iuswingman

and you have a right to your wrong opinion

of course they have the right to say what they want.. And i have the right to think what they said was dumb and unnecessary.

Not much dissecting required. IUFLA didn't seem to know what he said so I provided the quote.

No, Woodson did What Anthony said wasn't much better "I do gotta make something very clear," Leal continued. "Adversity is part of sports, and for those of you who are so quick to give up and call for quits and everything, there's a reason that you guys aren't coaches. So relax. There's no other coach in the country that I would trust with anything in my life than coach Woodson, and there's no other university I'd want to represent. So we're gonna run it back, but you guys gotta chill."

XJ playing out of control and XJ getting his moment at senior night are 2 separate things. I doubt anyone hates XJ just because they might not think he was God's gift to the hardwood.

I am being honest. I don't think drawing a line in the sand like that and pretending like you have to be a fan of every coach and player in order to be a "TRUE FAN" is appropriate regardless but senior night was most definitely not the time nor the place. So yea, if they had drawn the line in the sand on another day and time, I still would have said it was a crap thing to do but that doesn't make me dishonest about thinking they shouldn't have done it on senior night.

What Woodson, Leal and to a lesser extent Galloway don't grasp is that their actions on senior night overshadowed what it was supposed to be about...those that graduated and have played their final game at IU (XJ and Walker). Instead of the focus being on them and their accomplishments, it was about true fans and not true fans and drawing a line in the sand.

Should post that in some of the iu basketball groups on facebook and see how the true fan warriors swarm lol

Dakich hit the nail on the head. Woodson and Leal accomplished nothing but pissing off a sizeable portion of the fanbase...biting the hand that feeds them.

Woodson to potential guards in the portal "we have leal and Galloway coming back so I can't promise any playing time"

Woodson probably didn't tell them to say what they did but I bet his true fans comments are similar to what he says to the team behind closed doors as well. I'd say it is a safe bet that he is stirring the pot that fans who don't like him are the enemy.

Well at least he has a lot of playing time he can promise

I just feel their statements should have been done separately and focus should have been left on xj and those not returning

Outside of recent years, has anyone done senior night and then come back? I think it was all orchestrated so they could make public statements in support of woodson.

Guess Woodson gets to decide who the true fans are....and they apparently coincide with the ones with blind loyalty to him. Woodson is pathetic. If leal and Galloway are returning then why did they participate in senior night?

Huh

Fans have every right to complain when the 4 million dollar coach turns out to be worse than the 40k rec league coach down the street. Especially when that 4 million dollar coach doesn't think he has to go out recruiting or answer questions from the media. That amount of money should be enough to have a coach that isn't lazy at the very least Doyel is an idiot based simply on preview sentence since I can't read article. Of course firing the coach won't fix EVERYTHING but it will at least give us a shot at fixing the biggest anchor to the program.

I ain't gonna talk about my job, ain't going to talk about recruiting... how's the weather?

Why would dolson be effected by a false rumor? the media claiming he was safe wouldn't cause me any hesitation. Most fans wouldn't be upset with the unexpected firing.

Lol, recruits could come for may as well. Nor NIL for either coach

Would you guys still want Pearl if it meant promising his son would be the successor upon retirement? The biggest knock on May is the lack of P5 experience. We don't know how many players would leave if Woodson is fired and filling a roster is much easier now with NIL and transfer portal. I don't think we will ever have to mess with another rebuild like Crean had to do simply for the fact that players can transfer and play immediately now. I think May could handle filling up the roster just fine.

Is he fired yet? Lol

It all hinges on getting it done this year for it to really be useful though.

The 100% buyout did get extended by a year. If Woodson survives another year then we could have been looking at a 50% buyout.

It's not so much that you can't win with a team that is led by a post player. It's the thinking you can win with playing 2 or 3 post players and absolutely no outside threat that is the issue. Solo post ball > Buddy ball