Tag Archives: Kelvin Sampson

Indiana Basketball coach search should move in new direction! Colts sign OT! Depleted Pacers drubbed
March 23, 2021

Indiana Basketball – Kelvin Sampson’s return to Assembly Hall will be quiet – too quiet
March 15, 2021

Last year, a former Indiana coach made his long awaited return to Assembly Hall. The echoes of the loving cheers are still bouncing off the walls. Another former coach will return this Friday. If fans were allowed in the building, the noise would be as loud, but the tone quite different. You can question the […]

Indiana Basketball – despite mediocrity, lack of toughness, & recruiting troubles – keeping Archie Miller makes sense
February 23, 2021

Over and over since Indiana’s bizarre and thoroughly disappointing loss to Michigan State, I have tried to write a reasonable and sober defense of Archie Miller and his Hoosiers. I mention the team’s youth, the need to avoid a death spiral for Miller’s job as he will lose the ability to recruit prior to finally being canned, […]

Bill Self and Mark Gottfried deserve quick and severe justice for blatant cheating, but the NCAA spins in slow circles
May 20, 2020

The NCAA has transcripts of phone conversations that show beyond any rational doubt that University of Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was at least aware of major violations his program committed. Because of its labyrinthian enforcement and punishment protocols, Self is not only still the Kansas coach, it’s damn likely he will remain so until he […]

ESPN’s “Chasing Ghosts” looks at those who followed Bob Knight, and fail to grasp what “right guy” at IU means
May 21, 2019

Today, it’s Indiana’s turn in the crosshairs of the “Chasing Ghosts” series at ESPN.com, and the regurgitation of the last 19 years since Bob Knight was fired is not pretty. Mike Davis, Kelvin Sampson, Dan Dakich, Tom Crean, and Archie Miller are discussed as unworthy successors to Knight’s throne as the King of Bloomington, and […]

Mike Davis return to Indiana trumps Colts costly loss and Pacers split for Monday coverage
November 17, 2014

by Kent Sterling When the Colts lost a game where – again – virtually everyone but safety Mike Adams failed to show up on the defensive side of the football, I decided it would be a lot more fun to write about the Indiana Hoosiers welcoming Mike Davis back to Assembly Hall than to regurgitate […]

Indiana Basketball Coaches Bear Striking Resemblance to Former U.S Presidents (well, maybe not striking)
March 20, 2014

by Kent Sterling I tweeted during the Texas Southern play-in loss that coach former Hoosiers coach and current Texas Southern leader Mike Davis is to basketball coaches as Jimmy Carter is to U.S. presidents. For the next hour, people offered additional parallels, and thus the birth of this post. Leaders come in all shapes, sizes, […]

Indiana Basketball – Tom Crean Talks About Leadership and the NCAA
July 28, 2013

by Kent Sterling Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean is an interesting guy. Regardless of whether you like, love, or loathe him, he’s a lightning rod in Indiana sports who is impossible to ignore. Heading into his sixth year, the challenges of being the head coach at IU will evolve toward a new level of pressure. […]

Steroids, HGH, & NCAA Cheating – The Middle Ground Doesn’t Work; Time to Ban Cheaters Has Come
July 23, 2013

by Kent Sterling There is a tendency within people to forgive, and it has not place in ensuring equity and fairness in sports. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was the first commissioner of baseball. The owners asked him to clean up baseball’s gambling problem. In particular, they wanted answers about the allegations that the 1919 World Series […]

Indiana Basketball – Top 10 Reasons Why Indiana Will Be a Bubble Team for the 2014 NCAA Tournament
April 10, 2013

by Kent Sterling Yesterday, I did my best to find reasons for hope that Indiana would find a way to cut down the nets in Dallas a year from now. Today, we look at the other end of the spectrum for the Hoosiers 2013-2014 prospects. A lot of things would have to go exactly right […]