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These aren't numbered in any particular order, but figured I'd respond to some of your thoughts since several people have seemingly been saying some similar things. 1. I have no idea what event actually happened, but at this point most of the stuff about Woody is pure speculation. It all boils down to there were some leaked rumors that he is stubborn and hard to work with. People keep complaining about IU leaking stuff about DF, but leaking info is a 2 way street. At this point, it seems pretty clear where the leaked info about Woody is coming from. 2. Some of the info about DF is also pure speculation, but some of it came directly from DF tweets. He publicly (drunkenly?) tweeted about his former school having a better student section - which is not a big deal imo, but still a bad look. More importantly, he tweeted some negative comments on NIL. Whether he was trying to get a different point across or not, having the perception of being an anti-NIL will kill recruiting high level players. If you're an anti-NIL school or staff, you are immediately out of the running for almost all 5 star and a lot of 4 star recruits. Whether you like NIL or not, it's here to stay and IU needs to take advantage of it. 3. If that was an "aggressive" parting ways announcement, I'm assuming you don't follow sports very closely. That was about as benign as it gets. Also, more broadly speaking, I disagree with some that say IU should have said it was a mutual parting of the ways. I prefer an organization actually have the courage to say what happened. It sends a strong message internally and externally about what expectations are and what happens when expectations aren't met. 4. We have our most successful season since 2016, and now all of a sudden Woody can't coach because he let go of a liked former player/assistant? Come on. I have no idea if Woody will be the answer long term, but this is as optimistic I've been about IU bball since the start of the 2017 season. Also not sure which two of the following B1G teams are the ones with a pulse: Purdue, Ohio State, Michigan, and Illinois 5. Rabjohns is not an IU employee. He does not need to ask for approval to post stories/messages about what he has heard.

Good info. The overall strength of schedule ranking you listed is just for non-conference though. Overall, IU's SOS is at 39 (including last night's game) and SM is at 60.

Too bad Iowa didn’t miss this many open shots against us

They’re definitely close, and they don’t have very many good wins. Their best are probably at Virginia and at Virginia tech. I think if we beat Michigan, but lose to Illinois we are ahead of them now.

Agreed on the defensive side. Even on offense, Lander's has a 40% TO rate this year, which has been the worst on the team. So on a night when we were struggling with turnovers as a team, I don't think he would have been the answer

Kenpom pre-tourney ranks for ncaa champs since 2010. All but 2011 and 2014 Uconn were top 10 in offense or defense, less than half were top 20 in both. 2010 Duke - AdjO: 4; AdjD: 5 2011 Connecticut - AdjO: 21; AdjD: 27 2012 Kentucky - AdjO: 2; AdjD: 6 2013 Louisville - AdjO: 17; AdjD: 1 2014 Connecticut - AdjO: 57; AdjD: 12 2015 Duke - AdjO: 3; AdjD: 37 2016 Villanova - AdjO: 15; AdjD: 7 2017 North Carolina - AdjO: 4; AdjD: 25 2018 Villanova - AdjO: 1; AdjD: 22 2019 Virginia - AdjO: 2; AdjD: 5 2021 Baylor - AdjO: 3; AdjD: 44

I don't think anyone is saying KL is perfect. And so far this year it's not just KL that's struggled with turnovers, KL, Rob, and X all have basically the same turnover rate this year. With how poorly Rob has started the year on offense, I just think it's encouraging to see we could have another option for backup pg minutes if he doesn't improve. Still need to see KL performs against better competition though.

If you look at Bart Torvik's projections for our Non-Con opponents for this year and compare it to the Non-Con SOS from 2020, we would've been tied for 77th, which is almost the same as what IU's 2020 Non-Con SOS was ranked (70th). NIU, Eastern Mich, and UNC Asheville are the only teams he projects to be outside the top 200. There really aren't a lot of true cupcakes on the schedule, even if we don't have as many top end opponents.

As a big baseball fan, this statement is simply not true. In the last full season there were only 5 position players who played every game. MLB players have rest days very frequently.

100% agree with removing the most successful periods makes any program look bad, but I didn't take that as the main point of the article. The main point that I got from it was that it's hard to replace a legendary coach, but once you get the right coach in place, great programs win regardless of how long it's been. This article talks about OSU football, but Alabama football pre-Saban is also interesting to look at. Plenty of programs have struggled, to varying degrees, to replace legendary coaches for extended periods of times. But when they got the right coach, they got right back to the top of their sport.

Here's an interesting article from an OSU blog talking about the Woodson hire and comparing OSU football and IU bball. Makes some pretty interesting comparisons. https://www.elevenwarriors.com/college-basketball/2021/03/121964/an-emperors-shadow

Here’s another good link: https://barttorvik.com/playerstat.php?link=y&xvalue=trans&year=2021&minmin=0&start=20201101&end=20210501 This includes the stats from last year instead of recruiting rank and you can sort by each column