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Or he's been told Langford is coming to IU but wasn't going to announce until later. Can be flipped either way depending on the optimism meter.

In an interesting twist, he announces for Kansas and says Vanderbilt was his third choice.

This won't be popular, but we are a university with a basketball team, not a basketball team with a university. Coach Knight became bigger than the university to some people and the publicity he generated was not always positive. I tend to agree with McRobbie on the direction of IU minus the emphasis on out of state students, although I understand the economics. Fred Glass is doing just fine with mission he was given. As much as some would like to return the "glory days", I just don't see that in the philosophical cards.

Lolligagers??

I think it might be the other way around. I really like Morgan as a second or probably third option in the offense, but not as option one. If Langford comes, he is option one from the start. If one of the other freshmen or a grad transfer is good enough, then Morgan slips a little farther down. My point is that I don't see him improving his draft stock with another year. I can see him playing a long time in Europe, but I don't know how he fits in the NBA.

I definitely feel your pain with that policy. There was an article in the Indianapolis paper a couple of days ago about how Coach Miller follows his plan without deviation no matter what is going on. Reminds me of another young coach back in the early '70's. He used to drive me crazy too.

There should be some interesting end of the year meetings with the underclassmen. The next two or three months will tell us a lot about what to expect next year. I really think the right grad transfer could be just what this team needs. I don't, however, expect CAM to go for any quick fixes.

Coach doesn't even seem sharp tonight. I wonder how much his brother's problems are wearing on him.

Against a really bad team!

Or if you were a major corporation and you gave large sums of money to both party's candidates running for election...wait, that's OK, never mind.

Both teams shot free throws in the mid 50's percent range. Apparently it's not just our problem.

I've never been a fan of conference tournaments and the fact that we rarely even sniff winning it doesn't help. Kinda embarrassing for a program of our alleged stature. Also seems to diminish a seasons worth of work to win the regular season championship.

It's hard to tell if Cal can coach or not. I suspect average at best. But when you have a new, young team every year, the schematics have to be simplified and pure talent carry the day. That's his choice of how to play college basketball and if he were honest, I imagine even he expected better results. Now, how he gets that talent is another discussion. With Coach K playing a similar game now, Cal's talent pool is greatly reduced.

Izzo could run off to the NBA to make it look like he is just pursuing a new challenge and never admit anything. I'm sure he could find a spot somewhere.

Case in point, Cal coached one of the best teams I've ever seen (I feel sick for saying that) to defeat against Wisconsin. To me, that loss was completely on him.

I'm not going to bash Moore, but I don't think we are going to see anymore kids at IU who still need to "learn the game" after they get here as a scholarship player. Moore is a long way from the guys that Coach Miller is recruiting for the frontcourt. Maybe he can turn himself into one of those guys but, in the limited time I saw him play, I have a hard time visualizing it.

It's not about paying kids or not for me, it's about programs trying to gain a competitive advantage. I don't know how you get rid of that.

Of course, we would confess to everything and probably a couple of things we didn't even do!

I hope he started with "if the allegations are true" before he went on his rant. It's one thing to speculate about this stuff on a message board but a completely different thing to do it on a national broadcast. Vitale was funny and fresh about thirty years ago and actually did some analysis. Now he is a caricature of himself and it's old and tired.

Could not have said it better!! From my perspective, it's disgraceful that a basketball coach is the highest paid public employee in the state. I love basketball, but between this and the sexual assault stuff things are badly out of whack.

He was crucified for it, but Lance Armstrong only started doping when it was apparent that all the other podium riders were and he couldn't compete otherwise. Doesn't make it right, but I think a lot of otherwise good guys cheat because they can't be competitive if they don't play the same game. That doesn't excuse what's going on but it does explain it to some degree. Put yourself in these coaches position and with your job on the line, what would you do.

Ohio State won the game tonight. I can live with games like this. I don't think we lost this game. They miss that last shot and we win. That's how the game goes sometimes. They are a good team and we took them to double overtime and lost on a last second shot. Congrats to them. But let me say this to the big ten, "We are coming for you!" When CAM has his guys in place, look out!

The team played hard and fought to the end. That's all I want from these guys. They finished with a better record than last last year's with three NBA players. Oh, and Smith is going to make the rest of the big ten pay going forward.

Great game by our guys, just a little short.I like how our guys have played tonight.

This year that's all we can ask. Imagine this offense and defense with CAM's guys in a couple of years.