LamarCheeks

Plus, he's the best to ever put on an IU football uniform. I would hope that would carry at least a little bit of weight ...

I can't claim to know much about all this -- basically, what I read here and on a couple other sites -- but from my viewpoint, I'd like to see Chris Reynolds and Pat Kraft get serious looks. It seems to me Scott Dolson is good at what he does, but might not be the right person to oversee the entire department (i.e. -- hire/fire coaches). ... Obviously, I don't keep tabs on all Power 5 schools who hire ADs, but it seems to me most do not promote from within, especially one who's never done it before. I realize Glass had never done it before, either, but he seemingly had some other qualifying credentials. Most schools seem to hire an experienced AD -- and in this case, one with ties to the university would be a double-check plus (to quote Fred).

Not sure I understand not being ranked, but it doesn't bother me a whole lot. ... What completely flummoxes me is PU getting more votes than us in the coaches poll. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

I guess I'm in the minority here -- because I like the Classic. As far as I know, it's set up to be a one-day showcase of Indiana's top college programs. And it serves that purpose. It gives fans a chance to see all four in the same place on the same day. One day is perfect; it doesn't need to be a tournament. And I'm not sure if you bring in an Evansville or an Indiana State or a Valpo or a Ball State instead, there would be the same interest. And I like that the PUs are in the same event, but we don't play. I wouldn't want the Classic to serve as a conference game. Those are for later and for the Hall and Mackey. As far as scheduling, I'd be all for playing ND or Butler (whichever we don't play in the Classic) every year -- at Hinkle or in South Bend or at the Hall, however it works. (Full disclosure: My family and extended family has grads from Butler, IU and PU -- so we really enjoy watching it every year. We still haven't been able to attend one, but I'd love to at some point. The only school not represented in my family is ND.)

Hate to say it and hope I'm wrong, but I think that's the dagger. Just can't get over the hump. Had it down to a one possession game several times, but never could tie or pull ahead.

4-15 from 3. 12-22 from the FT line.

Every time we have a chance to tie or go ahead ... we find a way to screw it up. A turnover. A bad shot. Missed FTs. You name it, we've done it.

At times, we're too unselfish. Making an extra (unnecessary) pass while passing up a good shot.

On one play, two of our gals went after a rebound and it bounced off both their hands -- right to a UCLA player. Need to communicate better.

At last, starting to get some stops. Unfortunately, we're not scoring at the other end.

We beat South Carolina when they were No. 5 and hung with Baylor for three quarters when they were No. 2. Cannot figure out why all of the sudden we can't play against the No. 10 team -- in the Hall. Just can't make a bucket.

Other than the obvious fact that we need outside shooters to knock down shots and help unclog the middle, one thing I noticed is that we really, really loose confidence after a couple poor offensive possessions. Throughout that entire second-half drought today, we had possessions in which we got good shots, but instead of going up confidently and shooting as if we're going to make it (like we did in building the 17-point lead), we just seem to go on a wing and a prayer -- we just fling it up and hope it goes in. Al had a couple nice drives and instead of shooting a nice, controlled layup, he just seemed to fling it up there -- almost just hoping it would go in. Granted, both drives were with his off hand, but he's a junior at a Power 5 school -- he ought to be able to easily make a right-handed layup by now. I almost felt kinda bad for him -- he worked so hard to make a nice drive to the bucket, but he didn't seem to have the confidence to finish what should've been easy shots. And he wasn't the only one. I know we can't expect to make every shot, but boy, once we start to go south, we go in a big way -- and can't make anything. Even when we're getting relatively decent shots. That's when it seems Archie needs to step in and do something. What, I'm not exactly sure. But with no outside shooting to help loosen things up, we need something -- anything -- to help us snap out of it. Maybe it's a timeout to draw up something different. Or a timeout to kick some a$$. Or a timeout to give some encouragement and pat someone on the a$$. But it just seems he needs to do something.

Until that last assist, Al was awful in the 2nd half

Once again, having no shooters is killing us.

Just about every team goes into an offensive funk at some point in a game. We just can’t work our way out of it.

Why did we stop going to TJD???

We can’t make baskets

Jeezus

Durham not playing very smart

Our defense hasn’t been bad, but we’re just not scoring enough

Can’t buy a bucket

Went from.16 points to 5 way, way too quick

DeBoer seems like a good dude and I appreciate what he did in his one season, but I wonder if it wouldn't just be best to part ways now? He's gonna be half-IU and half-Fresno State from here till the bowl is over. No offense to him, but I think I'd rather have someone who's 100 percent all in to IU. ... A few years back, Kiffin wanted to stay at Bama for their playoff run after taking the FAU gig. After a while, Saban could see it wasn't working and cut him loose. I can't help but wonder if that wouldn't be the wisest course of action for us, too? ... That way, DeBoer can get on with the next phase of his career -- and we can have someone fully committed to the task at hand.

IU 71 ND 66

Amazing that Iowa has had two head coaches in the past 40 years. We've had nine in that same time. PU has had 10.