As someone who graduated HS in Indiana in 2003 and played 4 years of varsity basketball while also being a lifelong Hoosier fan, it didn’t matter.
The skipping class and bad grades issues would have doomed Sampson eventually.
I was coaching AAU ball at the time and I assure #12 still mattered to HS players, HS coaches and Parents. A lot.
That doesn’t matter. Same place different coach. So why Steve again?
Yup ... opinions show a persons priorities .. and bias.
Why? He literally hadn’t done much up until that point. He shouldn’t have been a candidate then and wasn’t. He was a candidate in 2007 but….we know why he wasn’t hired. The rest is history. Some of this is timing issues.
Yep, they cared when he beat our ass in the Big Ten tournament. And when Davis was hiding in his basement a couple years later, instead of coaching the team.
But then the scandal happened. That killed his chance.
Still amazes me how many IU fans fail to understand that the Pierce thing makes Alford as coach a non starter forever.
People dismiss the timeline too. They wanted him until the scandal. Even then some still wanted him but no way he was getting hired at IU after that.
New Mexico?(went to the second round once) Yeah. He should’ve stayed there. We are talking about him at IU. IU isn’t going to hire a guy that had that resume. Just be honest…we know why. Do you?
I don’t know why Kelvin went off the deep end with his risky recruits. It’s too bad.
He just picked up win number 676 last night. Pretty good for a non-starter.
It’s a message board. We do discussion here. 😂
Good Lord!!! We DO know what he would've done! He was at UCLA, he had top flight recruiting classes, did nothing, and got fired! UCLA at the time, before that time, and since that time, has had more program success, and similar high expectations. In fact, even conceding that there's LOWER expectations, strangely, with the UCLA job from the fan base and alumni than here, it's even more damning. Please, for the love of God, give the Alford talk a rest, for once and for all! He's not coming, and he would've failed miserably if he had.
100%. He’s borderline too old now as well.
In his 33rd season of head coach experience with a 65.7% winning percentage (Dusty May at 63.6% in his fifth year). Alford, a former guard, knows the motion offense, knows shooting and could likely recruit in state - and continue to retain that 'Knight fan base'.
Sounds like he’d fit in perfect at IU because he’s not elite. I don’t think we can get elite, ugh
Nobody runs knight motion. 2 out 3 in. It’s easily defended now. Thats why he was starting to abandon it. Knight was building a monster in that final class at IU for that reason. Just never got to coach them.
He stated a handful of times he was devising and tinkering with a new offense. Don't recall if he initiated it at TT or not.
