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[JustWinBaby 1,982]

I'm just happy we're kissing this era of Indiana basketball goodbye in a couple weeks. Good ******* riddance.

[HoosierTrav 8,331]

51 minutes ago, BehindTheBench said:

You don’t think so? Makes OSU an absolutely must win, and likely need to win 2 in BTT

I think we need to beat OSU by a good margin and yes, win 1-2 in the B1G tourney. 

[RaceToTheTop 31,035]

47 minutes ago, HoosierDevils said:

I think they still need another quad 1 win and maintain not having any Q2 or below losses which likely would require beating OSU, taking care of business in the first round of the BTT, and then winning another. The noncon schedule and performance was just so poor. Also worry about bid stealers if the resume isn’t great going into the conference tournament 

If IU beats Ohio Stste, their first round game would be Thursday against a quad 1 team.

[PritchardPutBack 56]

17 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Add another year to IU finishing a conference season without a winning conference record.  Best IU can do is finish .500.   

I hate that this led me to looking up our conference record history. Since Crean's first year in 2009, 4 seasons above .500 in conference. 3 by Crean and 1 by Woodson. Ugh.

[hoosiersoxfan 694]

2 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

If IU beats Ohio Stste, their first round game would be Thursday against a quad 1 team.

Yup I believe against either Oregon or Illinois. I guess there’s a chance it’s against UCLA?

[cbp4iu 2,310]

10 minutes ago, JustWinBaby said:

I'm just happy we're kissing this era of Indiana basketball goodbye in a couple weeks. Good ******* riddance.

Amen. Win or lose Saturday it can be a positive. Win we go dancing most likely… lose we start locking in on the coaching front and that much closer to having hopefully an actual college basketball coach 

[bird4par 373]

11 hours ago, Bowhunter said:

Trying to change my avatar. Files too big. 

Hate when that happens

[Old Friend 8,667]

1 hour ago, JustWinBaby said:

I'm just happy we're kissing this era of Indiana basketball goodbye in a couple weeks. Good ******* riddance.

No sh*t.  One of my favorite things about the Knight era was you pretty much knew what you were going to get.  Some nights other teams were better but the ebbs and flows and the massive coaching disparity was never there.   Indiana didn't shoot 12 fewer FT's than their opponent or miss them as consistently as they do now.  They generally had point guards.  Knight knew which 5 kids played well together and didn't keep trying to succeed with kids who didn't.  Woodson showed tonight why he was fir.....I mean why he felt it was best he retire.  He got abused tonight.

[Hornsby 3,870]

No sh*t.  One of my favorite things about the Knight era was you pretty much knew what you were going to get.  Some nights other teams were better but the ebbs and flows and the massive coaching disparity was never there.   Indiana didn't shoot 12 fewer FT's than their opponent or miss them as consistently as they do now.  They generally had point guards.  Knight knew which 5 kids played well together and didn't keep trying to succeed with kids who didn't.  Woodson showed tonight why he was fir.....I mean why he felt it was best he retire.  He got abused tonight.

I grew up with later knight during calbert. The **** he did to kids was done to me in hs .Nobody blinked an eye. I didn't care it just seemed normal to be bitched at. Now you gotta kiss a kids making a million bucks..Glad I gave up coaching about five years ago. I could not do it now unless I was paid 4 million a year.

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[P92 548]

6 hours ago, cbp4iu said:

Find us a coach that can win these type of games 

find us a coach that can develop guards

find us a coach that can develop shooters

find us a coach that teaches hustle

find us a coach that preaches toughness

find us a coach that preaches winning 

Find us a coach that knows X’s and O’s 
feel free to add on to this list

In other words, just find us a coach!

[southernindianahoosier2 1,056]

1 hour ago, P92 said:

In other words, just find us a coach!

Find us a coach who doesn’t doesn’t play 2 bigs

[SlammySammy 1,693]

 Which candidate will stir the debate today? The Shadow knows.......

[str8baller 7,448]

I know Otz is a rising star and thus hasn’t faced much criticism, but if you want to read some go see what ISU fans are saying about him after last nights heartbreaker. 
 

Cliffs notes: obviously his team play hard, good defense and turns the other team over consistently. But late game offensive execution (off. execution being something I pointed out in another post) and possibly blocking out/rebounding being a theme that comes up with them.  
 

I could live with a poor offensive coach if they can offset it with great defense and good enough recruiting to make the O effective at least. After Woody I don’t know if I can handle 4 more years of teams that don’t block out and rebound. 

[AZ Hoosier 10,863]

7 hours ago, lillurk said:

Yep, by all logic they SHOULD matter a lot — neutral games against teams from your own conference! And a better process would weigh them appropriately. But the committee based process…doesn’t. 

There are also cases where a team that isn't close to consideration by the selection committee stealing the bid from the regular season conference champ - especially in the low-mid majors whose conference only gets the automatic qualifier into the tournament. IMO, it weakens the field.

The tournament field is a zero-sum game - for every team that gets in, another is left out... I am still confused why a conference plays a long regular season (14-20 conference games) only to lose their bid to the dance to be stolen by a team who happens to get hot and wins a 3-4-5 day conference tournament.

[Ryno6284 4,437]

Give me McDermott! I will take 6-8 years of top 4-5 in the B1G to establish IU again! Get the program on a solid foundation and then get the long term guy!

[TTT 1,344]

4 hours ago, Hornsby said:

I grew up with later knight during calbert. The **** he did to kids was done to me in hs .Nobody blinked an eye. I didn't care it just seemed normal to be bitched at. Now you gotta kiss a kids making a million bucks..Glad I gave up coaching about five years ago. I could not do it now unless I was paid 4 million a year.

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Well, a lot of these major league coaches do get paid $4,000,000 a year.

(always thinking about how it’s a different world in  small college sports and individuals coaches and players)

 

[Artie86 3,485]

Dolson on Senior Night.......lol!!!

[theriverpilot 6,741]

8 hours ago, cbp4iu said:

Find us a coach that can win these type of games 

find us a coach that can develop guards

find us a coach that can develop shooters

find us a coach that teaches hustle

find us a coach that preaches toughness

find us a coach that preaches winning 

Find us a coach that knows X’s and O’s 
feel free to add on to this list

That one has reared its ugly head quite a bit during the Woodson era.  A big factor for the FT discrepancy in a lot of games, including last night, can be pointed at that.

[maharkn 1,948]

Just bring in the top five high school players in the countries coaches on staff and bring those players with them. Keith Smart welcome back to IU 

[theriverpilot 6,741]

1 hour ago, southernindianahoosier2 said:

Find us a coach who doesn’t doesn’t play 2 bigs

At the same time!