all good...and I agree, hard to get a warm fuzzy over the direction the program is heading. We've lowered the bar so much I'm having trouble defining what I would consider a successful season next year to even look like. Quinn and crew will have a hard time selling me on a mid-conf finish and first round exit of the big tourney being a success.
Hickman is officially visiting this weekend along with Rice and Payne. And Hickman's visit was postponed not cancelled because he was sick. IU's staff cancelled Walker's visit because they were pursuing better prospects and no longer considered him a fit. Huntley-Hatfield's visit was naturally cancelled because he committed to NC State before his visit was set to take place.
MM was basically unplayable the first 6 weeks of the season and rarely if ever played down the stretch. He was benched multiple times throughout the year.
Good info...thanks... Honestly does change my current views for the better.
Another big contribution he is making to the program is how to evaluate and manage players that are getting paid. We’ve always been “above” that, and it put us 20 years behind other blue bloods.
Sorry, but if Trey starts, then we’re doing it wrong. Galloway makes a great 6th man and if you want to win big you need someone who is more athletic and can shoot from 3.
Too many people fixated on starting. It's about rotations and minute allocations. Trey Galloway may not start games next year but he'll play every bit of 25-30 mpg.
Lol you literally said that MM was allowed to play through his mistakes and not pulled off the floor. MM cracked 30 minutes one time through January. He played less than 20 minutes in several games in November and December. He most certainly was not allowed to play through his mistakes without repercussion due to promises and preferential treatment. As he learned the system and played better, his minutes went up. That's standard for any freshman.
Pretty spot on.
I tend to wonder about whether he's an everyday but then you look at the Kansas game and he basically kept us in it. If he can create and score like he did in that game with consistency, he's one of the best players we have on the floor some days.
You just love to speak in platitudes don't you.
You literally stated that a selling point for IU was that Woodson lets freshman play through impunity. That is not the case at all. Here are some minutes played by Mgbako through the start of January:
Issue is he isn’t recruiting to build the program
I listed the positives above. The only thing I am defending is that he should not be fired. Yes, there are red flags, but he has earned the opportunity to fail.
Three guys have left for the draft in the last two seasons. Should he get worse players, so that he can build?
What does that have to do with recruiting? That reply doesn’t make any sense.
It’s possible we will lose Mgbako, Tucker, and Reneau after next year, and he will have to replace them too. The roster will not be consistent from season to season because Woodson is getting good players and developing them into NBA players.
That is called recruiting. We have 6 open scholarships because Woody did not recruit.
You didn’t answer my question. There is nothing different from him getting Ware last year than what he is doing this year. He wants to start five NBA prospects. He’s not going to have five more developing on the bench to replace them next year. He will just go get more.
This is lazy ass free agent type crap. This isn’t recruiting. Filling your roster with one year hired guns does nothing for building a program. Who has been IU’s best players? Guys like TJD, Yogi, Watford, Coverdale. Not one year guys like Ware. Painter is kicking Woody ass in relationship building and recruiting
That’s a bizarre take. Why do you believe those 40 years are worth something? Below average is below average no matter where you do it and how many years you do it.
Oh wait what? Do we list every single guy Knight recruited? Or do we list just two Juco kids? How do you not see the difference?
Nope, but I'm saying key pieces of that last NC team were hired guns. The prior season showed he wouldn't have won without them.
Ok thank you for acknowledging his lack of recruiting. That’s my point. I have no issue going and getting a player to fill a hole but you can’t not recruit at all and then go out and try to piece a roster together from the portal.
That's one way. Given the sheer number of players entering the portal and the amounts of cash involved, I don't know how feasible it will be to think you can keep high level kids for four years any more.
