TrueHoosier62

I'm sure this will upset a lot of people, but here goes.   We sucked at the Maui tournament this year We sucked at Duke, who's having an unusually bad year by their standards We got blown out at Michigan State, who up until that time, sure as hell didn't resemble a #1 seed We got beat by Wisconsin, who's having an unusually bad year by their standards We got beat by a horrendous Penn State squad We played, by all accounts, one of the easiest Big Ten Schedules one could play. We played in a conference that by all accounts, is having one of it's worst, top to bottom years in decades We lost to a piss poor Michigan team in our first game in the BTT. In our back yard. With that team having had less than 24 hours to recover since their last game. And that team, having made the NCAA as a "PLAY-IN" game, which tells you what the NCAA thought about Michigan   The summary is thus: We're a good team, not a great one, who played in a good conference, not a great one, who played a good schedule, not a great one, and who's recent history in tournaments sucks at a biblical rate. Yeah, a #5 seeding is probably close to being spot on.

It's really a bit like having a spouse or significant other that engages in offending behavior. You warn them that without immediate change, you're gone; you can only take so much. And as often happens, they change, for a week or so, before things return to the way they were, and your ability to believe in them wanes. Then one day, you've had enough. You give them one last chance. They reward you with a prolonged, daily commitment. You watch as evidence mounts that they've truly turned the corner. You can actually feel your guard dropping, and your passion returning. Finally, you fully embrace them again, and all is right with the world. Then of course, you take them to an IU/Michigan tournament game and they show up wearing a blue and maize sweatshirt, and immediately you feel compelled to toss their ass to the curb. It happens that way.

Bob Knight was once asked after a loss, about his kids having played hard despite that loss, and he said, (and I'm paraphrasing), "It's not enough to play hard, you have to play smart. Through my years, I've seen a helluva lot of effort go in to doing something really stupid". As I said earlier, of all the teams in the tournament, we probably have as many or more ways to be beaten, because we're so willing to assist in the effort. And we also need to remember that we're not playing against Michigan or Michigan State or Duke or Kansas, we're playing against the game of basketball, and too often, we're losing our ass.

I don't agree with much of what "MadaboutIndiana" posts, but he's not trolling. That word gets bandied about way too often as a means of discrediting a poster's opinion or style of expressing that opinion, and/or as an enticement to have him tossed. Madaboutindiana isn't posting random drivel, designed only to take up space in a thread; he's posting what he believes, no matter how off the mark many of us may think he is.

You came here expecting "positivity" in a "Fire Tom Crean" thread, after a loss in the Big Ten Tournament to team we twice beat in the regular season?

I think you may have drunk six in a row. lol Actually, if we lose next weekend, there may not be enough booze south of Indy to even dull the pain.

LMAO

Please tell me this was a gag, and not serious.

And there's not too many times that "69" and "lose" will be seen in the same sentence. Remarkable accomplishment today.

It's something we don't currently have

We are a one trick pony, who's trick is easily exposed. .

Only if God truly exists.

Post of the Day.

My assertion was not based on whether Bob Knight fished at the expense of recruiting. It was based on the truths of his brand of basketball versus today's. Not saying he could find kids to employ it, only that "if" he could, he could run the table against anything I've seen this year. 

And I can say with relative certainty that if Bob Knight could field a team that carried out his style of ball, without any changes and in today's tournament, he'd mop up another trophy.

Correction, Bob Knight had the buffer of THREE national championships, 11 Big Ten Championships, an extraordinarily high graduation rate, and not even a hint of scandal from the NCAA. That's not our imagination or something we achieved by looking back through rose colored glasses. Those are facts. People who win championships don't have to be flexible. 

The key point to your post being, "after the 76 season". Winning a national championship, and nearly winning two, will buy a coach time with the fan base. Wins alone, do not.

Applause to you, sir.

In case you're not told often enough, I like your posts. Keep up the good work.

Or Jeremy Hollowell, or Troy Williams, or Devin Davis, or Peter Jurkin, or Hanner Perea, or.....

Not particularly. I'm not beholden to any political party or person that tells me what to think or feel, so I sure as hell don't need a sports channel telling me.

ESPN Reminds me a bit of MTV. When MTV started, it was all about music videos. Then, as time went by, they began to add "shows", and the total number of videos began to diminish. Eventually, the channel became almost devoid of music videos, but had tons of shows that very few of the original viewers cared to watch. At one time, everyone loved ESPN because unlike one's local news, where one had to wait until 5:25 in the evening to catch the scores and highlights, ESPN gave those to you 24/7, and the focus was on the games and highlights. Then it started to become more about the on-air personalities, and human interest stories. As the years have gone by, the format has changed to the point where scores and highlights are almost secondary to stories of various content, most of which are uninteresting, manipulative, or redundant. The announcers all vie to see who can either be the funniest or shocking in their commentary, and as someone else here said, "can coin the next catch phrase". Lately, I see where they've decided to try and educate the masses about politics, giving us yet another source for classic northeast liberal dogma. I'd like to think that the only thing they're good for these days is watching an actual game, but then I remember that their court side "analysts" are just extensions of the same morons found in the studio in Bristol, so one has to endure those blathering fools while trying to follow play. It's getting more and more difficult to just "watch a game" these days.

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For once, I had to agree with Dakich. No team benefited more than Indiana did from having Yogi; and it's not even close.

Of course. Although, when one uses the phrase, "all aboard", someone will invariably use the "train wreck" analogy. I won't; but someone could. :-)