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Indiana State Is Spending Millions to Stay Irrelevant

Jason Svoboda (@jasonsvoboda) on X Indiana State Is Spending Millions to Stay Irrelevant

"You seize the day, and we did not," said Richard Landini, president of Indiana State. "We did not build upon that reputation, that extraordinary three years of Bird. It was a combination of inexperience, a lack of vision at the time."

Sycamore Faithful: You will either seize the day or regret the time you lost. I've got it from a several sources that the NIL pool is one of the last hurdles in retaining HCJS. Are you going to continue the mistakes of yesteryear or join with me and make a contribution to the Crossroad of Champions Collective?

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Whether you like it or not, NIL isn't going anywhere. If you want Indiana State basketball to become a MM power, you have to open your wallet and become part of the solution.

Goal is to have at least 2,000 Sycamore hoops fans to be in at $25/month. That is one less sushi and Topo Chico run a month as HCJS would say.

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If you are a reversible jacket fan, you are the problem.

Waking up to see high major cuck state that Indiana State is among his last four out if they don't win the automatic berth today is of your doing as much as it is his.

You see, by also being a fan of Indiana, Purdue, or whatever high major program when you turn that Sycamore jacket inside out, you've allowed this system of inequality to exist. Not only that, it has now grown to the point where it is going to tear college athletics apart due to the immense greed and arrogance. You're a cog in the machine making all of this happen.

Two decades ago, it was more commonplace for a power conference school like Indiana to go on the road to Hulman Center. Today, however, it is seen as "not good for their NCAA tournament resume" or "insert some NET or Quad win mumbo jumbo" yet that same inverse logic is used against Indiana State for not scheduling well enough. Never mind the fact to schedule "well enough" now means we would have to go on the road to multiple power conference schools where home winning percentages are usually well over 67%.

Looking at data from 1996 to 2018, the midpoint NCAA wide home court winning percentage was 67.65%. When you extrapolated that at looked at power conference percentages? It jumped to 70%+, even 80%+ like Michigan State, who had an 86.8% home court winning percentage. But yeah, we're expected to go win in Breslin when most of the Big Ten can't even do that on a yearly basis?

Back to you for a minute.

When you turn that jacket inside out and give these other schools and their media your eyeballs and your discretionary dollars, you're adding more money to those coffers, which they then invest in perpetuating the system and advancing their influence. Did Robbie Avila and just get good in the last month? If you believe the national media that all the sudden showed up sniffing around Terre Haute, you'd certainly think so. By the way lazy journalists, the smell has been gone for decades just like the lazy tropes you've been using about Terre Haute in your recent articles. Also happens to be about the same time Indiana last came to Hulman Center and we sent them back to Bloomington with a big L. But I digress.

The effort to change this nonsense starts begins and end with you. Quit giving your attention and money to other schools. Do and demand better.

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[March 18, 2023] Indiana State (22-12) vs USC Upstate (16-15) vs. Indiana State Sycamores (22-12) vs. USC Upstate Spartans (16-15) College Basketball Invitational Ocean Center - Dayton Beach, FL Saturday, March 18th, 2023

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2023 Sycamore Pride PSA Gem Mint 10s Haven't done custom cards in several years so figured I'd bring it back. Collect 'em all.

Can make it over to Chi-town to see the game live? Come live post with us as the Sycamores look to keep pace for a Arch Madness bye tonight vs the Flames.

[February 15, 2023] Indiana State (18-9) at Illinois-Chicago (10-17) vs. Indiana State Sycamores (18-9, 11-5) vs. Illinois-Chicago Flames (10-17, 2-14) Credit Union 1 Arena - Chicago, IL Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 Tip: 8pm