dbmhoosier

The options are to hire a guy like that or keep losing. There is no in between. For 20 years we've taken the IU Scott "Yes we're going to lose but by God we're going to lose the right way" approach. If you want it that way fine but some of us are sick of it. UNC, Kansas, Arizona, UL, etc get away with murder and keep winning. Howard just punched a coach but of course he'll keep his job and UM will keep going on deep tourney runs while we sit around on our butts.

He's the idiot that said we needed an IU guy. The problem isn't that we haven't hired an IU guy. The problem is that we keep hiring abysmal coaches.

Dakich is ripping the staff big time.

We'll see. I think he's going to have lots of trouble getting the right players. This season needed to be huge.

They don't want the big names coaches who have been available. Mile told the story many times of how we could've had Pitino. Cal was rumored to have wanted the job badly while at Memphis. I've had people in Evansville tell me that Pearl would've crawled from Auburn to Bloomington. Scott Drew reportedly had interest. The problem is that the administration doesn't like the big name coaches that have been available.

I'm not sure the administration wants it fixed. At some point you have to start to believe that this is all by design. It's hard to believe at this point that anyone could be this incompetent by accident.

I'll be shocked if we don't get blown out. We need a coach with a proven track record at the P5 level before anything changes.

They've been available. Our administration just refuses to hire them.

Both coaches should've just used Crean's patented blow by handshake at the end. No excuse for a brawl.

The point was really that he and Crean are both low mid major coaches at best. We can disagree on our definition of flop but he couldn't hack it at UAB and is winning at like 38% at Detroit Mercy.

Someone on the Rivals site is saying there's reports of Fife not fitting in well with the other staff and maybe moving on after the season. Supposedly the Assembly Call guys hearing the same chatter. Anyone hearing the same?

He got fired at UAB and is looking pretty bad at Detroit.

Color me shocked. The problem with IU basketball for the past 21 years is not the program is cursed or we have a crazy fan base or anything. The problem is that we consistently hire abysmal coaches. It's why Davis and Crean flopped after they left. It's why Sampson won big while he was here and won big before and after he was here. It's not complicated.

Marshall did fine given what he had to work with. Bracey was the disappointment as he was all about Bracey Wright. Both really got screwed when RMK got involved and forced Sean May to go elsewhere.

Here's a former Hoosier rising up.

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Most of us knew Archie wasn't the guy after 1 game. We were right.

I’ve said it a million times but with the IU fan base being what it is you must hire a coach with street cred. Someone who is one of top 10-15 X’s and O’s guy in college basketball and with the results to prove it. Someone who has the resume to shut up the fans when things go astray for a bit. No one else will ever succeed here. Unfortunately the disconnect between the administration and the fans is so massive I’m not sure there’s ever a real solution. There’s only one guy out there that would satisfy both the fans and the administration and he’s not interested. The administration is too incompetent to hire a Pearl, Drew, Marshall, Pitino, etc. It will just never happen. I’m afraid we’re stuck in permanent purgatory.

I like Woodson too but if we don’t make the dance this season it’s going to be nearly impossible for him to ever recover. It’s just the way it is with this fan base when you hire a coach with no track record at the college level whatsoever . He’s just never going to get the benefit of the doubt when things go south. The apathy is here and the part where the fans start rooting for loses to pile up is almost here. Sad.

Hopefully Parker doesn't sit on the bench and stew about his diminished role.

But we have Dane Fife!

Yeah so hard to know. We seem to always respond well after a bad loss but MSU has lost what 3 in a row? They're also playing at home where we almost never win. Both teams are very desperate.

I'm still pissed at Oscar Rackle for getting swept by Purdue.