MartintheMopMan

I am not a Title IX attorney, but I feel like that's not how it works.

Me too. I would have bought tickets to the Final Four on Friday night too.

Good thought. That could definitely not hurt too much to practice but be dangerous enough not to play. And while usually you'd expect them to just allow reabsorption, that would slow his return to practice. If he had some avulsion they would still call it a sprain too.

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Surgery!? That tells me everything about Collin and Juwan but I don't quite understand how Rojo was iffy, practicing, and requires surgery unless high ankle sprain was not even close to the actual diagnosis or he had some serious laxity.

Once you divide our program between the last 20 years and the time before, then we shouldn't have any expectations at all. We are blueblooded because of the history, otherwise we'd be less notable than Maryland or Oregon. Our history prior to 1995 is inextricably part of who we are and while division may explain why young people are satisfied with a few Sweet Sixteens every few years, it can't make it any more acceptable as a program. I think you added "2012" as a response to my first point but it's hard to tell on the app. My response however is kind of just "exactly". Going with the analogy, we fixed up our ride after 11-12 and really tricked it out. Threw a 5.86 L Pushrod V8 in that beast and told the world we were coming. They took note, ranked us high, and we started enjoying the ride. We finally reached the last few laps again and... Son of a botched job the car exploded again! Even worse than before! We said it would be ok and really next year is when we can win the race. Nope. Didn't qualify. Well, lots of teams have that issue maybe next year. Qualified with bad position and were out immediately. Next year though... Ooo boy! This is the best ride in 20 years but ($&@$;;;&" the engine exploded in the exact same place again! Maybe next year...

Can you not enjoy a journey without also being disappointed and frustrated by the destination and increasingly insecure about your next trip? Glad you had such a fun car to ride in but concerned the crash at the end was inevitable? Not sure if your driver can take the car rebuilt from the broken pieces to take you on the same or better journey next year? I'll remember Yogi going for the kill, but will my daughter? You're right about it being one of the best in school history though, I'd only rank it behind 1940, 1953, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1993, and 2002. Easily in the Top 16.

But they wouldn't. That is a big issue with this idea. The schools who could compete are the ones willing to spend the money on their basketball team. Harvard could pour more into their facilities and staff, but choose to spend the money elsewhere. There is no reason to suspect this would change for them or any other school making the same decision. The schools already heavily invested in their football or basketball teams would invest more and everyone else would fall behind. Having the salary tied to ranking is more interesting, though would have to figure out a consistent and auditable ranking system.

And as long as we have to do the same thing every time to be good then it's a good thing we're all satisfied with the Sweet Sixteen. Our inability to beat Wisconsin and MSU consistently should really tell us everything we need to know about the long-term prospects of our DNA.

And yet, they were able to adjust and come in and play with UNC instead of just falling further and farther behind because they weren't the better team.

Does anyone else always have the last post you typed and didn't use in the box when you return to the page? And have to go to "Source" to delete the quote? That's wicked annoying for people who write more posts than they submit.

If I wasn't before, today's games sure haven't helped. I guess we just can't field Notre Dame's talent.

Yes, then Syracuse is one step closer to hanging that banner while actively on a worse sanction year than we had. But, we might have enough talent to make another Sweet Sixteen next year if some key pieces don't leave, so that's nice.

You ever hear that old saying, "cheaters never prosper"? Well, turns out it's a lie.

It would still be cool to go to first unread post instead of last post, but more importantly, can we no longer set the number of comments to view for each thread page?

If Syracuse had Thomas Bryant they would be cruising to the Final Four. They need some versatile size.

It's our fault we don't have better players? Not like, anyone involved with the team? The whole issue is there shouldn't be teams who just have good players and we shouldn't. There is an expectation at Indiana just as there is at UNC, Duke, Kansas, and Kentucky. They still meet it; we put mothballs in the rafters to protect our banners.

When was Indiana's last one again? We do realize the kids in college right now are the last ones old enough to remember our last championship game right? Last Elite Eight and Final Four too. So, great, we have history. That's what it feels like we are sometimes.

Yeah. We say we will be "better" next year every year too and it hasn't happened either. But if we don't delude ourselves then we have nothing at all.

Nah. He's right. I get that it's what we get but it certainly sucks. We deserve better. Are we still blue blooded? 1987 is further away every year.

My wife is driving as we speak. I did angerly rip my. Candy stripes off though.

Did sindjbr else make one? Use that.

It was only like ~7.5% and I only smoked one good luck joint so I'm probably fine.

I can't remember because my wife ordered apitcher just for me. But have I mentioned the world sucks and I hate everyone?

This is ridiculous. I truly believe we are the better team and we are playing like a directional school.