Greenspan: Don’t repeat mistakes

Mr. Greenspan, I beg of you not to repeat our mistakes and hire Dan Dakich at the end of this season. Although that would be the easy thing to do, we students cannot handle another “Mike Davis Era” of assistant coaches turned head coaches. Davis has already proven that you can be an excellent assistant coach and a great recruiter while being the worst head coach in school history. We don’t need to repeat our mistakes, but we should learn from them. I understand the argument of every coach having to get a start at some college, but IU is not the place to do it; we do not have to settle for an assistant coach becoming the head coach. We are Indiana University, and we should be able to land a big-name coach to bring back NCAA championships. \nWe need a big name that can recruit the best players in the country and win basketball games while restoring the integrity our school lost with Sampson. We need a big-name coach like Bruce Pearl of Tennessee, whose dream job is to coach at IU and who is currently coaching the No. 1 team in the country. We need a big-name coach like Thad Matta, who recruited two of the top NBA draft picks and sent OSU to the NCAA Championship game in only his second season.\nMr. Greenspan, it is your job to hire the best coach and to restore our program. Hiring a big-name coach like Pearl or Matta would ensure wins, integrity, student and alumni support and most of all your job security. I am sure alumni would be willing to donate more money ­– ­they paid to remove Sampson – and with the money you saved from Sampson’s bonus, $500,000, and firing, about $2.2 million, we are well on our way to having the financial ability to hire a big-name coach. Go Hoosiers!