Mike Davis, What Took You So Long?

Thanks to the need for higher education and advanced levels of sport, I reside primarily in Big10 country and have done so for the duration of Mike Davis' run at IU. In this time, I've learned three things:

1. Mike Davis is a reactionary nutjob
2. Mike Davis is an awful coach
   
3. Mike Davis is only person in the State of Indiana that thinks Mike Davis is exceptional

Even though the Hoosiers went to the Final Four in Davis' first year, I was suspicious of his actual skills but didn't really think he could mess up a good thing. I mean, I knew he was a career assistant coach but all he needed to do was recruit well and not allow his own ineptitude to stand in the way. In hindsight, that was way too much to ask, so it's probably for the best that the most sensitive coach in the Big10 has thrown in the towel and resigned. Further, the haters amongst you will be pleased to hear that Davis plans to lame duck it until the Hoosiers are bounced from the NIT. He wants the team to play free of the pressures to preserve his job and fend off criticism from the media.

In the seasons that have followed the Final Four, every press conference and interview has been peppered with his incessant whine, as he's somehow managed to rationalize every possible influence into blame for the failure of the Hoosiers. It's the media, the alumni, the fans, the players. He's a career assistant that has no business running a sideline and he thinks he has room to bitch?? Mike Davis ought to be sending Bobby Knight a Christmas card, Christ, a birthday card, each and every year thanking him from the bottom of his heart for the only head coaching job he's ever gonna have! "Thanks for the opportunity, Coach! Thanks for going over the edge and forcing these fools to give me this job!" If a Division I program hires this nut, they'll assuredly go down in flames. I'm eager to see what hilljack athletic director thinks he's a good idea.