bronkonagurski

Winning the Big Ten outright is an impressive accomplishment, especially given the level of competition that year.  It is something that team earned over the course of 18 games of competition.  Sure, I was disappointed that we didn't even reach the Final Four that year but the postseason tournaments are a crap-shoot.  You could have the best players and the best coach and still get upset in any given round.    In the RMK days, in those years that IU didn't win a title or get to the Final Four, we still took pride in winning a Big Ten title.  Big Ten titles do mean something.  They aren't everything but I am not able to understand how someone can completely dismiss an achievement that had not been done in 20 years. 

  Yeah, I'm sure losing FIFTEEN STRAIGHT Big Ten games and refusing to fire George Belu had NOTHING to do with Mallory getting fired.  I'm not sure why you keep pedaling this narrative.  If he kept going to bowl games, he would not have gotten fired.  Could they have given him more time to turn it around?  Sure.  But to act like they fired him straight off from the 6 bowl games in 8 years period is blatantly false.  Maybe you used the Men In Black memory eraser for 1995 and 1996? 

  Not very often, at least not that I recall.  Seems like it is always one or other, not both.

I miss Tre.  :(

It has been 4 weeks since Suds got hurt, including a bye week.  And this is the best Wilson can come up with 4 weeks later?  It feels like we are getting worse, not better.  Diamont obviously is in over his head but I don't think this coaching staff has done him any favors either.  Pathetic. 

I want that 3.5 hours of my life back. 

Blocked FG returned for a touchdown plz.  K thx.

I've watched a lot of bad IU football in my day but I don't think I've EVER seen a more impotent, ineffective, pathetic showing compared to what I'm seeing today.  Wow.    * - talking about the offense obviously

Well that was an interesting half of football.  :ninja:

Really? 

Run, run, run...we aren't good enough to win by being ultra-conservative. 

Not feeling too thrilled about this game but I'll be watching as always. 

  1)  Coaches are not hired and fired based on the week-to-week sentiments of random message board posts.   2)  You just seem upset that not everyone agrees with you.  You are assigning weight and value to the opinions expressed here as if it actually has anything to do with what Fred Glass does or does not do.   "You" are more than welcome to "your" thoughts.  Maybe "you" need to separate "your" thoughts from acting like "you" speak for any percentage of anyone else.   

Congrats to AJ.  I pretty much witnessed his entire IU career while I was a student.  Great guy, enjoyed watching him compete. 

Honestly I struggle to truly see how the term "hot seat" really is all that applicable when it comes to the head football coach at IU.  Obviously we do fire that guy every few years.  That isn't to say the coaching moves are not always warranted, it is more of a statement of these things being done out of fan apathy rather than fan discontent.   Let me frame it this way, I became an IU football fan in 1987.  Within the 1986 to 1993 timeframe, IU went bowling 6 times.  The 1987 team seriously contended for the Rose Bowl.  The 1993 team ended up 5-3 in the Big Ten with two very close losses to Penn State and Ohio State.  So I came to Bloomington in the fall of 1994 feeling kind of upbeat about IU football and hoping to witness some good things.   On September 3rd of 1994 I attended my first home football game as a student.  We went up 7-3 early in the game against Cincinnati and the first thing I heard in the stands was some sarcastic "Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl" chants.  That team actually started out 5-1 and in my own personal experience, people kind of laughed at my enthusiasm.  The moment we lost to Northwestern at home that year (which little did we know, Gary Barnett's squad would win the Big Ten the next two years) the fan perspective instantly went back to "same old IU".    I guess the point I'm trying to get at here is people act like we deserve better which look, I always want better for the football program but it is hard for me to shake the memory that even when we had it better, we did not appreciate it.  Maybe it isn't much of a point at all, but I wanted to share a bit of my own experience as a fan. 

  Rod played on the offensive line for IU under Coach Mallory in the early 90's. 

ESPN's president is a UNC grad, in case there are folks who are not aware of that fact.

I feel like Crean said the right things today but the true test, as always, is going to be what actually happens moving forward and if we really do see meaningful change and improvement.

Michigan hired Brady Hoke based on his Michigan ties because presumably he is a "Michigan Man".  Just sayin.  *shrug*   If you make a change, open the pocketbook and go after the best candidates available. 

I went to school in Bloomington from 1994-1999 and at that time I heard the guys would head up to Indy on the weekends to party to avoid getting caught in bad situations around Btown and/or having RMK find out about it.  Main point being, sure guys still had a good time while RMK was coach but they were much SMARTER about it.  Just my two cents.

It isn't April 1st, is it?  :(

I can't bring myself to watch an entire Pacers game this season.  I kind of channel flip around and check in on the score periodically.

Scary.  Best wishes to all involved. 

  I'd rather bring back Cam Cameron than hire Hoke.  *shudders*

  It is called making an observation and I really don't care that much what anyone posts.  It is free entertainment at the very least.  :cheese: