Class of '66 Old Fart

No. 9 Indiana Swimming and Diving Heads to NCAA Championships https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2021/3/23/mens-swimming-and-diving-no-9-indiana-swimming-and-diving-heads-to-ncaa-championships.aspx

Time and TV coverage announced.

Dolson has done an excellent job of this. All of the pundits who start tweeting it's "x" or "y" are probably nothing more than lurkers on btb and using our boards as their "sources".

If he promises to kick PUke's butt like he did Kansas last night, I'm in.

Jonathan Rothschild has a rousing 625 followers. His Twitter bio says he's a writer for Sports Illustrated; graduated from the Kelley School in 2020 and lives in NY. He's also the infamous individual who asked Archie about load management in a post-game media meeting. Hard to believe he truly has any reliable insider info. Pay no attention to the man behind the Twitter account.

Belmont will be our Wednesday opponent as 12 seed Belmont knocks off 5 seed Gonzaga 64-59.

Post-game story. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/indiana-womens-basketball-cruises-past-vcu-with-overwhelming-second-half/

Now this is impressive. BTNStatsGuys @BTNStatsGuys In a 63-32 win vs. #VCU, @IndianaWBB sets a @B1Gwbball record for fewest points allowed in a #NCAA Tournament game. They have now won 40 consecutive outings when holding the opposition to 65 points or less.

But if you're a potential recruit, you don't know if they'll be around in a month. Just seems the overall uncertainty wouldn't garner us a lot of interest at this point in time.

Major drawback to our coaching search being in limbo, we're not in a position to reach out to anyone entering the portal to gauge their interest in IU.

Sluggish first half but the outcome is going to be just what we expected it should be.

That was my bad. I just searched on Gorham and got a hit for Gorham HS in New Hampshire and didn't pay close enough attention that I was in the wrong state.

Really would like to know the story on how we ever learned about Holmes and started recruiting her out of a high school with less than 150 students in grades 9-12 and convinced her to come all the way to Indiana.

Wonder if we'll follow suit? PUke announced on Monday that both Bittinger Stadium, home of PUke's softball team, and Alexander Field, where the baseball team plays, will allow 50 percent capacity this season. Effective 3/26.

Just watched Holmes in the paint and spin to use her left hand and couldn't help thinking if only TJD could use both hands like that.

I can't buy using stats from one level to project what a coach's stats would be at the next level. If so, we should be trying to hire Jack Keefer or J. R. Holmes. It's just too much apples vs oranges. Too much difference in the games and the quality/ability of the players. Having said that, I'm still not interested in Woodson.

Neither team is shooting worth a darn. IU 35% VCU 26%

Maybe we're looking at this in totally the wrong way. Maybe we should be trying to hire Sister Jean. Prayer might be our only answer. IMO many of you will be sorely disappointed when we don't hire a high profile name and even if we do, many will still be disappointed because we can't even come up with a consensus of who we want on btb. My $.02 Money is important but it's not the sole motivator. Our history of firing coaches doesn't project a good image. If our Compliance Dept. is truly a problem then that alone will turn off some candidates. I think everyone needs to temper their expectations.

Next Saturday's and today's schedule of games and TV coverage.

Just remember, the house gets 10%.

@Feathery and @Treesh you've both expressed your opinons which is the function of a message board and you each disagree with the other which is perfectly acceptable and neither is going to convince the other's thinking is wrong so could be call it a draw?

UNLV expected to promote Kevin Kruger to head coach. He's been an assistant at UNLV the past 2 seasons and is the son of Lon Kruger.

A whopping 107 followers. Don't bet your ranch.

Patience little one. Only 4 more and welcome to btb.

If Matta is indeed the next coach, I want to see him drop to the floor at the introductory press conference and prove he's healthy.