Is officially dead! I really believe there is not a coach out there that can fix this mess! Friggin Northwestern owns our ass
Incompetent administration hires shit coaches. Rinse and repeat. A GM isn’t going to change this mess.
Incompetent administration hires shit coaches. Rinse and repeat. A GM isn’t going to change this mess.
nope Not with DD on the bench
Come on, Northwestern is near the Chicago talent. They have every advantage over our little program.
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@hoosiers94….that’s 9-11 since the 8-0 start to the season with a 4 game losing streak and now a 3 game losing streak! Good times!
Is officially dead! I really believe there is not a coach out there that can fix this mess! Friggin Northwestern owns our ass
I am becoming more of a football guy now even though I love IU hoops we just seem to always make the wrong hires. It probably all went downhill with the sampson hire because at that point we were still able to attract top coaches. Sampson was a great coach but too risky and if we had hired belien instead like we could have things would be so much different now.
I was worried about this game. Before the season I thought IU would be about like a typical NW team this year. Except head to head with Northwestern Collins was going to be ready to compete. He is hardened to tough contests. DeVries is not.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel on DeVries but the chances of making the tourney now are a lot less.
As many have intimated, IU basketball and Nebraska football are twins ... former powers that don't fully comprehend reality. If IU hoops were on "Shark Tank," no one would invest. (Well, maybe Cuban since he's an alum, but that would be the only reason.)
How the holy f--- can one person transform a program that had 100 years of negative momentum, yet the university's flagship sports program shits the bed year after year after year? Riddle me that.
We also make the wrong hires when we could make the right ones. I cannot speak of the current one but may, beilein, pitino, etc all guys we could of had in the past.
I was worried about this game. Before the season I thought IU would be about like a typical NW team this year. Except head to head with Northwestern Collins was going to be ready to compete. He is hardened to tough contests. DeVries is not.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel on DeVries but the chances of making the tourney now are a lot less.
we aren't making the tourney this year.
As many have intimated, IU basketball and Nebraska football are twins ... former powers that don't fully comprehend reality. If IU hoops were on "Shark Tank," no one would invest. (Well, maybe Cuban since he's an alum, but that would be the only reason.)
How the holy f--- can one person transform a program that had 100 years of negative momentum, yet the university's flagship sports program shits the bed year after year after year? Riddle me that.
NIL has changed everything. A coach can win anywhere. Why risk taking the job at Nebraska or IU ? IU fans should see the obvious but they don’t. Being Nebraska football or IU basketball is a negative. If a coach can win anywhere, why risk going to a program that could kill their career? You mention “transform” a program. If you are the captain of a ship would you rather be given a budget of $20 million to hire a crew to change the direction of the titanic, or some other vessel that hasn’t even left the dock?
As nuts as it sounds, IU football offered something that IU basketball could never offer: A clean slate to build things.
Nebraska still sells out in football, with nearly 92,000 a game. We had about 11,000 in the Hall recently, and that might be generous. Plenty of empties in the lower half of C, and our coats never had it so good. Our fanbase is worn out from neglect that’s two and a half decades long, with no end in sight. Cignetti proved that it all starts with leadership. Until we have that, there’s little chance of sustained improvement.As many have intimated, IU basketball and Nebraska football are twins ... former powers that don't fully comprehend reality. If IU hoops were on "Shark Tank," no one would invest. (Well, maybe Cuban since he's an alum, but that would be the only reason.)
How the holy f--- can one person transform a program that had 100 years of negative momentum, yet the university's flagship sports program shits the bed year after year after year? Riddle me that.
NIL has changed everything. A coach can win anywhere. Why risk taking the job at Nebraska or IU ? IU fans should see the obvious but they don’t. Being Nebraska football or IU basketball is a negative. If a coach can win anywhere, why risk going to a program that could kill their career? You mention “transform” a program. If you are the captain of a ship would you rather be given a budget of $20 million to hire a crew to change the direction of the titanic, or some other vessel that hasn’t even left the dock?
As nuts as it sounds, IU football offered something that IU basketball could never offer: A clean slate to build things.
Dolson: "What's your vision for the program?"
DeVries: "Shoot a shitload of threes, play no defense, and fail to rebound."
Dolson: "You're hired!"
to me it would sound more like a grift, something similar to a Blue Chips scene
Nebraska still sells out in football, with nearly 92,000 a game. We had about 11,000 in the Hall recently, and that might be generous. Plenty of empties in the lower half of C, and our coats never had it so good. Our fanbase is worn out from neglect that’s two and a half decades long, with no end in sight. Cignetti proved that it all starts with leadership. Until we have that, there’s little chance of sustained improvement.As many have intimated, IU basketball and Nebraska football are twins ... former powers that don't fully comprehend reality. If IU hoops were on "Shark Tank," no one would invest. (Well, maybe Cuban since he's an alum, but that would be the only reason.)
How the holy f--- can one person transform a program that had 100 years of negative momentum, yet the university's flagship sports program shits the bed year after year after year? Riddle me that.
NIL has changed everything. A coach can win anywhere. Why risk taking the job at Nebraska or IU ? IU fans should see the obvious but they don’t. Being Nebraska football or IU basketball is a negative. If a coach can win anywhere, why risk going to a program that could kill their career? You mention “transform” a program. If you are the captain of a ship would you rather be given a budget of $20 million to hire a crew to change the direction of the titanic, or some other vessel that hasn’t even left the dock?
As nuts as it sounds, IU football offered something that IU basketball could never offer: A clean slate to build things.
Look at fb and tell me who is in charge?
now, look back at the Woodson period . Who was in charge?
IU basketball is like a giant octopus with different tentacles of control pulling at the coach. IU fans are too blind to see it. Think about it: day one we get Woodson, and Fife and Matta? Is that a head coach in control? Contrast that to FB where our head coach starts from a clean slate and brings in all of his people. He is in control. IMO the Matta Fife thing only scratched the surface. I think those different tentacles were pulling at all levels. maybe hood - shifino was controlled by one, maybe Ware another. Maybe Dolson and Buckner and Hoosiers fanatics and blah, blah, blah.
point is, we need the coach to be the octopus. What Cig did with IU football would have never been allowed to happen with basketball. And it’s why IU has struggled. It’s not about the hire, it’s about the JOB.