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[bsmitty08]

You didn't know IU was pouring money into FB. I simply pointed out that IU is doing that.

Yes I’m aware, and pointed out basketball is a top 10 spender with zero return. If they want to be a football power take from basketball and put into football. Basketball team $$$$ has been a waste

 

[bsmitty08]

The problem with this thinking is that football everywhere is controlling college sports. Basketball, like it or not, is not the key player at the bargaining table. All the expansions, realignments and deals revolve around football. The entire media deal hinged on football. Football needs to be built and sustained with max effort. Basketball can be put on damn near auto pilot with a good coach. 2-3 key players with a good coach will naturally awaken a “sleeping giant.” The key is good coach. Auburn was nothing in basketball until Pearl arrived. Michigan was scraping bottom of the barrel under Howard.
Makes Cignetti’s one year result pretty miraculous but I would bet on him because of a history of success.
You cannot take a guy like Woodson who didn’t coach a game of college and expect results. That was the failure. This same team with a Pearl, Beard or May would look and play dramatically different.

2-3 key players doesn’t matter if the leadership isn’t there. Iu has had as many players drafted as anyone in the conference and nothing to show for it.
This years team has a PaC 12 player of the year, pac 12 freshman of the year.
3 five star recruits in Tucker, Mbakwo and Renau
And this group is terrible.
Woody doesn’t understand building a program and a team.

 

[Timmy!]

The problem with this thinking is that football everywhere is controlling college sports. Basketball, like it or not, is not the key player at the bargaining table. All the expansions, realignments and deals revolve around football. The entire media deal hinged on football. Football needs to be built and sustained with max effort. Basketball can be put on damn near auto pilot with a good coach. 2-3 key players with a good coach will naturally awaken a “sleeping giant.” The key is good coach. Auburn was nothing in basketball until Pearl arrived. Michigan was scraping bottom of the barrel under Howard.
Makes Cignetti’s one year result pretty miraculous but I would bet on him because of a history of success.
You cannot take a guy like Woodson who didn’t coach a game of college and expect results. That was the failure. This same team with a Pearl, Beard or May would look and play dramatically different.

^^^ THIS ^^^

This is 100% precisely correct👍.

What has gone down this season and the three seasons under Mike Woodson that preceeded this one, is exactly what I - very much on the record - expected. But while I am the further thing from surprised with respect to the shitty mediocre irrelevance the Hoosiers basketball program has become and continues to still currently reside in, unlike nearly 4 years ago when Woodson was the hire, all the way up until, say, the end of this past October, I am now no longer despondent nor even a little bit worried with respect to the near upcoming future of the IU men’s basketball program.

And the reason the prospective outlook for the men’s basketball program’s future is bright once again is almost exclusively due to the immediate out the gate overwhelming resounding success of Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosier football program. The momentum of the football program and the big time dollars that have since been poured in and will only continue to be poured into the football program now and for the foreseeable future as a result, rest assure, gives Hoosiers AD Scott Dolson all the clout/power he needs to kick Woodson’s ass to the curb the split second the season ends; and along with that, the big swinging dick money and momentum he needs to bring in a game changing as Woodson’s replacement.

I’ve been saying it for months now: Curt Cignetti is Mike Woodson’s, Quinn Buckner’s, and the entire network of the old guard grifters committee club worst nightmare. The better Cignetti does (and frankly did) with the football program - especially in year one - the more it exposes Woodson and the boys over on the basketball side. And it does so, all the while simultaneously giving Dolson more than enough chops to “Ari Gold” the ever loving SHIT out of Woodson, Buckner and the rest of the arrogant, entitled, grifting, dipshit old boys network the nanosecond the 2024-2025 Hoosier’s men’s basketball team’s season ends with a swift…..

@twenty02

TLDR?
Woodson is done, gone, 100% matter of factly shitcanned at season’s end. NO CHANCE he’s here next season. Literally, none. Expect a big time coaching hire as Woodputz’s replacement. I’m thinking Bruce Pearl. Something along those lines. Gun to the head, I say Pearl. But that’s just - albeit wishful thinking - my reasonable guess. Perhaps a Dusty May one and done UM poach. Could see that too.