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WHoosiers?
Unless you’re from Indiana or a college basketball fanatic,
the Indiana Hoosiers might be little more than an inspirational college
basketball movie you watched on any particular Saturday or Sunday Afternoon. A
school filed beyond your usual March Madness pick repertoire of NCAA men’s
basketball schools… Kentucky, Kansas, Duke or any of the NBA-lite, media-frenzy
schools of the Big East. What’s been going on this year at Indiana could be
nothing short of the sort of basketball exorcism that occurred at Kentucky a
few years ago.
During the 1971 to 2000 Bobby Knight coaching era the
Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team appeared in 24 NCAA Tournaments, won 3
NCAA Championships, 11 Conference Championship titles, and in 1976, became the
last undefeated NCAA men’s basketball champion finishing with a perfect 32-0
record. This was a program that in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s had come as
closely synonymous with “winning” as Charlie Sheen, and as recent as even 10
years ago eyed a possible NCAA tournament title in 2002, has finished 11th,
9th and 11th respectively in the Big Ten Conference the
last three years. With the 2002 loss to
Maryland in the NCAA title game aside, Indiana has not seen a Sweet Sixteen
appearance since 1994. Indiana is indicating it wants that changed though in
2012.
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Denard Robinson Won’t Leave Michigan Following Coaching Change
Record-setting College quarterback Denard Robinson acknowledged he thought about transferring when Michigan fired Rich Rodriguez.
“Rich Rod was one of the few coaches that gave me a chance to play as a quarterback on the next level,” Robinson said in an interview scheduled to be posted on mgoblue.com, the school’s website, on Monday.
Robinson decided to stay after talking to his parents, brother and high school coach.
“This is my family — my home now,” he said.
Rodriguez was fired Jan. 5 and Brady Hoke was hired a week later. Robinson told Hoke a day after he was hired that he was committing to staying to play for him next season.
Robinson’s high school coach said “every school” wanted Robinson to leave and he had heard from 10 to 15 coaches within a day of Hoke’s hiring.
The first player in NCAA history to throw and run for 1,500 yards said new coach Brady Hoke was “terrific” and added that he was eager to learn his offense.
“It’s going to be something to learn,” Robinson said. “It’s going to be fine.”
Art Taylor, who coached Robinson at Deerfield Beach (Fla.) High School, backs Robinson’s decision.
A Midwest Shoelace Epidemic
There’s an epidemic quickly spreading throughout the Midwest and it’s only a matter of time before it engulfs the entire nation.
Teen-agers throughout the Midwest, especially in Michigan, are deliberately walking around with their shoelaces untied.
Blame it on Denard Robinson.
“I’ve had a few (high school) coaches calling me lately,” Michigan quarterbacks coach Rod Smith told FanHouse. “They’re begging me to please tell Denard to tie his shoelaces, because all their kids are trying to emulate him by not tying their shoelaces.”
Smith laughs at the thought. Read More >>
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