This made me spit a little coffee on my laptop screen....
Illinois 94, Indiana 69 Postgame
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I mean Dakich is an idiot. Maybe you don’t like the tone or verbiage Luke used, but he’s the only one even somewhat bought in for that team
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Hummel was probably annoyed by having to look up close at Noah's hair all night.
He realized AT BEST he'd be our 8th/9th man. Instead he's starting at Indiana.
Tells ya everything you need to know about the trajectory of our program vs theirs.
Thought he was gonna ask him out on a date before it was over....IU fans dislike DD even more nowLive look-in at Dakich/Underwood interview:
Man that must suck for IU fans to listen to Dakich slurping the Illinois head bball coach on his Indiana radio show
I listened to some, but not all of it when BU was on air. I didn't seem like Dakich went after Luke again until Brad was off air again....
There's something really fun about worrying whether you beat a storied hoops team by 20+ or 30+.
It's also a fun diversion to see if you can crack 100 after a lackluster 2nd half where your star sat a majority of it because of foul trouble
Every so often... a Game like this one comes along. Everything seems to work. Everything seems to flow. Everything seems so easy.
The Flow State. It’s a beautiful thing.
Shots find the hole effortlessly. Your five men move together with purpose as if They are one. Your Opponent seems stunned and unable to cope. Their fans become restless and angry. It seems like some other world for a time.
And you just keep flowing along... shots still falling... nothing comes hard or with difficulty. You wonder when it might end but it just keeps going.
Yes, every so often a Game like this comes along. And you remember how this feels so that one day you can do all this again.
A nice reminder of how things can be in Sport. And in a troubled and agitated world.
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Make the bunnies and it's 140-7
Really disappointed Brad would go on Dan's show. He doesn't remember Dan talking all that smack against TSJ and refusing to apologize for it even after he got exonerated?
Inject this into my veins.
Agree 100%. Luke is, and always will be, in Illini... love that dude. I wish people would stop taking shots him. His effort and determination are the definition of an Every Day Guy, no matter what team he plays for.
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- Mesa, AZ
Dont have Dakich link, but linked Goodes below…appears Dakich trying to start a fire for self-serving clicks, and he looks the idiot in the effort.
Luke wasn’t telling fans to F-off…for just getting blown away, he gave very positive, supportive, mature comments (he and Leal both did), admitting they played poorly. Near the end (6:00 mark) Goode asked fans who boo’d not to abandon the team while they turn things around. Sounded fine to me, and just what you’d expect from a good team player. But listen for yourself.
For me…I can’t hate on him for these comments. In fact…proud of him…bet his parents are, too.
Watch: Anthony Leal and Luke Goode discuss 94-69 loss to Illinois
Watch as Indiana’s Anthony Leal and Luke Goode discussed a 94-69 loss to Illinois on Tuesday in Bloomington. Indiana (13-5, 4-3) will travel to Ohio State on Friday evening. See also: Mike W…
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Brian made a point several times about “the drinks flowing.” Haha, I know that pain.
That's Yaklich...
I'm sorry man, but there's no way in hell you're convincing me that Dakich is on the right side of this, let alone pretty much anything (as another poster pointed out, his handling of the TSJ situation should be enough reason to forever ignore him...I mean, look at what this board collectively thinks of Gary Parrish). He is misrepresenting Goode's quotes, as the video shows, for what purpose I do not know. Perhaps so he stays in the discussion? And to be fair, it's working. We're sitting here giving his radio program hits and spending multiple pages discussing this "issue" all because he went and spouted off about Luke.
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
I saw Nick beat RFK in 1989. We sat 10 rows up mid court. Fantastic game and even better ending. Not many stadiums have State Farm Centers (flying mushroom flying saucer) iconic lookI went to the game; it was my first time at the wrong Assembly Hall in more than 30 years. The best thing about that place is the 5 banners hanging at the end of the court, that's it.
Nothing about going into that place is exciting. I entered the main gate on the west side and it feels like you're going in the backdoor of a high school. Dark, low ceilings, and you see the wall of a hallway as soon as you get in. The north and south lobbies are a bit more open, but still pretty closed off.
I sat in row 44 of the lower section at mid court and was claustrophobic due to the way the balcony hangs down in front of you. It's like you have to watch the game with tunnel vision. IU has added TV screens up there because any time ANYONE stands or raises their hands, you can't see anything and need to watch the TVs. Due to that weird shape, it can get LOUD in there, but not when the fans leave at halftime.
Dayammmmmmnnnn. Luke is clearly frustrated and it'd be difficult not to be, but this is not the right way to go about it. Can't get in spats with talking heads as a player even if they are buffoons. He needs to stop posting for his own sake right now- just gets more eyes and scrutiny doing so. Honestly, if I were him, this is closed door, players only meeting time. If you need to vent, vent, cuss out your coach or teammate, cuss, or even hit something, hit away, but you do it there outside of public view. I don't blame Luke's passion or fire, but someone needs to tell him to take it offline and move it to a private forum.
Also, Dakich coming after a single kid after a historically embarrassing loss, who happened to be the hardest working kid on the floor for them, because he was misquoted saying something out of frustration at a presser that quite frankly he shouldn't have even been made available for (seriously, Woodson had no reason to make any player available), just shows the type of low class character Dakich has. That's dirtbag behavior.
“This won’t end well for Illinois.”
— Dan Dakich right before Ayo drains a three to seal the game.
Dakich is a tool. He wants to be a national "shock jock" talking head, but doesn't have the talent. So he stays in his little local bubble and says a bunch of outlandish (and often childish) stuff.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
You and I have two completely different interpretations of that comment. He was clearly telling the fans who are booing not to come back when they turn things around. Here's the quote, word for word:Dont have Dakich link, but linked Goodes below…appears Dakich trying to start a fire for self-serving clicks, and he looks the idiot in the effort.
Luke wasn’t telling fans to F-off…for just getting blown away, he gave very positive, supportive, mature comments (he and Leal both did), admitting they played poorly. Near the end (6:00 mark) Goode asked fans who boo’d not to abandon the team while they turn things around. Sounded fine to me, and just what you’d expect from a good team player. But listen for yourself.
For me…I can’t hate on him for these comments. In fact…proud of him…bet his parents are, too.
Watch: Anthony Leal and Luke Goode discuss 94-69 loss to Illinois
Watch as Indiana’s Anthony Leal and Luke Goode discussed a 94-69 loss to Illinois on Tuesday in Bloomington. Indiana (13-5, 4-3) will travel to Ohio State on Friday evening. See also: Mike W…
"To all those fans that were booing and, y'know, are so negative on social media, um, just don't switch sides when we get this thing turned around. Y'know, we all got the confidence in our teammates, got the confidence in our coaches, so, uh, just stay on that side when we start being successful again."
Not sure how you can interpret that as anything but a giant F-you to the booing fans.
And unless Goode gave a second interview and worded things differently, Jeff Rabjohns is just restructuring the quote to how he wishes it would've been said. Luke never said "Stay with us."
Indiana’s Luke Goode: We got embarrassed. We know that. We have to represent this jersey better … To all the fans who were booing, being negative on social media, don’t switch sides. Stay with us. #iubb
— Jeff Rabjohns (@JeffRabjohns) January 15, 2025
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Man, I just can't get enough of the melting down of Hoosier Nation right now.
Oh and now Dakich is retweeting racist commentary about Woodson. Things are going great.
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