Disclaimer - I am a Bradley fans and that's where my bias lies, but I think independently and some new proposed law might make me reveal whether I receive remuneration from BU.
I do not, and I even pay more than most people for the one objective thing I do receive, my tickets...although I do receive an infinite amount of personal satisfaction and abundant joy in being a Bradley fan.
Anyway - I grew up in Illinois and have lived most of my life here, so for at least 50 years I have heard and tolerated endless taunts, criticisms, boasts, and arrogance from Indiana fans and Hoosier worshippers. I lived in Kentucky for five years, but it is just as bad there right across the border from Clarksville...
Now I am sure NOT ALL Indiana fans are so anti-social and uncivil....but this rant is aimed at the ones who are.
Anyway, payback is a real bitch, and after decades of having to hear those certain Hooiser fans try to demean all things Illinois, and act like they are the actual true altar of college basketball, now is the time to show how things always seem to go full circle, and just maybe the next time around, those Hoosier fans might learn their lesson and temper their monumental arrogance and condescention when dealing with fans of other teams. Over the decades they have become the epitome of bad fans and hurt their team's image.
WARNING - if you drool at the mention of the word "Hoosier" and hate anthing in Illinois that has to do with basketball, or if you worship at the posterior of thug-wannabe Bobby Knight, then you might just want to skip this next few paragraphs....because IU basketball has indeed fallen about as far as anyone could ever imagine. And it has not only fallen to the netherlands of juco-quality hoopsmanship, it has dug even deeper to find even NEW bottom dweller depths to boast from....and those are facts....and here are even more facts like 'em or not...
The Big Ten Network showcased two games last night, and I am not sure it turned out the way it was planned...
Iowa went to Northwestern and played more like a high school team in losing...they hit 3-21 shots from the arc...and looked horrid.
Meanwhile Iowa forgot that Northwestern runs an offense that mainly tries to get someone open in the lane for a short shot, and repeatedly allowed many, many open short shots....
BUT -- the 2nd game on the Big Ten Network was a landmark game -- a Waterloo in the history of a once decent program......
Wisconsin at Indiana...and maybe someone thought this game would be a game, but it wasn't...
The Hoosiers set a new record...
they lost 78-46, the largest loss ever for Indiana in Assembly Hall.
ALTHOUGH IT WAS INCREDIBLY ENTERTAINING!! (not for a Hoosier fan)
Wisconsin blew out to an early lead, had a 10-20 point lead most of the 1st half, then a 20-30 point lead the whole 2nd half...
Indiana is soooo bad......I mean painfully bad and it turns your stomach to wath them be so bad...
they look like a bunch of guys on a playground trying to create a Michael Jordan-type or LeBron James type falling-away jumper...I am sure any high school junior varsity could give 'em a good run....
Not one player hit a single 3-pointer, but then they never really looked for a decent shot..
But the REAL ENTERTAINMENT STARTED in the 2nd half when referee Tom O'Neill, who did the Bradley game Wednesday, started to get pretty tired of hearing Indiana coach Tom Crean bitch and moan and stomp the sidelines and curse....
Come on Crean, your team is horrible and you were behind by 30 on your home court, because they aren't in the same league as Wisconsin...it has NOTHING to do with the refereeing!!!
Your team shot more FT's and was called for fewer fouls even though they never bother to play defense!!! It wasn't the reffing!!!!
Then after getting slapped with two technicals a couple minutes apart...Crean stomped and cursed all the way across the floor, bobbing his head with each F-word he screamed, and then he walked to the locker room and gave the door a FULL bodyslam that made the spoiled buffoon (whose every paycheck in the past 8 years should be mandatorily shared with Dwyane Wade) look like a childish spoiled brat throwing a temper tantrum...
BTW-- here are some amazing stats from the game...
only three players even had an assist and they totalled only 8 assists on 51 FG attempts...not one starter even made half their shots, and the starting five combined for 9-33...the passes were bad, but what the players did after the passes was even worse...everyone acting like the coach wants to see the re-incarnation of Dwyane Wade...so they all juked and jived and jacked up horrid fall away jumpers!
Sure you have a young team, coach, but if this is an example of how they play under your tutilege for 1-2 years, then Indiana is gonna be badddd way, way into the future...
This Indiana team is getting WORSE the more they are coached by Crean...and the same happened last year!!
You decide......but I think even the IU fans are going to notice this soon..and they are...
http://indiana.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=726&tid=140412383&mid=140412383&sid=942&style=2
http://indiana.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=731&tid=140404686&mid=140404686&sid=942&style=2
As bad as Bobby Knight was for IU basketball at the tail end of his career (not much to show after '87 when he won the NCAA)
he has to be laughing out loud when he sees the depths to which IU has sunk in an effort to stay classy...
(btw the fans were superclassy, too with all the profane chants and obscenities they showed the national TV audience...)
In the end, it is almost as funny-yet-sad, and humiliating as when they found Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole trying to keep from getting caught and being paid back for his arrogance and crimes over the decades...
The worst of the IU fans, too are simply suffering the due punishment for their greed and arrogance in wanting coaches like Knight, Sampson, and Crean....(I like Tom Crean, but he will not do much for this program).
Hoosiers, you have dug your own hole and made your own bed...so stop blaming NCAA and penalties...they didn't give you any - you earned this current status with your greed for thugs, greedy selfish players, academic casualties, and your long standing disrespect for other Big Ten programs...
The only victim here are the other non-IU fans and programs you guys have insulted, bullied, and disrespected for half a century...
payback is a bitch, and it's sad you have to find out the hard way...........
Now the other non-BU topic.......
Did anyone see or even pay attention to the healthcare "summit" yesterday? Pretty boring....more like an 8-hour detention where we were forced to be lectured to by a stern dean of students telling us how wrong and misbehaving we are and how we need to repent and toe the line.
Under the guise of a summit - the President lectured lawmakers for what seemed like and eternity, and disallowed any utterance that opposed him.
And what's with the total lack of decorum?? Since when do the top leaders of this country refer to each other on national TV as "Nancy", Harry", "John", and "Lamar"...?
President, can you not treat your elected co-leaders with at least a modicum of respect? Can you not call them by their full names? What do you dislike about the titles "Congresswoman Pelosi", "Senator Reid", "Senator McCain"...?
Or did you really think your stunt would make you look more like an authoritative leader who commands respect and is due the worship of the lower beings in the room??
Then when one Republican representative went a minute over his allotted time, he was soundly scolded, even though at that point the Democrats had dominated the talk-time 52 minutes to 24 minutes!!
As moderator, the President made himself look like a buffoonish self-aggrandizing kindergarten teacher!
One more humorous moment came when the President chided Representative Eric Kantor for using "a prop" and attacked him with...
"These are the kind of political things we do that prevent us from actually having a conversation"
So what was the "prop" that Kantor had??
He had the 2400 page health-care bill on the table in front of him. Seriously, the guy had the very document that was being dfiscussed and debated, and was accused of unfairly using a prop to gain advantage!
If showing the very bill that they are trying to ram down our throats is unfair, then just how unfair is this bill??
By the way, if the federal government wants to fight a war. They don't have a bunch of congressmen, lawyers, and staffers do it, they place the responsibility into the hands of well trained and expert professionals like General Eisenhower, General Schwarzkopf, and Admiral Halsey.
And if they want to build highways, dams, or airports, again, they don't send congressmen and their staffs. They hire outstanding professionals and hand the job to them. Same for when they want to send a man to the moon, they let the scientists make all the decisions and then do it.
But, how do they decide on the total overhaul of the nation's entire healthcare system? Well, unlike those other endeavors, they totally ignore the advice of all the healthcare professionals, and they have a bunch of congressmen and their staff sit around a table, formulate a horribly complex bill, then add big time bribes and payoffs to get the congressmen to vote for it.
In all the debate and all the discussion has anyone ever seen even ONE top level medical professional or doctor step forward and give support to this administration? Why is that? Why is it that so few actual experts in the fields of medicine and health insurance are being asked to contribute to the plans to change the nation forever with this giant healthcare bill?
But here's one thing you might not know...
There is one healthcare professional that IS involved, but he's hiding behind the scenes...and for good reason!
He and his ideas are really QUITE unconventional and controversial.
Here are the facts...
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of political hit man Rahm Emanuel, has been hired as President Obama's TOP medical advisor...
How many of you have ever heard that fact?
Here is the proof, that Dr. Emanuel is the top medical advisor to the President...
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/02/dr_ezekiel_emanuel_rahms_broth.html
Now, guess what this man's expertise is??
Well, basically his only claim to fame is that he is a specialist in "bioethics"...or in other words....he has studied medicine, but never practiced it...instead he uses his pulpit and background to lay claim to knowing what is right and what is proper for everyone else.
http://www.bioethics.nih.gov/people/emanuel-bio.shtml
But take one look at his published opinions....
All of his recent publications promote healthcare rationing and withholding of services from the elderly and from handicapped youngsters, because those people will not be productive and will be a drain on the system...and shouldn't be afforded access to the healthcare resources!!
If you don't believe me, look it up yourself...
Here are all the guy's publications....
http://www.thelancet.it/search/results?fieldName=Authors&searchTerm=Ezekiel%20J+Emanuel
Read them if you want, but just check the titles...
-"Ethical criteria for allocating health-care resources"
(he states what should be the criteria for rationing or dispensing healthcare resources and availability)
-"Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions"
(that he believes we must deny expensive medical procedures to the people who are likely to live very long or who will not ever become productive and pay taxes)
-"Assisted suicide and cancer"
(yes, Dr. Emanuel believes we should encourage cancer patients to just take a pill and die quickly...seriously!!)
So if this guy is President Obama's top medical advisor, then can there be any doubt what is coming if they get their way??
Our healthcare system would resemble something out of the Nazi regime....people who are old, frail, infirm, and even young people who are retarded, handicapped, and likely to never be productive would be deemed a drain on the system, they would be excluded from receiving the care they need, and they would be encouraged, perhaps even required to participate in "assisted suicide"....
I know this is almost too hard to believe, but this guy's own words, in his own personal research and publications all speak for themselves....
No wonder that a year ago over 80% of people when polled said they WANTED the congress to get to work immediately and pass a healthcare bill....but now, just a year later, almost 80% say they want the congress to drop it and stop trying to ram their unwanted bill down everyone's throat.
So what has happened in just a year's time? Well, it boils down to three people...Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the President ignoring all of what the people say, favoring speacial deals for their favorite sub groups of voters, and the obvious trickery and dishonesty that's going on.
No group of politicians since Neville Chamberlain have fallen into public disfavor faster than these three, and yet they are on TV 100% of the time lobbying for us to give them our support.
Which brings me to another point....please give us back our TV stations and radio stations...
we are so tired of seeing you guys on TV all the time and chiding us for our skepticism. Please drop the push to ruin the nation and go back to work on the important things like jobs, the economy, and wars.
Thank you...
One last item....so they want respect...they want to be taken seriously outside of men's sports??
Then stop acting like a bunch of rotten, spoiled men and start acting like deserving women champions!
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/IOC-to-investigate-Canadian-women-s-hockey-team-?urn=oly,224338
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