It's telling me that everything at IU isn't as cracked up as you want it to be. We won't cheat or let things slide like Kentucky, North Carolina and a few others. It tells me the Big Ten is a beast, much more so than the Big 12 or SEC, for example. It is harder to do well at a place like IU than it is Kentucky or Kansas. It's telling me our facilities may not be up to snuff compared to others. Yes, they are better than they used to be, but when I hear our fans talk about AH like it is best thing since sliced bread, well it tells me a lot of our fans haven't taken the time to get out of the state of Indiana.
That doesn't mean we can't be special or even moments of elite level program, but it is going to take a certain kind of coach that isn't willing to take shortcuts, is ok dealing with a fanbase stuck in another century, knows the facilities are good, but not great. Knows the conference is very difficult and extremely difficult to get through year in and year out. And ultimately knows that the administration will demands kids get an education, go to school, will not open up fluff majors or otherwise grease the skids as other schools do. As a result, that is limiting the type of coach that is going to come to IU. There will be no Coach Cal's, Coach Pitinos, or some of the sketchier coaches that have all kinds of success and the setup is done at the university and athletic department level to make that happen.