At the moment…..we just need to get out of what seems like an annual 9th place finish in our own conference.
Banners are great but we are never a threat in this conference to do anything. Crawl first before we walk.
Joke of a hire
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Banners are great but we are never a threat in this conference to do anything. Crawl first before we walk.
Very shallow. Over 7 seasons of HC'ing he averaged 24 W's. He's most ably viable. Damn glad and relieved he's in the HOOSIER.
When you have the highest NIL in the conference 9th place finishes should never ever happen. You should at least be top five almost every year. A good coach can do that. Nobody is expecting banners right away but just compete and make the tourney every years.
I'm looking at it a little differently now. The trio of Moren Cignetti DeVries along with our other programs, is prerty respectable now and we can get back to not second guessing our men's teams coaching the second the line-ups are announced. I don't see a sub 20 win season in our future or a January nose dive every year. When I soaked in the reality that our banners were in the first 48 years of the tournament and we're on a 37 year drought, with the wide open possibilities the portal era provides every team in the country, its ok being like everyone else. 8 months from now I'll be excited again, I think.
1. Woodson was never the answer.
2. IU isn't the dream job like Hoosiers think it is. If you assumed that Beard, Drew, Stevens, May, et al, wanted this job are fooling yourself.
3. DD will do a better job than Woodson.
4. IU missed by not hiring McCollum.
2. IU isn't the dream job like Hoosiers think it is. If you assumed that Beard, Drew, Stevens, May, et al, wanted this job are fooling yourself.
3. DD will do a better job than Woodson.
4. IU missed by not hiring McCollum.
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Is any job "the dream job" anymore? Maybe if it has a personal connection. And even then it might not prompt someone to leave their current situation for a variety of reasons
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Nobody knows that. Even if he has success somewhere else, doesn't mean he would succeed the same way with the spotlight shine of IU basketball
Two things.
1. Beard wanted the job. IU would not touch him.
2. I have never seen more IU fans in my life convinced a guy with one year of D1 experience is the next sure thing. If he really was a sure thing I am still trying to figure out why Dolson did not hire him.
"Whoa is me," you wrote. Seriously? "Whoa is me"?
Don't write a book in English, if you don't understand it.
Maybe he was trying to slow down the raging torrent of his mind, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives...
It's worse than that. They are still championships but (from memory), McCracken won two from fields of 16 and Knight won two from fields of 28 and his third from a field of 32.
And (again from memory) the only championship game that IU flatout dominated was the one with Isiah.
Thanks for your profound insight Professor Stuffshot. Does my typo correction make you feel better?
I thought maybe he had just watched Yellowstone and couldn't get the opening scene out of bis mind (where the horse gets shot). So he just assumed the word was "whoa."
More likely though, he dictated that way-too-long post while he was driving his delivery truck and just clicked it without proofreading.
More beautiful insight... what the f is "bis"??? See how that works? How is your proofreading going on the back of your garbage truck?
If you don't see the advantages of using good English/spelling there really isn't anything anyone can do for you.
Edit to add: You said, "Professor." Your error was a 5th-7th grade error, maybe even 4th grade, not a college level spelling error.
Don't try to suggest that it was a highly sophisticated error -- it wasn't. You just posted it without even looking, possibly because you dictated it. That's not my fault.
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So I don't take it you feel happier that I edited it... cool, keep your superiority complex going. I suppose you don't see the irony in your own error in your post just after.
Yes, it was an error that I did not proof. And sure, it was a grade school error made while using the dictation button on my iPhone. Fair enough to have fun with that. Then you inferred that I'm an uneducated truck driver, note that all truck drivers are not uneducated. That was possibly your own self projection.
I used the word, "Professor," because you told me to never write a book. I won't. I'm a visual professional who is used to having copy editors write from my creative direction. But, I will try to be better for you. Or... would you prefer I don't, therefore you can continue having something to do as the grammar police captain of the thread?
Re #2, IU (and all other college jobs, by the way) aren't as big a draw as they used to be.
But I'm pretty sure Beard did want the job this year, and May would have taken it last year. IU could have hired Stevens, too, if they went after him the year before he took the Celtics job. All a matter of timing.
IU has lots of advantages outside of its "blue blood status" (that I don't think it enjoys anymore). Money for coaches, NIL, proximity to target rich recruiting environments, etc.
