Was any action proposed to their students like they said they were going to do when our students will chanting Fire Walters?
How Long Until Sisley De-Commits?
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What's funny is... under a Knight coached IU team, those players probably would not even been dressed in uniform after half time, & definitely would not have played. Woody not only let them play, but played the entire second half. There is no dicipline on that team. How someone could chose IU over Purdue when the could come in and play a key role is beyond me. Like others said, they aren't a Purdue fit if that is there thinking.
Best way to not get boo'd is to actually put forth some effort. I mean the crowd tried their best to hype the team while down 20 but the players just didn't care. Players and coach don't care, why should the fans?
This is what you get when you buy an entire team. This forum brought that up quite a few times before the season started and it looks like it has all come true... quicker than I thought, but true regardless.
Well, that's what you get when you buy a team,......and have on his best day, an average coach.
This is shocking. If a Purdue, Illinois, MSU or many other school's player put forth so little effort, they'd be sitting their ass on the bench the rest of the game.
How do you fix that though? I honestly think what has happened the past couple of coaching cycles might deter other names from coming. You could be committing career suicide.
Get a coach with a backbone. Archie was just in way over his head. But even Creans first 3 years of teams put in more effort. They just weren't good. Those teams were absolutely awful but they put in some effort. It comes from the top. Woodson sleep walks everywhere he goes. Players follow suit.
That summarizes some on here too. But with a lot less playing experience.
But you also have to be a coach who is ready for the Big time. Archie wasn't. Woodson just absolutely sucks as a coach.
It's the coach, not the method.
You don't have to look any further than the team that just beat them by 30. Illinois turned over their entire roster except for a couple and look how good they are. "buying" an entire team is not automatically a bad thing. If done correctly it can be successful.
Other than dusty banners and a bunch of old windbags telling stories of the glory days, what makes Woodson a legend to the students? He left IU as a player 35 years ago.
They do have a huge and rabid fan base. I’ll never forget 17,000+ showing up for Creans horrific 2008-2010 teams… and of course they have B1G money/facilities…
Actually 45 years ago… the students PARENTS probably don’t remember Woodson at IU…
Students and fans who weren’t even born when he was a player sure as hell like to reference the programs accomplishments from that era.
Well he's an IU legend. So that just makes him a legend. Kinda how it works. I mean I wasn't alive when George Washington was around but I'd consider him to be an American legend.
Exactly. But Dolson has shown that he can get it right with Cignetti, and unlike with basketball, that was truly working with a severe disadvantage.
However, basketball passion and top financial resources or not, until IU gets it right it will continue to be a 4 year-ish carousel of mediocrity or worse.
As for Sisley, he and his family are born and raised IU fans. The one way that is 100% guaranteed to see him de-commit is to retain Woodson. The good news for IU is that there is a 0% chance of that happening. He may open his recruitment anyway, but in basketball a rebuild can happen quickly and I would expect that Sisley will give the new IU staff a fair and close listen.
And how many fans hung around for the second half last night? There are some fun videos floating around of the mass exodus at halftime last night.
I agree. As I understand it, Painter shows video to recruits of past Purdue stars, andtells them that he envisions using them the same way. If he sees Sisely as a stretch forward, I expect Painter showed him video of Hummel and Vince Edwards.
Correct me if I'm wrong. The master plan involved the 3-headed monster for head coach. Woodson was the grizzled school hero with decades of NBA experience. Matta was the championship winning college coach with expertise in recruiting. And Fife was the young rising star with excellent recruiting skills and championship rings. The plan quickly disintegrated. The only thing that hasn't completely failed is recruiting. IU still gets top talent in the B2G.
