Category Archives: Indiana University

Hoosiers “weak” in near record setting loss – now comes growth
November 11, 2017

If anyone needed proof that life isn’t a movie, last night’s opening night debacle for the Archie Miller Era at Indiana stands as solid evidence. No one other then Indiana State coach Greg Lansing would have approved the script that had the Sycamores hitting 17 of their first 22 three-pointers to win 90-69. Miller was […]

Indiana Basketball – Archie Miller is a basketball coach, not a brand
March 26, 2017

The thing I like best about Archie Miller being named basketball coach at Indiana University is that I know nothing about him. I had no response to the news a day ago that IU athletic director Fred Glass had tabbed Miller – I mean none.  Not a whoop, smile, frown, or grimace.  The news had […]

Indiana Basketball – Fred Glass goes logical, hires Dayton’s Archie Miller
March 25, 2017

Archie Miller might be the perfect guy to lead Indiana basketball to its next era of hanging banners. His ability to lead may be second only to George Patton.  Those five banners might welcome a sixth and seventh to the rafters at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall because of his rare genius. What Miller is definitively […]

IU AD Fred Glass is going to hire the right guy – to him if for no one else
March 24, 2017

“You see, you can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself,” Rick Nelson, Garden Party. Indiana University athletic director Fred Glass has a decision to make – assuming it hasn’t already been made – and the only person worth pleasing is Fred Glass. Consensus building is unnecessary in the hiring of a basketball coach – […]

Tom Crean showed multiple weaknesses by failing to show for his own firing
March 22, 2017

Tom Crean could have won his last game as basketball coach at Indiana University. He chose to not play. In the most interesting and revealing paragraph in Pete Thamel’s post on si.com featuring the first comments from Tom Cream about his firing as basketball coach at Indiana University, Thamel reported what he was told by Crean, […]