Reshaping women’s basketball

Most coaches hate road games. However, IU women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack said she doesn’t mind them.

A LOOK AT THE ROCK: Glass and I agree: Keep Lynch

Story doesn’t end for IU football yet

Even Hollywood’s award-winning writers could not have scripted a better ending to Purdue coach Joe Tiller’s career. For a guy who has spent 12 seasons pouring his heart and soul into a seesawing program, it was fitting his finale was a drubbing of IU. The 2008 Old Oaken Bucket game was so pain-free Saturday it was over in the first quarter. Somehow, some way, the Boilermakers scored on every offensive drive until late in the fourth as if they were trouncing on a peewee team.

Who do you think the Hoosiers miss more - Hardy or Porter?

We all know the Hoosiers have struggled both on offense and defense this season. But who do you think they miss more - wide receiver James Hardy on offense or cornerback Tracey Porter on defense?

Time to put this season behind us

Thank goodness, this season is over. I think the coaches and players are saying that as well.

IU-Purdue rivalry more than just a game

2008 Oaken Bucket Game

Alright guys, last game of the season- The Old Oaken Bucket. Two below average teams are going to stand toe-to-toe Saturday. And I think the rivalry match-up is going to be closer than you presume.

It was a slight improvement

STATE COLLEGE, PENN. – Agitated Penn State fans had one reason to relax after their team’s first loss in 2008 – IU was next on their schedule. Unfortunately for the horrific Hoosiers, the conference clash was bad timing. The Nittany Lions were coming off a shocking loss to Iowa that essentially shattered their hopes of advancing to the BCS title game.

Another scoreless second half. This is nuts!

I wish I was in the Hoosiers locker room at halftime. I really do. It's amazing these guys can't score points after the break.

Alvarez: Greenspan good for IU football

When Rick Greenspan cleans out his Assembly Hall office at the end of December, he’ll leave four emotional years and plenty of memories – good and bad – behind him. He’s saddened by the loss of his colleague and friend, former IU football coach Terry Hoeppner, to cancer. He’s frustrated by the IU football team’s regression in 2008, a season many expected to end with a second-straight bowl appearance. Most of all, Greenspan regrets that he won’t be a Hoosier when that program prospers and reclaims Big Ten relevancy. But he’ll also leave the foundation upon which that program must be built, something many fans have overlooked. Inundated with criticism mainly attributed to the sanctions levied on former IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, Greenspan announced his resignation June 26, effective at the end of the calendar year. Even with the cloud hovering over IU athletics, Greenspan’s decision to resign shocked many co-workers. “I didn’t think Rick was going to step down, and neither did a lot of us,” Mark Deal, associate director of football operations, said. “To say Rick Greenspan’s legacy is the whole Kelvin Sampson saga is about one-hundredth of all the good things he’s done here.”When Greenspan stepped foot on the Bloomington campus in 2004, he faced a struggling athletics department welcoming its third leader since 2001.Prior to his arrival, the IU football team wasn’t the primary focus of the department, despite being the top revenue-generating sport at most schools. The program was also in the midst of a lengthy postseason drought.

Young guys must get time in last, two games

Since there's no 13th game this season, the younger guys must get time in the next two games. I understand IU will compete against powerhouse Penn State and rival Purdue, but its time to put the young guns into tough bouts. After all, you want IU to emulate its peers' successes, don't you?

Nothing but a one-half wonder

Thirty minutes of hard-nosed, gut-wrenching football simply doesn’t cut it. Not against a non-conference opponent, not against a Big Ten enemy and certainly not on the FBS stage. Since Michigan State’s week four shellacking of the Hoosiers, IU coach Bill Lynch has often repeated the Hoosiers “need to play two halves of football.” Fast-forward six weeks to Wisconsin’s 55-20 manhandling and Lynch’s order remains MIA. “(After halftime) it was such a turn of events,” safety Brandon Mosley said following his team’s fifth conference loss, this one on senior day. “We’ve made a lot of mental mistakes. And as you can tell, mental mistakes can cost you the game.”

If you think Lynch should be fired NOW, you're wrong!

I've been receiving many emails as to why I haven't made a case to fire Bill Lynch yet.

Optimistic future? Yeah, right.

Goodbye, 2008. See you next year

No crystal ball, no tarot card, not even Ms. Cleo could have correctly hypothesized IU’s season up to this point. 2008, as we all know, was supposed to encompass the resurgence of Hoosier football.

Some of the Hoosiers many problems . . .

Wisconsin, Penn State, Purdue. Yep, 3 more games in this ugly season. Most likely, 3 more losses. I keep looking back on previous outings and attempt to pinpoint the problematic areas. Here's what I've discovered:

IU needs some Philly fire

Chappell has the tonic to cure ailing offense

Now, IU quarterback Ben Chappell is the kind of change you can believe in. So he’s not the most persuasive guy at his craft, big deal. But by all means, he’s no phony.

Change IU needs

How do the Hoosiers initiate change? Glad you asked.

From Starr-struck to Starr-less

IU kicker Austin Starr used to be automatic. Last season especially. Experts tabbed him as one of the nation’s top kickers. A 40-yarder, a chip shot, it didn’t matter. Every boot was destined to split the uprights. This year, though, Starr’s golden foot has vanished.How could a finalist for the Lou Groza award – given to college football’s top kicker – meld into a Mike Vanderjagt? It’s perplexing, I know.