MartintheMopMan

When your subscription expires I can reroute mine to you.   I paid like 4 bucks for a subscription that I thought was only a year but has lasted for at least 3. Mostly for the insider benefits. I mean, 4 bucks, come on. I have never read a single article and at this point it goes from the mailbox to the recycle bin and doesn't even come inside. 

I shot them an email asking about if they used an automated system. I'll keep ya'll updated.

  If it were automated I think we'd be into it. But, manually tabulating results of another weekly just is not in the cards at this time.   If someone can find a way of automating it, I can take the reins on posting it and all of that. There has to be something right? An automated survey system which can average the results? I mean, the real polls all have one.

The 2014-15 Wisconsin team was 21-18-1 against the spread.   The 2015-16 Wisconsin team is 8-11-1 against the spread.

Love it.   But yes. Unfortunately, this is true. As if we didn't have enough trouble getting calls in the Kohl Center.

The one I looked at they're all brimming with confidence and sure the team has turned it around and they're going to be the ones to start our late season slide.   I hate them.

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!   Indiana now is ranked above Duke in KenPom.

Teddy V is... wait are refs "on the call" too? I mean, they don't call the game but they call the fouls.   What's the equivalent phrase for refs to saying "Dakich is on the call tonight"?

Bumpin' and grindin'   T-minus 9 hours.

I hate those stupid Badgers too much to learn anything about them.   Scum-sucking crapholes - 56 Dapper dabber dudes - 69

I'm serious not to get me started. It infuriates me how disorganized we are. We don't even have crib sheets for crying out loud. I tried to get involved when I was in school and just couldn't get traction.   I know chanting and songs and flags and everything already have a good foundation in soccer, so my constant references to the Timbers aren't an exact comparison, but they truly are the best example. They have great chants, take the time to teach you beforehand, and are ridiculously organized. They make 22,000 people speak with one voice and people of all ages wait years (and pay to wait) for a chance to be a part of it. I just don't see any reason we can't make the Hall like this.   Maybe if we can string together a few good season...

I think I meant I hate them more than any other team. At least, that's another true interpretation of my statement.   I hate that they just have our number. I hate traveling to the Kohl Center for 17 years without a win. I hate them. Our last time beating them before this year is my avatar for a reason. I can tolerate fans of any other team, including our sad little brothers, but I cannot abide a badger.

Moreover, they've more than convinced us they're dead. If they're just playing they should probably have woken up like 5 games ago because they are attracting flies.

All right, I feel like I've read a good chunk of the posts in this particular circlejerk and am ready to weigh in.   I guess to bolster my credibility, I'll first point out that in my years at Indiana over the tenure of three different coaches, I never missed a game I had a ticket to and actively hounded out tickets for any additional game I could afford. I have stayed until the final buzzer of 40 point blowouts while friends asked if we could leave yet (because I was driving). My policy was if I could attend a game in any seat for the same price of the beer I would drink watching at home, I was obligated to attend that game. I miss live college basketball so much I entered the waitlist for University of Oregon tickets because a 2 hour drive for a team I have no current attachment to outside of geography seems reasonable.   I think it's been universally overlooked the number of viewing options that exist now. Someone just posted their three screen set-up for recent games (mamasa maybe?) with the 50" inch screen not even being the largest. You can watch games without sneaking in booze pockets, with a nice cold beer of your choice, on the comfortable couch. If you haven't been to a game or have only been to games against cupcakes, you may think watching the game is all there is to it. Maybe you're just the type to prefer to sit the whole time and know you can't sustain the necessary excitement to go to the game.   So, students can already watch on their massive 4k TVs and soon can watch as if they're there in virtual reality. It's hard to convince them to trek across campus in the snow to watch a game from the balcony (or worse, partially on a screen because you're under the balcony) given the alternatives.   For a better idea of how different the situation is from even just the pre-TC era...   When Class of '66 graduated, fewer than 10% of Americans had a color TV. When we last hung a banner, Digital TV hadn't been invented yet. When Coach Knight was fired, there were no stations transitioned to Digital output and to watch a digital broadcast event you had to go to a special viewing location. When Coach Davis was fired, most homes still had CRT screens with a maximum size of 40 inches. By the time Crean was hired, LCD screens were no longer a novelty but HD meant 720p and a 24" screen cost upwards of $500-600.   As a specific timeline note, I bought a secondhand 22" 720p LCD screen in 2008 for $200 and it was a total steal. I've since watched basketball on this TV and it's garbage (it was my extra TV for March Madness until we got a new main TV). I would never choose watching on this TV over watching in the Hall.   That's why it's so tough to say "well, back in my day students..." because we can't compare the current experience of students to our experience. I never once had the opportunity to hang back and watch the game on my 60" 4K television, so I can't even compare how I think of the experience to how they do. I think we all need to do a better job of considering this in our complaints about students.    All of that having been said, anyone who is not scanning in with 80% or more of their season tickets should be ineligible to receive future tickets for a season. This goes for everyone. A lot of people have been talking as if giving the spots to the general public would make a significant difference in attendance and I don't know they're right. There are still tons of open seats when tickets are open to the public (see the pictures from the OSU game below and even just start to try and count the empty seats. There are so many I can't even highlight them. This was announced as 16,000.). This is because the public has those same viewing options at home and 2 hours of traffic to deal with most of the time.    I want every seat full and everyone on their feet for every game. Quiet passive observation can be left with your 60" TV, if you're in the Hall you better stand up and be loud. And, if you can't be bothered to show up to at least 80% of your ticketed games (or find a replacement for yourself) then you should lose that ticket. If it's a student losing the ticket maybe the opportunity passes to someone in the general public, I think that would be better determined by someone with hard numbers of who is attending and how often.   If we cut student tickets too far, we lose a huge part of the atmosphere of the Hall since students are the rowdy ones. If we give them too many, games stop being a novelty and they feel free to blow them off. It's a tough line to walk. All I want is a solution that has the Hall rocking and other teams afraid.   And don't even get me started on our total lack of organized chants, songs, or literally anything to increase student pride. A member of Timbers Army would never miss a game they had tickets to because they know how important their individual voice is due to incredible organization. Maybe if the student ticket organizers could do literally anything to organize the student section, more people would show up to participate.   Courtesy of RBB89: [attachment=3294:post-2944-145248018835.jpg] [attachment=3295:post-2944-145248020003.jpg]

In the Kohl Center we would never see that face anyway because they get every single call.

I've had the last weekend of the tourney blocked off on my work calendar for months.

I want MSU to win but I also want them to stop wearing those uniforms.

Niners friends officially talking about drafting suds and how he would look in Chip's offense. Loving it! I've been aggressively pushing Spriggs too

MSU fans are very reserved behind the basket.

One down and onto the next. Let's keep this streak going and show we aren't afraid of the Kohl Center anymore.   I hate Wisconsin more than anyone and I want to embarrass them.   KenPom likes us by 2 points with a 56% chance, if we win this he considers it a high-level win being at the Kohl Center.   Prediction League: https://btownbanners.com/topic/9114-prediction-league-game-21-week-12-iu-vs-wisconsin-012616/   The numbers:   [attachment=3277:1.PNG]

I think JBJ being out is correlated but not causative. His being out might explain a slight improvement in defense, but he wasn't causing the rest of the team not to buy-in, he wasn't causing the poor defense we saw when he was on the bench. Something clicked behind the scenes and it is a night and day difference. If anything, JBJ being out pushed it along because it became a need. Until then, we could rest on being one of the best offensive teams in the country. We lose a huge chunk of production and the guys start thinking they may need some more defense to keep the other team from exploiting the weaker offense and then it just starts rolling.   I haven't seen the whole team play defense like this in a long long time and if we can keep it up then I'm encouraged for the team's future. The underclassmen who are seeing how effective this defense is will help pass it along to the next group and the next.

Pop it and lock it.   https://btownbanners.com/topic/9110-indiana-v-northwestern-postgame-thread/

I didn't get to see the first half, but we were dominant in the second. They keep bringing them in and we'll keep crushing them.

So... what was the spread?

I hope Priller and JBJ are besties.