Hope is what gets us up in the morning. It’s what makes life fun. Sports mirrors life in many ways. Hope makes sports fun too. Yesterday, the Colts gave fans reason for hope. The first three games – all losses – sucked a lot of hope out of Indianapolis. But because the Colts beat the Dolphins […]
The recency bias that enticed Indiana fans to buy into the belief that their football program had turned a corner toward repeatable respectability was flawed – as is the case with most recency biases. The Hoosiers were outclassed, out-executed, and out-fought by Iowa Saturday afternoon in their season opening 34-6 debacle. Now, Indiana fans need to fight […]
The race for cash is claiming another high school student’s senior year as #1 2022 basketball prospect Emoni Bates is re-classing to 2021 so he might reach the NBA more quickly. There is a a troubling impatience for wealth and success that causes these decisions. In some cases, it can be justified by family financial needs, […]
Indiana fans are the Trappist Monks of college football, and their old habits die hard. Trappist Monks forego all measures of life’s enjoyable indulgences as they attempt to achieve enlightenment. At some point, Trappists forget all about the delicacies they left behind. They adapt to the new normal lacking all those things we covet that […]
Indiana Basketball fans are living in a dream world where everything is just the way it should be, and none of us wants to wake up. At least once a week there is great news about the direction of the program. First, the firing of Archie Miller was celebrated because he was clearly a bad fit […]
Jerome Hunter is leaving Indiana’s Basketball program, but is not yet listed in the transfer portal. That generally means the player did not initiate the separation from his program. Indiana made the announcement and included a quote from coach Mike Woodson, and that usually does not happen when the player opts out either. It’s been […]
Some years, the NFL Draft cooperates for a team, and other years it doesn’t. For the Indianapolis Colts, the 2021 NFL Draft appears to be the latter. It’s three years too soon to cast judgment on Colts general manager Chris Ballard and his staff for their weekend’s worknselecting seven players in the 2021 Draft, but we […]
Joey Brunk is leaving the Indiana University basketball program. Brunk has had a strange college basketball career, not at all what was projected as he graduated from Southport High School, south of Indianapolis. It began at Butler where he played and studied for his first three seasons and continued at IU for the last two […]
Here we go again. It’s hard today to write about Indiana basketball, but there are obvious and unpleasant things that need to be said. The first is that after five years of mediocrity, it’s ludicrous to make the case that a fifth year of Archie Miller as coach would spark hope of a renaissance. But, it’s […]
