If anyone needed proof that life isn’t a movie, last night’s opening night debacle for the Archie Miller Era at Indiana stands as solid evidence. No one other then Indiana State coach Greg Lansing would have approved the script that had the Sycamores hitting 17 of their first 22 three-pointers to win 90-69. Miller was […]
Getting popped for shoplifting in China is no joke. That should not be one of the lessons learned by UCLA freshmen as they travel to play basketball in that country thousands of miles away geographically, but far more distant culturally. In America, most shoplifters are stopped, stripped of items they “forgot” to pay for, and maybe banned from […]
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It would be nice if college basketball could move past the cheating that unnecessarily taints the game, but if the construct of the committee empaneled but the NCAA to study and correct corruption is any indicator, it will never happen. NCAA president Mark Emmert announced the formation of the 14-person committee yesterday, and it lacks […]
I get pissed off at cheaters, so I tend to ignore them. Changing them is too hard. College basketball is filled with different degrees of cheaters, and Rick Pitino was neither the best nor the worst of them. He’s just the guy who most recently got caught. We are now supposed to rage against the […]
Helping people is what I enjoy best, and today my efforts are to help former Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean compile his list of reasons not to pick up the phone if the University of Louisville calls. I also want Louisville fans to wrap their arms around a few facts as they build expectations as […]
“We don’t see you fitting into our plans here.” That’s what IU basketball coach Archie Miller told Grant Gelon a few months ago, according to the NW Indiana Times. It was an honest, direct, and unpleasant assessment to hear. Gelon was unhappy at that moment with Miller, and remains so. Indiana offered to make good […]
Basketball according to former Indiana coach Tom Crean – Winning Basketball = LB/7 + 3s(7) Simple concepts allow students to understand. Reducing the complicated into basic easy to understand bites of information is the key to allowing people to understand them. Basketball is an easy sport. On offense, create open shots and make them. Defensively, limit […]
As each Indiana University basketball coach has been hired over the past 16 1/2 years, I had a visceral response of “Oh no!” as I either learned they were hired or listened to them speak for the first time. Usually both. When I heard Archie Miller was going to be hired as the next coach, […]
The thing I like best about Archie Miller being named basketball coach at Indiana University is that I know nothing about him. I had no response to the news a day ago that IU athletic director Fred Glass had tabbed Miller – I mean none. Not a whoop, smile, frown, or grimace. The news had […]
