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  1. So, you're saying conferences should be ranked by the number of teams in the top 64? Or perhaps top 50 since that's where most of the at-large teams come from? (the remaining teams are small conference champions that can be ranked as low as 250 sometimes). The reason I'm asking is I produce metrics and use the average rating method and have the Big Ten at #2. But your method seems relevant at least as an alternative, especially if there's a way to account for gimme games that don't exist in the Big Ten, such as DePaul, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, etc.
  2. How should conferences be ranked in your opinion?
  3. I tend to agree with this. Just from Gallo’s body language on the floor, I have a hunch he won’t be back unless we have a new coach that wants him back, and he feels like he fits the system.
  4. I would add a demonstrated ability to recruit and develop players. That entails talent evaluation, the ability to recruit to the system you want to play, and the ability to piece together a successful team. Demonstrated player and team improvement with your own recruits. So not only am I interested in experience, I am interested in someone who has been in the same place(s) long enough to fully evaluate those things. And I agree that arrogance is a really underrated quality in successful coaches. I mean, you are basically telling players you know more about what they are doing than they do. You have to command respect to do that, and a little arrogance doesn't hurt at all.
  5. I’m not going to pay for it. But I do listen to the IU broadcast of the games when I can. Whoever it is that announces those games is excellent.
  6. If they would literally kill him there still wouldn’t be a foul called.
  7. I say this every year, but it’s a shame the Big 10 Network won’t really cover this sport (or softball).
  8. So, Dakich thinks what he tweets and spews over the public airwaves is more “ruly” than booing? OK, lol.
  9. Pearl has been interested in the IU job for 15 years. It’s nothing new.
  10. I’ll never forget how hard Crean’s first team played despite having basically no talent. I was only able to attend one game in person that year, and it just happened to be the only Big 10 game we won, over Iowa. The place was packed and loud, despite the circumstances. Still probably my favorite game I’ve ever attended.
  11. Not putting him on the floor with 3 or 4 other subs would also help.
  12. That definition only applies when you have evidence that the input you want to change has a connection to the result you want to change.
  13. If that’s our lineup, McNeely and the point guard will have to combine for 20 rebounds per game.
  14. Honesty, it’s hard for me to tell how quick and fast they’d be if they played with some fire and intensity. At times, there’s a little more quickness and speed apparent in the last 50 second of games when they’re behind.
  15. I seem to remember one of the selling points to the Woodson hire was the notion that the coaching in the NBA was such high-level that Woodson would have little trouble matching the coaching chops of most college coaches. The reality: even with 8 days to prepare, Chris Collins, once again, took Woodson behind the woodshed.
  16. Great chance to win state in both girls and boys basketball. Luers will be tough, though. All their athletic teams have a habit of having decent to good regular seasons and then peaking at tournament time.
  17. While I agree, he's also going to have to be coached to do something other than stand and watch his man collect offensive rebounds.
  18. Not when you remove the vacated games
  19. X is an enigma. I’ve seen him in warmups where, even with that broken shot, he’ll take a couple dozen three-pointers and hardly miss any. Next game he can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Floor game is the same way.
  20. I am not going to be here clamoring for a firing, but if Dolson were to consider it, my short answer to your question would be both. After all, this season is a good chunk of his overall body of work. Personally, I can live with the first 2 seasons, although both were at the lower edge of my range of expectations. The first season was, even though our metrics weren’t a whole lot better, an improvement over Archie’s years record-wise, and we made the tournament. Second year, second in the Big 10. Tournament performance was disappointing, but I cut him some slack because X was out. Again, lower edge of my expectations but I could live with it. This year is different for me, and it goes beyond the record, which is disappointing by itself. And I still cut him a little slack because he couldn’t have known Newton and X would be out. But still, why leave a scholarship open when guard play is such a question mark? There had to be somebody that could have helped us, I would think. The things bothering me this year are nonnegotiables like effort. The lack of effort can be seen on TV and is glaring when you watch them in person. I don’t know if or how Woodson has addressed it, but it hasn’t changed in 24 games. Guys just standing instead of blocking out and getting the ball, etc. I remember Woodson acknowledging in his introductory press conference that “ the 3 ball has changed the game.” He has failed to recruit to that, and therefore can’t play to that. And speaking of recruiting, he has failed to sign anyone from Indiana and is in danger of losing some big time Indiana recruits in upcoming classes who supposedly aren’t enamored with his system. I’m not a proponent that all our kids have to be Indiana kids, but if we’re going to be elite again, we have to take full advantage of our fertile recruiting ground. So I would just say, beyond the two choices you gave, there are some big red flags that might justify Dolson’s decision if he elected to make a change.
  21. I don't remember Branch McCracken, but I still care about and know that time is part of our history, and therefore part of our program. My boys are teenagers, with one heading off to IU in the fall, but they know about Bob Knight and are big IU fans. So are most of their friends. So, it matters. But I would agree with you, the further we get away from it, and the fewer people who actually witnessed the glory days, the less it will matter. We need to get those days back ASAP.
  22. Well, I don’t know why in hell anyone would pretend to be a Purdue fan, lol.
  23. I think people framing this as the “worst season in program history” are pretty high on the hyperbole meter. There’s little doubt we aren’t good, but there’s been plenty of worse seasons in my lifetime, and I only remember from the early 1970s. Regardless, Indiana’s college basketball program is still one of the most valuable in the country according to Forbes. Facilities, resources, recruiting base, alumni base…all still in place ready for the right coach to take advantage of. I doubt FAU was in Forbes top 300 when May took the job there.
  24. I think you’re comparing apples to oranges. Florida Atlantic and Indiana are not comparable in any way. FAU was basically nothing when May took over.
  25. As someone who produces these types of metrics, I can answer your question. The first NET rankings came out on December 3, well after we played Army. To produce completely unbiased rankings, it takes time for the teams to play enough games to “connect” with each other in the regression. Anything you see that is produced before that (KenPom, Sagarin, etc.) includes pre-season or previous year’s data and is not exclusively this season’s data. But by December 3rd, Indiana had played close games with Florida Gulf Coast, Army, Wright State, Louisville, and Harvard, and had been blown out by Connecticut. As a result, they were #137 in those December 3rd rankings. And while they have moved up some, those early games turned out to be a good predictive indicator that they weren’t very good.
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