Hoosier Headlines 9/2/2011

or the guys at KSK. Really. We have a coach who talks really fast, is ostensibly serious and prone to angry outbursts, and intersperses within his instructions jokes, at which the players are hesitant to laugh. Kind of sounds like the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket if he lowered his voice a little bit and was acting really chill.

Which is to say, I kind of adore Coach Wilson. I can’t wait to see how the team plays.

I should tell Devin that he need not kid when insulting Bob Kravitz, considering that I am the author of a post-entitled Bob Kravitz: intellectually dishonest or as dumb as he looks? and its highly anticipated sequel, Bob Kravitz: indeed, as dumb as he looks.

I would actually say that the Weinreb article has a huge oversight. No, the infamous radio incident was not two guys who got all insensed when Wilson politely asked “what do you need,” it was two guys who got insensed when Kevin Wilson called the guys on the radio show idiots (twice) then snapped what do you need (twice) then said he doesn’t have time for them and hung up. Yet Kravitz is the bad guy for bringing up that IU has question marks at QB and in the secondary? Of course they do, if only for the fact that the team is replacing players at both of those areas along with the new coaches/new system/going into the first game of the year against an in-state rival etc. I realize that Kravitz committed the mortal sin of contradicting the praise of Kevin Wilson before he has yet to be head coach for a single game (unless you count that year he was a high school head coach and went winless) but I don’t blame him for being a little leary about this guy. To be honest, I am too. Nearly every interaction he has had with the media he has come across as either a bafoon, completely disinterested, or both, he hasn’t exactly warmed up to the student body (especially a certain RA), alumni, or the community, and he seems to bring that Big XII/SEC style big time college football mentality where academics and everything else that happens on the University’s campus is merely a distraction to what’s really important: watching him coach on Saturdays in the Fall. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe he’ll turn the program around and have a Bill Mallory-style run where he gets second and third rate athletes to overacheive and turn in respectable performances while running a clean and academically strong program, or perhaps he’ll even go beyond that. If that happens trust me I’ll admit that I’m wrong. For the time being, however, as an alumnus of IU I am not happy with the face that Wilson is putting on for the University, and the undeserved praise being thrown his way just makes matters worse in my opinion.