I was referring to the ENTIRE athletic department. They compete, at a very high level, in almost every sport men's and women's.
Ignoring the ridiculous notion of leaving/getting kicked out of the Big Ten (we are middle of the pack in terms of total national championships and as far as I can tell, we were 30th nationally last year in terms of revenue, ahead of Illinois, Rutgers, Maryland, and Purdue), we are NOT even adding seats in the SEZ. It's an expansion of the training facilities which will free up room for the locker room to be expanded. Glass has said if capacity goes up at all, it will be in the dozens from a club seating area. That 5000 seat figure is complete BS that you are making up. Also, the funds for facilities projects are raised through private donations. If you want money to go to something specific, write a check.
The basketball team less than 4 years ago were ranked #1 for over half the season and ended up with a #1 seed in the tournament. This would be the same as making the football tournament so IU basketball has been relevant in the last few years where football has never been close to that.
Blinders? You are suggesting that we "quit" the B1G. We aren't going to get kicked out. If anyone was going to get kicked out based simply on 5 years of poor athletic performances and lack of revenue, it would probably be PU. But that is a completely ridiculous scenario as well. We aren't going to lose every game for the rest of eternity. The sun will come up tomorrow. It's going to be ok.
I want Crean gone as well but I am not on hear crying about how bad IU sports every day so why not do yourself a favor and take a break form IU sports if it makes you this miserable. I guess the year before when we beat UK the number 1 team and going to the sweet 16 that year was a bleep as well.
Kansas was nearly an independent. When it looked like the Big 12 was folding they went searching for a new home and couldn't get a spot.
No, what he is saying is the big football schools across the country are going to form their own super conferences and they will have their own title game. The rest of the schools will be schedule fillers
Again IU has more than 2 sports and we are very competitive in about every thing but football. Stop looking at every thing in the right now and look at the big picture because IU has been one of the best sports programs though the years of the big ten. It was only about 3 or 4 years ago that IU came in second in the country in men sports but you don't want to see positive things. Yes basketball has been down compared to our history but we are still considered one of the top basketball programs in the big ten and the country. If IU basketball is so bad then why are we still on ESPN and CBS a lot and as much as any other conference team.
Or they're MSU students and don't have the capac
Notre Dame is to college football what IU is to college basketball right now: A storied program trying to right the ship.
The sign of a good AD is the OVERALL performance of all its teams, not just the money sports. Other than the national championship game last year, what has WI done other than lose high profile bball and bowl games? Hell, it was about time they got far in the tourney. Now Ryan's leaving and their football program has been in slow decline since Alvarez left. Gotta wonder why Bielema left for a lateral job at Arkansas and Ryan is retiring after a title game? Must be that amazing WI atleyic dept...
"Don't go off the deep end". That's precisely what you've been doing since the final seconds ticked off Saturday. I know you're disappointed by the loss, as is everyone, but you're losing your mind over stuff like leaving the Big Ten when it's never going to happen. Go find another school to support and leave IU in your rear view mirror.
Everything you post is negative. My guess is your a long suffering Boiler fan because no self respecting IU fan would trash the program like you do.
The reality is IU is in the top half of the Conf in mens national championships. That is fact.
I get why people are losing (or out of) patience with Crean, but we're a Top 15 team preseason. We're hardly in the tank.
Assembly Hall is fine. Recruits don't care that people in the balcony have poor views. It's being renovated, we have an excellent practice facility, and excellent academic study areas. It's still one of the biggest college basketball arenas in the country. Wisconsin's is bigger, but MSU's only holds around14-15,000. We are in the top 10 nationally in attendance (6th this past year) pretty much every year. Even with our football struggles, we bring in money. We aren't last in the conference in that department, despite your ramblings.
I disagree about when hiring Crean because of all the sanctions so it was going to be hard to get anyone to leave their job for IU. Actually when he was hired Crean was a pretty good choice and I even remember when UK had a opening after they were looking at Crean but hire Gillespie
Actually on the sweet 16 if you look at IU's history we make the sweet 16 on average every 4 years.
Basketball might have been down a little but in the last 13 years we have went to 1 national championship game and 3 sweet 16's with 12 big ten championships. For over 90% of the programs that would be a very good stretch but this was during our down years.
Why do you still watch if you are that unhappy and they make you so miserable. I hope you are not this negative in your real life because t would be terrible being around a person this miserable. this is sports and it really does not mean a thing in life so why get so bent out of shape over a game where you have no control over the outcome. Also why not wait and see how well MSU and UW does once Ryan and Izzo are gone and see if they can sustain this short term success. Remember not that long ago that both of these basketball and football programs that you talk about were very mediocre to bad so you just have to wait and see if they sustain that.
Here's some FACTS:
Stupid, erroneous, irrelevant comment. If you don't like soccer, don't pay any attention to it. If you feel the need to interject, say something to add to the conversation.
Thank you for pointing that out...thought I was the only one whi remembered....
I remember when both were laughing stocks of the conference in both sports and our basketball team had a winning steak over UW of over 30 games.
