Tough Times for Hoosier Fans

I didn't have the opportunity to watch what turned out to be a terrific game for the Hoosiers. But as luck would have it, they lost when Wisconsin's Brian Butch hit a lucky bank three with just a few ticks left on the clock. The boys at one of my favorite blogs, Inside the Hall, said it best:

The one good thing here? IU played well. This is two games in a row we can sit back and say: “Hey, we’re looking good, we’re finally coming around.” It’s just too bad it had to come in a loss. At home. The day it was announced Kelvin Sampson got slapped with major sanctions.

Here’s a sampling of columns put together by Chris Korman over at The Hoosier Scoop:

• Kravitz to IU: Time to get rid of slime (Bob Kravitz, Indianapolis Star)
• IU’s best action may be to suspend Sampson immediately (Pat Forde, ESPN)
• Serious allegations (Grant Wahl, Sports Illustrated)
• Goodbye to Sampson, IU’s good name (Greg Couch, Chicago Sun-Times)
• It maybe harsh, but Indiana needs to fire Sampson (John Rhode, The Oklahoman)
• Indiana coach Sampson on the brink (Skip Myslenski, Chicago Tribune)
• Indiana has no choice, it must fire Sampson — now (Gregg Doyel, CBS)
• Sampson’s blatant disregard for rules may cost him (Jeff Googman, Fox Sports)
• Allegations of violations upset former Hoosiers (Mark Schlabach, ESPN)

Throw in the passing of Terry Hoeppner prior to the 2007 football season and you have the makings for a really tough year for Hoosier fans. Hope, optimism, and dreams of post season success have been replaced by tragedy, mourning, and feelings of betrayal, anger, and disgust.

Thanks Kelvin Sampson. We can indeed hear you now.

Too bad all you seem to be saying are lies. Time for you to go. But thanks for turning D.J. White into at beast. I can at least give you credit for that.