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I think the family culture and having a "home" might help with keeping kids out of the transfer portal or maybe entice some to come to IU, but i think its more for the alumni and donors to have more access to the program than they have had in a long time. I am not sure how open and welcoming Knight was to Alumni and Donors but i guess its something they have been wanting?

He took a slight pay cut from his NBA job i think

This is so completely based off of nothing. I agree Coach Woodson can coach since he has been an NBA head and assistant coach for years but come on. Far superior than Beard, Muss, Oats, Belein, Drew. etc? Based off of what. They are winning and accomplished coaches in the college ranks in their own rights. I know you're excited and hate when others don't agree with your point of view and you hate how college basketball is these days but come on man. He has no College experience and most of them have no NBA experience. One does not negate the other and vise versa. They might be both called basketball, but they are not even close to being the same game. We will need to wait and see how it translate to IU and I for one am willing to wait and see even though i don't like the hire. But this whole crowning him the next Bob Knight already and hanging the 6th banner might be a bit of over doing it some. And i know you and I don't see eye to eye on about 99% of anything Scott so don't take this as an attack or me being a bad fan, i am just not impressed with the hire. Doesn't mean he won't work out, but it also doesn't make him the a basketball savant either.

While i understand what your point is, you really can't compare college coaching and NBA coaching, either way. I don't think those who say what has he done have any more ground to stand on as those who say look what he did in the NBA. They don't translate up or down. We will just have to wait and see how he is as a college coach. But its ok to be excited and/or disappointed in the hire. Good God this fan base is so something [insert whatever word you can figure out]. We have those that jump and are all in the moment the decision is made and immediately stat bashing those that take a bit longer or even much longer to come to grips with it. And then you have the i couldn't be happy if Jesus was coaching the team because they just want something to bitch about. How about we let those be happy who want to be happy and those be sad or disappointed be disappointed. FFS guys, we're not all carbon copies of the same person. For 2 weeks this board was enjoyable. We were all on the same boat about discussing potential coaches, the NCAA tournament and that we surely did need a change. It took every bit of 12 hours to divide the board into factions again and start the mud slinging and name calling.

Wining cures all, but i don't see us in the final four anytime soon myself. And i just don't get how playing for Knight has anything all to do with anything anymore. But nothing to do now but debate it and recruiting for the next 9 months. Should be interesting

I would like to ask a question and not get blasted for it for the next 3 pages please. Why does it matter that ex-players love the hire? I get alumni /donors, that is where your money is coming from, although that can bite you in the ass with a bad hire. Its not like we're flooding the NBA with players that every kid knows and by extension what school they went to. Just a question, not sure I get how the "IU Guy" thing is going to help recruit anywhere outside of Indiana and maybe not even in the state of Indiana. Again, not trying to get blasted for being negative or a bad fan or getting myself banned because i am not "on board" with the hire. Just a question

I hate this hire. I didn't really know who Woodson was, which apparently makes me a bad fan. I wanted IU to open the vault and go Whale hunting. And regardless of any IU person/fan thinks, Woodson was not a Whale in any coaching community. Respected, sounds like it, but not a name in the top 10 of any school anywhere at any time. Will it work out, its why we play the games i guess. I am a little less enthused about IU basketball that I was with CAM at the helm so about as apathetic as before. I was surprised and a little upset by the hire but no more than when i pull up to get fuel and realize that it's now 3.25 instead of 2.99. I am just used to to it getting worst instead of better. And I am already seeing 5 years this or 6 years that in threads. This makes me a little more sad because I really don't want to spend the next 4 years debating how long a coach needs before he can implement "his" brand of basketball. I hope Woodson is the grand slam hire some of you keep saying. I hope he proves everyone wrong and knocks it out of the park. But if he was such a whale, why was he an assistant? Why was he never attached to any other programs coaching search? Winning cures all and makes Whales out of them all. If he wins that's al the matters. He just needs to win.

i agree whole heartedly. immediate top 5 of the conference

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Money and Marketing. They need to market the living bejesus out of it.

The culture is winning. Its no different that any other big school. Win and your culture is reconnected to the past. Winning cures all as they say. Can't do it the wrong way, but within the rules set by the NCAA.

Does IU know what it means to be IU Basketball anymore? That could be the problem. We're not selling IU basketball to recruits. We're selling IU the University with a basketball program. Big programs like Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, etc... Sell the basketball program and the added benefit of being good universities to boot. We need to own it again. We should be marketing it. We should be pouring money into it. We're the sleeping giant hoping for an invitation when we should be kicking the door in announcing that we're here. Fear by the administration is the only thing holding us back. The Alumni and the Fans are just waiting for a reason to pour money into IU again. Sell out games. Send their kids to their school. Hang banners! Dance in the streets. Chant and sing INDIANA, INDIANA, INDIANA I AM ALL FOR YOU!! It's all there. Its all for the taking. We just have to have the balls to walk into the coaches office we want and make him say yes. Don't settle. Don't beg. Don't bargain. Don't take no for an answer. Don't be freaking cheap. Give him the keys to the program, get our of his freaking way and tell him to put us back on the stage. Hang the next banner. Conference Champion. Conference tournament Champion. Elite Eight. Final Four. National Champion. Easier said than done? Yeah. All they have to do it try. It's literally just money. Money for New/Better facilities. Money for Coaches and Assistants. Money for Equipment. Money for Recruiting. Money for Advertising. Spend it like its growing on your trees out back. Then if you fail to make it. If you cannot rise from the past glory. You can say you tried. You gave it your all. You did what was needed and fell short.

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completely agree. CYA.

We have to hire a big named coach. Someone who has a winning track record and can walk the walk as well as talk the talk. Someone who is going to sell the program as soon as its announced. Can't have an introvert. Can't be an up and comer. Has to be a bigger than life, bigger than the campus personality. Just what i think needs to happen

Jacquez Henderson has also entered the transfer portal. Updated the first post

Updated: 12:23 3/26/2021 So far we have: Outgoing: Al Durham Armaan Franklin Parker Stewart Jacquez Henderson Race Thompson Jordan Geronimo Kristian Lander Incoming:

Its gonna be some mid major coach

even though I was pretty skeptical, I still feel a little let down. Dang it. I really hoped it was a done deal.

Its ok my man. You brought what information you had. There was smoke coming from every insider on every site and they were all pointing to the same thing.

i appreciate what you bring to the board my man. Don't let them both you man.

Any rumors on who our next coach is going to be? I haven't been keeping up

Really glad you got everything up and going. Glad to be back. This is my home for IU related information. Optimistically hopeful that its Brad Stevens. Not going to be surprised though if its not the as exciting as we think.

When do we play Rutgers?