Legendary Indiana University Basketball coach Bob Knight was back at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall – again – for Hoosier Basketball Fan Fest yesterday. After so many heralded returns, it might finally be time to allow Knight to slip in and out of IU Basketball events without notice or coverage. Since Knight was fired over 21 years […]
Why do I watch every Indiana game from start to finish? Indiana fans are among the most ardent in college basketball. After a monotonous and historic run of mediocre basketball, Hoosiers still block out two-plus hours of their lives to watch. No matter the opponent, stakes, or apparent level of futility, we still show up wearing red […]
Colts will get QB deal right; Bears won’t! IU Basketball is mediocre by administrators’ choice!
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Do you watch Indiana Basketball and wonder why it is on a never-slowing treadmill of mediocrity? Here is the answer – Indiana University is punishing its Basketball program and its fans for the success it reaped during the Bob Knight era. Three national championships, five Final Fours, 11 Big 10 titles, and a 659-242 record […]
“The reward for hard work is more work.” Every adult drawing breath figures out the wonder of hard work eventually. Most children adopt that wisdom through failures that come because of a lack of effort. Many adults migrate to that understanding as they become responsible for a spouse and children. Some sad souls never get […]
Indiana lost again Saturday, and I’m not sure what it meant to the Hoosiers. Winning used to be the reason people competed, and you had to prove that winning was important in order to be recruited to a program like Indiana. At some point, coaches decided different criteria trumped hunger for winning, so they recruited […]
As an Indiana University freshman in 1980-1981, I was treated to an uneven season of basketball from what will always be my favorite team. The beginning of the season was difficult to watch – the end was glorious. The worst was a 66-60 loss to Texas-Rio Grande Valley, and the best was the national championship game against […]
Indiana Basketball fans are probably as tired of being painted as dopes as they are of the way their favorite team fails to compete. Twitter can be an echo chamber of idiocy, reducing people and groups to their lowest common denominator. Stereotypes are embraced and proffered as absolute truths. This has happened to IU alums […]
So, I wrote yesterday about how I am no longer invested in former Indiana coach Bob Knight returning to Assembly Hall, and how being jerked around by Knight has grown tiresome. The phone started ringing as soon as I published the post. On the other end of the phone for the rest of the morning […]
