Tag Archives: athletic department

Crean The Right Move

While I am not usually as negative as other IU alumni on this website, I must say my gripes about IU generally are directed toward the athletic office.  Their usual mismanagement of Human Resources related issues must be some ploy to make sure their name gets on Sports Center in the hope that it will [...]

It’s Valentines Day….

And Kelvin Sampson Has Broken My Heart.

Remember “The Simpsons” episode where Ralph gave Lisa the Valentine, Lisa told Ralph she didn’t “like, like him”  and later Bart showed Lisa in slow motion where you could see Wiggum’s heart breaking frame by frame?  This was how I felt yesterday when Indiana University released the major infractions they received [...]

So what’s about to happen?

Three separate rumors now indicate that Sampson’s been unofficially canned, and will be taken out officially sometime on Friday.
I’m still unconvinced.
The presence of Rick Greenspan, the IU athletic director, in yesterday’s press conference and in the press release that IU put out yesterday, indicates that he’s steering the ship to a certain degree.
Given the seriousness [...]

Illinois Has No Class

“Indiana pulls off tough win against Ill-annoy”

If you are an Illini fan, you may not want to read this post.  LWN watched the second half of last night’s game and he has plenty of venom and bile to spit towards Champaign.  Debate all you want about seedy recruiting practices, Eric Gordon is still in Bloomington (until the basketball [...]

USF, FSU admins leave athletic departments out to dry

It was a bad day to be an athletic director (current or former) in Florida yesterday, as two prominent Division I-A school administrations laid some smack down on their athletics programs.
First up was the University of South Florida — darling of TMC and little-guy advocates everywhere — which saw its administration wrest control of academic [...]

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