Fire Mike Davis

In about an hour the Hoosiers will be taking on Illinois in what I and most people feel will be their last game of the season. The team stands at 14-14 going into the game. To avoid the first losing season suffered by the Hurryin' Hoosiers since 1969-70 when the team went 7-17 under acting head coach Jerry Oliver, the team has to win today. Frankly, I just don't see it.

Don't get me wrong, I will be more than happy to eat those words tonight! But I have to be realistic. Illinois is playing as well as anyone in the conference right now and is playing up to the level most expected before the season started. Indiana has been God awful!

Yesterday a bunch of no names came on to beat a piss poor Ohio State team. Can we count on Mark Johnson et. al. again today?

Regardless of the outcome, Coach Mike Davis has got to go. Rumors of his dismissal have been spotty. I think most want him gone. But there is always the undertone that the school won't pay another coach to not coach. Poor management of the athletic department may well mean we have to endure another year of Whorf.

The Hoosiers are going to have to win the Big Ten tournament to get to the NCAA, and if they don't they may not be able to even make the NIT. This team has suffered from poor coaching and poor play all season. But the one thing that really has given me the red ass is that Davis has continually called out Bracey Wright, then turned around and let him shoot a hundred times a game, called out the other players as dumb, but doesn't yank them, then turns around and says he is to blame. You can't have it both ways coach. You can't call out the players AND take the blame. It's one or the other.

Davis is an incompetent coach and his dismissal is long overdue. Indiana needs to clean house of anything that was ever connected to Bob Knight. I know his reach is far in college basketball, but that cancer has to be cut out. Knight started taking this program down in 1994. Davis is finishing the job. Now it is time to finish Davis .