Oh boy. No. Not regarded equally at all. This is where you constant sunshine pumpers lose people’s respect when you try to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear like this. And I’m not even that disappointed. The team basically met my expectations for Woodson’s first year, but I’m not going to pump it up into some big achievement or tell people that they should be pleased with it. No one should be pleased with it, especially the players .
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What? It counts as a tournament win, or a loss, it’s a fact. That’s all I’m saying. You don’t have to like that and I don’t care if you do or you don’t because it’s irrelevant. No matter how large the storm cloud you fart is, a fact remains a fact.
The Richmond Spiders beat RMK. What happened? Should Bob have been fired? Isn't that loss simply unallowed at a program as prestigious as Indiana?
That was my fault, I didn't mean to quote you. My question was open ended to those that keep bashing the season due to losing to St. Mary's. A 5 seed.
So should we just decline NCAA bids until we have a guaranteed Elite 8 or Final Four team?
I’ll take X. Got better as season wore on. Everyone was singing his praises a week ago. Hope he keeps working on his game and listening to Woody and he could be all Big Ten next year.
I mean sure I guess. At least they won it.
But we’re not getting back to where we want to be by skipping steps. This shit is like a twelve step recovery. Can’t skip steps. No matter how painful.
A lot of us see this year as.progress. it isnt anything to write home about but it is a.small step in the right direction.
It was more than a small step for the reasons I have outlined multiple times on this forum.
If you don’t think that there are some fans giddy about IU making the tourney then you haven’t been reading these boards. I was responding to the post that stated IU needs to decide whether we want to be Duke or Iowa. I in no way was addressing being Duke in one year. Try to keep up.
I wasn’t screaming or whining, which is really rich coming from you.
I’m not living in the past. I sadly accept the fact that we’re now a lower tier B1G team. Much like Minnesota. Hopefully we’ll become an Iowa one day.
If we want to be Iowa, why didn't we hire Alford?
He's done more at Iowa than Franny has.
Why is that rich coming from me? I’ve been reading the boards. Can you point out, even one post, of someone giddy? I must have missed it.
IU wants to be IU. Be true to itself. Not sell out it’s core beliefs, like Duke, to put glorified AAU teams on the floor.
Getting beaten at home by Rutgers with everything to play for? OK. Winning two games in the tournament was great, but the last two weeks were much like the previous rest of the season, a mixed bag that was ultimately a disappointment.
When one of the most toxic posters on this board tells me that I'm screaming and whining, when I clearly was not, that's rich. You clearly missed the point in my post that I was responding to another poster's comments on whether IU wants to be Duke or Iowa. Like I said, try to keep up.
You have not read one post with an IU fan being giddy with IU being in the play-in game?
Here you go -
"WTF were in mofo's how long has it been? Lets get after it. Dayum I'm pumped to be in there."
"iu is currently a ncaa tourney program. Thank effing god."
"At least we got in. We finished 9th in the Big Ten. We should be happy."
"Just glad our name was called.."
"I feel fortunate to be in it."
"We are playing really well. Just keep it going and we should beat Wyoming then St Mary's. UCLA is a different animal but no better than Purdue, Illinois, etc. Anything can happen in this tourney in the early rounds."
"2 play ins have made the final four, extra game to watch IU and it's really close for the trip"
"I'm happy IU is in"
"I don't think it is a disrespect for us"
"I just got feeling we can and will win 2 in this, and after that we become dangerous in this to anybody, will be fun. The play in may help us keep the higher level of play rolling"
All of the above posts are from one thread. There are plenty more. Somehow I don't think the Duke board would read the same if the Blue Devils were sent to Dayton.
Duke is a top ten team, we are on a total rebuild...no comparison. After the mid-season lows, I was giddy as **** that they played their way in late. Nothing but up from here.
Come on dude. Most of those posts were FAR from giddy. Most of them were a collective sigh of relief that the drought was over and lU was actually back in the NCAA.
They would if they were out of the tourney for six years.
RMK is gone, we are not that IU anymore and haven't been for a long ass time. Some of you old people need to realize that.
Some people just don't know how to be happy. They are the perpetually malcontent. If there isn't something to be malcontent about they either find it, or just make shit up ..
What were you happy about this season? The 9th place finish? Getting the play in game?
In response to your hand wringing over folks being excited about the upward trajectory of the program.
It's a long way back up. One step at a time.
I’m a toxic poster? What in the world makes you say that? I don’t ever remember interacting at all with you. Do you have me confused with someone else? Of course everyone was happy to have made the tournament. Were you not happy? Does that mean people weren’t disappointed hugely by the loss?
Happy to make the tourney after six years out. Happy to beat Purdue after however many losses. Happy to play well in BTT for first time I can EVER remember. If that makes me “toxic” then I guess I’ll live with it. ( I know it’s not you that said it). Is that going to be good enough for the future? Absolutely not. But for Woody’s first year? I’d give it a C+ .
I'd buy a ticket and I have a simple recommendation. Dan has a massive ego. Don't call him an asshole, he'll wear it with pride. Ask him when he started feeling disconnected with Hoosiers nation. If you do, he'll have to contemplate a disconnection, which I'm guessing he thinks is still good. Pain through paper cuts. Go Hoosiers!
Making the tournament has more to do with it being a down year than a big improvement.
I’d give this season a C. Next season will be rough.
Correction: Duke was a top ten team. Maybe you didn't hear:
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Whatever Duke becomes, it won't be the same.
This season was three steps above where we were heading had AM not been shitcanned. Next year will be two steps above where we would be had Dolson waited until last week to do the deed.
Glad we are in the relative position we are in.
context is necessary.
We are barely a step ahead of where we were last year. Next year will be a large step back from this year (barring complete roster turnover). We aren’t close to being a deep run team. Our coach is 64. How old will he be when we are capable of making a deep run?
You can't look at it that way, you have to compare us to where we would be had AM not been fired, which was by far and away the expectation. We are well ahead of where we would have been and another step forward next year.
In that case, where would we be had Crean never been fired?
I don’t know how you see next year as going to be a step forward. Very likely we are not a tournament team which would be a step back.
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