bronkonagurski

Fun game to watch!  Go Hoosiers!

I'd be pretty disappointed with 3-3.  4 of the final 6 at home, where we have been consistently on point this season.  I'd expect at least a split of the 2 road games.  I'm thinking 4-2 at worst and more than likely 5-1. 

  I also listened to the end of that game on WOWO.  Family was on the way to the hospital for the birth of my brother's first child.  Ended up catching bits of the Iowa-UNLV game on TV at the hospital.    RIP Tark. 

  Need some matching custom t-shirts too.    Maybe Woodbury is a big fan of pirates and wants to spread his exuberance, one poked eyeball at a time. 

Michigan is very scrappy despite their shortcomings.  Never doubted we would win, even as it got a bit too interesting.   We are close to securing our spot in March.  I think another 3 wins does the trick, although I'm hoping for more. 

  Rick Fox did play for Dean Smith, yes.  Although I wouldn't really count Rick as one that got away, didn't he just move to Warsaw to play those two seasons of high school ball? 

RIP

  I never felt like it was time for a change, but nobody can deny the lull of the mid-90's.  I think RMK was in the process of getting things back on track though.  I mean he basically assembled the 2002 title game team.    Brand certainly had an agenda.  I don't think it is any coincidence that he ended up heading the NCAA not long after firing Bobby.    That isn't to say RMK was without faults and this or that.  I was never that outraged when he got fired.  It was surreal but the writing was on the wall with Zero Tolerance.   If that Neil Reed video doesn't come out, who knows?  I mean that was obviously the primary catalyst in a change occurring.  That and not winning a championship lately.  I don't think the Reed/CNNSI thing has the same effect if IU was coming off another championship.  :-P

  I have a piggy bank at work, I guess I could put a sign on it.  :)

I went to school at IU from 1994 to 1999.  I only ever directly exchanged words with RMK one time, although I was in the vicinity of his wrath on another occasion.   I was on the Student Athletic Board (SAB) for various assignments as a student and for one year, I got to do some work in the basement of Assembly Hall.    The one time I actually spoke to RMK, I was exiting The Hall during daytime hours with my SAB Director.  RMK was coming in right at the moment we were leaving, he was dressed as if he had come back from fishing.  I don't remember his exact words anymore but he said something along the lines of "How are you boys doing?" and we just said "Good, coach!".  And that was that.  lol   The wrath, that happened one night at Assembly Hall during the 1996-97 season.  We had meetings in the basement at night.  On on particular night, as I walked in I noticed the players were walking in with me.  Patterson, Reed, Miller, etc.  Met up with the other SAB guys in front of the trophy case at the main entrance to wait for our director.  As we waited, the assistant coaches came in too.  Dakich waved at us.    Anyways, not more than a minute or two after the assistants walked in, we could suddenly hear RMK just cussing up a blue streak about something.  He must have been in his office.  We never saw him walk in.  But boy he was pissed about something.  We all looked at each other like 'oh shit' and about that time, the person we were waiting on arrived so we made our way downstairs.   Oh and I was at the infamous Teddy V game against Illinois, and yes I thought Bobby was going to go Woody Hayes on him at the end of the first half.  The gasps were audible in my section as he approached TV Ted. 

  I agree 100%.  IU would need to be prepared to write a blank check to get the best possible candidate.  Go big or go home.

I'm not sure what part of tonight is surprising.  We cannot match up with Wisconsin at all. 

  Thanks.  I would be interested in hearing this exchange, is it archived somewhere?

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