@ams66 My oldest is a senior in HS... he's an IU fan, but I'd say a bit of a fair weather IU fan. He jumped on the football bandwagon hard the last couple years, wears IU gear all the time now. He still reposts basketball stuff from time to time, and still refers to IU bball in the possessive "We and our" ways. He's going to play at an NAIA school next year... but I suspect if if IU were interested in him as a walk on, he'd drop everything and drive to Bloomington that day.
My other kids... they became big IU football fans, but I'd say they really don't care a ton. Kids nowadays, most of them anyways, aren't nearly as interested or loyal to specific teams. Whatever they can follow on shorter youtube clips, reels, etc... And to the larger point, IU basketball hasn't really given people born in the late 90s or so, on, much of anything to cheer for.
I feel like I've accomplished something with even one of my kids being any sort of active IU bball fan. Football has helped the whole thing immensely.
my older son attending Purdue doesn't help :). my oldest daughter went to IU so we've been an IU family cause of that. my other daughter went to VU. Who knows where this guy will go :).
@hoosiers94 I am greedy. Let's hope IU is great at both sports. Heck, even throw soccer in there along with women's basketball. May the swimmers swim swift and the divers dive like their lives depend on it.
While I regarded God as a tyrant I thought my sin a trifle; But when I knew Him to be my Father, then I mourned that I could ever have kicked against Him. When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.” C. H. Spurgeon
@hoosiers94 I am greedy. Let's hope IU is great at both sports. Heck, even throw soccer in there along with women's basketball. May the swimmers swim swift and the divers dive like their lives depend on it.
same here. And having played soccer at IU I will second that one as well. My wife was a gymnast there as well
Mashburn provided some nice commentary otherwise. I thought he did a good job, and I'd rather listen to him than Nate Burleson.
How's Nate Burleson figure into College hoops anyway?
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan. POTFB
I doubt the Lord cares much if we win a title versus other schools. Maybe, we are a blue blood after all.
On the positive media side, Chuck Barkley said during the broadcast just before last nights' Texas - NC State game, to Jamal Mashburn, that playing at Kentucky Rupp Arena, and at Indiana was a privilege. Sure, he said it 'when I was there" and referenced Bobby Knight, but any pub is good pub.
Barkley only played at IU when he was trying out for the 1984 US Olympic team (he was roly poly fat and got cut, even though he was clearly one of the best players there).
Barkley only played at IU when he was trying out for the 1984 US Olympic team (he was roly poly fat and got cut, even though he was clearly one of the best players there).
Yeah, I also couldn't figure out any time Barkley may have played there with Auburn.
I remember the press reports out of camp about how Barkley was dominating. Then Coach Knight didn't even pick him. I thought that was cold. I saw some interviews with Barkley where he says he should've made that team. But others where he says no hard feelings and its up to the coach to pick his team.
@hooky How does he figure into the morning news? I’m thinking because of the bean counters. They love him…for budgetary reasons.
Ouch. Probably something to that though.
The dude is everywhere and the only one that makes sense is on the CBS NFL pregame.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan. POTFB
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan. POTFB
