Playing a season with a team that lacks talent is only tolerable if the team plays with max effort. I struggle to root for this team when I see lazy play. Indiana basketball fans demand effort. Sure, we love to win, but if you watch the crowd's responses, they are never as loud as when they watch a good defensive stop. Effort wins the hearts and minds of fans who have to watch a team lose a game.
I'm almost done listening to Woody say, "That's on me" when the team fails to deliver. If he expects to hold players accountable for their lack of effort, then the AD needs to hold him accountable for errors he admits are his fault.
I’m to the point I’ve completely lost interest. I haven’t seen any of our games this season. I had no idea we played Wednesday night. I only use the term apathy because I lack a better word to describe my feelings towards the IU bball program.
I used to plan things around the IU bball schedule. I didn’t plan my entire life around it, but I made every possible/reasonable accommodation I could to watch or go to games.
I didn’t care for Davis, I didn’t care for Crean and I goddamn hated Miller. Even with all that, I never rooted for IU to lose. I’m still not to the point that I hope they lose, but it’s not difficult to see that happening. That would be the only reason for the apathy to be gone.
It’s a sad day when an IU bball fan of nearly 50 years suddenly doesn’t give two shits about bball and is looking forward to the IU football games. My guess is Satan’s heating bill is gonna be kinda high this year.
