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P(00)p and shame all over your 3-year plan. repent. A lesson for the youngsters. The majority in a group can very often be wrong. Use this wisdom to your benefit.

Umm that. Defense that had a good team going "WTF?" Halfcourt offense forcing fouls on a team that is great at not fouling. Not The Reds like some suggested we have become. Nice expected win against our little brothers in the State of Indiana. Expected win against a back end of the Top 25. Shocking when we lose these games. Not shocking when we win them. I am extremely happy for Coach and the team. They know they are good, and now they are learning they can win and win big. Neutral court wins, and wins on the road.

Yeah. I was hoping for something between where we are now (very, very bad) and where Bob Knight's first IU team was in 1971-72 (pretty good.) Our roster even after the guys jumped to the NBA is still full of class after class of 4 Star recruits. I never did see the cupboard as bare this year. At a bare minimum I was expecting this season to be as good as Kelvin Sampson's first season. I was not expecting anything like Crean's first season because, you know, many reasons, so I never would have expected this season to compare to that one. And I was also expecting more than "but we came within 10 points of Duke," the "good loss" that is the highlight of the season. That reminds me too much of Indiana football. I did not expect to lose to Indiana State at home, or anywhere else for that matter. That one was a shocking loss. And they didn't just barely beat us. They ripped us a new p(00)ph(0)1e. At Assembly Hall. And I did not expect to get our (@)$$es handed to us by Michigan no matter where we play them. I guess we have different expectations. I did not expect that either. I wish some of the younger posters on the site could have lived when IU was a perennial powerhouse. My expectation is that we will become that again, a dynasty.

Somebody really went to a lot of trouble now marking every Illinois game in every Indiana season page as a rivalry game. They tried to do that with Illinois football too, manufacturing a U of M/Illinois football rivalry page, etc but Michigan fans shut that down. It was a pretty big laugh for a short time on the U of M boards.

IU's classic rivalries are Purdue and Kentucky, yet the Wikipedia page lists Illinois as a rival equal to Purdue and Kentucky. I edit the page from time to time removing the Illinois reference, but some Illinois fan changes it back every time I edit the page. Anybody want to help try to get that reference eliminated for good?

I expected a lot better than this.

Hey, nice to see you too.

Feel free to update the list! IU Butler links much appreciated if you got 'em. Thanks!

  Awesome prayer.  So much so that I am now giving thanks for it.     And dear God, please help our basketball team and our coach.

It's about time.

Let's rumble.

That was a giant win for us tonight, but I really don't know how good Creighton is this year.  For some reason, I think this is a down/rebuilding year for them, not exactly one of their best years to be expected, and not the type of team and program that should give a legitimate IU team a scare or threaten Indiana anyway.   But we played them solid start to finish, something we don't always do.  We did not let them make a run, even when we went cold.  Second half, they made much better improvements than we did, and that was extremely disappointing.   Our defense seems better, but that could just be due to the talent level we just played maybe made our defense look better.  We left the back door open and allowed some drives down the middle too.   Glad we got a big win and we have the opportunity to add another against Wake in Maui.  Would be really nice to capture a tournament for once in what seems like a very, very long time.  We are going to have to beat some very good teams in order to bring back a trophy.   I am so tired of watching some other team win the trophy all the time now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJMQs2-CLLU

Normally not a big fan of a guy going up against 4 defenders 1-on-4, but in the case of Bryant, I wanted to see if our new toy could take on 4 guys and win, and he did.   Me likey.

Just got in with 10 to go in the half.  Looks like we got off to a good start.   Anybody wanna catch me up on the highlightsd of the first half of the firs half?

  Thanks, Nat, and anybody else praying on my behalf.   Just a really bad situation.  About as bad as a renter situation can get.  Not fun.

Hi all.   Extremely bad situation with one of my renters right now.  Would greatly appreciate some prayer offered up on my behalf by the prayer warriors in the thread.  Many thanks for your consideration.

Just keeping the discussion going, same as you are.   Nothing more.   Somebody petitioned the A.D. to eliminate all other uniforms in favor of the cursive script.   I am stating my opinion against that.  I feel strongly about that.   I like the Block IU Trident, the Block I, and a lot of the newer helmets.   I don't think the cursive script does Indiana University justice.   I think it is lazy, and even boring.  I have a right to that opinion.

You are completely changing the argument by using a different font and including clothing other than official game day uniforms.   We are talking about official game day uniforms and IU tradition.

Was it Mike Davis who introduced the cursive script to Indiana basketball uniforms?   I'm not talking about warmups either.   I am talking about uniforms.

Cursive script is what you might select as your font for some small time promotional tool like a matchbook cover with your business' name on it when you are working with an extremely limited budget.  And you would only select the cursive script if you had very limited options and your other limited choices were even worse lol. 

OK now you are really reaching lol.   Seriously, that's your argument?   Again, Block I = tradition   IU Trident = tradition   Indiana cursive script = something else not even close to that level, and not even trying very hard   The more I think about it, I don't even like the cursive script Indiana, especially when it is placed next to real IU traditions. 

    I am mildly interested in hearing your argument that the script Indiana is traditional.  Can you elaborate?   When I think IU tradition, I think Block I or IU Trident, not Indiana script.

  What's traditional about it?   It's a brand new style of helmet, never used before, unveiled for a football game against Western Kentucky.   The only tradition we have with that helmet is we are 1-0 wearing it.  Against Western Kentucky.  38-35.  In 2015.   I'm not trying to break your balls.  I am just trying to make a point.   If you like tradition, try the Block I or the Block IU.  We went to the Rose Bowl wearing the Block I.

  Everett Golson and Manti Te'o both wore the same uniform number the year Notre Dame last went to the National Title game.