Just Confirmed: IU will have a new coach NEXT YEAR
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Considering you've been a member for about 6 months I assume you're part of this new generation of fans. If you weren't around for the Knight years you wouldn't know what kind of guy he was.
As I said, they were great Hoosiers. But they weren't even recruiting priorities for Knight. He wanted other kids first.
When Kirk Haston's mom died in that tornado....guess who went to Tennessee to support that young man at that same time? The bully, RMK....but, this new generation won't hear about that....will they?
No I had them up until a couple years ago. I couldn't handle any more Crean ball and I decided to put my money where my mouth was so to speak.
Nope...hasn't even been 40 years since I first bought them. But it was over 30 years. I definitely paid some good money to the university over that time period. But IU has given me much more in return than I could ever repay. I just didn't want to support the kind of program we are anymore. Hopefully I'll get them back some day.
You look at those names and assume those were great classes because the names are recognizable NOW. Those were definitely not great classes at that time. Guys like Recker and Collier were his best gets (pre-Jeffries) and those two couldn't get out fast enough. Jeffries was his first really good player of natural talent RMK got in a very long time. Fife was decent but the other guys were coached up to become good. To imply those classes were highly ranked is fools gold. Coverdale was a walk-on for garsh sake.
No one implied they were highly ranked. I said, which is not even up for debate, that most of those players went on to have VERY good careers. It's not as if the talent level took a nose dive at the end. Those are some pretty solid classes results wise, especially for the worst stretch in Knight's career.
So what was your handle before and why would you change it? I can guarantee you you're way too young to have been around in the early 90s. It's actually quite obvious you're a millennial with your soft skin and all of your insults. Funny how people like you don't see that.
Amazing how the Crean tenure has created so much apathy, which seems far worse than anger or disappointment.
I think they are friends, they can talk. Also if your AD says you need to start looking for a job, then you will talk to people about other jobs
There's no rule that prevents it, nor is there any rule that prevents any other university representative from reaching out to any prospective coaching candidate. Pro sports leagues are regulated by such standards, but colleges are not.
Right, but so did guys like Troy Williams, Victor, Hulls, Watford. I mean we could sit here all day but someone had to get points. I just don't think the recruiting was anything above average at all considering the program Indiana had at the time. RMKs recruiting did fall off which is why the results were minimal there at the end. His coaching didn't skip a beat, his talent did. Indiana was routinely getting players who had long NBA careers. Those guys like Haston, Guyton, Recker, Hornsby...etc never had much of a career past IU which speaks volumes. Jefferies is the only one who sustained a long term NBA career.
Me tooI'd gain confidence if he put his OKC house up for sale......
just stirring the pot a littleAll we have to do is go by Bob's words. He say he offered to pay Davis if he didn't find another job. But Davis did find another job......and Bob was PI$$ED he took it.
He also blocked May's kid from going to IU.
Not much difference to me in not making it and getting bounced in the first round by a team worse than you.
Total BS....the situation with Davis was not so cut and dried. He took the program and Knight felt betrayed...so what? Where is the interference from Knight? May? Scott May would not allow his kid to go to IU under these conditions...He was quite vocal about his displeasure. He didn't need any help from Knight.
Umm . . . wrong.
BTW, IIRC IUColorado played football for IU. You might give this a rest because (1) there's no profit in the argument, and (2) you're dead wrong about who IUC is.
If you're still trying.....sure. Even Bob admitted he mailed it in his last 5 years. Nothing I hate more than hypocrites. If he wasn't going to give his best, he should have quit or been fired. I don't care if he had won 10 titles.
I went to IU in "82 and have been a die-hard ever since. Used to be the biggest Knight fan around.
Then, I couldn't defend his behavior anymore just because he won some ball games. On top of that, he mailed it in his last 5 years.
Nail in the coffin was all the crap he pulled after he left.
Trust me, I'm ok. You brought it up as if to suggest we should bow down to the guy for all his insults and condescending remarks. I imagine he graduated in the last 10 years or so which would make my original assessment spot on.
Naww, I was just responding to your highly inaccurate guesses about the guy and his background, which you attempted to use as insults.
Which makes you not OK. If you had any stones you'd man up and admit that you were wrong. But I suspect that you don't that in ya . . . .
What were those inaccurate guesses? I said I assume the guy is part of the new generation of fans who weren't around for the Knight years. You're saying I'm wrong because he played football at IU, but you won't state the years. What does that have to do with anything? That he played football at IU?
I didn't say "because". I said "BTW" he played football at IU.
I did say your assumption was wrong because it is. If you want to know when IUColorado was at IU, ask him, not me.
To be quite honest I couldn't care less. I really couldn't.
never said he did nothing wrong....but he didn't "leave"....he was run out on a rail.
You brought it up....then bailed with "ask him, not me"? Weak....
Why should he "feel betrayed"? It was the opportunity of a lifetime. Bob wanted the program to implode, which would have happened if Davis turned down the job.
where is there any evidence that RMK wanted the program to implode? His war was with Myles Brand....
For the last time......because he was PI$$ED at Davis for taking the job.
He told Davis he'd pay his salary "if he didn't find a job." Well, he found a job. So Bob shouldn't have been mad......at least not THAT mad.
He wanted Davis to turn down IU because he knew most of the players would leave too.
And if his war was "with Brand", why does he still refuse to come back when most fans are on their knees begging him to.....especially the players he claims to "love with all his heart"?
I have no issue with Knight's decision to move on for good. It works for him....
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