No negatives I can think of. Most of the revenue upside is in FB. Even places like Purdue make $8M+ more per year than we do in just FB ticket sales. If we can become a midpack B1G team that draws fans and some sponsors, that could help the athletic dept out quite a bit, including BB.
Why do you have to be a Richard in damn near every basketball post? If you are that miserable find a new team.
Ah, the little parrot learned to repeat a word. Atta boy, you get a giant treat.
Woodson is a bad coach and the sooner he is fired the better. Mullins going to UCONN will hasten his departure. Then maybe Quinn and the boosters will let Dolson make his own hire.
I would not put much weight on a Maryland insider who often flips his pick.
Yea. I saw some breakdown on BTB. I guess it’s possible he knows, but seems pretty unlikely.
He’s the guy who flipped Queen from us to Maryland last second. lol.
Dumb.Ah, the little parrot learned to repeat a word. Atta boy, you get a giant treat.
Irony .. a cracker for a cracker ..
I disagree - getting Mullins will have no impact on Woodson’s job. He could go 4/4 or 0/4 in a recruiting class and imo it wouldn’t matter. In the end IU will have a roster of players (portal or hs) that will be some of the highest paid players out there. It will come down to what he does on the court, not recruiting. (Which flies in the face of last year, where our season was a total stinker, but at some point the boosters will demand more.)
Donger need food!Ah, the little parrot learned to repeat a word. Atta boy, you get a giant treat.
Irony .. a cracker for a cracker ..
This is a reasonable post. I don't get caught up in the Mr basketball or he is from Indiana as a priority but if IU is going to chase the kids with an offer from UCONN, IU will lose more often than not... as will everyone else.
recruiting 5-star kids with absolutely no recent tournament success, won't start winning these battles until we win on the court. the portal is a lifeline for Woodson, or he already would have been gone.
Woodson is an epic disaster. This was a must get. Hopefully that guy is wrong. It's sad. Honestly he'd probably have difficulty fielding a roster without Cindy and Carl's money bag.
Will sting if he's a 3-4 year player, but Hurley has sold Mullins on being a one and done.
I've been beating the drum since a couple weeks in to his first season. Playing a more open, perimeter centric offense should have been implemented by Woody, from day 1.
Man...I don't see that, at all. But if its there, more power to him! Hope that's how it goes for him.
Lots of truth to this.
What I heard said was that Hurley is talking up a "10 month plan"... but really, what's the downside if you tell a guy what he wants to hear to get him? My 10 month plan might be for a kid to come in and dominate from Day 1, work hard, earn a starting position, become all conference and then you get drafted. And, if you don't do that, well, that was just my plan! On to year 2!
Must get. Says you. I'm sure the entire nation is waiting on word of the IU program's fate that rests on a 6'7" white kid from Greenfield's choice. We already got Sisley. Did you forget that? And if we land Mullins, I'm sure it'll be the next recruit we pursue and in turn don't get, that you'll roll out the same whine. Rinse, repeat.
No downside at all, every coach does this to an extent (well except for Painter lol). But if he's selling Mullins on being a one and done yet keeps recruiting multiple guys at his position to go along with the expected pieces back....well a light bulb probably needs to come on somewhere.
No such thing as a must get high school recruit anymore. This is a beyond dumb comment.
Woody will make or break his legacy this year. I said it a few weeks ago, who cares about Mullins. Concentrate on Rice, Kanaan, Goode, Ballo like players. It’s a new day.
I heard the recap of what he told the 24/7 guy when he announced the 10/23 date and the thing that gives me hope is that I don't ever remember a top kid talking so much about being at a school farther away and "being on your own." It seemed that distance had come up in his recruitment more than any top player I recalled recently, but it's now making me think that is a big deal to him or his family. So, I'm hoping ultimately that wins out. Doesn't send a good message to other recruits if we can't close on a central IN kid who we've been recruiting longer than anyone. I agree with others it's a new day, but that has rarely happened when we've had a decent program and it sends a bad message... if only to me.
