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MdWIldcat55

MdWIldcat55

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Indiana may stumble into a good coaching hire. Or not. We've seen this play before. But for now, as another coaching era ends in a Dumpster Fire, it is still possible to say, undeniably, they suck.

A quick summary:
1. When a new coach takes the floor in ramshackle *** Hall, it'll the THIRTY FIVE SEASONS since the Hoosiers won ANY tournament title -- NCAA or even B-10.

2. It'll be the TWENTIETH season since IU got past the Sweet 16. That's 20 years since they were as far as the disappointing result Kentucky experienced in the last tournament played.

3. In the past 28 seasons -- almost three full decades -- Indiana will have been as far as the Elite Eight exactly ONCE.

4. In the past 13 seasons, Indiana has made the NCAA tournament FOUR times.

A personal note -- I grew up hating Indiana and Bobby Knight, mostly because of their obnoxious fans and Bully Bob. Then I got my first professional job in Washington, DC - and my boss was a stereotypical loud mouthed Hoosier fan. That was the fall of 1993. I was a young single guy. Indiana fans made the claim they were a better program than Kentucky was - same number of titles, had won more recently, and so on. What luck.

But since then - I've got three grown children. I'm close to retirement. And:
* Kentucky has won THREE championships under three coaches, been to EIGHT Final Fours and 15 Elite Eights, while winning SIXTEEN SEC tournaments.
* Indiana has one trip past the Sweet 16 and no championships of any kind.

So, we'll see what the Hoosiers do after installing yet another coach. But for now, they suck. And Kentucky will be back, as soon as next year.
 
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MdWIldcat55

MdWIldcat55

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Well, I have to hand it to the Hoosiers: I was afraid after getting rid of Little Jughead they'd finally turn things around: Maybe the home run hire Brad Stevens; at least a red hot college coach like Scott Drew or Chris Beard or Nate Oats who would almost guarantee some deep tourney runs fast. Or maybe John Beilein as a five-year bridge, as he's well into his 60s, with a shot at a title fast.

But no: They topped ALL expectations: A 63-year-old guy without one second of college coaching experience, and who no potential recruit under 50 will have heard of. But wait, let's also hire Thad Matta, who failed the physical to be the coach, but at least he can look over the shoulder of, and second guess all decisions by the new head coach.

1987 never seemed so far away.
1993 (last trip as far as the Elite Eight except 2002) has never seemed sooooooo long ago.
2002 (last trip as far as Elite Eight) will be TWENTY YEARS when a new season begins, sooooooo looooooong agooooooooo.
 
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MdWIldcat55

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A new era in college basketball dawns where Elites are poised to feast at the Transfer Portal and dominate a revitalized 5-Star recruit pool because of NIL, and even one-time near elites should be able to flourish....and Indiana is stuck with a 63-year-old head coach with exactly zero minutes of experience running a college team and a program profile so diminished by decades of failure its no longer even a second-tier destination school like Texas and Michigan, etc...

In other words, all remains the same. Indiana sucks.
 
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IU running back wore this in the game today.

 
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