Class of '66 Old Fart

A little more salve for our wounds from a FB poster. Congratulations to the Purdue Boilermakers on their 82nd consecutive year of not winning an NCAA National Championship!! Even IU has not been able to achieve such greatness!!! North Texas "MEAN GREEN", thank you

Catching up on overnight posts and saw a string related to Jay Wright. Great coach and a sharp dresser. In all of his years in coaching, he's only spent 2 years west of the Appalachians and at age 60, I don't see him leaving the east coast for the midwest. I'm not implying his age is a hindrance to coaching merely that at that age, I think he's less likely to want to start over in a completely different culture, i.e., east coast vs. midwest. And he's already got a pretty good gig at 'Nova.

Sadly his mind is ebbing but wouldn't this be a great time for a personal phone call from The General?

Pete Thamel - So what's an upset worth for a conference? Just got the detailed data today from the NCAA. UNT's win, for example, means that Conference USA brings an extra unit to the league, which is worth $337,141 for five years. That's an extra $1,685,705 for the league. Serious $$ for that conference.

Well this helps take a little sting out of today's earlier news.

Don't forget about women's bball.

I'm not going to go digging but there were things at his stint at New Mexico, not like the Iowa incident, but his personal character isn't the image he portrays. For me, it's not just Iowa that turns me off on Alford.

'22 Reggie Bass formerly of Muncie Central HS who played his last 2 years at prep schools committed to Illinois.

On a day of a major letdown in men's basketball we have a bit of good news in baseball. Jon Blau - Michigan (7-2) lost today, so the Hoosiers (8-1) sit atop the Big Ten after a series-opening win over Purdue.

Exactly my point. Glass said one thing and then did something else. I don't think Dolson does that. He'll hold to the concepts he stated in his presser so I'm still upbeat that we're going to get a really good coach.

Fred Glass blew nothing but smoke at us when he told us who he was looking for in a coach. Dolson isn't going to do that. Here's what he said he was looking for: What’s important to us is that it’s a style of play that recruits want to play in and that recruits see that they can see themselves in, but then also is really on the cutting edge of where is basketball going, where is college basketball going, and as you can see, basketball is different than it was three years ago, four years ago, six years ago in terms of how it fits into the NBA and moving on and playing professionally. I don't think that fits Beard as our next coach.

Post-game summary - https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2021/3/19/mens-soccer-no-9-indiana-blasts-rutgers-3-0.aspx?fbclid=IwAR2m2Zt4xo1n5dJ4LC_KzEFak4Ea1fJWDSh8F3twhDl8Ae96YP5RtTDpNa0

2021 OUTDOOR SCHEDULE Indiana Track & Field has announced the schedule of competition for the 2021 outdoor track & field season. The schedule includes five home meets and two neutral site tilts. The slate will be Big Ten conference only including the two neutral site competitions. Indiana opens the outdoor season on Mar. 26 and Mar. 27 at the first of five home meets. The Hoosiers will then travel to Jacksonville, Fla. where they will compete in a neutral site meet with the rest of the Big Ten programs on Friday, Apr. 2 and Saturday, Apr. 3. Meet number two in Bloomington will kick off on Apr. 9 and conclude on Apr. 10. Indiana will split up weekend four of the season as a group will travel to Prairie View, Texas for another neutral site Big Ten competition while the rest remain on campus and host the Big Ten Indiana Invitational number three. Illinois is set to host the Big Ten Relays on Apr. 23 and Apr. 24 before the Hoosiers return home for the Billy Hayes Invitational on Apr. 30. The regular season will come to a close on May 8 when Indiana hosts its final home meet. The 2021 Big Ten Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be contested in Champaign, Ill. at Illinois. The championships are set for Friday May 14 through Sunday May 16. NCAA East Preliminaries are slated for Jacksonville, Fla. hosted by North Florida May 27 through May 29. The outdoor season wraps up with NCAA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships June 9th through June 12th. Oregon will host its first collegiate championships at the newly renovated Hayward Field. 2021 Outdoor Track & Field Schedule March 26th & 27th – Big Ten Indiana Invitational #1 (Bloomington, Ind.) April 2nd and 3rd – Big Ten Meet (Jacksonville, Fla.) April 9th and 10th – Big Ten Indiana Invitational #2 (Bloomington, Ind.) April 16th and 17th – Big Ten Meet (Prairie View, Texas) Big Ten Indiana Invitational #3 (Bloomington, Ind.) April 23rd and 24th – Big Ten Relays (Champaign, Ill.) April 30th – Big Indiana Invitational #4/Billy Hayes Invitational (Bloomington, Ind.) May 8th – Big Ten Indiana Invitational #5 (Bloomington, Ind.) May 14th through 16th – Big Ten Outdoor Championships (Champaign, Ill.) May 27th through 29th— NCAA East Preliminary (Jacksonville, Fla.) June 9th through 12th – NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships (Eugene, Or.)

3-0 is the final score and we move to 5-1 on the season. Next Tuesday night at 7:00 we host Northwestern. IU R Shots 10 10 SOG 4 5 Corners 3 1 Fouls 13 9

Drew Ashley gets our first hit in the bottom of the 3rd on a fly ball that the wind kept pushing away from the outfielder and dropped in for a hit. This is the 34th consecutive game that Ashley has gotten on base. Grant Richardson gets a double down the right field line and with runners on 2nd and 3rd and 2 outs, Cole Barr works the pitcher for a walk to load the bases for Paul Toetz who strikes out. On to the 4th trailing 1-0.

Let's wait until we get some more solid confirmation. I will be as happy as anyone but until I start seeing it from the national media, it's still just a rumor.

3-0 on a brace from Ryan Wittenbrink with an assist from Nate Ward at 79'. Just 8 minutes remaining.

Much better 2nd inning for Sommers and PUke goes 3 up 3 down. We left 2 on base in the 2nd and still trail 1-0. Apparently quite windy today and blowing in.

2-0 IU leads with a Ryan Wittenbrink goal assisted by Ben Yeagley 62'

Top of the 1st and PUke takes a 1-0 lead After walking the first 3 batters, Sommers got a strikeout but then hit the next batter to score a PUke run. He then struck out the next 2 batters and somehow we escape with just the 1 PUke run. For the inning Sommers walks 3, hits 1, strikes out 3.

Top of the 1st inning and Sommer's has started the game out with 3 straight walks. Head coach Mercer still not available due to COVID and pitching coach, Justin Parker, who acted as head coach last weekend is also out this week due to contact tracing.

Halftime and we maintain a 1-0 lead. IU R Shots 3 4 SOG 1 3 Corners 0 0 Fouls 5 6

30:00 in to the 1st half still 1-0 Hoosier lead.

In 5' mark, Victor Bezerra put the Hoosiers on the board and at 11:35 into the first half we lead 1-0.