The Futon Report

I’m … I’m speechless.

Indiana University is making plans to finish the basketball season without Kelvin Sampson. The coach of the Hoosiers is not expected to be with the team when they play at Northwestern Saturday.

A source close to the situation tells Eyewitness Sports that officials from the IU administration have met with assistant basketball coach Dan Dakich about taking over the basketball team as interim head coach for the rest of the season.

So, to repeat. Dan Dakich — the guy BGSU cast aside last year for many reasons, including this — will now coach Indiana basketball for the rest of the year. Read more

I dare say, the MAC does not in fact revolve around Toledo, but rather all colleges revolve about the conference.

“BURRRN HIM!”

Even though UT’s comeback win over Ohio University was a feat of beauty, it’s easy to get caught up in the “UT always wins at home and loses on the road” mantra because, well, that makes the season a lot simpler. But they play actual games with actual humans without factoring past results or tea leaves into future final scores, so maybe it wasn’t just the security blanket within the Savage Hall walls that caused Toledo to win and Ohio to lose. Read more

I’m not exactly notorious for thanking a media entity for bringing me in their fold, if only for 10 minutes, then turning around and biting their fleshy, delicious hand. But wait a few paragraphs.

Even if a home game isn’t an automatic win for BG (one more defensive rebound and they win that game against Central Michigan), it’s certainly an automatic win for any team hosting Toledo. In case it needed repeating: 7-1 at home and 0-13 on the road coming into Wood County. And why don’t we go ahead and just make that 0-14 on the road? Read more

Because, well, everyone on TV is talking as if he passed on. So, that has to be the reason.

He was bigger than the game. I’ll always remember that one thing when I was in that one town after that one game, and he said that thing to me. And there will never be another guy like him. If there is, then he still won’t be like Bob Knight, because Bob Knight died yesterday after yelling at a grease fire in his house. Read more