All recruiting rankings referred to in this column are from 247Sports’ Composite Rankings, unless otherwise stated.
It’s been just over two years since Mike Woodson was announced as Indiana’s next men’s basketball coach on March 28, 2021. The announcement caught some in the national media by surprise, with Gary Parrish asking the brave question: Did Indiana Pay to get Worse?
I won’t do the Clickbait Boyz the honor of linking their articles or Twitter profiles here, but the more ‘substantive’ criticism from that corner of the college basketball world came from Jeff Goodman, who was paid to ask whether then-63 year-old Mike Woodson would be able to recruit.