Ohio State, BTT.
Hoosiers entered the game as one of the First Four out on most projected brackets. A win likely would have gotten them a spot in the dance.
Grading Archie
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Hoosiers entered the game as one of the First Four out on most projected brackets. A win likely would have gotten them a spot in the dance.
Settling for results that IU has produced over the last few decades is a loser mentality. If you are not complaining you are part of the problem.
You might want to stick to academics or other hobbies. Your emotional age is far too high for todays cut throat sports world. Gramps.
Guess they should have won that game and he wouldn't be able to complain and state we didn't miss the tourney. Guess what, we did lose, though.
You live in the world of if I would have done this it would have been different? That doesn't do much for my real world issues. Aint horse shoes or hand grenades son.
Dubs and Ls, pretty black and white.
Now that is funny. Please link my posts where I had "very child-like protective behavior" of Archie?
Just because I call you out for your hyperbole and exaggeration to make yourself look better doesn't come close to equating to protective behavior.
The way you talk about Archie reminds me of a teenage girl with a crush on a movie star. It’s a weird infatuation.
You post like your mental and emotional age is less than a teenage girl’s, but you’re good for laughs.
Calipari is a great coach. One of the best all time. You’re a fool if you think otherwise.
Just when I think you couldn’t outdo yourself, you post this. Well done sir. It’s nice knowing someone recognizes talent
It’s just common sense. I’m not a Duke fan but I’d say the same thing about him. This isn’t complicated.
An IU and Bob Knight fan isn't going to be a Calipari fanboy like you are. You're an anti-IU troll. Admit it.
Cal has had success from recruiting elite talent, initially via talent funnel from WWW, and Big $hoe, not from game management.
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A good coach is someone who can win against similar talent. If you think Cal fits that bill, fine.
I think he is a very average coach who happens to appeal to your average high talent kid who lacks any sense of direction outside of dunking a basketball. To me, he is an insult to college basketball and a slimeball pied piper selling NBA dreams.
He pays top talent to play for him then he teaches them how to win together. I’m not a proponent of him cheating in recruiting, but there are a lot of programs that cheat and still can’t win. That said, I consider Bo Ryan a better coach even though he doesn’t have a title.
Dumb. Do you forget Kenny Johnson and Chuck Martin were assistants here not long ago? And we have a former Cal assistant currently on staff?
Honest question, not trying to flame...but what did he do in year 1 to get an A-?
I think getting blown out at home by Indiana State and Ft. Wayne and missing the postseason completely should automatically drop out of A range.
He competed well when he had time to prepare. There were three or four instances, one was vs. ND, one was vs PU. IU was terrible getting out on shooters and they were grossly under-sized up front. They improved on the former this past year, and the latter this coming year.
Also, he retained all three of Crean's recruits and ended up signing what was considered a very good class. Also, he finished 0.500 in league play which was better than the previous year.
I wouldn't give that an A-, but it wasn't too bad.
IU was picked in the 9-10 range for the BT that year. IIRC, they finished 6th. So IU exceeded expectations. I don't think an A- is too terribly out of line. I would probably go with a B+.
I actually thought he did very solid that season IF you take out the ISU and FW debacles. But probably 2 of the worst losses in our basketball program's history they were.
I totally agree the early losses were among the worst losses I can remember as a Hoosier fan, but they just weren't "buying in" yet. I think the players were still smarting from losing TC. They played Duke tough, won a couple games they shouldn't and IMO were fairly fun to watch, especially considering the roster. I thought by the latter part of the Big season, CAM was getting every bit that he could out of that team. They got worn down toward the very end (Morgan and McSwain trying to guard peeps way bigger/stronger than them) but those guys fought. Maybe A- a little generous but I was proud of that team none-the-less.
Last season - injuries to key players at the wrong tiime, team chemistry issues, Green's suspension, negative tweets, etc..
Hopefully all in the tear view mirror.
When the remaining team is all Archie recruits in the future, I expect the chemistry problems to disappear.
Some people need to take a step back, remove the IU rose colored glasses, come see us back on Earth, and look at things objectively for a minute.
If you want to talk rose colored glasses, look at where they are predicting Michigan to finish with a new coach who has zero D1 coaching experience.
Absolutely. You should take your own advice.
I took the part out where you alluded to being an IU fan because we both know you're not.
I'd give him a C the first year. Most of our wins were against terrible teams.
Wins-
-0 wins against NCAA Tourney teams
-3 wins against NIT teams (ND was a good win)
-11 of the 16 team wins were against teams with losing records (2 more wins against non Power 5 schools that blew a#$)
Losses-
-ISU & Fort Wayne ( I think @Paterfamilias commented that he couldn't find an Indiana team that had two losses as bad as those in a season?)
-We had 3 other losses to teams with losing records
Archie needs to overachieve this year. He's been Tom Crean lite so far.
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Eh. — he gets a B if only because we stopped dribbling the ball off our feet 18 times every game. Lol.
Not even a mere 2 wins in the SEC last year will convince you that Crean has a jacked up system that needed to be undone? Okay.
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