[NU Sports] Basketball

[Mark Ament]

By all accounts, it appears that IU has offered the job to Wazzu's Bennett.
A good choice, in my opinion and one they should have made last year.
Whether he will take it remains to be seen.  If he does, he will rebuild IU
in a hurry.

 

What IU needs to do now after that is replace the idiot AD that hired
Sampson and then botched the NCAA investigation and the firing.  He should
never have been hired in the first place and the AD should have known
better.  He should also have been fired in October.

 

Mark 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:39 PM
To: Joe Thiegs
Cc: Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal); nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Basketball

 

Good point - especially since the UW and UM systems

are so intertwined (not sure if they still offer it,

but when I was in high school, I could get in-state

tuition for UW or UM schools and vice versa for

Minnesota grads). Still, I hear Tubby's upset by who

Bo snuck out of the Land of 10,000 Lakes this year for

recruiting.

 

But ugh - not a good day for the Big Ten yesterday but

still a better tourney for us than most predicted.

We'll be back. The talent level of the coaches in this

league is really getting good from top to bottom -

this was a transition year, but soon Iowa, Minnesota

and Michigan will be up there with Wisky, MSU and OSU.

Heck, Purdue jumped ahead of schedule and made the

leap this year.

 

The big question league-wise (other than us - who

appear to have a well-respected coach but no results)

appears to be in the two Assembly Halls. Indiana needs

to get a big name to stay big time. Their AD took a

stupid risk on Sampson and it's gonna hurt them - but

not making a good "next hire" could be even worse. And

at Illinois, there's no doubt Webber can coach. Few

coaches get as much out of their players consistently

as Webber. But he just can't recruit. Every big-name

recruit in Illinois has gone elsewhere under Webber's

reign and he needs to do something about that in a

hurry.

 

Here's hoping the regional finals are a heck of a lot

more interesting than those Sweet 16 blah-outs.

 

GO CATS!!!

-SjT

 

 

--- Joe Thiegs <jthiegs at goldengate.net> wrote:

 

> Also, Wisconsin regularly got some of the best

> Minnesota players while 

> Dan Monson was the Gophers coach (same thing for

> football with Barry 

 

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG

sjtruog at yahoo.com

GO CATS!!!

 

 

 
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