Dave from Dayton

Stomp Purdue!

Leal and Furst were going at it. Leal was pulled down and Furst and Leal both were slapping and holding. Furst did kick hit Leal and Leal retaliated. Good no foul. That or a call on both players. Messy as hell.

I am not changing my prediction. Even though Ballo and Mac are not starting. POTFB!!!!

Is this a joke? Never mind. It is a joke. The joke is on us. Has been for two decades. Well, there goes this season. /s Shocked. Not...

I heard that if Woody's IU team does not beat Purdue at SSAH today...that Dolson is considering getting Woody to retire at the end of the season. Has anyone else heard something similar? I also heard that if the game is close at the end of regular play, that Coach Woody may just let our PG Miles Rice take the ball and with blinders on will make a last second shot towards the lights as he is flying towards the locker room. And someone got into my stash... POTFB

Thank! Was just looking for that.

That would have been my guess too. But, because I had posted the question, I had to research it. lol.

One would automatically think of TV Teddy. He was...ahem...controversial in his calls and making himself bigger than the game. But no. The year was 1985. The Season on the Brink. Purdue was at Assembly Hall. Bob Knight was not happy with inconsistent travel calls. So, he expressed his displeasure. Phil Bova, Fred Jaspers, and London Bradley were the referees. Bradley let Purdue get away with travels and called it on IU. Reports of RMK throwing chairs in practice...or his plaid coat. Knight got 3 Technicals in a row. He was ejected. Got a standing ovation from fans and a chant: Bobby! Bobby! Purdue Coach Keady stated that he had been scared of what might happen after RMK left the floor. The crowd was the loudest he had ever heard. Bova, a retired Big Ten referee from Northeast Ohio, officiated many games with Knight. Bova said that Knight was the best basketball coach ever and that he intimidated many people. Bova wrote a book about his experiences called Throwing Back the Chair.

Did RMK get many strikes when bowling? That chair toss picture is a classic. He is in rare form. Trivia question: What referee got RMK's ire for bad calls that day? POTFB

I don't see IU's coaching selection process as goody two shoes moral preening. I see it as really bad decision making. Moral preening had nothing to do with Sampson's firing. It had everything to do with lack of oversight and bad decisions in executing damage control when stuff hit the fan. But hey, we all want IU to win. And I can understand the point you made. We need a winner. And no one is perfect. But if they hire someone who has a history of straying. Then they need to do some serious oversight. And have ramifications if IU is going to get sandbagged. Remember, IU gets a lot of goodwill out of sports wins. It goes the other way when politicians start defunding education when they see things that they can weaponize. Avoid that please.

Yeah. Winning is everything. Cheating is ok. Good sportmanship is so naive. We don't need no stinkin' rules. Get rid of flagrant fouls. It's great to diss the other team after a great play. Screw them. /s

No Beard! Mustache, yes!

I'm not laughing. And what is posited in the above post is not necessarily accepted by many. Coach Woodson needs to go. We agree on that. Hindsight says he never should have been hired. We agree on that. I'm not going into the ethics thing. Alumni voted the trustees in. The IU administration hired the guy. Seems to me not an ethics thing. Seems more who do you know. That is the way it is without a written and adopted formal procedure.

This is what I hit to refresh while waiting for Godot.

The red nose? Looks ok to us.

Overrated Barf & Gag 74 Over the Hump Hoosiers Eye New Banner 75 IU defends 3 like the season depends on it. Woody steals defense from Archie and extends the pack line defense to the 3. Ballo actually sleeps in his own bed the night before and owns the lane. Gallo lets his hair grow and is in rare form. Miles Rice gets a record number of assists for him and does not turnover the ball. Even hits a three. Goode is really a goody. One of the assistant coaches actually awake after a long winter's nap. Porkchop throws a chair and gets ejected for impersonating a coach. Reneau proves that he is ready for primetime gets a double double. Mac has more offensive rebounds than the entire opposition. Maybe

The fir I enjoy hockey. The first two periods, the Canadians passed better and seemed in control. I was surprised each time the USA scored. USA was quick on offense at times. Did not see the whole game. I am not looking forward to IU basketball games this season.

Dan D is a decent color guy on TV. He does know basketball. Not sure about the decent coach thing. I have always been an IU fan. And Dan was more than a decent player at IU. He also was a hard working and dedicated assistant for years with RMK. What started me to wonder about Dan was his stint at BGSU in Ohio. Both my daughters graduated from BGSU. Followed Dan's coaching there. Dan did okay with BGSU at first. Never could recruit top drawer talent. Understandable for BGSU, though. Did well enough to get and accept an offer at West Virginia. That went belly up when he found out immediately and declined the job because of their NCAA violations. After that, BGSU wins took a dive for years and he was cut loose. He absolutely over-supervised his players. It was not fun to be with Dan as coach. His recruiting dropped off because of that and other things. The good news about Dan is that he was a clean basketball coach as far as compliance with the NCAA rules. IU was lucky to have him hired into Sampson's staff immediately before that blew up. Dan had nothing to do with recruiting. He tried to right the ship in only Dan's way. Controversial...yes. But he was doing the best he could do with the given circumstances at IU at the time. A complete disaster. But not one of Dan's making. He did make it...ahem...clean by sweeping everyone out. It was hell for everyone. Including Dan. He and RMK had a falling out. Both hard headed individuals. I thought, in certain instances that Dan was right about a lot of things. But his...persona is grating. Glad that he never became HC at IU. But looking back at it... No. Still glad.

I also am not a fan of Dan's. I just ignore him. He is like a lot of people in this world with less empathy and more interested in saying everything even if it hurts others. He is always right. Whether he is right or wrong. But he is shrill about it. And he hovered over his players like a leach. Whoops. Should not have said that.

Gave up on bourbon and coke with a twist of lime a couple of decades ago. Still have a sip of bourbon on one big rock...once in a while with a slice of lime. Must be a tribute to my ole man. I like rye in the bourbon mash. Maker's Mark has no rye...but it is a standard bourbon. I have a comment about Jack Daniels. It is quite the fun discussion. If you look at the mash bill and how it is stored and in the kind of wood, etc. One might just say that it is a bourbon distilled in TN. Jack Daniels: 80% Corn, 8% Rye,12% Barley Old Forester: 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 10% Barley Woodford Reserve: 72% Corn, 18% Rye, 10% Barley Bulleit Bourbon: 68% Corn, 28% Rye, 4% Barley George Dickel: 84% Corn, 8% Rye, 8% Barley Elijah Craig: 78% Corn,10% Rye, 12% Barley Jim Beam: 75% Corn, 13% Rye, 12% Barley Bakers: 75% Corn, 13% Rye, 12% Barley Knob Creek: 75% Corn, 13% Rye, 12% Barley Old Grandad Bottled in Bond: 63% Corn, 27% Rye, 10% Barley Wild Turkey: 75% Corn, 13% Rye, 12% Barley Makers Mark: 70% Corn 16% Wheat, 14% Barley Four Roses Single Barrel: 60% Corn, 35% Rye, 5% Barley I do not like too much oak. I also will drink your expensive bourbon if you offer it. I lean toward Heaven Hill distilled brands. A couple of exceptions, of course...Four Roses Small Batch is my go to brand now. Can pop on Four Roses Single B...if you want to up the proof. Not sure if it is worth the jump in price, though. I can afford almost any bourbon that I want. But I really have an issue about overspending when my palate and billfold tell me different things. I have tried Ocean...smooth. But a wheat bourbon...well, some of them are, I think. I've done the smoke thing on top of a bourbon drink. Fun. I have even tried a smoked water from grilling something with mesquite and using that water to make a big ice cube. No grease in it please. Old Fashioneds are great if it doesn't have too much orange or cherry added. And I had a walnut bitters that was really not my favorite. Old Fashioned with rye will also satisfy me. New Riff is interesting...but overpriced. Done some craft bourbons from around Dayton. Most are only a few years old and need 7 or more. Going much above $40 for .75L of 100 proof 7 year bourbon is not my style. Maybe I will try more single b for grins and giggles. Or maybe that OF 117. Ever have a Bellini in San Marco plaza in Venice? Ever have Port in Porto? Ever have a Harvey Wallbanger in a disco in NYC? Ever have Ouzo on a ocean-going ferry from Greece to Italy? Brandy is the go-to drink in Wisconsin. Loved Kir in southern France. It is a white wine coctail with Creme de Cassis and a blackcurrant liquor...try it. I was in the Navy. Being in port after a very long tour of sea duty was always an adventure in how to spend lots of times doing the pub crawl. Ever see the movie...The Last Detail? Will do a bourbon tour some day. Been to Napa Valley CA. France and Italy have fine choices of wines. If you like brackets, check out the below link...this blog not only does bourbon and other reviews, the writer and his wife have challenges of different classes of mostly bourbons. Enlightening. 11th Annual BourbonGuy.com Brackets: The “Not Quite Bottom-Shelf” Edition — BOURBON GUY

I doubt that it would smell worse than most of the last 25 years of IU basketball. Besides, would I really notice? I worked at a wastewater treatment facility for a couple of years. We had a saying...your waste is our bread and butter. Just pretend it's chocolate.

If IU blows the next 4 years, they can bury me face down in Dunn Meadow... You know the rest.

Drop the gun and grab the cannoli. Not that gun. Jeez...

Nothing locally is saying that. There were rumors in 2023 that Grant was retiring. He did not. This year the Sports Information Director for UD Doug Hauschild announced his planned retirement...after 42 years. My fellow basketball fans and followers over here have heard no such credible information about Grant's alleged retirement this year.