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That’s not exactly true. IPFW had just went D1 and were terrible. He helped build them up, they joined a conference and he had two winning seasons before he left. Incredibly tough job and I think I read he was barely making 6 figures. I’m sure his assistants made nothing. He’s done nothing since that makes me want him at IU, but his stint at Fort Wayne was at least respectable.

Pearl’s son can’t be much worse than the parade of morons we’ve hired in the past. I’d take Pearl’s dog groomer over another season of Woodson.

Potentially less embarrassing than watching us play basketball, though.

Michigan is one of 7 teams in the top 20 in offensive and defensive efficiency on kenpom. If that holds he’ll be poised to make another deep run. that would be one heck of a turnaround.

IU 68 UI 79

Sounds simple. I wonder what IU’s problem is?

After Dolson whiffed on Steven’s I can see how he wouldn’t have the political capital to fend off QB, but the whole affair—as told on here—is hilariously incompetent. Arguably, the only competent action was Glass breaking his initial promise (which was dumb) and hiring Archie when he came available, but in classic IU fashion that failed miserably too. It’s possible we’re cursed at this point. May need to call in a New Orleans voodoo doctor to get this sorted out.

I think Quinn wanted to help his friend whose NBA career had hit a wall. Amazing someone like that is a trustee.

I didn’t watch either. I still do when I’m home, out of boredom I guess. But I haven’t been watching much when I have literally anything else to do.

If you had any conviction, you would been here when Woody dropped the ball in the non-conference. Now that he’s beat a few B1G bottom dwellers, you’re back out in full force. I suspect we won’t see much of you during the tougher stretch coming up. So you might as well have your fun now.

Used to have higher upside. I feel like I’ve been fighting ND football and IU basketball fans on this for 5+ years and now they finally understand: NIL is a godsend for a select few programs and they are two of them. ND had good teams under Kelly, but depth was a huge issue. Injuries to a key player derailed a season. Now they actually have some depth. It’s amazing they’re this far because they’ve had more injuries to key players than I can remember. But they’ve been very successful in recruiting and the transfer portal getting the guys they need to fill out a roster. If they had a QB (ironically their one portal miss) they’d easily be the best team in the country if healthy. IU basketball is in a similar position. Sadly we don’t have a “Marcus Freeman” as a coach. Who knows how long this wild west days of NIL lasts but the window should be wide open for programs like IU basketball and ND football. Again, weirdly enough IU now has a go-getter as a football coach and they are taking advantage of it too. Awesome to see though…SEC teams will have to raise more cash to reassert their former dominance.

OSU is on its own level, but IU can compete with anyone in the conference. Hopefully year 2 from Cig is just as fruitful.

The Mark Richt thing can easily turn into the Lou Holtz thing. Tough to fire a very good, but maybe not great, coach.

I know. I was little at the time. But reading everything back through it seemed that Knight taking in jucos was a break in tradition. Mercenaries! Point being…times change, and you have to adapt.

He generally plays good against us. He probably has had this game circled on his calendar.

Iowa 81 IU 73

Can you imagine how the old timers felt winning the title in ‘87 with guys like Dean Garrett and Keith Smart? Smart even got the last shot! Disgusting…and personally I don’t really count ‘87 as a true title. I’m being facetious (obviously). I kind of feel like you do, but then I remind my self it’s simply entertainment. My bigger problem with this team is that they aren’t very good and thus not very entertaining! I have a feeling if we were undefeated and ranked number 1 we’d all feel a stronger connection to Rice, Goode, etc…

I’m just assuming all the Ballo defenders/Reneau critics didn’t watch the Penn State game. That first half was the most atrocious rim protection and paint defense I’ve seen in a long time. And that was with Ballo in. Maybe give Reneau the benefit of playing 4-1 a couple games and see if his passing and offense don’t improve too. I feel like a lot of what is being attributed to Ballo, at MRs expense, is just an artifact of us playing a style more beneficial to our talent on the perimeter.

If we sneak into the tournament the dialogue will be interesting. Will he be held up to the standard a lot of us wanted in the offseason (top seed, S16+, etc…) or will it revert to “he’s better than Archie…”?

They weren’t much different from us on Kenpom. His efficiency should’ve been a question mark though

Fisch said it’s because they thought he was just the towel boy earlier

Carlyle plays hard on D and can handle the rock a little. On nights where MM can’t shoot, that is enough to get Carlyle some run. Sadly

Carlyle to Galloway to Goode for 3. best play of the year

Been saying it about Galloway for three years. Hard to believe he’s a coach’s kid.

Defense seems a little more energetic