were hurling some untasteful insults at Hummel and Kramer. And they threw red towels at them as they left the court? Classy.

I didn’t like the Barlow choking gesture one bit. He’s got 3 more years left and that’s plenty of opportunities for IU to get payback on him.

I don’t know what the insults were, but if that were the standard, then players would be taunting fans in every arena, certainly in Mackey. By his own admission, Kramer made a big production of stomping on the IU logo and was gesturing at the fans before they threw the towels. Oh well. Matt Painter made clear that Earl Calloway’s trash-talking to the Purdue bench was way beyond the pale. I’m just curious if he thinks his players should be taunting the IU team and fans and going of their way to act disrespectfully. He’s always been happy to police other teams, I’d just like to see him say something publicly about his own.

As I said, I didn’t see it (I think TV cut away pretty quickly, and I just saw some pretty subdued handshakes. The J-G article in the Headlines post says this:

Chris Kramer made sure to give a little stomp while he was walking across midcourt after Purdue’s 78-75 victory over Indiana on Thursday. Right on the IU logo at center court. He said it was something, “I felt like I just had to do.” But Kramer wasn’t done. When he was leaving the floor, he gave Indiana students a little attention, too. Kramer was waving his arms – usually a motion to get home crowds roaring – and yelling, “Yeah! Let’s go!”

It’s not the end of the world, and every team has its low moments. And I respect Painter, and like him as much as I can like anyone who graduated from both Purdue and Delta. But obviously I’m still a little chapped about the Earl Calloway thing.

i just posted this on the purdue fan thread, i figured this one is probably getting a little more traffic so here we go…

why are there so many boilers commenting on this thread and why are they even on this board? one of the last things i would want to do is waste my life over on whatever blog they have.

anyway, i get in arguments with those turd boiler fans all the time. “oh yea, well you haven’t won a title since 87, it doesn’t mean you will ever be good again…” no, we haven’t, but you can’t throw stones about not winning one when you yourself have NEVER won a title. also, while i agree that winning 5 titles doesn’t mean you will get back, it sure doesn’t hurt either. if purdue can build a national title contender then there is really no doubt that iu can too, even with the sampson debacle.

a purdue friend of mine brought me an article about how iu is “a bunch of hillbilly’s down south” and iu is “racist for firing mike davis”… WHAT!!! purdue has two frat’s full of farmers, they are an agricultural school, and where do you think boiler up came from (cowboy up, for you slackjawed boilers reading this)??? i have plenty of hillbilly friends (i am from la porte) and almost all of them are purdue fans. it would be like tiger woulds calling phil mickelson a cheater. if you want to be a doctor you go to iu, if you want to plow fields and raise livestock you go to purdue.

finally, the “iu sucks” chant. i fully attribute this to purdue fans having the little man syndrome. granted, i can’t stand purdue, but the last thing on my mind when iu is playing ohio state is the boilermakers. my sister-in-law called me from the purdue/wisconsin game and they were chanting iu sucks. it’s comical that your team is in a battle with one of the top teams in the big ten and you are so insecure about your pitiful self that you have to start chanting about your rival school. throw in the fact that we are one year removed from the total demolition of our program, and i think it is just pointless. it wasn’t fun beating the bejesus out of purdue a few years ago (ok, maybe a little) because they sucked. however, i will not forget all of the phone calls/text messages i keep getting from those purdue fans that were nowhere to be found then. in two years when your dream team has graduated and iu is finally back i will let them have it, just not when we are beating the daylights out of illinois.

in the end i guess my message is, enjoy this season purdue fans. you truly have a special team. hummel is outstanding, moore can light up anyone, johnson is a threat, and kramer is one of the best defenders i have ever seen. the truth is that there is room for indiana, purdue, and the rest of the big ten at the top. as much as i hate purdue, i hate the duke/unc/acc bias even more. i do believe that a top tier purdue team can help build a top tier iu team through recruiting, exposure, and just pushing each other to the top of the college basketball world. so good luck on your trip to indianapolis this march barlow, we will see who is choking then.