Tom Crean had two options in leaving Indiana – admit his flaws led to uneven results, or point fingers at IU’s administration as those who caused his program to belch and sputter during three of the last four seasons. Clearly, Crean and his family have chosen the latter, but his brothers-in-law are playing attack dog […]
Indiana was presented with a no-win scenario. They chose bad option B over Bad option A. IU Athletic Director Fred Glass had no good option. Two weeks ago, Glass had to choose whether Indiana should host a first round NIT game at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall or go on the road. This was contingent upon Indiana not […]
People are talking about the Indiana Basketball coaching job – again. The Hoosiers have just finished languishing through their third non-winning Big 10 season in the last four, and alums and boosters are getting restless. While there is still work to be done for Tom Crean and the 2016-2017 squad in the Big 10 Tournament and […]
No offense to Indiana or Butler (both programs I love), but how much fun was it to watch Fort Wayne and Indiana State beat their more talented and better-known in-state rivals? It was great theater in front of fans in Fort Wayne and Terre Haute who lie awake at night dreaming of beating the media […]
Nothing wrong with IU athletic director Fred Glass’s fast twitch administrative muscles. “Fired Wilson, hired Allen, let’s get lunch!” Indiana Football coach Kevin Wilson resigned today, and I’m pretty sure he was asked to. The cost of that resignation? Exactly $542,000, according to Glass. At least we assume that quid pro quo. Mutually agreed to […]
Before we even start, I don’t know enough about football to lead a junior high team. At no point in my life did I think being the head football coach at a Power Five conference university would be a great career path for me, so this notion that I don’t want that job did not just […]
Kevin Wilson has done the impossible by earning a contract extension at Indiana. After 20 years of shuttling one coach after another through Bloomington, it seems Indiana has settled on its long-term solution. Worth $2,550,000 per season, the extension sets Wilson up through 2021 as the architect of a program that has slowly progressed over […]
After losing to Wake Forest and UNLV in the Maui Invitational, it is even more important for Indiana basketball fans to remain positive – if only for their own sanity.. It’s a long season, and while that is not an item on this list of things for which Tom Crean should give thanks today, it should […]
by Kent Sterling The athletic department at the University of Texas is the closest thing to a business in college athletics, but it isn’t a business, so Steve Patterson was fired as athletic director yesterday. [Well, his resignation was negotiated, but if the choice was his, Patterson would still be the AD.] It happened for […]
by Kent Sterling Unless former Indiana University president and chancellor Herman B. Wells can be reanimated, the highest authority in Bloomington has spoken on the recent spate of misbehavior authored by athletes – primarily basketball players. University president Michael McRobbie told a meeting of athletic department employees Tuesday, “What I do not want to see is […]
