IU vs Rutgers game thread

[Bailey7878]

Back in those days, we didn’t have enough money to pay Beilein’s buyout at West Virginia. He would have killed it here too.

I thought we could of had him but the president at the time shot that down. He wanted sampson.

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[TheWatShot]

Herbert was more concerned about the NAACP knocking on our door than getting the best basketball coach we could find. Just one of many bad decisions that have led us to where we are now. Like I said yesterday, it took a lot of stupid decisions from a lot of stupid people to bring down what was once one of college basketball's best programs, but it happened.

[LamarCheeks]

18 hours ago, Old Friend said:

Depending on who you believe, either he or Kevin Stallings had a deal done when Adam Herbert made Greenspan hire Kelvin Sampson because he was a minority.   That's a long, convoluted story, but I have heard it from too many people who would know.

I had heard that Herbert forced Greenspan's hand with Sampson, but I hadn't ever heard the Stallings story -- though I do recall seeing his name bandied about because he and Greenspan worked together at Illinois State. Geez, what was Greenspan's obsession with former Purdue players! (He hired Versyp, too -- with disastrous results). I know Sampson was a terrible hire, but I wanted no part of Stallings, either. Greenspan sure seemed to have a poor track record with hiring coaches. ... When we hired Sampson, I lived in Texas and knew a reporter who covered Texas A&M. He swore up and down to me that IU offered the job to Billy Gillispie, but that he turned us down. To this day, I still don't believe that.