I don't want to come across as a Woodson defender, I'm not - if I were in charge, I would do everything I could to hire Bruce Pearl, but I don't understand why people think they know what offensive system Woody wants to run.

He inherited an all-American big man, and no guards worth playing. He went out and got an aggressive, up-tempo pg and a shooter with size. Neither of those guys turned into guys that can win the conference, but that's who he sought out. That was before the age of the transfer, so options were limited. Was he supposed to run an offense that featured guards that were barely playing at a power 5 level or go through his superstar? That doesn't tell me anything about how he wants to play, it just tells me he's smart enough to play to a strength.

His biggest recruits have been a big pg who could create shots, and, before he decommitted, a shooter with size. His other big win was a big man who fell in his lap - was he supposed to turn that down? He tried to get scorers from the wing and guard, he just failed. I'm all for criticizing him for that, but I don't get how you can judge his system.

His decision this year was to get the ball to his NBA big man rather than what? Have Leal and Galloway rain 10 3's a game? Have X and Gunn create off the dribble? That's not going to work. Again, want to criticize him for not having better options, I think you should, but I don't see how we can think we know what next year's offense will look like. 

Taking a quick look around the league, I see 9 teams, probably 10 (I don't know Illinois well enough to judge some of their guys) that have a starting pg that is unquestionably better than X. And that's for the half the games X played. For the other half, we had the worst pg in the league. It's hard to win with that. It's even harder to do anything other than throw the ball in the paint. Again, you want to criticize Woody for putting us in that situation? Great, as do I, but, if you want to say based on that, you know what we're going to do on offense next year? I don't see any logic in that.

I know you're not defending him and agree that he tried to run a system with what he had BUT....

If he knew he didn't have what he needed, why was there an open scholarship? Even if you fill it with a guard that wasn't quite big ten ready you at minimum have a red-shirt player with a year of practice in "the system". Instead, that scholarship sat empty and we have 0 incoming recruits. I would love to hear QBuck's take on how that's acceptable and not justification for making a change.

I started this season on the "hope he figures it out" side of the fence but that hope went away quickly and it became obvious that he won't/can't and a change is needed.