Walking Boot of Doom

MSU is making all of college basketball look pedestrian.

Our rebounding and assist numbers look good. Shooting percentages should be higher. Willing to attribute this to jitters. It'd be real nice if we just dominated the second half.

Only thing that concerned me is seeing who was turning the ball over. 4 from Troy and 2 a piece from Yogi, RoJo, Bryant, and Hartman.

What's going on with Cody? @rick_bonnell: Cody Zeller missed practice. He has lost about 10 pounds unexpectedly and is having medical tests.

10 years with how many coaches? We're only looking at Wilson's body of work. If you want to only look at wins and losses, then yes, Wilson and Lynch had similar results. That's just not going to cut it. Beggars cannot be choosers, and I feel that Wilson deserves a bit more time.   We're not going to agree. Doesn't really matter though, I've made my points.

Yeah girlfriends and college basketball aren't great comparisons for developing a college football team and bringing them out of the gutter. It takes time. Girlfriends and college basketball teams can have success changed with one commitment.

Want an example of when it took a good coach 5 years to get a dumpster fire in a power house conference to even resemble a real team? Cutclife at Duke. After going 15-33 in his first four years, he snuck them into a bowl game with 6 wins and lost. The following year? 10-4. Then 9-4. Currently 6-1. Not saying K-Dub will be able to pull off the same success, but I'll definitely argue we'd be jumping the gun when we have visible improvements that just require you to look beyond the W column.

Because I've watched much worse go on in Memorial Stadium. This team is electric, as was last season's, and the season before. It's not clean or pretty, but damn they're fun to watch when they're clicking. Maybe I just have realistic expectations for the pace at which a gutter program can progress in 5 years and can see that this team isn't producing the results, but is building momentum. That's not something we've seen before. You realize we got to watch arguably the 2nd greatest running back to ever come through IU last year, right? And if Howard were healthy, we'd be watching another with immense potential. When you have players being looked at for a Heisman, that's fun. Have you also noticed the defense forcing fumbles, recovering fumbles, and getting interceptions??? Holy hell they are doing something right! The D line has been getting to the quarterback! There are legitimate improvements all over the place with some glaring deficiencies left to fix. But hell, at least things are being fixed, and the past few teams have legitimately believed in themselves. That's a crazy thought. We have a psycho sophomore QB in Diamont who actually believed he and some backup RBs could beat the defending champ, and #1 team in the nation in OSU, and nearly did! That is exciting and fun.

Albers digs are a guaranteed 10 likes around here.

Absolutely agree

When was the last time you enjoyed watching Indiana football? At the very least, KW has brought an entertaining product to the field. He's recruiting well enough that I'd hope for be extension regardless of whether we win another game this year. I have zero faith out the program to bring in someone better at this time.

  Goodluck as well. I think this is his consistent approach with all recruits.

Pretty much. Trying to actually discuss the strategy and scholarship impact right now would be based on too many assumptions to hold value.

Hey, let's keep discussing this like we know anything relevant two years before this will even matter. Congrats to Al! Glad he's excited to be here

@insidethehall: Durham played really well in July at Victor Oladipo's camp. Seems to be a player on the rise. He's a left handed guard with size. #iubb

I can't imagine this trend really changes until we develop more depth, especially in our secondary. The kids just look gassed come 4th quarter.

We got wide open looks on that same pass play to the left sideline twice. Offense and defense clicking in consecutive drives?? Wow

WE'RE GETTING TO COOK! Socked him right after the throw, and the CB's with tight coverage!

Wow two great plays on defense to start.

Just a well timed hit... Really unfortunate, but not unexpected. Classic Indiana misfortune.

@AndrewVcourt: Jordan Howard will start at RB today for Indiana. #iufb

Interesting and well written article co-authored by Crean about emotions and leadership. Sounds as though Coach has done some self-evaluation this offseason. Really want this guy to succeed here. @JasonBelzer: Being a college basketball coach can be a lonely job. Indiana #Hoosiers coach Tom Crean writes for @Forbes: https://t.co/ynBO530iun

This means nothing to me. Kid is just trying to manage expectations.

So what's the verdict pap?

I imagine it will take the initiation of a formal investigation process by the NCAA before this would have any real impact on the program or recruits.