I was there for all of it. I was ten when George McGinnis was at IU. I saw the '75 team bow out too early. I was a junior in High School when IU had the perfect season. I finished at IU in '82 so I saw and enjoyed the 80/81 season.
I use Notre Dame football analogy a lot because they're so similar in how they've struggled to regain their footing after a series of hiring and firing the newest best candidates. Quite a few IU fans thought Brad Stevens was inevitable, just like Domers used to use the "dream job" scenario for Urban Meyer. You can say I'm all wet, but I believe that neither of those guys ended up in their dream job because the fanbases can be brutal. Not that they couldn't handle that, but they had options that looked and probably worked out better to them.
I've always thought IU really went awry, not so much because they dismissed RMK, but that they did it with no contingency plan in place. They made it even worse when they bowed to the demands of Dane Fife and a few others. Now, we just eat up coaches and spit them out.
So anyway, after all that, CMW has been coach here for just about two and a half seasons. The first two ended in tournament appearances. Tournament success, well, not so much. I think the chance of IU making a change at the end of this season is practically zero. So in my case at least, I'll hold out hope that Woodson can still turn this season around and get to the NCAAT. That's a reasonable goal for a team that replaced as many pieces as they did this year. I hope that Woodson manages to get one or two of the big recruiting pieces he's trying to get. I hope he gets some help in the portal to make some marked improvement next year. If this.program doesn't manage to stabilize itself, it will just stay mired in the muck it's been in for twenty years.
Fire away