Thursday, February 16, 2006
Should I Be Overjoyed At Something So Trivial?
SPECIAL SPORTS LAST MINUTE UPDATE
As if he read my post yesterday today's Indianapolis Star had this story this morning.
A Dick Vitale has pointed out, the situation had become untenable. This is as much because of the administration's bungling off court as Davis' on court - this fact makes me worry about the process of selecteing a new coach - that's where this mess started anyway, they didn't select Davis, they just sort of fell into him.
Anyway, this is the best basketball news this blogger has had since Butler made the Sweet Sixteen. Dawn breaks in the basketball world for the first time in several years. A new day is upon is, and there is hope it will be a good one.
Related Tags: basketball, college basketball, Indiana University basketball, IU basketball, IU, Dick Vitale, Indianapolis Star
As if he read my post yesterday today's Indianapolis Star had this story this morning.
Mike Davis resigns
Mike Davis has resigned as the Indiana University basketball coach, a person in the IU athletic department team who asked not to be named confirmed Wednesday night.That makes the story confirmed but not official and the Star, which is pretty much the IU b-ball paper of record in the post-Knight era (that is at least until recently when Davis has been limiting himself almost exclusively to the national press - which is where this story broke - Sports Illustrated), is running with it as absolute fact. They include an opinion piece by up-until-this-moment-outside-that-never-really-got-it Davis apologist Bob Kravitz.
Davis will meet with athletic director Rick Greenspan this morning, and a news conference is expected in the early afternoon.
A second person with the university confirmed that conversations had been taking place the past few days to put together the details of a buyout package.
A Dick Vitale has pointed out, the situation had become untenable. This is as much because of the administration's bungling off court as Davis' on court - this fact makes me worry about the process of selecteing a new coach - that's where this mess started anyway, they didn't select Davis, they just sort of fell into him.
Anyway, this is the best basketball news this blogger has had since Butler made the Sweet Sixteen. Dawn breaks in the basketball world for the first time in several years. A new day is upon is, and there is hope it will be a good one.
Related Tags: basketball, college basketball, Indiana University basketball, IU basketball, IU, Dick Vitale, Indianapolis Star
