Popular Post HoosierTrav Posted March 6, 2015 Popular Post Posted March 6, 2015 Unreal. The ironies of Saturday..playing Izzo, Bryant visiting, 75 seniors, the Syracuse penalties, who wrote this script? Worst possible timing for a visit.. You know my stance on the coaching situation and you and I usually disagree on everything, but you hit the nail on the head with this one. This is the absolute worst EVER timing for a visit. The Hall will not be its usual, rocking self tomorrow. What a damn shame. SHOW UP FOLKS!!! Support the players in their last home game. It is completely possible to cheer like hell for our boys while standing firm in our desire to replace the coach. Win this game and we still have a shot at Cinderella. I for one am damn tired of filling out tourney brackets without Indiana in it. We can help avoid that this year by showing up and creating the best home court advantage in the nation. Forget about coach Crean for 2 20 min halves and focus on these youngsters accomplishing something. They deserve that much. They came to play for US!!! Support INDIANA!!! Ranger78, Happydaze, lelgar4 and 7 others 10 Quote
bnkepner Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 . You know my stance on the coaching situation and you and I usually disagree on everything, but you hit the nail on the head with this one. This is the absolute worst EVER timing for a visit. The Hall will not be its usual, rocking self tomorrow. What a damn shame. SHOW UP FOLKS!!! Support the players in their last home game. It is completely possible to cheer like hell for our boys while standing firm in our desire to replace the coach. Win this game and we still have a shot at Cinderella. I for one am damn tired of filling out tourney brackets without Indiana in it. We can help avoid that this year by showing up and creating the best home court advantage in the nation. Forget about coach Crean for 2 20 min halves and focus on these youngsters accomplishing something. They deserve that much. They came to play for US!!! Support INDIANA!!! I could believe in an IU cinderella story if I saw some some of positive change or an effort to try something new this season. But we've lost 7 of 11 and the coaching staff hadn't tried anything new. Yogi and Stan ate still guarding big men, they are still switching between man to man and zone on the same play (in which at least 1 iu player doesn't know which defense they are in), still running thr weave at the top of the key ( I think it's been handed down from Davis to Sampson to Crean), still giving playing time to Stan Robinson and Max Hoetzel, no press till the last two minutes, etc. In any part of life, sports, work, etc you can't keep doing the same things over and over and expect a different result. That's why I've lost hope in Crean. We had all these same problems last year and they weren't dealt with WayneFleekHoosier 1 Quote
Banksyrules Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 If coach crean is let go and Bryant signs a loi, can't we just hold him to it until he at least looks at the new coach? Quote
ALASKA HOOSIER Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 We got a CB on 24/7 for TB today....UK also got a CB IUsafety and ccgeneral 2 Quote
bnkepner Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 If coach crean is let go and Bryant signs a loi, can't we just hold him to it until he at least looks at the new coach? not usually how it works. You can't force a player to do anything Quote
HoosierTrav Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 I could believe in an IU cinderella story if I saw some some of positive change or an effort to try something new this season. But we've lost 7 of 11 and the coaching staff hadn't tried anything new. Yogi and Stan ate still guarding big men, they are still switching between man to man and zone on the same play (in which at least 1 iu player doesn't know which defense they are in), still running thr weave at the top of the key ( I think it's been handed down from Davis to Sampson to Crean), still giving playing time to Stan Robinson and Max Hoetzel, no press till the last two minutes, etc. In any part of life, sports, work, etc you can't keep doing the same things over and over and expect a different result. That's why I've lost hope in Crean. We had all these same problems last year and they weren't dealt with. Hey man, I'm with ya. I have absolutely zero faith in CTC. I do have faith in the players though. I think they've proven on numerous occasions that they are able to overcome the hole the coach has put them in. Bottom Line: if we shoot like we can, we have a chance. Booing our players at home is accomplishing the same thing that our coach's bad strategy does. It creates another obstacle. No? Ranger78, HoosierAloha, Napleshoosier and 1 other 4 Quote
Popular Post Hoosierfan2017 Posted March 6, 2015 Popular Post Posted March 6, 2015 I never post on here but I do read a lot of the threads. Anyway, I've been posting on yik yak to let as many students as possible know about Bryant visiting tomorrow and how important it is we don't boo the team or coach. I encourage any other IU students on this forum to do the same. CR3AMnCR1MS0N, VO5, 323SGrant and 17 others 20 Quote
bnkepner Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 . Hey man, I'm with ya. I have absolutely zero faith in CTC. I do have faith in the players though. I think they've proven on numerous occasions that they are able to overcome the hole the coach has put them in. Bottom Line: if we shoot like we can, we have a chance. Booing our players at home is accomplishing the same thing that our coach's bad strategy does. It creates another obstacle. No? I didn't mention booing at all. I think the players are just as accountable as the coach honestly. The players look bored out there. Apart from Yogi, most seem to have to give up. Its more on Crean but a big part of it is on the players. If we can shoot we have a chance, but honestly that hasn't happened a lot this year. We can shoot, we our defense has gotten even worse as the year went on. I would never root against our team but if them losing means Crean leaving, its a hard battle haha Quote
KelleyHoosh Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 [attachment=1790:ImageUploadedByBtownBanners1425673916.441721.jpg] Hint hint? CR3AMnCR1MS0N, Happydaze and ALASKA HOOSIER 3 Quote
swatford Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 ImageUploadedByBtownBanners1425673916.441721.jpg Hint hint? Stop, I can only get so erect. No I am not a perv, and hopefully some of you caught the Archer reference. IU Hoosier41, thebigweave, ALASKA HOOSIER and 1 other 4 Quote
HoosierHoops1 Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 The problem I have with this situation is that it perpetuates the illusion/lie that all we need are big men in order for IU to be dominate again. While "yes", getting bigger in the post would be helpful, it assumes that Crean can coach big men or that his basketball philosophy, (I've yet to figure out what the hell that is), is conducive to developing big men or meshing their talents to his game plan. Neither Zeller, nor Vonleh stayed around long enough for us to see what four years of getting coached by Crean would do for their overall game. I thought Zeller was good, not great, and one can debate how much of his development was directly attributable to Crean or his own practice time and weight room work. Vonleh on the other hand, was athletic enough, but raw, and was gone after a year. I just think we're fooling ourselves if we think more talent, or bigger men will compensate for poor coaching and development. You don't think a Freshman Cody Zeller or a freshman Noah Vonleh, or hell, even a sophomore Luke Fisher wouldn't make this current team Bad ass? IUBB666 1 Quote
TrueHoosier62 Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 In the words of Tom Crean "It will work itself out." So will his tenure.... :D Quote
Hovadipo Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 @ChuckMartinIU: The King of Terror!!! #HoosierGang #CanYouDigItSucka http://t.co/BSt6d8FOOA So this just happened. My God I love Chuck. I just assume this is about Bryant. IUsafety, Happydaze and Napleshoosier 3 Quote
swatford Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 @ChuckMartinIU: The King of Terror!!! #HoosierGang #CanYouDigItSucka http://t.co/BSt6d8FOOA So this just happened. My God I love Chuck. I just assume this is about Bryant. Or he has officially gone off the rocker....let's hope it's the former IUsafety, WayneFleekHoosier, LazOffTheBench and 2 others 5 Quote
8bucks Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 @ChuckMartinIU: The King of Terror!!! #HoosierGang #CanYouDigItSucka http://t.co/BSt6d8FOOA So this just happened. My God I love Chuck. I just assume this is about Bryant. What exactly does that mean? Man I must be old. LazOffTheBench 1 Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 Pretty odd. Kinda funny. It's what Chuck does. Quote
TrueHoosier62 Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 You don't think a Freshman Cody Zeller or a freshman Noah Vonleh, or hell, even a sophomore Luke Fisher wouldn't make this current team Bad ass? Nope. Not because I don't think those players are very nice players, but because I've not seen enough of Tom's fingerprints on their development to think it would have make that much of a difference. At some point, Tom's ability to coach and develop talent has to be considered apart from that which one might reasonably expect from private practice and physical development. Best example that comes to mind was years ago, under Lou Henson at Illinois. He'd annually get some of the best talent out of the Chicago school system, and they'd often times, stay there four years, (this was before the advent of the "one and done" player). Four years later, those kids, many of which were burger boys, would be bigger, more physically imposing, and to a degree, fundamentally sound. Still, their overall game never achieved the level of success that everyone projected for them. Henson was legendary for taking four and five star players, and doing very little to develop them talents. I'm afraid Crean is cut out of the same mold, in this regard. Quote
BlueDevil Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 What exactly does that mean? Man I must be old. Hopefully troy gets a mean dunk and does the spinnaroonie Hovadipo, LazOffTheBench and CR3AMnCR1MS0N 3 Quote
Hovadipo Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 What exactly does that mean? Man I must be old. Well the picture is of "Booker T", an older professional wrestler. #HoosierGang is the motto for the 2015 recruiting class. And #CanYouDigItSucka is Booker T's slogan. Happydaze, CR3AMnCR1MS0N, LazOffTheBench and 1 other 4 Quote
swatford Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 Booker T....Booker Thomas.....Thomas Bryant.....guys, it's a dead giveaway. 8bucks, CR3AMnCR1MS0N, LazOffTheBench and 3 others 6 Quote
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