Worst Losses of the Archie Era

[Stuhoo]

Geez guys—we’ve been seeing so much optimism surrounding the initial Woodson hire that I thought I’d start a thread to balance it out.

Name your personal worst game of the Archie era. I know-I know. There are many choices.

I’ll start:

Bob Knight comes home, Purdue crushes IU. Archie doesn’t even bring the team court side for the halftime ceremony. Not the worst they ever played under Archie, but the most completely offensive.

 

[IU Scott]

His first game as the coach at home against ISU

[Hippopotamo]

Losing to OSU in the big ten tournament year 2 in what was essentially a play-in game for the NCAA tournament. More of a hindsight idea but losing that game was brutal. 

[HoosierTrav]

I prefer to burn these from my memory and never speak of them again, thank you. 

[sirhoosierlot]

8 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Geez guys—we’ve been seeing so much optimism surrounding the initial Woodson hire that I thought I’d start a thread to balance it out.

Name your personal worst game of the Archie era. I know-I know. There are many choices.

I’ll start:

Bob Knight comes home, Purdue crushes IU. Archie doesn’t even bring the team court side for the halftime ceremony. Not the worst they ever played under Archie, but the most completely offensive.

 

That's the game he lost me completely. I thought the first lost to Indiana State was a fluke. I had a pretty good idea it wasn't going to work when we also got destroyed by Ft. Wayne the same year 

[Hoosierfan2017]

The Purdue game when Coach Knight came back was a really bad loss. How do you come out that flat in that kind of environment? 
 

I still vote ISU, though. So excited for the Archie era and then we got straight up destroyed. ISU was bombing threes and we looked totally outclassed.

[coonhounds]

Geez guys—we’ve been seeing so much optimism surrounding the initial Woodson hire that I thought I’d start a thread to balance it out.
Name your personal worst game of the Archie era. I know-I know. There are many choices.
I’ll start:
Bob Knight comes home, Purdue crushes IU. Archie doesn’t even bring the team court side for the halftime ceremony. Not the worst they ever played under Archie, but the most completely offensive.
 

You stole my game. Worst part of that bob knight return game every single person in assembly hall had energy that day including the purdue players only ones that didn't were our guys lol. I have to now go with the home loss to purdue this season. Everyone knew it was crucial to come out and play hard and win the game but we really never were truly competitive. That game really should have ended Archie's tenure but to Archie's credit and our guys we came back and beat Iowa after that salvaging a chance to do something

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[HoosierFan1994]

Indiana State. I was there. Not fun..

[OKHOOSIER]

22 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Geez guys—we’ve been seeing so much optimism surrounding the initial Woodson hire that I thought I’d start a thread to balance it out.

Name your personal worst game of the Archie era. I know-I know. There are many choices.

I’ll start:

Bob Knight comes home, Purdue crushes IU. Archie doesn’t even bring the team court side for the halftime ceremony. Not the worst they ever played under Archie, but the most completely offensive.

 

Easy. The first game against Arkansas in Fayetteville. I was there, surrounded by UA friends. A Hoosier in Hogville. I knew better than to talk too much trash, but the shine was still fresh on the Romeo-Juwan tandem and I fully expected to blow their doors off. Most of the game, it was obvious we were the better team. Despite this, due to turnovers (18 if I recall correctly) and a complete inability to guard Gafford inside (he torched us for 30 something), and some poor free throw shooting (they were bad too as I recall) we lose by 1. It really marked the beginning of the underachievement under Archie. I look back at that roster and think how in all that is good did he not manage to coach them into the heckin' tournament. If we were Kentucky or Duke or UNC, he probably would not have survived 18-19 without blasting through the NIT, even then, probably canned.

[OliviaPope40]

The IPFW game I believe his first year maybe.

[LIHoosier]

The Knight return home loss to Purdon't is surely bad but shouldn't be overshadowed by the loss the year prior; probably the fugliest game I can remember and thats saying something in the Archie era and watching B1G slog ball in general.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

So many.

ISU.

IPFW- watched that one in person and IUs image in Fort Wayne still suffers.

at Duke, year 2- never expected to win but our team was SO scared and overmatched. Could have lost by 60 if Duke wanted. We should somewhat measure ourselves vs the Dukes of the world, this effort spoke loudly.

Purdue, all efforts but particularly the Knight game and Home. Devastating how they played.

Texas, year 4- were we finally going to be good? This game was a wet blanket on the season of hope. All the same deficits of Archies career in this game. It foretold the season. Team never really rallied.


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[Josh]

Man, I even hated the wins.

So glad it's over

[Stromboli]

So I was stepping into this thread wondering how I’d justify it in the mod thread. Noooope! Stu started it!! Awesome. 
 

Archie’s time here was bad. Real bad. Just 4 straight years of lowlights. Truly the most fun we had was watching Romeo at New Albany and then enjoying his commitment. Too bad Archie has no idea how to run an offense. The thing is, there were times when we’d be winning a little bit, but everyone with eyes could tell this offense just straight up didn’t work. 
 

Getting worked by IPFW and ISU. We made Jon Kuchar look like Lebron. The no show game against Duke. The complete fold any time a game mattered, be it RMK in the house or OSU for a tourney bid. Then this year the guys straight gave up. At some point as a fan it didn’t seem fair to go through 5 years of this. 
 

But yeah, the cake goes to the RMK game. Haarms celebrating in front of our packed SSAH. Archie with another somber postgame interview. It was bad. Real bad. 
 

 

[Magnanimous]

Stealing this from someone on Rivals...

It was just a dream.

[Capt. Crimson]

The Fort Wayne game was so bad someone drank bleach after it ended...




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[Aaron]

9 minutes ago, Capt. Crimson said:

The Fort Wayne game was so bad someone drank bleach after it ended...




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Wrong IPFW game. This one was Crean's final yr at Fort Wayne. The one we lost was at home the year after under Archie.

[Capt. Crimson]

Was it really that long ago? Damn. I could have swore this was Archie’s first year.


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[Brass Cannon]

Gotta go with the RMK game. I’ll admit I didn’t watch it.  My wife and I had tickets to Les Mis down at IU amazingly enough.  
 

The worst part wasn’t that we lost it was that at intermission in the restroom line nobody was surprised we were losing.  And afterwards nobody was outraged we lost.  It was just to be expected.  

[Hovadipo]

Don’t even know what year it was, but we got tickets to a Michigan game at home. Got the wife excited for the game, made a date night out of it and I think at one point we were down 30? Good times.