Pretty bad when the team is losing Don Fischer!

[bsmitty08]

How would you know?

Bball games, football games, dinner nights out, best friends kid plays football there.

 

[demunn]

How would you know?

Apparently culture is measured by 11 year olds now. Why did I spend years studying org psychology.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Bball games, football games, dinner nights out, best friends kid plays football there.

So you have no idea what the culture is like. Attend for two semesters and then report back

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Apparently culture is measured by 11 year olds now. Why did I spend years studying org psychology.

To be fair he did walk across campus once

 

[demunn]

It's not that and it's not the politics and the whole knocking Bobby off his pedestal, removing the party school image Brand/McRobby initiative thing, make IU a better academic institution stuff. IU has a beautiful campus, but the idea of furthering IU as an academic institution to the detriment of its athletic programs is laughable. IU is and always has been, but for a handful of things, one of the lesser academic institutions in the conference. That we have a usually bad basketball team AND a historically bad football team is a bad athletic department thing, and all the passing the buck BS isn't going to change that. They all need to go or be removed from the decision making processes. Woody needs to resign, Dolson needs to do his job without his hands tied by Buckner or resign, and Buckner needs to let Dolson or whoever do their job, hire consulting firms, do proper hiring due diligence, etc. or resign. I respect Buckner, but he is one on the BOT, his title is not Basketball Czar

This is patently untrue in regards to academics. I can assure you that in the late 80s

- The music school was on par with Julliard
- Kelley was Top 25
- SPEA was 1 or 2 in the nation
- Sociology
- Biology/Pre-Med
- Psychology top 10
- Journalism top 10
- Foreign Languages top 20

Don't have the patience to look it up but I would bet we were clearly competing behind Northwestern and UM at the time.

 

[demunn]

To be fair he did walk across campus once

It probably rained that day...

 

[benhyoung14]

Yeah. A month ago, I was more engaged with the team than I have been since 2012. Now, I just want ot to be over. What sucks is they will probably give him another year. Hopefully May is still around.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

This is patently untrue in regards to academics. I can assure you that in the late 80s

- The music school was on par with Julliard
- Kelley was Top 25
- SPEA was 1 or 2 in the nation
- Sociology
- Biology/Pre-Med
- Psychology top 10
- Journalism top 10
- Foreign Languages top 20

Don't have the patience to look it up but I would bet we were clearly competing behind Northwestern and UM at the time.

I hacked for six months so I won’t quite but most of those are still highly ranked. Informatics and other tech disciplines highly rated as well.

 

[Chicago-bound Hoosier]

I asked the same question a few days ago. Could it be negative nancy whiners and constant critics?

Negative Nancies Whine and Cheese Club.

 

[hoosier_est_1984]

IU has an odd culture for sure. I took my 11 year old son around campus and he was like “people are weird here”

Can you elaborate more on this? What exactly do you think he found weird? Genuinely curious

 

[bsmitty08]

Can you elaborate more on this? What exactly do you think he found weird? Genuinely curious

Dudes wearing dresses

 

[PanDatrick]

Dudes wearing dresses

I promise you that if you go to 99% of college campuses, if you are there long enough, you will find someone doing this.

It isn't an IU thing. It's a generational thing.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Dudes wearing dresses

Never seen that but I am sure it happens. Hardly describes the culture of IU or anywhere else

 

[ams66]

Never seen that but I am sure it happens. Hardly describes the culture of IU or anywhere else

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[hoosier_est_1984]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Idk bout that, sounds pretty gay...

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Academics haven’t improved.

That’s not really true. A lot of alums posting on this board wouldn’t have the credentials to get admitted these days. That might be true of me as well.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Of course not

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Idk bout that, sounds pretty gay...

Why are you bringing DANC into this conversation?

 

[abraxis]

IU has an odd culture for sure. I took my 11 year old son around campus and he was like “people are weird here”

What day was that? I was practicing mime skits in Dunn Meadow last week.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Dudes wearing dresses

Did you attend IU?

 

[Sobchak_Security]

Jeffries made Davis look good like TJD made Woody look good

Don’t underplay what Fife and Coverdale meant to that success

 

[Tammany Hall]

IU/Bloomington is a pretty normal Midwest college town.

 

[demunn]

I recall there being a Meat Poet in Dunn Meadow who would recite poetry and throw meat at people if I recall correctly, it's been a long time.

 

[hickorytree1]

Jeffries made Davis look good like TJD made Woody look good

You continue to amaze with these idiotic comments. You could say that about every coach in college or pros. So, May, Isiah, Alford, etc. made Knight look good, right?

 

[gator mcCluskey]

Did you attend IU?

During my time (98–02) I can genuinely say I never encountered that or anything close to it. Never sought anything like that out either though. I don’t doubt it was out there then. Not as if it was a particularly conservative era at that time…

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

During my time (98–02) I can genuinely say I never encountered that or anything close to it. Never sought anything like that out either though. I don’t doubt it was out there then. Not as if it was a particularly conservative era at that time…

My male RA in ‘91 routinely wore a skirt. He looked like Jesus.

 

[T.M.P.]

We all deserve better!

Entitlement ....

 

[twenty02]

IU has an odd culture for sure. I took my 11 year old son around campus and he was like “people are weird here”

Compared to what? You spend a lot of time on college campuses? Embracing a bit of weird is a good thing in life. Particularly in college.

It's no Liberty University, but it's not Berkeley either.

Maybe you'd feel more comfortable at Purdue where everyone just stares at their shoes (probably to avoid the hideous scenery)

 

[stollcpa]

That’s not really true. A lot of alums posting on this board wouldn’t have the credentials to get admitted these days. That might be true of me as well.

That doesn’t make the academics better.

 

[ams66]

That doesn’t make the academics better.

The admissions standards are lower today. Have to be to keep the enrollment numbers climbing.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

The admissions standards are lower today. Have to be to keep the enrollment numbers climbing.

That’s 100% false regarding admissions.

 

[IndyAuthor]

There was a moment in 2005 when my cousin, who is a casual basketball fan, but a very, very smart person mentioned to me that we (fans) would rue the day we fired MD. At the time, it sounded like the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard ... have you watched the weave and heave? Sadly, I think he was right. Had MD not needed a heat shield to set foot in the building and been given 2-3 years to fix it, it could have been fixed with time and better assistants, the recruiting was there. I was wrong, but this situation is different. MD was fired because IU was becoming well, not RMK's IU, but that was a whole lot better than IU not looking like a D1 team with the talent we have, this is that and sorry to say I think Woodson needs to go. MD was doing on the job training, was the lowest paid coach in the big 10 and was trying and learning. Woodson is paid a king's ransom for much worse results, poor roster construction, and he doesn't want to learn anything, neither do the players, and it's time to part ways.

You and your cousin have a weird memory.

Mike Davis was not fired. He was not forced to resign because of the losing streak. He had already planned to quit BEFORE the season went off the rails. At the time of the initial discussion with the University President, IU was still ranked 22nd, still in a tie for 2nd in the Big 10, and had beaten 3 ranked teams plus Purdue. Of their 5 losses at the time of his decision to quit, 2 were against ranked opponents.

"Indiana president Adam Herbert said he had planned to wait until after the season ended to evaluate whether the 45-year-old Davis would return as coach next year, but Davis wouldn't wait.

Herbert said Davis initiated discussions before the Connecticut game on Feb. 4. They met again afterward and eventually agreed on an $800,000 buyout - a hefty price for an athletics department that has run a multimillion dollar deficit in recent years. Davis was scheduled to earn about $800,000 with outside income over the final two years of his contract." ~Associated Press, originally published by the IndyStar.

This all went down in 2006.

 

[dbmhoosier]

Yikes.

 

[bsmitty08]

Compared to what? You spend a lot of time on college campuses? Embracing a bit of weird is a good thing in life. Particularly in college.

It's no Liberty University, but it's not Berkeley either.

Maybe you'd feel more comfortable at Purdue where everyone just stares at their shoes (probably to avoid the hideous scenery)

I would say Purdue has a healthier culture than Iu

 

[Vern Pain]

Bball games, football games, dinner nights out, best friends kid plays football there.

I'm on campus every single day. I'm missing out somehow. Direct me to where these Pride and BLM flags are located.

 

[bsmitty08]

I'm on campus every single day. I'm missing out somehow. Direct me to where these Pride and BLM flags are located.

Student union for one

 

[Vern Pain]

Student union for one

Tell you what, I'll walk by the IMU in the morning to see this horror in person. Anywhere else? You made it sound like it's quite pervasive.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Tell you what, I'll walk by the IMU in the morning to see this horror in person. Anywhere else? You made it sound like it's quite pervasive.

It hurt his vagina

 

[Vern Pain]

It hurt his vagina

He seems to have an affinity for Purdue. I don't think they upset his sensibilities the way IU does.

 

[Tammany Hall]

The union is just a bunch of kids eating and studying + hotel visitors. It’s uneventful.

Some of you need to get out more.