“The last vestiges of what IU was”….that left in 2000. You might be able to argue 2002.
I get more thankful by the year that I was alive and old enough to experience the vast majority of that. Even the late 90s to 2002. There’s not a true fan out there that wouldn’t prefer that to this…
When you’ve lost Don Fischer you should realize you’ve lost it all.
Maybe he will get to the F it point of life. It would be awesome if he lost his filter .
If I had to guess, I would think that Woodson is afraid of losing too many to the portal and destroying the recruiting of the prospects on which he’s concentrated. He likely realizes just how fragile the psyches are of his present team.
Yea. I’d have to think in private he must go off on this, especially with the inside info he has which I’m sure isn’t good. Would love for him to be more vocal publicly, but it of course it’s up to him.
Yea. We should have hired a coach with college experience.
“Be careful what you wish for.”
What were we told about the water in Bloomington?
But the presence of pride flags and BLM flags have
Approaching a quarter century of fans that do not have a clue what we had.
While at S. Walnut's Seminary Park, the enabled "dance" to the beat of the thorazine shuffle.
There was a moment in 2005 when my cousin, who is a casual basketball fan, but a very, very smart person mentioned to me that we (fans) would rue the day we fired MD. At the time, it sounded like the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard ... have you watched the weave and heave? Sadly, I think he was right. Had MD not needed a heat shield to set foot in the building and been given 2-3 years to fix it, it could have been fixed with time and better assistants, the recruiting was there. I was wrong, but this situation is different. MD was fired because IU was becoming well, not RMK's IU, but that was a whole lot better than IU not looking like a D1 team with the talent we have, this is that and sorry to say I think Woodson needs to go. MD was doing on the job training, was the lowest paid coach in the big 10 and was trying and learning. Woodson is paid a king's ransom for much worse results, poor roster construction, and he doesn't want to learn anything, neither do the players, and it's time to part ways.
We're lucky DJ White broke his foot twice, or MD woulda been at IU 2 more years. But then again,
Before that injury happened, MD had IU coming, DJ was becoming unstoppable against good bigs in conference and things were headed in the right direction. It's worse now in every aspect
The last season that I really enjoyed a team for the Hoosiers was 2012. I was at the loss to Kentucky in Atlanta and I still homer believe that the bad foul calls on Zeller and Oladipo probably cost us that final four. I did go back to Atlanta for the final four weekend and did get to experience a national championship with my wife.
Academics not awful but not near where they were in the 80s. Even then (before the state cut appropriations massively) they knew how a top athletic program benefitted the entire university. We've never been UM but could you imagine UM saying something that stupid like the two are mutually exclusive.
Well I too anm embarrassed. About the scores, play and X’s antics. Th Gunn thing was a nothing burger.
I asked the same question a few days ago. Could it be negative nancy whiners and constant critics?
Mike Davis is a nice guy but I would be careful to suggest that we somehow missed out on his coaching prowess. I think he was fired by UAB, got to some NCAAs first rounds at Tex So but has a .366 winning percentage at UD (despite his kid nearly becoming the NCAA all time scorer). We didn't do him or IU a service by hiring him post RMK.
Jeffries made Davis look good like TJD made Woody look good
It's not that and it's not the politics and the whole knocking Bobby off his pedestal, removing the party school image Brand/McRobby initiative thing, make IU a better academic institution stuff. IU has a beautiful campus, but the idea of furthering IU as an academic institution to the detriment of its athletic programs is laughable. IU is and always has been, but for a handful of things, one of the lesser academic institutions in the conference. That we have a usually bad basketball team AND a historically bad football team is a bad athletic department thing, and all the passing the buck BS isn't going to change that. They all need to go or be removed from the decision making processes. Woody needs to resign, Dolson needs to do his job without his hands tied by Buckner or resign, and Buckner needs to let Dolson or whoever do their job, hire consulting firms, do proper hiring due diligence, etc. or resign. I respect Buckner, but he is one on the BOT, his title is not Basketball Czar
IU has an odd culture for sure. I took my 11 year old son around campus and he was like “people are weird here”
