Bump this thread when Indiana sucks

Rick Honcho

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Yeah, it’s only mid-July but it has all the makings for a great game in Lexington come December. Hillbilly Hoosier fans will come in thinking they have a chance…


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Runt#1969

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test bump.

my first bump since coming over from the old board.

just want to make sure we got indiana suckage covered still,

we do.

thank you, drive thru !
 

Courtsensetwo

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You guys spend one hell of a lot of time and effort working to convince yourselves that IU is irrelevant.

Love it
 

Morgousky859

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Seriously still pissed off at Calipari for being scared to play this game. Yea I don't buy the arguments. I think Calipari knew Crean wanted to win this game fiercely, and was afraid it would be a common blimp in the early road for his younger teams. I think he was wrong and would have won at least 70% of those games but it was a risk he didn't want. Had nothing to do with what happened in 2012, he was already planning the exit and used the opportunity to have an excuse. We agreed and carried the water at the time, but the media heads pretty much knew and discussed the real issue. Calipari was afraid to play the game.

Had he not ruined that rivalry we would be far, far ahead and the rivalry would have remained as one of the more traditional and oldest rivalries in the minds of the CBB world.

Now, Duke Duke Duke, UNC, and anyone under 35 doesn't even realize UK and Indiana were ever a rival, let alone part of the most premier rivalry in the sport. We have done some things that have seriously shot ourselves in the foot starting with a lot of Barnhart's decisions at times, but these games must be played for our historical record and national perception. You don't eliminate the details of who you have been and who you are, and expect to be seen as the Megatron of the game. Leave all of your program and the history of your program intact.

Mark seems to understand this as well.
 

Morgousky859

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We already know what’s gonna happen, we have seen this story many times before. First year of another new coach, another 17-18 win year.
IU and UL are so similar. New coach, pump him as a new coach K, "we're gonna conquer the world now - followed by back to back average joe or worse seasons, fans become disgruntled, rinse repeat new coach.

When Tennessee basketball has it figured out better than you and year to year at that, you suck. bluebloods or first tier programs my ***.
 
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*Fox2Monk*

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IU and UL are so similar. New coach, pump him as a new coach K, "we're gonna conquer the world now - followed by back to back average joe or worse seasons, fans become disgruntled, rinse repeat new coach.

When Tennessee basketball has it figured out better than you and year to year at that, you suck. bluebloods or first tier programs my ***.
Sadly UofL appears to have a coach who can actually be decent again but I won’t believe Indiana can until they prove it 5 or 6 years in a row. I know UofL didn’t really win anything and had an easy conference and all that, but they at least looked competent and their recruiting Looks solid again. He seems to be able to coach decently well too.
 
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Morgousky859

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Sadly UofL appears to have a coach who can actually be decent again but I won’t believe Indiana can until they prove it 5 or 6 years in a row. I know UofL didn’t really win anything and had an easy conference and all that, but they at least looked competent and their recruiting Looks solid again. He seems to be able to coach decently well too.

I'm not so sure he is that good. I've heard Indiana pump the hell out of coaches just like him over and over. It's possible that he;s so well thought of due to how well he allows the media guys access. He's always available to them and gives them a key. At my age of 39 I've seen guys that weren't that good be given tons of grace over the access they give. The media is really behind him so I'm not sold. Before a game was played they ere talking about how great he was. Well, I saw the same UL flounder against Creighton and he didn't look that impressive to me. The ACC was severely down last season so what he did doesn't mean much to me either.


I'm not saying he's Payne bad, but you had a ton of our fans believe Payne was the real deal too. UL fans all thought it. I remember saying Payne would be a terrible head coach when we had people wanting him to take over for Calipari. You could tell every time he took over for Calipari he was lost on the sideline. To me he wasn't a good assistant either. Yet, it was constantly said how great he is.

We have a lot of fans that assume a guy is really good because he's new. I think the short dude is average. The difference for him is UL can buy players now, and I'm sure they want to try and compete with UK since they never have been able to. But I don't think it means anything about him. They'll jut have NIL rosters, but I still don't see anything other than average.