I guess FAU was fortunate to keep him another year. He brought them to a level that exceeded their perceived ceiling by several orders of magnitude. They had put their limited egg supply into the FB basket—May probably played in several HS gyms in IN that were bigger than FAU’s. The Dead Guy is the only other HC they ever had w/ a winning record--believe it or not, he left for greener pastures after 1 year.

I would have rather seen someone other than MI get him. I wonder if IU will come to regret not easing Woodson out & bringing May home.

EDIT: FAU in the 7 seasons before Dusty May: 74-143 with 7 losing seasons.

FAU in 6 seasons with Dusty May: 126-69 with 6 winning seasons, a Final Four, and the program's first 2 NCAA Tournament appearances since 2002.

Kenny Payne was a done deal especially after their top target Scott Drew said thanks but no thanks.

UL faithful are calling for their AD's head now that their top 2 candidates are Shaheen Holloway & Pat Kelsey.

They've gone into full-blown meltdown mode & I (much like Loverboy)
am loving every minute of it.

Woodson has the backing of the BoT Chair, Quinn Buckner, and high level donors. Everyone else wanted to make a change including the AD.

No '24 recruits, all the Indiana kids in the '25 class will pass on IU. Woodson clinging to NBA model and asking for a GM to run recruiting in the portal.

So it's going well.

He's an NBA lifer who also has no generational understanding of high school age kids. I'm not an IU fan, but anyone with a brain could see that this experiment was doomed to failure from its inception.

This was Quinn Buckner hiring his buddy. The hiring of Matta/Fife to help transition MW into college everyone got behind. But both were bounced after a year and Woodson is lazy otherwise.

So everything is going great.

Last year Stanford decided to give its coach one more year and bet that hot coaching prospect and former Cardinal star Mark Madsen would wait once more year sanding in the Utah desert. He didn't and its now coaching its arch-rival Cal. IU should have let Woodson go and hired May.