Townie

class of 2008 for me

his hot wife was my english teacher at bloomington south  :biggrin:

i guess what's left is Ark's "fastest 40 min of cbb" or w/e they call their style... just non-stop full court pressing and a run-and-gun offense. if a team gets hot going balls to the wall on offense... maybe they can stay ahead in running up the score

watching the Butler game it reminds me of the significance of the "mood" and whistles from the refs in the college game.   Some teams like Butler, Duke, Louisville, etc... love playing this tenacious and scrappy defense where they are straight up mugging people.  I feel like to a degree, a lot of big ten games have this form of scrappy play the refs allow.  I wonder if this translates to better or worse success later on in March where the refs are more liberal with their whistles...   thoughts anyone? 

YES!! this right here. I hated all the bandwagon fans after they made their FF runs. I started rooting for Butler when I first started getting into watching cbb and they were only an above average team with the likes of aj graves and co... those were fun teams to watch and root for them because they were usually underdogs when they were on national TV. The eventual influx of random fans around the state, especially those in Bloomington with no Butler ties made me sick xD

yeah, that's a really great point. That seems especially true at the start of a season because younger teams haven't had a chance to gel.  I guess that's why those pre-season tournaments and international trips can be so beneficial to a younger team.

Is it just me or are we noticing more parity in the collegiate game?  There are numerious no-name schools and mid-majors giving these high profile schools scares, night in and night out.  Do you guys think the familiar D1 schools are overrated or has the playing field evened some? Even the powerhouses like Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, Florida, Arizona, etc have all struggled with mid-majors at some point this season, would you attribute that to early season growing pains or an improved level of competition?

would you still support him if you knew he showed up drunk on campus during his first few weekends after being hired   what about mouthing off to the cops that he's untouchable because he's the IU football coach?