KzooHoosier82

I didn’t realize Tracy isn’t from Indiana so unless she developed some strong connection to it from her college and post grad days, the notion that she would push for this move appears to be misguided speculation. She went home and got her law degree in Cleveland to be closer to her mom when she was dying of cancer. It’s not likely she has family in Indy. That said, Brad’s “happy place” is their Lake Wawasee vacation home which they kept so that’s not nothing.

The out of bounds plays he drew up, especially for TJD ar the rim were also a vast upgrade to whoever was in charge of that before

This is what Isiah is good at. All the off the court issues and coaching mishaps aside, he’s one of the greatest basketball players of all time and sells IU basketball as well as anyone

As a former player I will say that one important “born with it” aspect is the mental ability to make shots. I played with (and to some degree was) guys who would hit all the shots with perfect form in an empty gym and in practice...come game time the speed was too much, couldn’t settle the nerves and didn’t hit for percentage as a result. Maybe not at this level though, but was just a thought.

For starters, develop an understanding of what an AD at a major university does and doesn’t do. After which, educate yourself on the vast array of athletic programs that this individual is responsible for managing then do your own research to understand the state in which Fred found these programs vs where he left them. He’s probably the most successful (and literally most decorated) ADs in IU’s history, directly responsible for completely turning around football, men’s and woman’s basketball and generating over $1B in private donations to construct or renovate. Then you might want to dive into the handful of incrediblely innovative social and academic programs he created like the student bill of rights and sexual violence policy that put IU on a different level than it’s peers. IU’s athletic graduation rates went from 77%-91% during his tenure. All this with zero major violations. You’re arguement was his “misses” were greater than his wins and his President’s Medal of Excellence (The only other ones McRobbie ever handed out to the athletic dept was to HOFs Billingsly and Yeagley) should tell you otherwise.

You literally don’t know what you’re talking about in regards to what Glass accomplished or didn’t accomplish here.

That was renegotiated when they tacked on the extension and the terms were not released. The public doesn’t know what he’s making now

The only difference I see is the absence (mostly) of the “done deal” talk and flight tracker nonsense. We’ll see what happens but if something isn’t announced soon my guess is the next IU coach is coming out of the NCAA tournament and not Boston

I’ll never forgive him if Stevens doesn’t come to IU. After the Donovan debacle and four years of archie-ocrity, my heart and fandom can’t take another let down

It depends on who they schedule. Clemson was their only non cupcake non con game this season. I have to imagine they schedule some ranked opponents which would almost definitely be losses with the way they were playing early on. They also wouldn’t get 5 of the top 6 BigTen teams once...to me that’s the most telling data point. The only top half conference opponent they played was Ohio St.

Purdue had the easiest schedule in the conference (playing Michigan, Iowa, & Illinois once along with Wisconsin at home only). In a normal season they get what? 3 or 4 more games at most which means they’d have to win all of them to stay off the standard 19-21 win bubble. There isn’t a more overrated team in the tournament.

Indiana isn’t paying the $10M so that’s sort of irrelevant unless said boosters are also hand delivering “the guy”. We’ll see how it pans out but I’m not as confident as most seem to be that a home run hire is in the bag. As for Stevens; he said he wasn’t quitting so our only hope is that Ainge informs him he’s getting fired but that sounds insane given they just extended him a year ago.

I’m quite sure everyone had this same opinion when they fired Crean. Fool me once...

Alford is already announced to not be a candidate so that list is pretty much DOA

Makes sense and makes Penn’s quitting the team that much more puzzling/frustrating.

Same. IUWBB is much better than MSU. Just was an off night. Patberg and Gulbe played way to awful to play 36 & 38 minutes respectively. Moren did nothing with substitution patterns to reign them in or give someone else a chance to contribute.

What’s incredibly sad to me is that I really thought we had more talent coming in than going out after last season. As much as I can’t stand Archie ball, you can’t shoot free throws and layups for them. That said, he has to be doing something very wrong development wise. These kids are all worse shooters than expected.

I’d be completely shocked if that offer was still on the table. Indiana St has some open spots if he really does want to transfer

IU went from a legitimate contender to a complete joke. Meanwhile the Ladies basketball and Football teams have catapulted themselves as top 10 in the country programs. What a world we now live in.

He has an uncanny ability to suck the energy out of the room.

Serious question: Is it within the rules to have a couple of the ladies play on the men’s team? They can out shoot every guy on this team, even with the larger ball.

Giving Archie credit for our open looks is laughable. They’re giving us the open looks and clamping down on the post knowing we can’t shoot

This team simply isn’t good at basketball. Every facet of the game

Race has to play better on defense. He’s given up 9 of their 11

Wait for it...no lead is safe with this IU squad