Archie. Miller. Fired.

[Hoosierfan2017]

Just a sad loss to finish a sad regular season. The worst part is that I rarely watch us play a team and think wow, this team is just way better than us. It happened against OSU. It happened against Michigan. But it didn’t happen today. I wasn’t wow’d by Purdue. I wasn’t wow’d by Illinois in our two meetings against them. We had plenty of chances to win those games. But we just don’t. It’s sad because I actually liked Archie. Heck, I still do. He just ain’t it for IU.

[rcbowla]

Is Billy D walking on Kirkwood right now? It’s nice outside. 

Let me see if I got this right. Are you (and have been) suggesting that only Brad Stevens and Billy Donovan are better than Archie?

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[iubb]

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[rcbowla]

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Well now that he's identified the problem maybe we can start to turn this thing around.

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[Hoosier Guy]

8 minutes ago, Treesh said:

Is Billy D walking on Kirkwood right now? It’s nice outside. 

I saw a Stevens doppelgänger. Perhaps it’s the real one...

[TheWatShot]

7 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Nothing good was going to happen after how his debut went. 

Everyone remembers the first game, but what really stands out in my memory was his second game. It was a home game against Howard where we struggled to pull away in the second half. The camera panned to our bench, and I've never seen a group of players who looked more beaten down and disinterested in just the second game of the season. It was kind of surreal. 

[Parakeet Jones]

4 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Everyone remembers the first game, but what really stands out in my memory was his second game. It was a home game against Howard where we struggled to pull away in the second half. The camera panned to our bench, and I've never seen a group of players who looked more beaten down and disinterested in just the second game of the season. It was kind of surreal. 

I was at that ISU game. Walking back to the car I thought to myself, “I hope four years from now we’re not looking back at tonight saying we should have seen it coming all along.”  I pushed that thought from my mind because at the time I thought, no way. Looking back though...

[TheWatShot]

12 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said:

I was at that ISU game. Walking back to the car I thought to myself, “I hope four years from now we’re not looking back at tonight saying we should have seen it coming all along.”  I pushed that thought from my mind because at the time I thought, no way. Looking back though...

I remember checking the score on my phone that night and seriously thinking IU's Twitter account had been hacked. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

17 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I remember checking the score on my phone that night and seriously thinking IU's Twitter account had been hacked. 

My only tweet from that night was "Robert Johnson is garbage. #iubb."... Wow would I take him over Durham as a senior any day of the week. 

[lillurk]

The start was bad but there have been lots of bad moments along the way, too

[lillurk]

I recall last offseason I made the point that while the three MSU wins were nice, they were real outliers and the pro-Arch crowd should consider just how close IU had been to losing all three. IU had been pretty middling even WITH those wins.

Without them, IU would’ve been nowhere close to the bubble two years ago, and sweating a lot more last year.

[Unexpectedflash]

Saw somewhere that Archie is like 2-22 vs Michigan, OSU, Purdue, and Wisky. You can’t have a guaranteed loss to a third of the league and keep your job here.

Edited March 7, 2021 by Unexpectedflash

[MemphisHoosier]

1 minute ago, Unexpectedflash said:

Saw somewhere that Archie is like 2-22 vs Michigan, OSU, Purdue, and Wisky. You can’t have a guaranteed loss to a third of the league and keep your job here.

...but, but but how is he against Indiana State, Purdue Fort Wayne and the like?! 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

32 minutes ago, lillurk said:

I recall last offseason I made the point that while the three MSU wins were nice, they were real outliers and the pro-Arch crowd should consider just how close IU had been to losing all three. IU had been pretty middling even WITH those wins.

Without them, IU would’ve been nowhere close to the bubble two years ago, and sweating a lot more last year.

Justin Smith's block was pretty awesome to win one of those. 

[lillurk]

1 minute ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Justin Smith's block was pretty awesome to win one of those. 

Indeed. Justin could’ve really helped this year. Would’ve been nice to have someone well-suited to guard Ron Harper Jr., Eric Henry, Franz Wagner...

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Other than the 2 Iowa flukes this year how many times did Archie  actually beat some one he wasn’t supposed to??? Crickets.....

This year or his tenure?

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[OldBuddy67]

1 minute ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

This year or his tenure?

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Tenure?

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Tenure?

Or his time at Indiana

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[OldBuddy67]

10 minutes ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

Or his time at Indiana

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IU

[lillurk]

Not sure his record against the spread or as an underdog, but combing through...:

y1: only obvious one is Norte Dame. Can make a case for PSU and UMd.

y2: Marquette, @PSU? Louisville? Then the MSU games and Wisconsin.

y3: FSU, OSU, MSU, home vs. Iowa and MN are probably toss-ups, PSU, @ MN

y4: PSU and UMd look pretty good with hindsight, but otherwise it’s just the Iowa wins