ChisAto
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Post by ChisAto on Mar 28, 2006 15:24:13 GMT -5
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Post by detroitbasketball on Mar 28, 2006 15:39:06 GMT -5
...not that horrible. His Oklahoma teams have had a tendency to go cold late and are prone to early upset losses in the NCAA Tournament.
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Buzz Killington
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Post by Buzz Killington on Mar 28, 2006 15:47:00 GMT -5
Crap! I just lost a lot of money. Why did I bet on Crews to Indiana?
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Post by detroitbasketball on Mar 28, 2006 15:56:39 GMT -5
Why did you bet on ANYONE to Indiana...it's a friggin coaching search, not the Super Bowl.
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Jami
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Post by Jami on Mar 28, 2006 16:29:01 GMT -5
You know what this means, right?
In 3 years IU will have more blatant NCAA violations than you can count on your fingers and toes! Yipee for NCAA sanctions!
On a serious note...so much for getting an IU guy, huh?
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sep
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Post by sep on Mar 28, 2006 17:12:06 GMT -5
Good move for them IMO, he seems like just one of the few guys I think can get them going in the right direction
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Post by mtroy on Mar 28, 2006 17:15:36 GMT -5
I think it's a pretty good hire. I liked him as a coach since i read his autobiography a few years back. Defnitely think he is clearly a better x and o guy than Davis. The Big Ten should have a pretty new look next year with all the departing players. I just don't know if i like his offensive style. I am sure i wouldn't want to stomach a Wiskey vs Indy game, although the Gophers, Wisconsin game I went to this year was very entertaining.
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Post by Jami on Mar 28, 2006 18:13:41 GMT -5
The days of Wisconsin averaging 50 points per game were over when Dick Bennett quit. Under Bo Ryan the Badgers average above 70 points a game. This past season was a struggle since they were basically playing with a 6 man rotation at the end of the year, and guys like Taylor and Tucker were so exhausted the offense went down the tubes.
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Post by mtroy on Mar 28, 2006 18:22:37 GMT -5
Yea Taylor turned into a pretty decent player the last few years, not surprising Monson didn't get him or others like O'Bryant. I love watching the struggles of Gopher basketball.
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Jami
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Post by Jami on Mar 28, 2006 20:28:45 GMT -5
Still suffering from hiring people to do Casey Jacobson's homework for him. Humphries and Grier have been very good players, but there hasn't been much around them. The Gophers were also a bit lucky to even get Humphries to go to the UofM because he turned down a scholarship to Duke when he was told he wouldn't get minutes in his first year, and then he turns pro after a good freshman year. It doesn't help that Minnesota's got so many good schools in the area "stealing" the state's recruits (Wisky, Marquette, Illinois, Iowa, etc.)
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Post by hoosier on Mar 29, 2006 0:52:12 GMT -5
I could have told anyone it wouldn't be an Indiana guy. As for the violations, they were minor--telephone calls that OU was never informed weren't allowed. Hundreds of them.
As for Sampson otherwise, I think he's going to be great. OU is football first, and there is a glass ceiling on what you can accomplish at a school like that. IU is basketball first, and there is no limit to what he could do. There is already talk of a couple of his recruits switching to Indiana to follow Sampson. His style of play is also better suited to the Big 10, where officials let them play hard-nosed defense without calling a lot of touch fouls.
He's also going to bring a quality staff, one of whom I believe will be the former Ball State head coach, some McCallum guy, who will have the Indiana high school ties that can help KS recruit the state. Better than that, Sampson understands how important this job is... remarking a few years ago that anyone in their right mind would crawl on their hands and knees over broken glass to take the IU job, and today that he would never leave Oklahoma, unless it was for a job like Indiana that only comes once in a lifetime. (In fact, he wanted the job so badly, he took it despite having been contacted only this past weekend.)
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Post by bearcat on Mar 29, 2006 1:55:41 GMT -5
I'm a bit surprised with the choice, but it's a good one nonetheless. Like hoosier (or someone, not sure)said, an IU guy like Wittman or Alford, and he becomes bigger than the school itself. Not a good situation.
I think Sampson is a good coach, and his style will fit well in the Big 10, but to me, he just comes off as a jackass. I don't know why, maybe it's just all the Big 12 games I've seen with him coaching in it. He seems to argue every single call made by the officials.
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Maize
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Post by Maize on Mar 29, 2006 17:34:51 GMT -5
I don't think Sampson was given a good chance for success at Oklahoma. That program is a pigskin premiere program and basketball was not a priorety. We should know quickly what kind of coach he will be once Big Ten play starts in '07.
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Post by robino2001 on Mar 29, 2006 18:05:24 GMT -5
Sampson had great success..... a lot of y'all seem to think he underachieved or is corrupt, etc.... jesus, he went to the tourney all but one year at OU I think..... that's tough for ANY school, even UNC, etc.... Sampson is a hell of a coach and it kinda surprises me he left OU, but Indiana bball is a step up above OU bball tradition-wise.
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Post by Sportsbuck on Mar 31, 2006 15:49:42 GMT -5
He also had an awesome recruiting class assembled at OU, so whoever gets his old job will be very lucky.
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sep
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Post by sep on Mar 31, 2006 16:26:11 GMT -5
He also had an awesome recruiting class assembled at OU, so whoever gets his old job will be very lucky. Unless they all follow Sampson to IU. |
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Post by Jami on Mar 31, 2006 16:39:27 GMT -5
If they follow Sampson to IU, they'll have to sit out a year, and for a lot of schools, it's too late to apply for the fall semester of '06. They're pretty much stuck at OU for this year unless they want to give up that year right away.
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Post by hoosier on Mar 31, 2006 17:11:03 GMT -5
If they follow Sampson to IU, they'll have to sit out a year, and for a lot of schools, it's too late to apply for the fall semester of '06. They're pretty much stuck at OU for this year unless they want to give up that year right away. I may be reading the rules wrong, but if OU gives the recruits a release from their LOI (as many schools who undergo a coaching change are prone to do), then I believe the one-year penalty is waived and they are able to play immediately. |
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Post by mtroy on Mar 31, 2006 20:31:47 GMT -5
Your reading the rules right. If the recruits are given a release from the program they are free to go where the wish and they face not having to sit out that one year. Unfortnately Jami, applying to get into a school if your an athlete a deadline will never apply. If the paper work is done and he is eligible to meet the entrance standards then he will get into school. I am sure though if Oklahoma was almost 100% certain they would just exit and goto IU then they would not grant a release which is 100% what they could do. Still though if they felt the recruit wasn't going to want to be in the program they would just let them go then have a distraction to there team.
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