IU volleyball is 11-2. Their coach and the wrestling coach (who has had success in the past) have gotten a lot of patience because the facilities have been God awful. They get their new arena next year.
They hated the Riley hire and fired the guy who made it. They canned the AD before they're going to get rid of Riley so that he doesn't botch another one.
Didn't Pelini average nine wins a year at Nebraska? If IU's coach did that they would name the stadium after him.
The nickname given to him by Miami media was due to the low profile he kept with them, not because he “rarely went to games”. Why lie about something so trivial?
In other words, you were way off base on the game attendance thing you made up. Just wondered whether you were purposely lying or just not familiar with the facts.
And then hired Allen without any sort of search. No was else was interviewed. No one else was even considered. Glass never played, never coached, never worked in any athletic department, and never hired a coach. Ever. But he was the perfect guy to lead the IU Athletic Department nonetheless. Lol
The narrative of constantly making excuses for idiotic moves? Agreed, many of us aren't in favor of that kind of stewardship of the athletic department.
Both the football and basketball programs are in the upswing, and glass has been willing to play the heavy for the moves that needed to be made.
Glass also gave both Wilson and Crean huge contract extensions, only to fire them both later. He's bad at his job because he brought absolutely no experience to it. If you're happy settling for mediocrity, then he's your guy, and you'll fit in well as an IU fan. But for those of us who want more, he's the Mount Everest of impediments to excellence.
Not giving up on Allen either, but curious as to why you think recruiting is going well. Relative to the rest of the Big Ten, IU is grouped with Purdue, Illinois and Rutgers at the bottom of the league in consensus recruiting rankings, and they've really struggled in state.
A handful of really good players out of 20-25 won't be nearly enough in the Big Ten East.
I appreciate a ton of what Wilson did, but I wish people would give Allen credit for the ridiculous job he did with the defense. The guy can coach. And his first recruiting class is already better than last year's recruiting class.
Well I would certainly hope no one was "giving up" on TA yet. He's coached three games and is 2-1. They've looked good.
This is also the best start to a class, other than 2013, that we've had in like 20 years. If you get mostly three stars with solid offer lists, you can have a solid program. A lot of programs do just that.
