Even with a home game I seem to have no confidence at this point. We. Have a ton of “talent” and a system that was allegedly next man up, but this kids just aren’t mentally tough.
Woody needs to try some kids who have been sitting on the bench. Maybe they have some will to fight
ad hominem attack is the best you can do?
Unlike you, I don't think it's fine for a team loaded with 5 and 4 star players to lose at home to Northwestern and by 20 to Penn State. I expect mental effort and the discipline to win. But then, I still have pride in IU basketball.
Sounds like you're projecting your issues onto others. Breathtaking how those whom have never met or spoken to a single one of the Players imagine themselves qualified to pass judgment on an entire Team's mental fortitude and/or default to explaining any and all issues on the Court as "lack of "culture" or "mental toughness". Talk about an
ad hominem diagnosis (not unlike "
mental to physical is 4 to 1").
No one said or implied losing was "okay" and absolutely no one with any real pride in IU (or themselves) would begin a post with "
How quickly do we fold today?" - that is textbook loser's mentality. Like many others here, you jump off and on 'the bus' willy-nilly while imagining/proclaiming yourself a true fan and yet have the temerity to adjudge the Team rather than yourself as not being "mentally tough". And then you wonder why someone likens you to a hormonally-challenged teenage girl?
Almost everyone here expects IU to demonstrate the character and commitment required to win - thankfully not everyone chooses to whine like a baby when things don't work out the way they hope/expect, react by throwing the Coaches and Players under the bus, and/or pretend they have the answers Coach Wooden and Co. do not, e.g., "
try some kids who have been sitting on the bench". Makes you sound far more like a mentally/emotionally spastic/unstable fraud than a fan, and far far distant from a BB savant if you actually believe that starting or giving major minutes to Gunn, Banks, Leal, Duncomb, et al. today would have resulted in anything as remotely successful as what played out on the Court. For one who prizes "
mental effort", rates as really weak sauce.