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Indiana Moving on from Woodson

Mar 14, 2023
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Mike Woodson is “retiring” at season’s end.

I only post this because it will be interesting to watch, as there would likely a lot of overlap in their and our candidate search (should Bubba make the decision to move on at any point).

Granted, they’ve not held blue blood status for almost 2 decades, but still have 5 banners. I firmly believe that is still a highly attractive job, and they have a hefty annual NIL budget (some say top 5).

Might help us understand the market a bit since our job likely has very few “comps” to use a real estate term. But there have been some definite similarities in their current situation and ours (respected former AA player hired with no collegiate head coaching experience, and a large portion of the fan base unhappy with results).

Definitely not intended to be another Hubert has to go thread…
 
They had one of the top NIL budgets in all of college basketball this offseason. So Woodson really has no excuses. He was given everything he could possibly need to succeed, and he couldn't get it done.

Indiana basketball has been to ONE Final Four in the last 32 years. I'd be curious to see where modern college basketball fans put them in the hierarchy of programs. They haven't done anything meaningful in a long time.


Side note: imagine the current UNC team with Ballo playing center. Holy cow would that have fixed a lot of problems. We'd probably only have 3 losses.
 
Hopefully Hubert does the same at seasons end…Just admit you are not up to the job….Don’t be like Mack….You will always be a Tar Heel….It’s time Hubert for the good of the program…And I don’t even blame you Hubert…It’s UNC fault for allowing the outgoing Coach to hire the next Coach…Sad thing is we have did this 2 times now…Dean to Gut….And Roy to Hubert….

No more Family Hires please….
 
Indiana was smart to allow this report into the public giving them a head start on all other P4 teams that will have openings. They can now navigate back channels through the end of the season and have a guy unofficially ready to name at season end.

Rumors are that they will make a final all-in push for Brad Stevens and then the normal names appear on their list after that. Expect Dusty May to be a candidate but he’s probably 2-3 names from their top.
 
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