Her professorship is with Maurer, she will continue in that role. You know, unless the portal offers something better.
If its Alford or Fife I'm done with IU......
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NBA coaches winning percentage can be deceiving. He took over the worst team in the league and his first few years they didn’t win much, but built them into a contender. Pitino and Calipari have winning percentages below .500 too.
I don’t know if he’d be great at IU. I liked the Archie hire, ffs, so I’m just another guy with an opinion. I’m just saying Woody shouldn’t be written off as just a former IU player. His resume and experience are much deeper than that.
Does this mean you're not going to support my candidacy for the position? 😉
I do hate to point out that I not only announced my candidacy but accepted the job ahead of you. Post in thread 'Filibuster Racist' https://indiana.forums.rivals.com/threads/filibuster-racist.208793/post-3166941
Now I just need them to offer.
Don't worry, you can be an assistant. I see a lot of recruiting trips to European battlefields in my future, so you might practically run things.
That's good to hear... For a minute there I thought I was going to have to put my name in the Transfer Portal... They do have one of those for overwrought fans and would be coaches don't they??
I like a fan transfer portal, let us create one.
We need fainting couches for the free board. And maybe a waiting period with background checks.
But no food or drink while you're waiting.
When you go through the FTP - Fan Transfer Portal - you end up like Jeff Goldblum. It's not a good look . . .
Problem is I'm not certain any other site will take me (unlike many in the athletes Portal I'm brutally honest with myself)... I think I'm looking at either Colorado State or Appalachian State as my next Rivals site if I'm foolish enough to give up All this...😉
Any specific wars/theaters? WWI, II, Crimean, Napoleonic (kidding on the last two). I recently picked up a fascination with WWI (probably watching 1917 or Peter Jackson's doc). I had read a great book some years ago called "The Great War and Modern Memory" which wasn't a history per se but a critique of the writings of the time (British newspaper, letters). Now into Tuchman's "The Proud Tower" and will then move into her "Guns of August". I've also listened to the entirety of Dan Carlin's WWI podcast series Blueprint for Armageddon.
I would love to visit the battlefields of the Somme, Verdun or Bellau Wood just to understand, if only a little, how pepole could run into machine gun fire. I used to work in downtown Indy and there was a strange little museum under the Indiana World War Memorial which contained a number of items from WWI.
WW1 is my favorite era. I am sure my WW1 book collection is larger than the local library's. Of course it wouldn't be of I returned the books
.Guns of August is what made me a WW1 buff. I reread it for the 4th time last summer. It is the classic. That said, two things have happened since it was published. 1) The USSR fell and Russia's records became available to the west. 2) The French President's records were literally discovered boxed up in an attic. As a result, Guns is a little dated. There are two other, newer books, on the opening events. Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 and Europe's Last Summer.
All that said, I would love to visit Agincourt, Waterloo, Austerlitz, Hastings, Towton, Bosworth, and the WW2 battlefields. I could retire to Europe and never have a dull day.
But because of money, I spend a lot of time on Civil War battlefields. It is why I love Kindle, I can go and sit on Culp's Hill and read from any Gettysburg book on that part of the battle.
You mentioned Dan Carlisle. His podcast is beyond great. I have not gotten back to it since he finished 1918, I need to. My current audiobook is on the battles for the Ruhr, I should slide Carlin in next. But I never remember to.
Easy to figure out BK Theater. Just go through Army or Marine Basic Combat Training. The Drill Sergeants are masters at it.
Knight learned it at West Point. The military can teach you how to motivate. It's not pretty, but it's effective.
I am happy with the hire, he was not in my home run choice list but he has the potential to do quite well.
i don't know anything more about hoops than the most casual of fans, but really enjoyed your post about him the other day. i haven't really followed iu hoops in a decade (tho in law school my buds and i had season tix all three years) other than the periodic blip of a great team. i'm going to watch and pull for this guy. as i said before he looks like a badass and a marked approval over the last two who i felt like punching. Go Woodson!
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I’m very happy they hired an African American - I just can’t get thrilled about him. Reeks of mediocrity as a coach. But I’ll be happy to be wrong and will support him til the end.
If you didn’t read it ranger Morisson had a really good post about him
I think Atlanta is a tough gig for anyone. I think to Belichick failing in Cleveland just because everyone does.
That said, I thought with the delay we must really be thinking current coach and had started to think we had the money to pry Altman out of the northwest. That was the home run I thought still plausible.
I think you work at IU IIRC, and care about the schools image and ethics. Altman would be great at IU on the court, but he makes Sampson look like Stevens in the area of ethics. Same situation with the other coaches still playing that would be great on the court-Drew and Musselman.
with the caveat that i'm no bball expert, but getting an nba vet that's an alum PLUS thad matta who owned the big ten conf when he was healthy. in my view that's a grand slam.
100%. Woodson always seemed like an average NBA coach and he's not been tested at the collegiate level. That being said, we did do something that I found to be very beneficial:
I think Woodson is a solid double. He might prove himself a home run, but as of now he is a little old and has zero recruiting experience.
Damn. Just when you think the sky has darkened a little (i.e., the firing of Archie), the clouds magically part revealing....Mike Woodson?!? ROFL What in the world is IU thinking?
-63 years old
-never coached in college
-never recruited
-50 games under .500 in his career: 315-365
-was fired from his only head coaching jobs - the last time after a little over 2 seasons
Brilliant move! And with a guy 10 years younger (Matta) looking over his shoulder - a guy hired as an "associate athletic director" who has zero experience in that role.
Not only a bad hire (if you're an IU fan), even worse optics. Well done.
-63 years old
-never coached in college
-never recruited
-50 games under .500 in his career: 315-365
-was fired from his only head coaching jobs - the last time after a little over 2 seasons
Brilliant move! And with a guy 10 years younger (Matta) looking over his shoulder - a guy hired as an "associate athletic director" who has zero experience in that role.
Not only a bad hire (if you're an IU fan), even worse optics. Well done.
I have not followed Altman's problems in that regard. I just know the Altman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East is a great album
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Maybe a solid double in church league softball, but not in the Big Ten - especially at a program like IU.
Going to open a bottle of the good stuff when I get home. It's time for us Boilermakers to celebrate a little.
Seriously, I hope he proves me wrong. The Purdue - IU games have been rather boring of late.
Kids who want to play at the next level might well value a coach who played and coached there the last 25 years.
Also a lot of coaches in the state age 50 and over remember Woodson the player. That should open doors.
The Matta hire is the most interesting part. I think Dolson saw that the basketball program was a literal dumpster fire from not just a coaching perspective but an administrative angle (and that matters at a P5 program). Matta balances that out. Matta is a program builder.
To be sure I would have like Stevens or Beard more. I think this can work given the right assistants. That’s the next hurdle and should tell us what direction this might go.
To be sure I would have like Stevens or Beard more. I think this can work given the right assistants. That’s the next hurdle and should tell us what direction this might go.
I suppose you're right - his NBA experience can't hurt. But it doesn't really help either.
One question given Woodson's injury in 1980, between him and Matta can one good back be created?
Sure they might remember him as a player. But so what? They going to ask him for his autograph? Does the head coach of IU basketball, regardless of who it is, really need someone to open doors for them - particularly in the state of Indiana?
An Indiana All Star at Broad Ripple HS
An All American at IU
An NBA player and executive for a his career.
I think the man has forgotten more about basketball than you ever knew.
But I can understand where a Purdue fan wouldn't like the hire.
Good grief. I assumed you were IU LawLOL Nope. I've been to Bloomington a few times, though.
one of my best buds went to purdue for undergrad. he just texted me an emoji laughing. guess the optics aren't greatLOL Nope. I've been to Bloomington a few times, though.
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