RaceToTheTop

In my case....I'm 50 and have zero use for Dakich and Alford. Knight was a great coach but a flawed man and at this point in my life I want to look forward and not back. Knight has chosen to keep himself distanced from IU so I don't spend much time hoping for someone to come back that has openly rejected olive branches.

As well as attempting to use a Christian athlete's group to try to intimidate the victim into dropping the charges.

What's strange is that we can say with the same logic that coaches have 'inconsequential' jobs as well, yet fans create web sites wanting to fire them. And the truth is we don't want them fired for something that is long term -- building their player's character -- but rather because they don't win games. This isn't pointed at any particular coach or poster, just an observation.

Okay, didn't catch that. I am a teacher and can back that up. Also have an incredible shortage of those going into the profession.....and in their infinite wisdom the state DOE instituted a teacher testing program which further removes candidates in an already short field. At this point there are something like 2,000 teaching positions filled in the state by people without teaching credentials. To give you an idea about what's happening with these tests -- the first year they changed the test needed to receive a middle school math endorsement, only 2 of the 50 teaching candidates passed it. The cut scores for most of these tests are set at unrealistic levels.

Part of it is the amount that players are questioning every call, particularly the obvious ones.....and it seems to be a reflection of a coach not controlling their own players.

It's amazing how when watching an IU game how I feel the officials are doing a crappy job compared to watching a game where I don't have a dog in the fight. We are biased as fans....kind of our job. I keep the scorebook for a local high school team and have gotten to know refs and their reffing styles over the past thirty years or so. Have to say there are just about one in twenty that I feel aren't fit for the job....and those tend to be the ones that I am just seeing for the first time or two which means they are pretty new to the varsity level, so there is a good chance that they will grow into it. Guys that ref for twenty years or more don't stick around if they aren't competent. Let's take Teddy Valentine for example. The truth is if it was just about calling a game....he was adequate. His problem was one of personality, not ability. And that was ultimately the reason power conferences stopped hiring him. As IU fans we hated him because he seemed to intentionally egg on confrontations, but I think if you track the numbers the calls he made were in line with other officials. That said, keeping your personality out of the way is something he failed at. I'm not a fan of an official being the 'show'. I've seen officials at the high school level interact with a rabid fan in such a way to calm the fan down and make the entire experience much more enjoyable for everyone. Something as simply as an official laughing at a particularly funny jab given to them by a fan typically helps calm the fan base.

What's the over/under on when Dan Dakich comes out of the fetal position?

So, Mr. Dakich, still think Alford was the guy to hire? BTW, UCLA's loss to Liberty....at home....came with all five starters being top 50 prospects.

You can take the Christian out of a Texan, but you can never take the Texan out of a Christian.

Right now only two conferences have played any conference games -- the Big Ten (which has played two games each) and the Southern conference (which has played one). What we end up with is a lot of non-conference games that are mismatches, making it harded to move up the rankings if you weren't there to begin with. Personally, I hate the 20 game conference schedule. With that many conference games, it encourages teams to load up on cupcakes to accumulate wins. Take Purdue for example.....they played a really tough non-conference schedule and struggled. This year, a .500 conference record should easily get you into the tournament.....don't think they will if they finish .500.

Have to say if you could hear it audibly on television, that is probably the reason for it.

But I think that kind of backs up the point that Knight typically had a plan behind what he was doing. And there were quite a few things he did that he did that we would be killing on this board if other coaches did.

Pom is on record as saying that you can usually pick the contenders for the title prior to the tournament starting by finding the teams that had AdjO and AdjD 20 or under before the tournament started.

+1. Also over 35 and there isn't a single person in sports I would rather listen to than Dakich (with the exception of Skip Bayless).

This is a guy that said for a full year that if he had the first pick in the NBA draft he would draft Aaron Kraft. That's not just saying the 'usual boring things' that is idiotic at best and screaming for attention at its worst. And his twitter to get into feuds with any Joe off the street that disagrees with him is just juvenile.

Andrean isn't exactly your typical 'tiny high school basketball team'.....we aren't talking Milan here. This is a private catholic high school that is known in the region to have recruited players from other local high schools for a long time. They've had tons of college talent go through.....Dakich, Brandon Brantley, Shane Powers, Carson Cunningham, Luke Harangody just to name a few.

The longer IU is from Knight's era, the less people will listen to him.

In terms of him 'different off air than on air', I would disagree with that. I live in the area he grew up in. He implies on air that he's really loved up here when the opposite is the case. The take of him being an entitled arrogant tool isn't just a take of people who hear him on air. This is the bottom line: good analysts know that they aren't the show. He does a very poor job of adapting his radio show personality to one of a television game commentary.

Food for thought.....we have actually shot a higher free throw percentage the of opponents (64 to 61). Both numbers are going to go up.

I will say this: I 100% believe he cheated before he went to UK....but think sconce he's been at UK he hasn't. Used rules to his advantage, such as perks of the 'basketball dorm'? Sure. But thr NCAA allows it.

In the position that Sampson left this program, I'm really not sure what people really think we were going to bring in. We brought in a coach who recruited pretty well but didn't coach very well. Not sure we were going to entice someone who did both well at that point.

I don't think any non-IU fan agrees with your assessment of the talent. BTW, the media has a pretty high opinion of Miller....and they have us picked in the middle of the pack of the Big Ten. For the record, with Hunter and Thompson's injuries, we have two top 100 247 players in the last two recruiting classes that are currently playing on this team. And don't think that injuries haven't effected this team's play.

My biggest concern is a fan base overreacting to Miller because of things that happened prior to when he was here.

I didn't think that I could Minnesota's stupid raised floor more than I previously did. Then they made the floor look like it was pale wood and removed the out of bounds colors.

With all due respect, Tom Crean had a couple of conference titles. Tom Allen is 0 for 2 in just making a bowl games, 0 for 1 in winning bowl games (after Wilson was fired), 0 for 2 head to head against Purdue. Honestly, what is Tom Allen's biggest accomplishment at IU?