Starting Monday (it's not super official, but I'm making it so) a new cast of characters will take over the basketblog and the IDS coverage of the men's basketball team. Matt Dollinger and Tom Kirby will be your new reporters while Zach Osterman will write columns between training rides for Little 500. Jordan will continue to do quality work on the recruiting beat. I fully expect they will do a great job and will surpass the quality of coverage we tried to provide this past year.
It was a long year covering the team, but in the end I had a great time. Nobody could have predicted at this time last year the roller coaster season the basketball team would face in the coming months. I thought we had a crazy work load when Bud Mackey was arrested for drug possession - that was just the tip of the iceberg!
Don't think you will get rid of us entirely as Mike and I will not be gone from the IDS. Mike is one of our two managing editors this semester and will cover the Indianapolis Colts' run to a second Super Bowl championship. Though I graduated in May, I am going to be the IU sports columnist and hopefully starting law school (if anyone from the admissions office is reading this, I would really appreciate being taken off the wait list!). Our trusty columnist Jon has moved on to the real world working for a newspaper in Frankfort, KY.
I won't write a last post without giving you readers something interesting. Here is a video of recent Hoosier commit Matt Carlino. I've read some places where he projects as a point guard in college - I don't buy that at all. Granted, all I've seen of Carlino is this video, but it seems that he is a shoot-first type of guard. Regardless, by 2011, Jordan Hulls will be starting at the point for the Hoosiers. I have seen Hulls play several times and he is a born point guard (though he could stand to grow a few inches).
Thanks for reading and making great comments this year (especially you Downing's 5th!). I know I speak for the other two guys when I say we really appreciate it.
