Highbaugh is Tre Roberson’s grandpa.

Best. Exchange. Ever.

ive always considered scout and rivals better and more accurate when projecting class strengths.. when you put our 2012 class next to others who are higher up on espn, you see that our class has very good talent at every single position. i dont see this with other classes. add this talent wit CZ, Will, and VO. i believe that this class will be ranked higher by the time next season approaches bc the hype for signing day causes a constant teeter totter effect in rankings. michigan state is ahead of us solely bc gary harris is ranked so high. our class is clearly better than the one theyve collected. i see espn having us back in the top 5 by march. after our boys win state championships and dominate league play… NOTE: word is that on FEBRUARY 4TH there will be whats called the “IU Showcase” at lawrence central high school. it will feature teams of the 2012 and 2014 recruiting classes FACING OFF AAINST EACH OTHER!!!! If this is true then i hope i see many of you there… they may need to move this to hinkle or conseco… G.I.D.D.Y. !!!

G McGinnis, Ed Daniels, Bootsy White, Steve Downing beat the varsity

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the idea that you’re trying to compare a contemporary college basketball team to the team, nay, the BRETHREN that was the BROTHERHOOD that called themselves The Mighty Ducks. The Mighty Ducks were always counted out, no matter how many championships they won, international or otherwise, yet they met their naysayers head on. They didn’t always have the most talent, they faced constant adversity, and they had a kid who never actually learned how to stop (but still found his way onto a Team USA all-star group). But no matter the odds, they ALWAYS won at the end. Whether it was the Hawks, the entire country of Iceland, or the varsity hockey team at their high school, they found a way to not only meet their enemy on the field of battle, but also to send their enemy back to his mother crying for a juice box. They have a name for those kinds of people, Mr. Hickle, they’re called heroes. Theirs is an inspiring story, one that I will tell my grandchildren in my waning days of life. I plan on my last words being “Ducks Fly Together.” You sully their saga, the very saga that’s carried on the winds of the North as Minnesota’s children sleep at night. You’re going to compare these players to the Bash Brothers? THE BASH BROTHERS?! How can we put such unreasonable expectations on mere youths fresh out of high school? And yes, I’m aware that the Bash Brothers were supposed to be like 14, but anyone could see that they had wisdom beyond their years, wisdom that came in the form of heavy metal music and sweet bandanas. I merely ask you, for the love of all that is good, don’t attempt to pressure this “Movement” coming to IU into becoming what The Mighty Ducks became for America, and the world: icons…and legends. I live for the Cream and Crimson, and I am just as excited for these young men to get to Bloomington as you are, but I’m sorry, sir, I cannot sit idly by as you attempt to prematurely weave a tale that you consider on par with the epic trilogy that was The Mighty Ducks. Maybe one day our Hoosiers can look back at their journey and say that they too flew together high in the sky along with great fictional teams like the Ducks, The Cleveland Indians from Major League and The Bad News Bears. Until they prove that they belong there, however, I say hold your tongue. Now watch this video, and think about what you’ve said here today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyVF1glhAfk&feature=related

That is pretty amazing but not hard believe for those of us that actually seen him play in college and the pros.l

As I was reading your comment I thought a “like” was probably in order, then read the last part about GH not getting ran over by a train but rather a “BUSS” and clicking the like button was automatic.

OH REALLY, TEMPEREDEXPECTATIONS?

Interesting argument.  You claim that the Ducks were facing longer odds than our Hoosiers yet you still claim that the Ducks of the first movie are a better team than the 2010-11 Hoosiers?  Get your facts straight.  Because the Hoosiers are returning more players, they are facing a very similar challenge to the Ducks of the second movie.  Also, don’t discount the fact that Jared Sullinger is a future pro very reminiscent of Gunner Stahl.

Furthermore, you’re forgetting the comedic value of our new recruits.  Much like in D2, all of our newcomers have a quirky attribute that seems to be disadvantageous, but turns out to help us in the end.

Come on “Timmy Hickle” clearly the comparison between the Hoosiers and The Mighty Ducks 2 is laughable at best. First of all, we all know that in the Mighty Ducks 2, the Ducks that joined the American all-stars formulated by Team USA Inc. were already winners; Coach Bombay had taken these Minneapolis ruffians and made them into a [pee-wee] championship team in the first movie (we all know that they won on an epic shootout goal by Charlie Conway when he was tripped on a breakaway goal as time expired in regulation…duh). I love Crean as much as the next guy, but if Bombay had finished at the bottom of the pee-wee hockey standings like the Hoosiers have in the Big Ten the last few years, I doubt he would have been asked by Team USA to coach the Junior Olympics team in D2. Not only that, but the Hoosiers will lose only three scholarship players at the end of this year, while the young and gunning Ducks lost 5 players in the sequel (Peter Mark, Tammy Duncan, Tommy Duncan, Terry Hall and Dave Karp). This obviously put the Ducks at a much greater disadvantage when they faced juggernaut Iceland, led by sharpshooter and future NHL all-star Gunner Stahl. Finally, I haven’t seen any of the Hoosier players skate, but they can’t be the Mighty Ducks because they’re playing BASKETBALL not HOCKEY!

All I’m saying is that before we start comparing our Hoosiers to such legendary teams as the Junior Olympic Champion Mighty Ducks, let’s temper our expectations. Until I see Adam Banks suiting up in the candy stripes, I’m not gonna start putting those unneeded expectations of Olympic gold on our Hoosiers. 

Didn’t know Highbaugh was on that intramural team.  Makes sense, though; if memory serves, he also was from Washington High School (Indy), like McGinnis and Downing.

The early ’60s was before even my time, but the ’69-’70 varsity team was said to be only the third-best team on campus, after the freshman team and the McGinnis-Downing intramural team (both were nonpredictors, so they couldn’t be on the freshman team).  Not sure whether the varsity and freshmen played a scrimmage that year.

There was a year (1969?) when the IU varsity hoop squad was the third best team on campus.  The best team was the freshman team.  Frosh couldn’t play varsity then.  

2nd best was an intramural team with Larry Highbaugh (kick return man on the FB team and state champ in the 100/220 sprints and George McGinnis & Steve Downing, who were freshmen but couldn’t play on the frosh team because they were ‘academic non-predictors’. 

Or, maybe that intramural team was the best team…not the freshman team.  In any case, the Hurryin Hoosiers coached by Lou Watson were No. 3 on campus. 

I don’t know that I agree with the “all true one-and-done” aspect of your post.  It ended up being the “Big 3” of Howard, Webber, and Rose.  King and Jackson weren’t quite as good as they were as evidenced by their NBA careers.