Bucket Game thought
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Keep the games on campus. Fix the damn roads leading into town. On a related note I thought Crean deserved to be fired just for giving away the NIT game last year.
Glass gave the NIT game away, not Crean. Crean didn't fight him at all, but the GT game was all on Glass.
After googling it I recalled that Glass did say that NIT game was deemed to be beneath the iconic Assembly Hall. Ironic that they brought in teams like Houston Baptist into the same hallowed structure.
But he did essentially acknowledge that the Hoosiers had already quit for the year.
“That was one of those decisions that was going to be kind of tough either way it went,” Glass told Grady and Big Joe. “That was my decision. I own that decision, even though men’s basketball wanted it to be on the road, that was their preference and stated desire to me that they wanted to play that game on the road. But that was my decision, so I’m not hiding behind that.”
But he did essentially acknowledge that the Hoosiers had already quit for the year.
“That was one of those decisions that was going to be kind of tough either way it went,” Glass told Grady and Big Joe. “That was my decision. I own that decision, even though men’s basketball wanted it to be on the road, that was their preference and stated desire to me that they wanted to play that game on the road. But that was my decision, so I’m not hiding behind that.”
They didn't want to subject the players and the TV audience to the kind of reception the crowd (all 6000 of them) would have given Crean and the team.
The decision to fire Crean had been made despite some continued pushback from the BOT. I think the decline helped shine a light on just how bad things were.
Change the date of the game, but NEVER take the game off of campus. Neutral site venues are horrible. Even at bowl games, the actual game atmosphere stinks. People don't come to the bucket game because they don't come to any other games. This is just an excuse to accommodate folks that won't come regardless. Don't screw it up for the people that care.
Fred Glass is a big reason why we have a rising football program and a big boy stadium now. That NIT thing was also him covering for Crean. He took the heat for his coach.
Yeah I hadn’t thought about the impact on the towns. I’m good with the first weekend of the year on campus.
This is almost exactly what has happened in my case. As a student, I was always at home for Tgiving so I never attended the Bucket game during those years. After my student years, even though I have attended other games and I definitely don't believe that it is just another game, I still have never attended the Bucket. This year is a prime example, because of other peoples travel arrangements, I have Tgiving on Saturday.
Keep the game on Campus but move the date.
I agree. I didn’t grow up in Indiana, so this game means very little to me as a Purdue alum. I suppose if you’re from Indiana it has more meaning, but you are correct...outside of the immediate fan base this game has very little meaning. With a bowl game on the line, albeit a minor, irrelevant one, it should add a little bit of excitement. Good luck. Peace. Jw.
What I am addressing is the fact that the Bucket Game is not scheduled by people from either IU or PU and is, in fact, scheduled by people who don't know the IHSAA's routine or schedule. Since these people do not live in Indiana and do not recruit players from Indiana high schools, these schedulers might be arrogant enough to "assume" The Bucket Game takes precedence over any high school game. I am also pointing out that those are just a few of the potential problems with moving The Bucket Game to LOS.
The "philosophical differences" smokescreen was another example of Glass shielding a coach rather than hanging him out to dry.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not, but I don't think so.........
I think the Big 10 has a whole ought to move their "rivalry week" up one week on the schedule.
Doesn't EVERY big 10 school take the Thanksgiving WE off? If so, why play all your best rivalry games on THAT WE? Really makes no sense. Also, we're playing 1-2 weeks later than we used to, so we get crappier weather.
As a added benefit, the Big 10 teams would get tons of attention. This WE was a shit sandwich of college games. The SEC powerhouses were playing Mercer & La.-Monroe. Basically the only rivalry of note was USC-UCLA. Imagine the notice the Big 10 would have gotten if OS-UM, Wisky-MN, IU-PU, NW-ILL,et al had all played this WE. If you did this, you could still play secondary rivalries like Iowa-Nebraska, PSU-MSU, Michigan-MSU, Illinois-Purdue and Minnesota-Iowa the final week. That would mean two very solid WEs back-to-back.
I guess your perspective on this only dates back a few years. I've been to games in Bloomington where Purdue seemed to outnumber IU, and many games in West Lafayette where there were almost no IU fans. I'm talking the Tiller years and then all the years before 1985.
There is no doubt that the ratio of fans changes is the second half of games that are decided. It has zero to do with how well each program has historically traveled.
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