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This is worse than Groundhog's Day

oh joy

Sampson used to have to put them on lockdown the nights before games. They had a team dinner at his house, and then nobody was allowed to leave that night lol. true story.

OK gotcha. thx

Is it a good thing not to use an in home visit?

And after that, we still have an in-home? Asking coz I don't know how this works. Thx.

Thanks. That number is the number I'm seeing most often. I think the Star had that number too, so that's probably the one. Oh, and thx 4 using Mr T voice too.

I am finding differing accounts of how many total points romeo has now. Do you have a link so I can compare the different reports? Thx 4 the trouble!

you do not want to know. it is bigger than all of us. it can never die.

holy mole you need to post more haha that was awesome! instant classic.

haha curious to know what is your opinion of the strategy they employed when IU hired them to advise concerning the ncaa investigation into excessive celphone usage? they probably ran your wife ragged I am guessing.

lol n/k DO NOT HIRE ICE MILLER!!! You have been warned.

You just need to go out and buy a really nice Cubs hat. That's all. You should see what Schwarber looks like this year in Spring Training after training Rocky style all winter. No more baby fat. None. Or become a Hoosier baseball fan. Hoosiers are looking really good this year.

um, can this report be trusted?

That is a good point. And that is probably part of the mission. But is that the only mission of the NCAA, to make as much money as possible? I agree that if NCAA athletics were hemmorhaging money he would already be gone and rightly so lol. But is money the only measure when so many dark stories involving predatory sexual child abuse and child rape by individuals high on the pecking order seem to pop up now with what is becoming almost normal frequency, and then minimal investigation continues to show a pattern of directors of NCAA member programs routinely covering for predators hunting children for sex in their offices on campus? And child rape is not the only very serious serial crime continuously uncovered now by the FBI and other organizations. Right now no big story in the news suggests any pressure applied to the president of the NCAA. Should he be asked to take a more active role, and at least consider ways to address the growing scandals uncovered during his administration? Or is this none of his business?

Thinking of the numbers and magnitude of the scandals under Mark Emmert's NCAA watch, at what point does he begin to feel the heat, given his hands-off (underststement) approach to the following seemingly unprecedented scandals and then also the many relatively ordinary (for lack of a better word) NCAA scandals he has presided over? Jerry Sandusky PSU FBI serial molestation and coverup scandal UNC academic fraud scandal Larry Nassar MSU FBI serial molestation and coverup scandal Adidas FBI player payment and kickback scandal While I have not researched the history of NCAA scandals, off the top of my head it seems the recent frequency and magnitude of scandals involving NCAA programs might right now be at an unprecedented very high level. At what point should one begin to ask if the farmer is tilling the land properly when the ground has become so recently fertile for giant weeds? Is he in over his head?

"remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember me for thy goodness' sake" (insert MJ dunking over head poster HERE lol)

o good grief (slaps self in face) SIAP

Somebody mentioned how awkward that series is going to be now, and I just had to laugh because what is the alternative to embracing that or any other challenge, even the ironic ones, or maybe especially the ironic ones? After the presser q and a addressed Sean w/Archie, and Archie answered the way he did, I am inclined to think Archie is able to direct the focus, and to teach that skill demonstrably to our guys.

That job can't possibly be fun anymore. It's not even going to be fun for quite a while for a squeaky clean replacement who had absolutely nothing to do with any of this.

Maybe so. I am watching along with you. From this outsider's perspective I just think that there are way too many separate enormous problems coming to light within that athletic department right now for Izzo to survive all the pressures the many different outside and inside forces are going to be hammering away at that university athletic program and basketball program specifically for a long time to come. At some point I expect either Izzo to make the choice for himself to step down, or his new boss, or his new boss' boss, or the Board of Trustees, or the FBI, or the NCAA, or a lawyer or a group of lawyers representing the #metoo movement or an individual or a class action, or a judge or whoever else is out there with another story or stories we have not even heard yet, or the general public, or the media but most likely all of the above are going to force this issue. Way too much going on.

I strongly believe the Dr. scandal, the sex assault coverups and all the ensuing investigations and Jerry Sandusky level magnifying glass heat that athletic department is going to continue to face in the years to come are going to force the university to ultimately put Izzo out to pasture. I don't see any of this going away. Some of this, the FBI stuff is practically just beginning.

My thoughts exactly. Everybody blames the NCAA for bringing the hammer down hard on our heads over the phone calls but what really happened was IU paid Ice Miller a ton of money to recommend we shame and punish ourselves to the greatest degree possible just so we could be sure that in the end the NCAA did not add more punishment. That was a terrible strategy. We paid them a lot of money for them to simply hand us a gun and advise us to put the gun to our head and pull the trigger. And we just said OK and did it.