Pretend Coach Knight took the New Mexico

[GeorgeStrait IU]

job in Late 88, lookin back who would have been your dream three interviews/consecutive coaches to follow Coach for the job at IU?
Fit the Hoosier mold etc?
My three dream choices (Lookin back now how coaches have done since then)
Call #1: Rick Majerus 88-03 before health took him out.
Call #2: Thad Matta 04-12'
Call #3 Boy Wonder 12- retirement.

haha What a perfect wave my dream would've been.

BTW, Coach Knight would have been GREAT at New Mexico.

 

[gator mcCluskey]

job in Late 88, lookin back who would have been your dream three interviews/consecutive coaches to follow Coach for the job at IU?
Fit the Hoosier mold etc?
My three dream choices (Lookin back now how coaches have done since then)
Call #1: Rick Majerus 88-03 before health took him out.
Call #2: Thad Matta 04-12'
Call #3 Boy Wonder 12- retirement.

haha What a perfect wave my dream would've been.

BTW, Coach Knight would have been GREAT at New Mexico.

I don’t think anybody has any interest in pretending that we’ve suffered through the same $hit show for the past 35 years that we have for the past twenty plus years, but whatever floats your boat…

 

[13thman]

job in Late 88, lookin back who would have been your dream three interviews/consecutive coaches to follow Coach for the job at IU?
Fit the Hoosier mold etc?
My three dream choices (Lookin back now how coaches have done since then)
Call #1: Rick Majerus 88-03 before health took him out.
Call #2: Thad Matta 04-12'
Call #3 Boy Wonder 12- retirement.

haha What a perfect wave my dream would've been.

BTW, Coach Knight would have been GREAT at New Mexico.

In 1988, Jim Crews would have been under high consideration.

 

[4IUSox2]

Recall this “saga” played out a week or 2 after graduation in May of ‘88 with CNN Headline Sports covering it every 30 minutes for a few days. IIRC, RMK had been fuming all winter that Ehrlich, who was in his first year on the job, hadn’t supported him publicly when he pulled the team off the floor vs the Soviets in November of ‘87.

 

[Harry Hondo]

In 1988, Jim Crews would have been under high consideration.

So IU might’ve lost elite status in the late 80’s, huh?

Majerus would’ve been a home run hire for IU in 1988.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Wow. What a thing to contemplate in 2023 😳

 

[13thman]

So IU might’ve lost elite status in the late 80’s, huh?

Majerus would’ve been a home run hire for IU in 1988.

Experts said Archie was a home run hire.

 

[UncleMark]

So IU might’ve lost elite status in the late 80’s, huh?

Majerus would’ve been a home run hire for IU in 1988.

Rick would have been great. He would have lived in the Union hotel and held court at his private table in the Tudor Room.

 

[hookyIU1990]

Rick would have been great. He would have lived in the Union hotel and held court at his private table in the Tudor Room.

Walking down Kirkwood to Nick's for his 2 Stroms and Biz fries a few times/week.

 

[UncleMark]

Walking down Kirkwood to Nick's for his 2 Stroms and Biz fries a few times/week.

He probably would have used a golf cart for the walk back up the hill.

 

[GeorgeStrait IU]

Wow. What a thing to contemplate in 2023 😳

Move on along then.

 

[iubud]

In 1988, Jim Crews would have been under high consideration.

Popular belief was that Crews went to UE to get head coaching experience and return to IU when RMK retired. Crews had some good years at UE. I belueve he got tired of recruiting and tried to build a team from players near Evansville or his hometown in Illinois.

My son attended Crews' basketball camp. He gave a speech to the campers and their parents at the end of the camp. He was SO boring to listen to. I imagined him in a player's living room and having to listen to him recruit.

 

[steelyvan]

in 1988, would IU have made a successful attempt to bring coach K to IU ?

 

[Brewskie]

in 1988, would IU have made a successful attempt to bring coach K to IU ?

Hmm interesting. Tho I think if Knight left as a result of him no longer being happy at IU, he would've banned any of his protege's from taking the job.

 

[GeorgeStrait IU]

Popular belief was that Crews went to UE to get head coaching experience and return to IU when RMK retired. Crews had some good years at UE. I belueve he got tired of recruiting and tried to build a team from players near Evansville or his hometown in Illinois.

My son attended Crews' basketball camp. He gave a speech to the campers and their parents at the end of the camp. He was SO boring to listen to. I imagined him in a player's living room and having to listen to him recruit.

I attended one of those in like 1992. And yes he was boring to listen to.

 

[Harry Hondo]

Experts said Archie was a home run hire.

Either you’re too young to know who Majerus was or you don’t follow college basketball. Majerus had a proven record of being a great coach, most notably at Utah. Comparing him to Archie Miller is laughable.

 

[13thman]

Either you’re too young to know who Majerus was or you don’t follow college basketball. Majerus had a proven record of being a great coach, most notably at Utah. Comparing him to Archie Miller is laughable.

I know who Majerus was. I'm just saying that what we know in 2023 isn't the same as what we knew in 1988. In 1988, Jim Crews was viewed as an up and coming young coach with a big up side. Hindsight says I'm wrong, but it was 1988.

 

[T.M.P.]

Either you’re too young to know who Majerus was or you don’t follow college basketball. Majerus had a proven record of being a great coach, most notably at Utah. Comparing him to Archie Miller is laughable.

Not in pretend land ... anything goes.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Either you’re too young to know who Majerus was or you don’t follow college basketball. Majerus had a proven record of being a great coach, most notably at Utah. Comparing him to Archie Miller is laughable.

In 1988 Rick Majerus had been head coach at Ball State for exactly one year.

 

[T.M.P.]

In 1988 Rick Majerus had been head coach at Ball State for exactly one year.

Pretend he wasn't ..

 

[wi_hoosier]

job in Late 88, lookin back who would have been your dream three interviews/consecutive coaches to follow Coach for the job at IU?
Fit the Hoosier mold etc?
My three dream choices (Lookin back now how coaches have done since then)
Call #1: Rick Majerus 88-03 before health took him out.
Call #2: Thad Matta 04-12'
Call #3 Boy Wonder 12- retirement.

haha What a perfect wave my dream would've been.

BTW, Coach Knight would have been GREAT at New Mexico.

Maybe the first call in 1988 should have been Rick Pitino.

 

[steelyvan]

Majerus may have had Ball State as the 2nd best team in the country at the end of the year that UNLV won the title.

 

[Victorbmyboy]

Majerus may have had Ball State as the 2nd best team in the country at the end of the year that UNLV won the title.

He coached at Ball state for two years…guess which year he didn’t coach them against UNLV?

 

[Victorbmyboy]

In 1988 Rick Majerus had been head coach at Ball State for exactly one year.

And they stunk.

 

[13thman]

Majerus may have had Ball State as the 2nd best team in the country at the end of the year that UNLV won the title.

Except he wasn't coaching there in 1990.

 

[ulrey]

I attended one of those in like 1992. And yes he was boring to listen to.

I attended his camps 5 straight years and thought the world of Jimmy Crews.. lol

 

[abraxis]

Experts said Archie was a home run hire.

They’re no longer called that.

 

[abraxis]

Wow. What a thing to contemplate in 2023 😳

And when we’re exhausted contemplating this, let’s stop to imagine IU’s academic standing if “Buzz“ Kurpius had been packaged sac full of testicles . Oh, what might have been…

 

[ulrey]

Pretend he wasn't ..

Pretend you’re not a flaming douche bag ..

 

[T.M.P.]

Pretend you’re not a flaming douche bag ..

Dumb.

 

[GeorgeStrait IU]

Dumb.

Pretend you will one day grow the balls to meet me in person. I've extended countless invitations E. Come on?

 

[T.M.P.]

Pretend you will one day grow the balls to meet me in person. I've extended countless invitations E. Come on?

Do you often think about other mens balls and then ask to meet them?

Weirdo ....

 

[Bloom.]

Pretend you will one day grow the balls to meet me in person. I've extended countless invitations E. Come on?

 

[Bloom.]

Rick Majerus is the right answer. Just like Brad Stevens was after IU fired Sampson.

When you know, you know.