I have said for years that the two greatest mistakes in IU sports annals was firing Bill Mallory and then firing Mike Davis. Watching these teams over the last 30 some years just solidifies my views. The ADs have run out of excuses for their bumbling, their stumbling and their ineptitude.
Please use some hindsight folks.
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These Mike Davis fans are on another level.
The guy is 0-23 this year. His record since leaving IU is 296-273.
I was at the school and around the program at the end. Trust me. It wasn’t going anywhere good.
Iu is just really bad at hiring
I agree wholeheartedly with your view on Bill Mallory. But, Mike Davis? Come on man!
Well one out of two right
Agree on Bill Mallory. Never should have parted ways with him.
Disagree on Davis. Never should have hired Mike Davis.
Disagree on Davis. Never should have hired Mike Davis.
lol
Mike Davis didn't get fired. He stopped going to games b/c of all the death threats.
I was trying to be tactful here, but yes, you may be correct. Perhaps I should have said when Davis was driven out.
Disagree that Davis was the guy but in retrospect we might as well have kept Crean. We could hardly be worse off. No I'm not saying I want Crean back, or that he didn't need to go.
I didn’t know Mike Davis still had defenders. I feel like firing up my Ipod and listening to The Killers on some wired headphones tucked into my boot cut jeans.
Biggest mistake was not firing Davis in 2001 and then hiring Pitino.
I have defended him forever. Hand picked by Knight. Great defensive player and coach. (SEC defensive player of the year)Got us to within 9 minutes of winning it all. Had the same record over his five years that Knight had over his last five. Recruited quality kids like Dr. Marshall Strickland and DJ White. And when he was at full strength, he rarely lost. The DJ White injury was devastating. And recruiting 3 Mr. Basketballs, Wright from Texas, Strickland from Maryland and Perry from Louisiana all in the same year is impressive
And guess what, he took his players to church on Sundays and other then a snafu by Perry in his last year, his kids were scandal free. What more did you want from the guy?
And he has done SO well since leaving IU!
Even he said he was in over his head or something like that.
Davis‘ last teams were the poorest coached in basketball that I have ever seen.
Just so we are clear: I believe there is one person (apparently) on the entire planet who thinks IU should've kept Mike Davis.
Mike Davis? Really? Didn't you mean Kelvin Sampson?
Mallory, yes. Davis? Even he had a media meltdown and admitted he wasn’t the guy for the position. Since then he’s had an incredibly shrinking career and expanding losses.
You’re 0-2 on this one. Mallory’s time had come. They were godawful.
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The firing of Coach Knight and Bill Mallory.
Agreed..fify
Whitten is a Republican and 6 out of the 9 trustees are appointed by the Governor.
Mike Davis? 24 years as a D1 head coach and he has a 54% winning percentage. No thank you. If you meant Bob Knight, then I agree, because that matches Mallory in that he was literally half the program's value if not more.
5-6 I think it was in 96. I'm going on memory. Seems it should be 12 games but I remember he was close to 0.500.
That’s actually a decent point. He might have that pesky 2-3 zone almost figured out by now.
Even Coach Knight was losing to teams that he should not have lost to in his final years. The game was changing, but his approach was not.
I’ll agree that ‘performances’ may have been declining, but I sure miss those +20 win seasons and post-season invites😔
Knight’s last few seasons, yeah they were 20 wins, or barely over. They also had 11 or 12 losses. And the post season invites? Yeah, it was awesome getting blasted in the first round every year.
RMK was here a couple years too long and should have been gone under much better circumstances.
Yet we still made the tourney every single year. I can’t even imagine making the tourney every year.
Assistants took more recruiting responsibility and it became too much reputation based.
Seems like it started to go to shit with the 94 or 95 class. Seems like we decided to go national with recruiting and got Patterson and Miller and all those guys. At least it seems like we weren’t focused on IN and the Midwest as much as we used to be.
Pitino isnt leaving NYC and that salary. IU lost their chance with him. Time to kiss Chris Beard's and Thad Mattas buttox.
