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Just now, OKHOOSIER said:

Theyve been to the tournament like 19 out of the last 21 years. FF, couple EE. Crean's two SS being the only real outlier of "recent tourney success"

In the last 21 years the same amount of final fours and the success was under Barnes who they fired. So again how is it a better job? When did they last win a tournament game? 

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2 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

What does IU have that UT doesn't

Electricity when it snows?

[thehelgo 90]

This is getting a bit embarrassing now...

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3 hours ago, Treesh said:

Also heard about another potential coach who Scott was interested in.. I'll have to double check on that. Very unusual place. Be back in a few hours, gotta run some errands! 

Now that you are back, do you care to enlighten us?

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4 minutes ago, Iubravos said:

Katz just did on Gottlieb show that he thinks Texas is a better job than IU.  Haha come on bro

It's not that crazy. They have a sheet ton of big bawling boosters. Great facilities. Huge name brand. They've recruited very well. Their home state if very fertile. Smart just didn't go far with his good classes. The only downside is that TX will always be a football first school.

And don't get me wrong, I went to IU  and love it, but Austin > Bloomington.

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Just now, thehelgo said:

This is getting a bit embarrassing now...

What exactly is embarrassing? Nothing has happened. 

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Just now, Indiana8585 said:

In the last 21 years the same amount of final fours and the success was under Barnes who they fired. So again how is it a better job? When did they last win a tournament game? 

Around the last time we even  made the tournament.

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1 minute ago, OKHOOSIER said:

I have tried. No one wants to hear reality. Which I understand. Arkansas doesn't scream basketball, until you actually go there. I imagine it is how most people under 40 view our job.

I appreciate your effort. Until you go to Arkansas and the campus, you don’t know what you don’t know. 
 

Mussleman is there for a while!

[Indiana8585 129]

Just now, OKHOOSIER said:

Around the last time we even  made the tournament.

They haven’t made the elite eight or sweet 16 since 2008 either so again how’s it the better job? You’ve given no reasons 

[Indiana8585 129]

1 minute ago, OKHOOSIER said:

Around the last time we even  made the tournament.

Nope 2014

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Just now, Chris007 said:

Right now today it is. But that is a different sport, thread all together

I have seen the best of IU basketball and the worst of it and right now IU is no better job than UT.  I think it is time for this fan base to take their crimson colored glasses off and see the reality of this program.  We might not agree with the perception of this fan base but there is a lot of truth to it as well.  I have for years thought this fan base has been a big detriment to the overall health of the program.  Nobody wants to hear or see it but it is there.

[Trish 13,484]

1 minute ago, thehelgo said:

This is getting a bit embarrassing now...

It’s maybe a good thing..

 

If we were hiring Matta, Iu guy, John, mid major guy, it would be done by now. 
 

I hope...

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Just now, Treesh said:

I appreciate your effort. Until you go to Arkansas and the campus, you don’t know what you don’t know. 
 

Mussleman is there for a while!

outside of some ranked matchups at assembly, the most electric basketball arena I have ever been to. That place is special, just unknown.

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5 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

What does IU have that UT doesn't

It's all part of the cash game friends ...... they're mandated to hate IU

[Indiana8585 129]

Just now, IU Scott said:

I have seen the best of IU basketball and the worst of it and right now IU is no better job than UT.  I think it is time for this fan base to take their crimson colored glasses off and see the reality of this program.  We might not agree with the perception of this fan base but there is a lot of truth to it as well.  I have for years thought this fan base has been a big detriment to the overall health of the program.  Nobody wants to hear or see it but it is there.

They haven’t won a tourney game since 2014, haven’t been to the sweet 16 since 2008, and fired the only coach who brought success. So please enlighten us all how it’s a better job? 

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3 minutes ago, OKHOOSIER said:

outside of some ranked matchups at assembly, the most electric basketball arena I have ever been to. That place is special, just unknown.

Mussleman is all about the WPS pre game post game. He ain’t leaving that. 

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4 minutes ago, Moye > Boozer said:

It's all part of the cash game friends ...... they're mandated to hate IU

Neither Goodman nor Parrish work for ESPN. 

[IU Prof 1,899]

Unless you are drinking the BradAnon kool aid, from the outside looking in it appears that the wheels are coming off this search. 

Edited March 26, 2021 by IU Prof

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5 minutes ago, Indiana8585 said:

They haven’t made the elite eight or sweet 16 since 2008 either so again how’s it the better job? You’ve given no reasons 

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which of those records would you prefer? Which of those records says better team? I am not arguing history. But recent history? it isnt close.

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Just now, Indiana8585 said:

They haven’t won a tourney game since 2014, haven’t been to the sweet 16 since 2008, and fired the only coach who brought success. So please enlighten us all how it’s a better job? 

Apparently IU fans are some unique breed of fandom that is so much worse than every other fanbase in the country. It doesn't matter that the Liddel at OSU needed security after social media threats, or that UNC and UK fans want their coaches fired after one bad year. No IU fans are so scary because after 20 years with minimal success we're hoping not to settle for mediocrity. I'm tired of this notion that IU fans are somehow so much harder to deal with than other fanbases. If UNC, Kentucky, or Kansas fans had to deal with the lack of success that we have the last twenty years I'm sure they would be even worse than us.