BobSaccamanno

Buckner is in a tough spot as chair of the BoT with Woodson. He loves the university and can’t be giving the impression of being a part of a cabal who got his buddy a job and kept him there. Buckner may also be the chair but he has to answer to the other trustees. The other trustees may have deferred to QB as a former player but now the results are there. So that friendship might actually cut against Woody where all benefits of the doubt are removed because QB can’t give the appearance of bias or being compromised.

Yeah definitely. I meant after the season.

He can’t turn that down if offered.

You know I have the highest respect for you and I think it’s 100% right for you to represent the other side of the argument. Rather have that than an echo chamber. I say it all the time, but I think each poster here represents a certain percentage of fans. There are people who think like Scott does, you do, analytics guys, or the most negative fan does. But we can all discuss here and have that give and take. I think it’s good that we have all views healthily represented. Just my two cents. Regarding Dolson, hypothetically I don’t know how people would change their views on him if it were clear that the chair of the Board of Trustees inserted himself into the decision to hire Woody. I deduce that from a variety of factors that would take too long for me to write up. But I base it on Dolson’s decision making in general, Woody’s actions, and guard rails that were initially implemented.

That is freakishly on point.

Connecting Clif to shooting problems seems like a massive stretch.

Bryson Tiller would be a very good get in ‘25. Relentless rebounder. High motor.

Yeah my guess is it’s in the contract that they can trot out an alternative X number of times. Just guesswork though.

Mbako has tremendously strong hands. Like suction cups.

We got on a roll when we went smaller after Reneau came out. More spacing.

We sure have a lot of guys on the court who watch a lot instead of sticking their nose in there.

Other than Galloway you have a roster of guys with low motors.

That might be a bad meme because it sure looked like no one on IU hustled after that loose ball. Crowd didn’t seem to like it.

Cupps has been playing damn good defense. Walker is sluggish. Comes in and we struggle immediately. How bad is Banks that he can’t get ahead of him? His future is all but certain.

Boo Bouie. Nice player but the all time push off guard in the B1G. Like Csonka’s stiff arm.

Had the easy pass to MM. Got to be smart.

That’s an extremely bizarre call on Cupps.

Loyer really getting exploited on defense. Painter brought in Morton. Without Edey covering him in the lane, he’s going to have issues next year.

If you play four out and one in, Reneau, MM and McNeely is a good start.

Battle seems to be streaky but boy that’s a nice, quick release. He doesn’t need much room either.

I’m not a fan of coaches talking to other teams’ players in the heat of the battle. Players play. Coaches coach their team. Stay in your lane.

Love having some DB’s with height. Usually get you good range. Decent radius to break up passes too. Can’t wait to see the player development.

We need a player personnel department with energy. Woody can’t be expected to know who some player is in Finland. But the importation of foreign players is not going away and is in the first inning of the trend. We can’t continue to ignore this. I am betting we get an announcement on a redo of our player personnel department with substantial investment and maybe more analytics too. We can’t continue to pretend that the NET isn’t a thing. This isn’t the NBA where your seeding is based on record. I’m tying the two because you may keep the coach and turn around the infrastructure around him. Reorg.

I hope you’re right. I think Cherry will be damn good but it may be awhile. The jump from high school will be massive. Tayven will get really good coaching but he needs a makeover and we will just have to see. Lowry is a complete unknown. Let’s see what the staff can do. They are very good with QB’s. Having said that, the B1G is very tough and after QB1 I am not we can get bowl eligible with the others. Would love to see a huge jump.

If QB1 stays healthy, I think our offense will be very solid.