Tuesday, September 21, 2004
No need to be bitter... The Kentucky game was a downer, but football was never IU's game anyway. It never will be. Foolish minds like my own didn't realize how good we had it with Bill Mallory.
After the long dry spell, I think we now know that there's no shame going to the Peach Bowl, the Independence Bowl or the Liberty Bowl when you are a basketball school. Mallory was a master of finding diamonds in the rough (Anthony Thompson) and turning them into something special. Adewale Ogunleye only got 1 year with Mallory and he never can say enough about him.
Despite the loss to Kentucky, DiNardo will be good for the program. He preaches good defense, and he doesn't constantly swing for the fences when recruiting as Cam Cameron did.
I didn't dislike Cam Cameron, and I actually think his aggressiveness was a good thing. The problem is you can't put all your eggs in the top-shelf recruits. He was wooing some good ones, and had a bunch of great ones to put IU on their short list (Quincy Wilson and Jarrett Payton, for instance). But if they consider Indiana and go to Florida, or they don't consider Indiana and go to Florida, you're essentially stuck with the same thing.
