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  1. Frankly, I'd rather see Purpoo win the whole BTT, exhaust themselves as much as possible, and go into the NCAA as overconfident as possible. The BTT is a meaningless waste of time IMO anyway.
  2. Attention PhD candidates...need a thesis topic or a gold medal case study in failed leadership, organizational management disasters, or how to ruin a good organization through malignant ineptitude? Take a look at Indiana University's senior leadership failures and fiascos. (sorry its come to this, and I'm a two-time alum, but Good Lord our administration looks fatally and crippingly incompetent, again. Or is it "still"?)
  3. Agree. I don't think Crean was the right long-term guy, but he wasn't a disaster, and he was actually a much better bridge to the next coach than Mike Woodson is proving to be. We are in a disaster zone now.
  4. I look at the "can't fire a legend or you'll look bad" very differently I guess. If Duke hired Grant Hill, or North Carolina hired Sam Perkins, etc., then fired them later for genuinely poor performance (or like NC did with Dougherty), I wouldn't say "Oh, look how crazy and unreasonable they are, they fired one of their own". I would be like, "look how serious they are about being good and not tolerating mediocrity, he sucked and they moved on". I think IU is WAY over-sensitive about this. If the coach isn't getting it done, move on!
  5. Agree. Apple and orange comparison to Woodson, IMO. Davis has several years as a college asst. coach.
  6. Completely agree that we should accurately remember the past and that there were both highs and lows and not look solely through rose colored glasses. But I would still offer that, yes, those were the minimally acceptable goals/standards (but 'goals' would have been a better word choice than 'requirements'). I'm pretty sure that Coach Knight himself (more than once) stressed that competing annually for the Big Ten Championship was a program goal of his. In order to do that you had to be within striking distance of being in the top two (or three at worst) in the conference (before the conference tourney came to be.) And, if you were top 2-3 in conference, chances are good statistically that you would be top 20 to top 10 in the country, and garner a good NCAA seed. And, if you were top 2-3 in the BIG at that time, and top 20 to 10 in the nation, not winning at least two NCAA games would amount to not going as far as you should have expected to go. I.e., below minimal expectations. I'm not saying that those goals had/have to be met each and every year without fail, just that the program goals were significantly higher back then. IMO, program goals and expectations have been slowly eroding to the point that now we're lauding just making the tournament as some great achievement. It just isn't. Being in the 'top 68' so to speak, should be an annual occurrence for a program striving be elite. I believe we're also to the point that if we beat Northwestern on our own court on Sunday it would be considered an upset.
  7. That’s the best post I’ve seen in a while. Bravo.
  8. - Consistently having a successful strategy/approach to the game, fundamentals, execution, and talent to be nationally competitive. - Being consistently ranked in the top 20 to top 10 in the nation. - Finishing in the top 2 or 3 in the Big Ten. - Winning at least two to three games in the NCAA tournament, annually. Those used to be the minimally acceptable requirements for Indiana basketball. Used to be.
  9. Best way to stop firing coaches is to quit hiring the wrong ones in the first place.
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