There are university campuses across America where the anticipation of another college football season will charge the atmosphere. Students and boosters will count down the hours to kickoff. Bloomington, Indiana, is not one of those college towns. At Indiana University, people will go about their business, attend class, and instead of charging the atmosphere, students […]
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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 […]
Hard to blame Indiana University football coach Kevin Wilson for imploring fans to stick around for four quarters during games at Memorial Stadium. If I could see half of the listeners flip their radios off at 4:30p, I would be disappointed too. Wilson asked fans to stick around this Saturday as the Hoosiers face […]
No undergraduate student on Indiana University’s campus was alive the last time the Hoosiers went to a bowl in consecutive seasons. Indiana remains the losingest program in college football history. So did Indiana coach Kevin Wilson lose his mind/slip a cog/have bubbles in his think tank when he boasted about the potential for his sixth IU team […]
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 […]
by Kent Sterling No one wants to get fired. There is an unpleasant stigma to getting the ax, and the phone calls to share the news with family are humbling, unpleasant, and easily the worst part. Getting fired happens to coaches. It happens all the time, and to almost every coach who aspires to lead young […]