Comments on: The Morning After: That’s that

By: vertical Jump

vertical Jump — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:50:56 +0000

Agreed. Great Read.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:51:14 +0000

Strike that, they've both been released. So they've been removed.

By: BrianK

BrianK — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:58:45 +0000

Love it lol that would be awesome

By: Kelin Blab

Kelin Blab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:44:18 +0000

bz….I can see pearl on the sideline sporting a Plaid Jacket luring bob out of his bunker and renaming the court or the new facility after him…..whether he is there or not……

By: Kelin Blab

Kelin Blab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:42:14 +0000

Chicity….ITH has saved me some cash from joinging peegs or nation, good websites, but I get the same info here and some helluva bloggers who run this thing too. Good guys who post on here also……the amazing thing about Indiana basketball is, it is year around, once a coach is hired we will be on here thrilled and singing his praises or bitchin' about greeny and the blue ribbon panel…..

Then we will look at the recruiting class, summer teams, etc. It just keeps rollin'

By: BTOWN40

BTOWN40 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:06:03 +0000

That was one of the best post ever, worthy of a pulitzer prize. very classy

By: dabig

dabig — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:51:16 +0000

I can't blame the kids, because they're kids. Sampson is the adult, and he blew the best gig of his life.
It was a hard season. But, you can't keep a good program down. It may take a few years, but we'll be back.

By: bz

bz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:14:32 +0000

great post e. i will disagree with you on one point. i don't know that i'm angry with the players, but i am close. the reason is that no matter how difficult things got (and the phone thing and ks leaving WERE difficult), i can understand the players not playing as well, but i can't accept their obvious lack of effort. over the last eight games there were too many examples of a lack of hustle and too many players whose body language gave away the thoughts in their heads. when things get bad, the basketball court is supposed to be the one place where they can forget their problems for 40 minutes and just do what they do best. i equally blame dd for not doing whatever it takes to get the guys to play with an "us against the world" mentality, but at the end of the day it's the kids that have to give it their all on the court, not dd.

i'm really hoping for a head coach who is a supreme motivator; someone who can come in and get the players to buy in to a "we're not rebuilding, we're already good" mentality. (is it a sign of nerdness if i used a semicolon on a blog comment)? i can't get visions of bruce pearl walking in to a recruit's family room in a crimson sport coat out of my head.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:37:24 +0000

Thanks ChiCity. We launched back in June and we're planning on keeping this thing going as long as the community enjoys reading.

By: ChiCityHoosier

ChiCityHoosier — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:35:58 +0000

not sure how long ITH has been around, but i became a religious visitor this season and this post is by far one of the best. keep up the amazing work, PostmanE, PostmanR, and BigA. i'll keep reading (and praying for a great coaching catch and an awesome 2007-08 season). cheers.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:25:08 +0000

Kelin,

Until they announce for another school, we'll probably leave them as IU signees.

By: Kelin Blab

Kelin Blab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:20:00 +0000

The longer IU waits, the less likely it is Keno Davis, Anthony Grant, Scott Drew, Brad Brownell……and the longer it smells like Sean Miller, Bruce Pearl…..and Izzo maybe? I like it…..

Big A…..are you guys waiting and wishing on taking down Devin Ebanks as and T. Holloway as recruits until the sign with someone else?….Kelin…..

By: BrianK

BrianK — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:04:41 +0000

The depressing thing is I think back to being at Hoosier Hysteria dreaming of how this season was supposed to be and now to be sitting here with how it actually turned out. I can't wait for rumors etc to start flying even more abotu a new coach and hopefully we land one in the next 3-4 weeks as soon as the tourney is over.

By: Raymond219

Raymond219 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:59:53 +0000

Fantastic post. This University now needs to prove to its fans and supporters that for once we can make an intelligent hire other than Terry Hoeppner and forget our Cameron, Dinardo, Biil Lynch Davis & Samspson decisions. (I cite football to prove how inept our athletic department is)

IU for once needs to do EVERYTHING they can to get their man and restore morale and our program. Remember, we hired Sampson after we went after other coaches and wouldn't do what it took to get them. THIS TIME WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING IT TAKES TO GET OUR MAN, OUR #1 CHOICE.

By: JerryCT

JerryCT — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:57:13 +0000

Is it me or can you look at the current WSU team and see IU next year ?

Weaver – played by Ellis
Baynes – played by Thomas
Cowgill- played by Holman
Low – played by Bassett
Rochestie – played by Crawford

By: JerryCT

JerryCT — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:53:23 +0000

All the players and maybe even Gordon will stay when the new coach is announced and has a chance to talk to the team. He will also have recruits.

Clearly IU is aggressively trying to return to championship quality 1) hiring KS, 2) building new facility etc . As such only a tier #1 coach will be hired like Bennett, Wright, Pearl, Miller, Few. We can forget the tier#2 coaches like Grant, Davis, Brownell, Drew.

I think the players come back with a " can't wait " attitude and we are back to winning and perhaps even playing a major schedule for a change.

By: xxBHxx

xxBHxx — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:32:15 +0000

Great article and sum up of this season E. Look foward to next years morning after sessions.

Good work to all ITH staff.

By: Kelin Blab

Kelin Blab — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:16:09 +0000

Good work E, I wish you has slammed sampson some more but I will take what I can get…..this was my most difficulty IU season EVER.

07-08……..slogan……….”Failure is just one phone call away”
07-08 number 2…..slogan………”At least we beat Purdue”

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:35:37 +0000

Excellent work as always E. Enjoyed reading the Morning After all season.

By: Willis

Willis — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:29:46 +0000

Amen. Great post, great slogan.