I like it when people say we should practice free throws and shooting like it's some profound novel idea no one has ever tried before.
You'd have to go back to the first couple of months after Woody was hired or after most of the games at Indiana lost last season or the season before that.
I thought you decided jail…. Would somebody please explain the power structure around here
We never made the tourney!!! Can you imagine if we just missed the tourney next year? No chance that happens now. Woody has IU lightyears from where we were. For sure preseason top 25 team.
I didn't have anything do with him, he pissed someone else off on another board. I just stay on the free bball board mainly.
We got very lucky > we didn’t
Woodson only managed to put together a team for next year that has 3 McDonald’s All-Americans to go along with a couple of solid veteran players and a handful of highly regarded players. That’s all. He only managed to get 2nd in the B1G with his two most experienced and key players dealing with injuries.
You do realize that Woodson has been here 3 years right? In those three years he got Tamar, Malik, Ware, and Mack all after the season in late commits. That is what they call a trend my friend. Luck has nothing to do with it.
It had more to do with money than luck.
ehhhh. NIL has a lot to do with it, but it for sure is not the end all be all with these guys. Getting to the NBA, playing time, and the coach, all just as big a part of it as NIL. But I would assume we will be in the top 5 of NIL spending from here on out.
Sure, there are a number of factors. But, having the NIL allows those other factors to come into play. While NIL isn’t the “end all”, slice the packages by 90% and we aren’t even going to be considered.
Don’t care about preseason rankings so much, but they do help… I’d rather be ranked highly at the end of the year.
Irrelevant how or when we get players. Only that we get talent that fits our needs. If we make a nice tourney run, nobody on here is going to give two sheyots about how we landed any recruit.
Listen to what MM and his teammate said about the coaching staff and what Woody did with JHS and TJD and you will get an idea that Woody is most definitely a major factor in the recruiting wars. It helps to have the success though, and one more good year of relevance/success and it can only help. Here’s to hoping we have an even better season.
He’s had 2 years with Galloway and I would say he’s gotten better each yr and so did TJD but the rest, meh, only incremental improvement
I think that the coach does play an important part in making the player "smarter" on the court, making better decisions, etc. However, the physical development of a player is most likely a factor of the player's personal motivation and the players innate genetic given physical qualities. To understand the coach's impact on a player's development, you must separate these two very different types of "development".
I don’t know how fair that is. Even Bates improved, just not to the degree we wanted him to. The only “failure” so far, if you wanna call it that, would be JG. What happened with him is still an enigma to me.
It’s not relevant until we stop getting top players. Then it becomes a very big deal.
If that happens, then feel free to complain and maybe it would be justified if it became a bad pattern. But this staff has recruited quite well their first two cycles. And that’s on a short time frame, where they had to quickly build relationships. They didn’t have the luxury of building up over 2, 3, 4+ years. We shall see how it all plays out, but nothing shows me I should view recruiting in a negative light.
