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Fife Gone

You have already regaled us with your wonderful managerial skills . What, you really think that a recruit doesnt have access to find out who someone recruiting him is ? I am not saying he is a fit or should be an assistant but someone calling Randy Wittman irrelevant and dogshit and claiming to be an IU fan?

Recruiting is extremely hard work. You have to be in trenches daily building relationships. You don't show up and say look up my name on Google.

Good recruiters start building relationships for years. Nobody other than huge names can drop in and drop their name. That's why they are always young, hungry guys. Not a guy that's at the end of his career...

RW would be a brain dead hire and would show Woody has no clue how to run a college BB program
 
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Not here it is rejoice fife is bad man now. So hopefully it does not hurt iu we shall see. But plenty of former players will likely take sides. Fife went from hero to zero in two hours. Whatever the situation it's not how you unite former players. There had to be a better way to handle this.

One interesting thing is that as far as I can tell, players from this years team haven’t seemed to acknowledged the Fife news, other than Leal liking Fifes statement that he tweeted. This is in comparison to Landers announcement which seemingly the whole team as responded to. Hell, I think the majority of the team responded to something Brunk posted on instagram today. It’s possible that the players maybe aren’t sad to see Fife go
 
Recruiting is extremely hard work. You have to be in trenches daily building relationships. You don't show up and say look up my name on Google.

Good recruiters start building relationships for years. Nobody other than huge names can drop in and drop their name. That's why they are always young, hungry guys. Not a guy that's at the end of his career...

RW would be a brain dead hire and would show Woody has no clue how to run a college BB program
Apparently we are on totally different thoughts? I never advocated for RW to be an assistant. Larry Brown is 81 and an assistant at Memphis who got farther than IU did. My point was fine have your opinion and the term irrelevant could be debated but if you are an IU fan calling RW dogshit you really need to check your perspective about things.
 
One interesting thing is that as far as I can tell, players from this years team haven’t seemed to acknowledged the Fife news, other than Leal liking Fifes statement that he tweeted. This is in comparison to Landers announcement which seemingly the whole team as responded to. Hell, I think the majority of the team responded to something Brunk posted on instagram today. It’s possible that the players maybe aren’t sad to see Fife go
Yeah and maybe he was not liked. The problem is when you hire iu guys and have to fire them it looks really bad. What if woodson gets fired what is kitchell going to say? I always said it's not as simple as just hiring an iu guy. Point in fife proven. Shit some thought he should have gotten the head job. I loved fife but it's clear just hiring an iu guy cause he was a tough nosed player does not always work. I hope woodson can get the staff he needs and fast. I could give two craps if they played at iu and never have cared. That joe Hillman stuff I guess you could almost say kool aid stuff.
 
Apparently we are on totally different thoughts? I never advocated for RW to be an assistant. Larry Brown is 81 and an assistant at Memphis who got farther than IU did. My point was fine have your opinion and the term irrelevant could be debated but if you are an IU fan calling RW dogshit you really need to check your perspective about things.
He would have to be the third assistant. Woodson needs to hire a killer recruiter to replace fife. We need two top notch recruiters period..
 
He would have to be the third assistant. Woodson needs to hire a killer recruiter to replace fife. We need two top notch recruiters period..
I'm not in disagreement , not sure why Randy would want to likely doesnt need the money as he strikes me as someone that took care of himself. My observations was more the 29 YO poster who apparently has no clue calling Randy Dogshit and an irrelevant person
 
Apparently we are on totally different thoughts? I never advocated for RW to be an assistant. Larry Brown is 81 and an assistant at Memphis who got farther than IU did. My point was fine have your opinion and the term irrelevant could be debated but if you are an IU fan calling RW dogshit you really need to check your perspective about things.

Then why are we talking about RW?

And don't compare him with Larry Brown ...who was a legendary coach at every level and is a HoFer.
 
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Then why are we talking about RW?

And don't compare him with Larry Brown ...who was a legendary coach at every level and is a HoFer.
Wittman was an ok nba coach a few years not great overall. He probably knows shooting but we need recruiters. I think he is best as an advisor honestly. We dont need the 1981 team on the bench. Our recruiting is ok but if we want high level guys we need young blood who can relate imo.
 
Then why are we talking about RW?

And don't compare him with Larry Brown ...who was a legendary coach at every level and is a HoFer.
Comprehension seems rough for some of you? I didn't like denigrating Randy Wittman when he has never been a coach here at all. I said if he gets hired and fails then to a point have at him. I just think calling a IU great dogshit in any manner who has never disgraced IU in any way. Maybe wasnt as great a player and coach in NBA as probably he would have liked but he has never shown anything about his person to be called dogshit in anyway and some jackass on here going off like that is just uncalled for. Randy would probably take it in stride a little more , Call Kitch that? Probably not a good outcome from same era. If he had done something?
Wittman was an ok nba coach a few years not great overall. He probably knows shooting but we need recruiters. I think he is best as an advisor honestly. We dont need the 1981 team on the bench. Our recruiting is ok but if we want high level guys we need young blood who can relate imo.
I agree with this I just don't like someone who never even saw Randy play being so obnoxious about it. He always seems like good guy.
 
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Comprehension seems rough for some of you? I didn't like denigrating Randy Wittman when he has never been a coach here at all. I said if he gets hired and fails then to a point have at him. I just think calling a IU great dogshit in any manner who has never disgraced IU in any way. Maybe wasnt as great a player and coach in NBA as probably he would have liked but he has never shown anything about his person to be called dogshit in anyway and some jackass on here going off like that is just uncalled for. Randy would probably take it in stride a little more , Call Kitch that? Probably not a good outcome from same era. If he had done something?

I agree with this I just don't like someone who never even saw Randy play being so obnoxious about it. He always seems like good guy.

Good luck with your career shitting in cornfields.
 
Comprehension seems rough for some of you? I didn't like denigrating Randy Wittman when he has never been a coach here at all. I said if he gets hired and fails then to a point have at him. I just think calling a IU great dogshit in any manner who has never disgraced IU in any way. Maybe wasnt as great a player and coach in NBA as probably he would have liked but he has never shown anything about his person to be called dogshit in anyway and some jackass on here going off like that is just uncalled for. Randy would probably take it in stride a little more , Call Kitch that? Probably not a good outcome from same era. If he had done something?

I agree with this I just don't like someone who never even saw Randy play being so obnoxious about it. He always seems like good guy.
I did not see what he said. But I think if you are going to hire an older assistant you do what howard did. You hire a guy who has won at the NCAA level. That was a genius hire for howard.
 
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I did not see what he said. But I think if you are going to hire an older assistant you do what howard did. You hire a guy who has won at the NCAA level. That was a genius hire for howard.
It is 2 separate things and I just didnt like the way he was putting things. Talking coaching analysis and actual facts? I don't think Wittman is a fit . I'm not sure who is at this point IU is getting laughed at
 
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Calm down man.. was trying to pay you a compliment. Can you not take a joke about your cornfield story?
OK I stand corrected and saw the cornfield different. That did suck. You weren't the one that set me off. I am not big fan on hiring ex IU players to be honest . It puts us in bad situations and maybe a bad night . Wittman was one of my favorite players of my HS era and I just didnt see the point of being so nasty about him by that poster was saying . Olive branch extended.
 
It is 2 separate things and I just didnt like the way he was putting things. Talking coaching analysis and actual facts? I don't think Wittman is a fit . I'm not sure who is at this point IU is getting laughed at
That's a fact. We may need two assistants if yasir bolts. I am guessing they wont be iu guys unless older iu guys woodson knows.. Would not be shocked if he hires nba guys Woodson really seems into the nba guy stuff. Like I said if that's the direction than you better recruit like Kentucky or try too. You arent building a wisconsin type program with an nba staff. The guys who will want to play for you want the nba period. Get me in the league. Gabe cupps seems like a perfect four year player. I hope woodson goes that route but we shall see.
 
Then why are we talking about RW?

And don't compare him with Larry Brown ...who was a legendary coach at every level and is a HoFer.
...and crashed 2 programs with NCAA sanctions on his way out of town(s).

He should still be sending thank you cards to Danny Manning. Hiring Ed Manning as KU assistant coach prior to Danny's senior year in high school certainly paid off.
 
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Man, this thread sure did get hot and chippy.

What it needs is the soothing falsetto yodel of a man…

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…a man whose very voice could even save the world from Martian plunder…

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I pretty much take a shit when I do that . Poop is like the single most stupid , annoying word in the English language. You did bring it all up . I don't even know what Rabjohns is but you are bringing in crap from other sites acting like it's some great truth because you want it to be. I'm really not even a huge Fife fan but this was handled poorly and ultra leftist like you that are blaming it all on politics because it fits your agenda are just nuts.
Ughhhh. Rabby is pretty close to the program and fife. Step away from the ledge.
 
My first inclination was that Fife was a Judas leaking negative information about Woodson to Rabjohns and Dakich. If that’s right, I absolutely believe that he should have been fired and also support the way that it was done. Now that this political angle has been injected into it though…I don’t know what to think anymore. It’s very disturbing. Hopefully this will get clarified with time.
 
RW is irrelevant in the college game. Particularly with recruiting. There isn't a 16 year old that's ever heard his name.. and he wouldn't have the slightest clue how to recruit 16 year olds.

It's like asking your grandparents to write some computer programming to automatically turn on your lights.

Recruiters get in the game from the ground up.
Do u know if Fife could recruit? I bet Whittman could recruit Indy..
 
I'm not teaching kids.. And no I'm not a right wingers weirdo
She doesn’t teach kids. She is a house mom for a sorority. You spat just as much right wing shit as she does left wing. I would argue more. You are actually obsessed with bringing politics into things. Kinda weird.
 
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She doesn’t teach kids. She is a house mom for a sorority. You spat just as much right wing shit as she does left wing. I would argue more. You are actually obsessed with bringing politics into things. Kinda weird.
So you both like hanging with 18-20 year olds kinda weird
 
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