Today, Mike DeCourcy has a must read article in the Sporting News regarding Indiana University's Kelvin Sampson scandal. DeCourcy says that Indiana faces a difficult road now that Sampson is gone. He thinks that it will be difficult for IU to avoid falling into irrelevance in the coming years. And he predicts low crowd turnouts at Bloomington's assembly Hall in the near future.
But if what DeCourcy predicts comes to pass, Indiana has no one to blame but themselves. The blame for IU's current predicament lies firmly on Indiana's shoulders for hiring Sampson despite having full knowledge of his prior transgressions.
Sampson was brought to Indiana for the specific purpose of preventing home grown stars from continuing to snub the opportunity to suit up for the crimson and creme .
During the Bob Knight era, the best players from Indiana wouldn't have thought of playing their college basketball anywhere other than IU. But under Mike Davis, the best players from Indiana all chose to play elsewhere. Sean May chose North Carolina. Mike Conley and Greg Oden left for Ohio State. And Eric Gordon committed to Illinois.
Kelvin Sampson was hired to "lock down the borders." And he says that Indiana knew what they were getting with regard to Sampson's baggage. It's just that they didn't care.
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At no point in the article that you linked did DeCourcy mention anything that you elaborated on.
It might have come in another link within the page, but it was noticeably absent in your assessment of this "phantom" article.
Next time, get your trashtalk in order, Trashtalk Superstar.
Anonymous,
You're right. I got the link from an internet basketball forum which "summarized" the article. My initial summary of the article was based on the account that I read, but (because I was in a hurry and needed to leave the crib this afternoon when I posted the link), I relied on that "account" without actually having read the article for myself.
By the way, I amended the inaccuracies with regard to my original account of Mr. Decourcy's article.
hoosiers!!! hoosiers!!!!! hoosiers!!!! we aint goin nowhere!!!!!! except to the final 4 and the championship game baby!!!!!!!
sampson brot back the pride thet davis run into the ground.
hoosiers national champs!!!!!!!in 08 baby!!!!!yea baby!!!
Hoosier Matt, you're an idiot.
Sonny Boys, you can yipe and gripe all yu want. Aint no Purdue chicken or Indiana meatballs going high on that mountain. You be keggin the beer at the midway station. We be climbin all the way to the top and be cutting down them nets.
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