how will i remember him? it depends on what his nba career becomes. if he's a perenial all-star, i'll brag about all the times i watched him on tv, how he was one of the greatest players to go to iu. right now, i see him a blip on the iu screen. i will never truly appreciate what he did for iu basketball because of the horrible, tumultuous, depressing, (etc, etc, etc) year this has been. no matter what he becomes at the next level, i will always follow his name with a slow shake of the head, acknowledging what might have been.

I also agree he was never coached well at IU and that certainly includes Sampson. He never made any adjustments with the wrist, the personnel, the flow of the game etc. If you truly want to put a date on when he started hurting the team it's the day he stopped playing defense. Have we forgotten what he's capable of doing on defense? When is the last time we called his name on D? There is NO reason whatsoever EJ should not have achieved a status of Big Ten DEF POY consideration but that didn't happen. He just didn't have the tenacity in the second half of the season.

I give him a lot of credit because the kid handled everything as well as a freshman could. Everyhting crumbled around him and for that I'm just embarrassed.

Thanks Coach Sampson for giving EJ an illustrious college career at Indiana! What a joke you are.

EJ does appear to be a great kid, and his experience with adversity this season may be of great service to our players down the road. I hope he stays close to HIS team forever and is willing to give a little back by way of mentor to future athletes who don the cream and crimson.

For a coach to struggle for 50% of the season to find a decent 4 man to play, all the while you forced DT, STemler, and Mike White down our throats….reflects KS coaching ability that many of us overlooked at times. While ignoring the lack of growth of Brandon McGee and Kyle Taber. I refuse to believe at NO POINT during the season Brandon McGee could have NOT have helped us while I watched Mike White and DT miss lay up after layup and Lance Stemler look lost at times.

WIth coaching, McGee could be a stud and I hope he stays and allow Crean to develop his game and I hope KS gets banned from coaching at the collegiate level, CYO, and Girls 6 on 6 Iowa basketball for at least 5-10 years.

I wish you all the best and hope that you keep working hard, because your talent is sick.

I always think back to the interviews with Davis when Jefferies was thinking of making the jump, and he kept telling the media that they had a plan in place to address that. The plan was apparently to use George Leach? Roy seems to have a plan and then he follows through on the execution, which is why we have to deal with this crap of UNC being good every year because they are a good team, rather than Duke, who is a good name.