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How did you become an IU Fan?
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germ Jan 29 2009, 05:58 PM Post #16
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i started liking IU as far back as i can remember.


i was 8, in 1987, and my first memory of liking IU was when Steve Alford went there. he is from my home town (see my sig). so a LOT of people from New Castle really started to follow IU.

ever since then, i have been hooked.

didnt go to IU, though i did apply and got accepted, i choose a different route with my live and joined the Army instead (family couldnt afford IU, even with the scholarships i had).
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Hoosier Hysteria goes way further back than Bob Knight (or "that guy that never won anything and fizzled out in the post season every year) or Kelvin Sampson (the guy that has won 73 consecutive national championships and is quite possibly the most dominant coach in the game's history)...it goes back to when the sport was actually created by Naismith in the late 1800's...you young guys out there have no idea who the Franklin Wonder Five are, but they were a little tiny ass squad from south of Indianapolis that dominated the game across the country in the 1920's...my parents were addicted to them...the FW5 even defeated a pro-team way back when TWICE and everybody was crazy about them. that lead to a lot of the Hoosier Hysteria, and my parents continued to watch and it eventually caught on to me. basketball was king in indiana, and if you didnt watch it or like it, you werent allowed in the house. i was too young to catch most of the mccracken era but was along for the entire ride with knight from the start to the very end when the students conspired to ruin our glorious history. its amazing to think that basketball has been wildly successful, embraced, and dominated by the state of Indiana for more than 100 years, and it only took a couple of years and a legion of traitors to destroy all of it. :fuckyou: :pissed: :gun:
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BTown11 Jan 30 2009, 01:35 AM Post #18
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Hoosier Hysteria goes way further back than Bob Knight (or "that guy that never won anything and fizzled out in the post season every year) or Kelvin Sampson (the guy that has won 73 consecutive national championships and is quite possibly the most dominant coach in the game's history)...it goes back to when the sport was actually created by Naismith in the late 1800's...you young guys out there have no idea who the Franklin Wonder Five are, but they were a little tiny ass squad from south of Indianapolis that dominated the game across the country in the 1920's...my parents were addicted to them...the FW5 even defeated a pro-team way back when TWICE and everybody was crazy about them. that lead to a lot of the Hoosier Hysteria, and my parents continued to watch and it eventually caught on to me. basketball was king in indiana, and if you didnt watch it or like it, you werent allowed in the house. i was too young to catch most of the mccracken era but was along for the entire ride with knight from the start to the very end when the students conspired to ruin our glorious history. its amazing to think that basketball has been wildly successful, embraced, and dominated by the state of Indiana for more than 100 years, and it only took a couple of years and a legion of traitors to destroy all of it. :fuckyou: :pissed: :gun:
jesus h. christ. it's OVER! it's fucking OVER! what happened happened, no matter how much you bitch about it, kelvin sampson won't erase himself from history. face it, and look forward to the future.
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FallenEmpire Jan 30 2009, 01:36 AM Post #19
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Hoosier Hysteria goes way further back than Bob Knight (or "that guy that never won anything and fizzled out in the post season every year) or Kelvin Sampson (the guy that has won 73 consecutive national championships and is quite possibly the most dominant coach in the game's history)...it goes back to when the sport was actually created by Naismith in the late 1800's...you young guys out there have no idea who the Franklin Wonder Five are, but they were a little tiny ass squad from south of Indianapolis that dominated the game across the country in the 1920's...my parents were addicted to them...the FW5 even defeated a pro-team way back when TWICE and everybody was crazy about them. that lead to a lot of the Hoosier Hysteria, and my parents continued to watch and it eventually caught on to me. basketball was king in indiana, and if you didnt watch it or like it, you werent allowed in the house. i was too young to catch most of the mccracken era but was along for the entire ride with knight from the start to the very end when the students conspired to ruin our glorious history. its amazing to think that basketball has been wildly successful, embraced, and dominated by the state of Indiana for more than 100 years, and it only took a couple of years and a legion of traitors to destroy all of it. :fuckyou: :pissed: :gun:
jesus h. christ. it's OVER! it's fucking OVER! what happened happened, no matter how much you bitch about it, kelvin sampson won't erase himself from history. face it, and look forward to the future.
hey butthole you started the thread...you asked how i became a fan, i told you how.
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"to the very end when the students conspired to ruin our glorious history. its amazing to think that basketball has been wildly successful, embraced, and dominated by the state of Indiana for more than 100 years, and it only took a couple of years and a legion of traitors to destroy all of it. :fuckyou: :pissed: :gun:"



unnecessary.. i'm a student and i've never "conspired" against the school. i'm and IU fan until death, and i'll do whatever it takes to support the team. i've been ashamed of past teams, but they had the name "INDIANA" sprawled across their chest, so i stuck through and cheered because that's all i know.
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"to the very end when the students conspired to ruin our glorious history. its amazing to think that basketball has been wildly successful, embraced, and dominated by the state of Indiana for more than 100 years, and it only took a couple of years and a legion of traitors to destroy all of it. :fuckyou: :pissed: :gun:"



unnecessary.. i'm a student and i've never "conspired" against the school. i'm and IU fan until death, and i'll do whatever it takes to support the team. i've been ashamed of past teams, but they had the name "INDIANA" sprawled across their chest, so i stuck through and cheered because that's all i know.
well A) im never wrong and B) not EVERY student conspired to demote us to Division 3. It was a majority of students that conspired with our athletic directors. i dont need to go through with this again. im not pointing YOU out individually but a good number of your classmates. and anybody else that said i was a crazy old man when i said firing Knight was a conspiracy, mike davis would never succeed at IU, and that KS would cheat again.
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"to the very end when the students conspired to ruin our glorious history. its amazing to think that basketball has been wildly successful, embraced, and dominated by the state of Indiana for more than 100 years, and it only took a couple of years and a legion of traitors to destroy all of it. :fuckyou: :pissed: :gun:"



unnecessary.. i'm a student and i've never "conspired" against the school. i'm and IU fan until death, and i'll do whatever it takes to support the team. i've been ashamed of past teams, but they had the name "INDIANA" sprawled across their chest, so i stuck through and cheered because that's all i know.
well A) im never wrong and B) not EVERY student conspired to demote us to Division 3. It was a majority of students that conspired with our athletic directors. i dont need to go through with this again. im not pointing YOU out individually but a good number of your classmates. and anybody else that said i was a crazy old man when i said firing Knight was a conspiracy, mike davis would never succeed at IU, and that KS would cheat again.
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WE are together a fan base. love it or hate it.
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i guess what i'm saying is. fine -- you were right about knight being wronged (a SHITLOAD of people said that), MD failing, and KS failing (which even bob kravitz knew). but there has to be a time where we all just move on.
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BTown11 Jan 30 2009, 01:53 AM Post #24
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for the record, i respect you and your opinions. i envy your lifetime support of the hoosiers, and hope to one day be able to pass down my love for IU to my children. the thing is it makes myself (and i'm pretty sure every other hoosier fan) cringe when you come on here and call us "sampsonites" or "davis apologists" we're all here for one common ideal -- to share our passion for IU basketball.
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BoilerNLA Jan 30 2009, 01:56 AM Post #25
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not even waterboarding could make me an IU fan. B)
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not even waterboarding could make me an IU fan. B)
if i was being waterboarded i'd lie, and say i was a purdue fan. of course, if i was truly being waterboarded, i probably wouldn't know i was being waterboarded -- in which case, i'd try to avoid "drowning".
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