by Kent Sterling Indiana University Athletics will continue its partnership with Adidas with significantly more generous revenue coming to IU. For the privilege of outfitting Indiana athletes and associated marketing opportunities, Indiana will receive $6.7 million per year, up 81% from the previous payout of $3.7 million, according to an Indiana University release.. That places […]
by Kent Sterling This is the kind of story I never get tired of telling, but was unsure I would get the chance to tell again. An Indiana high school player overlooked by many of the bigger programs dreams of playing for the Hoosiers impresses the IU head coach, gets an offer, and accepts it […]
by Kent Sterling In a list predicting who the top 20 coaches in college basketball will be in 2025, Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller mischaracterized the feelings of Indiana Basketball fans toward Tom Crean. Crean didn’t make the list (he was honorable mention) which did include Purdue’s Matt Painter at #13, but somehow omitted Notre Dame’s […]
by Kent Sterling If Tom Crean ultimately fails to bring Indiana the banner Hoosier fans have craved to see raised to the rafters of Assembly Hall for 27 years, his recruiting budget will not work as an excuse. According to Mark Alesia’s piece that was published yesterday in the Indianapolis Star, Crean spent $673,708 dollars […]
by Kent Sterling It may take a year or more for Zach Gunn to figure out for whom and where he wants to play college basketball, but the decision of the versatile wing from Hamilton Southeastern will show exactly where Butler and Indiana stand with in-state recruits. Southport’s Joey Brunk recently voiced his commitment to […]
by Kent Sterling Our society rewards wealth, so there are plenty of reasons for those without any clear path to the trappings of financial fortune to wander into the entrepreneurial death trap of dealing meth, heroin, and cocaine. But for an athlete who had a legitimate shot at playing in the NFL, an arrest for […]
by Kent Sterling College students tend to be dumbasses who test societal boundaries. That’s a big part of a college education – learning where the third rails of life are. At Indiana University, athletes lately aren’t doing a very good job of learning the lessons that will not only allow them to thrive as adults, […]
by Kent Sterling Tom Crean came to Bloomington with his guns blazing and supreme work ethic careening around Monroe County at a frenzied pitch. He was like Yosemite Sam and the Tazmaniam Devil combined into one manic whirling dervish of recruiting zeal. There were hits and misses with kids and processes, but the one constant […]
by Kent Sterling Logic is creeping ever closer to college athletics. First, the board chair of division one athletics tells CBS Sports Jon Solomon he does not favor appealing a potential ruling 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Ed O’Bannon in a lawsuit seeking compensation for the licensing of college athletes. Now, the […]
by Kent Sterling Devin Davis – gone for pot possession. Hanner Mosquera-Perea – gone for whatever the hell he was doing when Davis got popped. Isaac Griffith – arrested for DUI just over a year after he nearly drowned while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico after drinking. Davis and Mosquera-Perea are now former basketball […]