NCAA Championship 1976: Indiana vs. Michigan
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In Theaters : 2004
DVD Release : 23 November, 2004 |
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One of the greatest teams ever...!!!
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I became an absolute IU basketball fan in the fall of 1974. The guys were ranked #1 and were undefeated and thus began a following that lasted a good many years. Bob Knight was in his 2nd or 3rd season as coach at IU and had transformed the team into a juggernaut. There wasn't a single player on that team that could compare to the likes of Michael Jordan and yet collectively they were one of best teams to ever hit a college basketball court. Needless to say it was a painful experience watching them fritter away a perfect season and National Championship against Kentucky in the regional finals in the spring of 1975. A much-relieved John Wooden was spared the humiliation of playing IU for the championship because of that. For the 1975-1976 season Indiana had lost Steve Green and John Laskowski to graduation and yet still bombarded UCLA in the first game...a 20-point IU blowout win! You must remember that there were no 3-point field goals back then, so it took much more to win by 20 than it does now. There was also no play clock forcing a team to throw up shots within 30-35 seconds or else turn the ball over. Bob Knight didn't stall games the way some coaches did, opting instead to go for the throat. Some coaches were well known for stalling games, due probably to the fear that their teams weren't really good enough to win any other way. Without naming those coaches, some initials are: Dean Smith and Denny Crum. For the rest of that year IU overcame every obstacle, met every challenge, and in the end played an inspired game against Michigan to win the championship.
Now, due to the ineptness in charge of Indiana basketball, I have been forced to change my allegiance. It is beyond my understanding how they could have fired a Hall of Fame coach, a coach who ran a 'squeaky clean' program, one who would not tolerate any NCAA violations, and hired in his place a coach with a history of NCAA violations. Temper??? Sure, Bob had one of those and let it be known. NCAA violations??? No, sir! Steve Alford posed for a calendar once, but what else was there? No one wanted to have to face Bob Knight with an NCAA violation...a much worse fate than facing the NCAA panel!!! The present coach is the antithesis of Bob Knight, a 'man of constant sorrows' who will probably be forever in trouble with the NCAA and will very likely give the university a black eye that it doesn't need. He's already renegged on his hiring agreement and IU hasn't fired him!?!?!? I can not support a university with such questionable ethics. Go Texas Tech! |
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