Sure but what is being suggested is an entirely different animal. No way that happens. Nor should it.
Indystar Rips Woodson
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VanPastorMan
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If I was present when Coach Woodson said this I would point out, "PSU didn't have their best player in your place and they throttled you. Your team turned another team who is not very good shooters into Reggie Miller".
How was church yesterday Van? Did ya rake my Strait advice with the boots, cowboy hat and covid mask? lol
True.............but seeing how teams react to adversity tells you all you need to know about the coach. A drop-off in results may be inevitable, but a give-up attitude is not.
The PSU game was over when PSU got a 6 point lead early in the 2nd half. No fire from Woody. Not acceptable.
One year, I think it was 2014, Doyle came down to cover the IU vs PU Bucket game. Both teams were playing for nothing. The Zander cigar game.
Instead of covering the game, he decided to circulate out in the tailgates where he came across a group and their little dog “Sprinkles.”
His article ended up being about the dog.
We can add pet interest articles to his body of work.
Please explain how our assistants are failing us? Does Woody listen to his assistants - I don’t think so? Do the assistants have control over O or D - NO?
Doyel is a good read when he wants to be a sports journalist. Every now and then he finds an axe to grind, and he attacks in a meaningless way. He's gone after Dakich, anti-vaxers talking about Damar Hamlin, Tony Dungy, and now Woody. I probably agreed with his overall point on most all of those, but none were articles that really offered any insight or mind-changing opinions.
I know you didn't write that IU could get any of the above as a coach but short of Dusty May, the other guys aren't coming.
Also Alford is making 1.5 million at Nevada 16-5 this season
The point was they all make less Money but May and Beard I could see coming.
I understood that, but in the case of Drew, Dixon, and MP... they are taking big time hometown discounts. They are very comfortable and the pay is viewed as fare... especially if there is money for the staff.
The minute Nate Oates has a reason to ask Bama for more money, he gets it. Chris Beard had to give his current employer assurances he wouldn't bolt. More importantly, he has some things that need to be cleaned up. All of which would be harder being in the microscope that is IU.
Drew is from Indiana Beard would come here in 2 seconds Dakich talks to Beard and said that he had interest before Woodson was hired. I am not sure about Oats but Indiana is still a better job then Alabama and Bruce Pearl loves Indiana if we decide to go after him.
Keep wearing the candy stripes my friend...
Scott isn't leaving Baylor to coach at a school he has no hard ties to other than it being located in the state he lived in 30 years ago. Silly that this is a discussion. Is IU a better job than Bama? NIL money is the same (or damn close), pressure to win big is a lot less, warmer weather, nicer campus, better practice facilities, decent game crowds.. might not get 17k a night but they get 12k. The SEC is an easier league than the B10 and the last four IU coaches were run out of town. One of them (Crean) two years after winning a B10 championship.
Scott Drew’s best childhood friends relive his life in Mishawaka before his national title
It was something he dreamed about right here in Michiana.
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It was something he dreamed about right here in Michiana.www.wndu.com
"He’s not unhappy at Baylor, but Drew might be the big fish Indiana could land. Baylor has developed a good basketball following — for both the men’s and women’s programs — but Texas remains bedrock football country. If Drew wants one chance at a power program that prioritizes hoops, in a state he knows well, this could be it.''
VanPastorMan
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The one thing I do not agree with Woodson is keeping your mouth shut. Go to work, prove them all wrong. If you can not do it ,you will be fired. It does no good explaining or talking with the media or fans. It just all sounds like excuses. If you want to be the coach at IU, THEN act like it and go to work.
Kudos to the NNW&CC for being way ahead of the curve. Picking up new members faster than X picks up flagrant fouls 😉
I really don’t get the media not calling him out on stuff like that.
I guess they’re afraid of losing access.
Interesting. Ask tough quesirons and you may lose access, and why bother with the headache when you can pump out the article you need to keep your job. I totally get it.
But, do some tough reporting and your audience grows.
Sweet f***, Beard had interest in the IU job?!?!? Who else could IU have landed?!
And Dolson got steered toward this current mess by the BOT. It’s just too much insidious BS to cheer for anymore.
They have been ahead of the curve for decades.
You’ll know the IU admin is ready for a change when you see the apologists start attacking MW with a fury. They are always way behind the curve. They need to taste the blood in the water.
Woodson should keep his mouth shut and go to work, Any answer he gives will sound weak and full of excuses. He only has 1 year to get it right.
Nothing that hiring a couple more assistant coaches and playing a couple rounds with QB can’t fix.
And if Beard would have come here would we have been forced to fire him, like Texas was? Would that have been better?
At that point in time, Beard was incredibly qualified for an interview (among others), we never even heard anyone else was even looked at.
Why look at anyone else when a golf buddy doesn’t have a job? Complete waste of time
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Bob Knight never accepted the “injury excuse,” neither should Mike Woodson. A team plays against its potential, its greatest opponent, no matter what changes that potential during the course of a given season.
Coffee is for closers, not excuse makers of the “ifs” and “buts” that keep driving us nuts. Where are the Glengarry leads when needed?
You got it right! Although my preference would be
To screw up as bad as we have seems impossible.
Did Beard say that? Or did Dakich say that Beard said it? Big difference.
One of Woodson's standard lines is "next man up" I don't see him making excuses any more than most other coaches do.
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