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(Official) Mike Davis to Leave Indiana at the End of the Season

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Thump said:
Just saying man, you can't get a team like that to the title game unless you can coach.
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His team was shooting lights out during that run. I wasn't certain at the time if it had that much to do with coaching. Now, after getting to watch him over that last few seasons, it's become pretty clear to me that it was just a lucky run.
 
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Golferdow01 said:
Wow do we have some Mike Davis lovers here.

I say again, how can you be considered a good coach when you start losing your state's best talent to your neighbor?
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Well the fact is he was under a ton of pressure following Knight. I think he is a good coach, but he is going to have showcase it somewhere else, b/c the fan base wants him out and when it is like that it is hard to recruit.

He has brought in some nice talent, and they would be better this year if White didnt go down with injury. They are still a tourney team.
 
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crazybuckfan40 said:
Well the fact is he was under a ton of pressure following Knight. I think he is a good coach, but he is going to have showcase it somewhere else, b/c the fan base wants him out and when it is like that it is hard to recruit.
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I'll need to see it to believe it.

I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he got his team to the NCAA tourney four of five years and is averaging just shy of 20 wins a season.
 
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Golferdow01 said:
I'll need to see it to believe it.

I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he got his team to the NCAA tourney four of five years and is averaging just shy of 20 wins a season.
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Well if this is happening anywhere else in the country he is not getting the backlash and the school is not getting the negative persona on their program which is causing kids instate to look else where.

Same thing happened when Daugherty came in at UNC.
 
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Davis sounds like someone who sees reality and speaks to it. Indiana, like Kentucky, Duke, UC etc. needs the basketball program to pay for the Athletic department. No people at games means no money for football, wrestling, baseball, track, womens sports....
 
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Has anything ever NOT been Mike Davis' fault? He sure likes to blame fans, students, Knight....

So he had pressure following Knight...cry me a river. He had no experience and nothing on his resume that ever indicated he was qualified to get the head job at Indiana State, let alone Indiana. The only reason he got the job is because he was the only one to give it to at the time, because obviously Pat was leaving with Bobby, and they needed a coach...fast. He was handed a job he didn't interview for and wasn't qualified for on a silver platter, and he can't do it. He also loves to blame everyone else. Hey Mike, it's not the fans' fault for pointing out the obvious. But don't feel bad...Quinn Snyder and Buff-Hair Dougherty couldn't handle it either.
 
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coastalbuck said:
I haven't been a fan of Indiana since they let BK go. I think it was incorrectly done and an insult to one of the best coaches to ever coach the game. That said, I never really liked Mike Davis as a coach, at all. However, I do feel sorry for for what he has had to go through at the school. It was and will be a very rough job for anyone to come into.
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yeah, BK deserved another chance. :roll1:
 
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I must admit that, after thinking how good it was for us, I immediately thought Davis would lose his job when Oden and Conley came our way. Imagine, if you can, a time in Indiana Hoosier basketball history, when the two top studs in the state would go out-of-state and not even really consider Indiana.
 
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jimotis4heisman said:
matt doherty...
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Actually, it wasn't Blow-dry Matt who followed Dean Smith. If you want to look at a colossal screw-job, look at Bill Guthridge, who took over for Smith. He coached 3 years, making the Final 4 TWICE, and was still forced into retirement because they wanted powder-puff from Notre Dame before someone else got him. Now THAT was a screw job.
 
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keep in mind oden and conley werent the first big names that left the state, the one that hurt the most was may, his dad being an all american at iu.

and i think you would be foolish if you didnt think race had some role in some peoples views on the situation
 
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