Magnanimous

I was about to respond to this sarcastically with “But has he ever beaten Henry Iba?” Then I looked up Henry Iba’s biography, and coincidentally he too coached at NW Missouri State, coached one year at D1 (Colorado) before going to Oklahoma State. Interesting…

Gene Hackman, and unfortunately his wife and dog, were just found deceased in their New Mexico home. The circumstances of that obviously raise some eyebrows, possibly carbon monoxide poisoning, but he also was 95 years old. One of the best actors from the late 60s through the 90s, we all know him as coach Norman Dale in Hoosiers. A movie made by one of our own, Angelo Pizzo, Hoosiers was the perfect complement to Bobby Knight’s glory days and was a national treasure among sports enthusiasts at the time. It’s an annual tradition of mine to watch this movie the night before our season begins, gets me excited more than any Hoosier Hysteria ever could. Thanks for the great career of movies, Gene, and for your personal contribution to the Indiana basketball mythos.

But which in my top 10 should they replace?

Open Range is borderline “and others.” Ox Bow Incident was mentioned, and that’s a great one. Have not seen The Great Silence yet but it’s been on my list for some time.

Let’s debate something we can actually resolve before the NCAAT, since no one on this board, the interwebs, or the outer sphere has a “con-flabbin” clue who the next coach will be or has an actual say in any of this. So…top 10 Westerns: 1) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2) The Searchers 3) Once Upon a Time in the West 4) Stagecoach 5) Django Unchained 6) Shane 7) The Outlaw Josey Wales 8) Rio Bravo 9) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 10) The Magnificent Seven Now tell me why Unforgiven, either True Grit, the rest of the Dollars trilogy, Tombstone, The Wild Bunch, Ben McCollum and the Sundance Kid, High Noon, Blazing Saddles (or others) should replace anything on this list.

Because they locked the Ben McCollum thread I created four years ago. That could’ve lived on as a Ben McCollum watch party, fan club, and central clearing house for custom Ben McCollum t-shirts and coffee mugs, awareness for when he is in town for book signings and starting his own tequila brand, etc.

How far would McCollum have to go in the NCAAT this year to assuage the concerns of those who think he can’t hack it?

Pitino stunk in the Big Ten? IU shouldn’t be hiring guys that washed out at Minnesota just a few years ago? I get you don’t like the idea of hiring McCollum right now, and logically there are other guys with D2 and/or MVC success you could both make an argument for and against, but continuing to throw Pitino Jr’s name out there really hurts your argument in these discussions. The guy wouldn’t be a candidate at most Big Ten schools right now, so why should he be for IU?

All the great (“big name”) coaches have left college basketball or are about to croak.

The hypo was with our current roster. Since we don’t even have a system this season I find it hard to believe we’d by significantly worse if these players had to run one.

What do folks think our record would be if McCollum was coaching us this year?

Mark Few isn’t coming here…

Dunkin’ over Tim Hortons! LFG!

Can I hijack this thread to talk about overtime in the Four Nation Faceoff championship? It’ll kill a few minutes until the next rumor.

I think the biggest question mark was him being compelled to go after Romeo Langford, who wasn’t a fit anywhere…

Tried to take a picture of 1975 IUBB vs Illinois. For a moment I thought this was K, but other shots indicated it was someone else. I don’t know if K was on the sideline right next to Knight during games…

They’re both wearing red, but I’m not sure of the context or caption…

His initials are “B. McC.”

We’ve seen him coach in the Big Ten already…eight seasons and finished higher than 7th place once.

I think McCollum is coaching in the Big Ten next season.

Is this site currently acting up for anyone else? Examples being it keeps signing you out and having ads creep down over the notification icon?

Tough loss, but he drew up a good play at the end for the final shot. Players just didn’t execute.