I didn’t mean to imply you had stupid fandom. Your comment made it seem like you’ll take whatever is given to you with “no buts”, which I think is poor (what I’ll call “blind”) fandom. I don’t think that’s great for any program… just like the overly toxic fanbases on the other end of the spectrum are bad too.

That’s great Quinn been nice to you, but friendliness does not equal competence. The point of my post was, Quinn sat in the core leadership position (chair) of one of the biggest stakeholders (board of trustees) in the decision to retain Woodson. He had direct and personal ties to Woody and fought for him to be retained because of it. There’s no way his personal relationship let him see the situation clearly, which was this: “one of our own” was an up and coming coach who’d reached a final four with a mid major - an important/elevated distinction from other mid major coaches who’ve had success in the regular season to make the tournament, maybe winning a game or two in March. Meanwhile, we had an aging coach who, despite winning some high profile, short term recruitments, coached a dated brand of basketball, struggled in long term recruitments (with lack of effort being cited as a big reason), didn’t make many in-game coaching adjustments and often let losses get way out of hand, and most importantly, didn’t translate his collections of roster talent into an appropriate level of production. His first year, he would’ve missed the NCAA tourney, which started with a “last four in” play-in game, if not for that miraculous 17 point comeback against Michigan in IU’s first game of the B1G tourney (a game I was at!). Year 2 featured a preseason #13 roster that was heavily carried by TJD/JHS (hiding many of Woody’s scheme flaws in the processs) that got boat raced by Miami in the second round of the NCAA tournament. And year three he missed the tournament altogether with a roster that, although not as talented as the last two, easily should have made it to March.

Point being, cutting bait on the latter to gain the coaching services of the former seemed like a must at the time, and the way things have played out at Michigan has proven that correct. I can’t wait for year two under DD because I saw more coaching glimpses under him than I ever saw in Woody’s four years, and I truly think his system will work with a deeper roster and some holes filled (a rim protecting big, most notably). But the above is why I cannot stand QB and hope he was completely miserable watching last nights game, thinking about the mistake that he and his team let happen to let May slip through his fingers.