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Bump this thread when Indiana sucks

Tom Crean is their only hope.
“No, there is another…”

-Yoda

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This thread is 9 years old and was made because they had sucked for so long then.

In reality they have sucked since Calbert Chaney graduated. That was 93 I think?

It was even being covered as a “return” in 02 when they went to the title game with that redhead kid.

I just hope we don’t become a history book someday.
Honestly, if you look back at their history they are a one coach wonder, much like UCLA .
 
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It's really amazing how many coaches Indiana has gone through since Bobby Knight. Like, whomever they hire usually can have 1-2 good seasons but they can't sustain it. Like when Crean got them that #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament but after that season was not able to replicate that success.
 
It's really amazing how many coaches Indiana has gone through since Bobby Knight. Like, whomever they hire usually can have 1-2 good seasons but they can't sustain it. Like when Crean got them that #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament but after that season was not able to replicate that success.
Yeah guess if Sampson hadn't had those issues things may have turned out different for them.
 
Who was the ex-Hoosier announcer that shut down Jordan in college? Can’t think of his name . Always causing controversy. What ever happened to him ?
 
Ole McCracken had some success, but yeah they haven't done much since Knight. Thinking of it, I guess it makes me more grateful for ole Joe B. Hall and what he maintained after Rupp here.
Before Knight, IU had 2 rather anomalous titles (40, 53) under McCracken, and not much else.

From 1938-39 (his first year) until Knight arrived (71-72), they won all of 6 Big 10 titles, had 8 losing seasons, and- aside from the two championship years- won a total of 3 NCAA tournament games, all of them in regional consolation rounds.


Then Knight arrived, and his first 16 years produced 3 titles and 4 Final Fours. Since then, two Final Fours in 33 years... and not much else.


The years before McCracken were even worse, with 13 losing seasons from the program's inception (1901) thru 1937, and only 3 Big 9/Big 10 titles.



IU was never a "power" program. Just a school that got lucky on a hire. They were basically U of San Fran before Knight.
 
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