Why these young boyz BETTER appreciate IU Basketball while it's HOT! "The Yard"

In my Biggie voice, "If you don't know! Now you know!" 

Lord Action once said, "History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul." John F. Kennedy got smart with a boy when he said, "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside." Then ole dull Napoleon Bonaparte took all the gangstas gold chains and sneakers when he spit, "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." 

Well playas...history is the version of events that I know to be true and as a matter of fact, especially when it comes to Indiana University! On Saturday night these young boyz runnin' around this state finally got a taste of what all of us old heads grew up believin' was normal or at the very least expected! Seein' Indiana ballin' with confidence and advancin' to the Sweet 16! They knocked off No.4 seeded Kentucky 73-67 in a heavy weight fight that reminded a boy of the old Ali/Frazier joints. It's a shame that these two schools can't drop their pride off at the door and figure out a way to continue the rivalry annually. 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! As I'm watchin' the Hoosiers advance I started goin' down memory lane and I immediately thought to myself that these young boyz don't have a clue of how much fun it was to be a student on the yard when IU basketball was IU BASKETBALL or to even grow up in this state when IU Basketball was IU BASKETBALL! 

I started thinkin' about how it was when I was on the yard in B-town after a win like that bruh! Party in the Flame Room at McNutt! The Sigmas are throwin' down with DJ Whip on the one's and two's! Boyz steppin' all night until somebody pushes the wrong cat. The Sigmas and Nupes end up squabbin' for no reason then they make up and keep steppin'!  After set over at somebody's apartment in Varsity Villas and then once the police breaks that up everybody is headed over to the Nupe House and we're goin' till' it's empty and the sun is shinnin'! Only to do it all over again next weekend at the Delta party with the after set...you got it, at the Nupe House!!!  

Oh, y'all don't know about Hooligans on Thursday night on Kirkwood or BW3 Tuesday nights on 10th street! Now it's called Buffalo Wild Wings and the joint is on Kirkwood! It's you're at least 45 years old you still say BW3 no matter how many times your kid corrects you! But if you're an old head then you know Indiana basketball was once an elite program that boyz had to respect even if they didn't like it. 

They were the duns that had 5 championship banners blowin' in the rafters in Assembly Hall and at that time they were recent memory! Winnin' Big Ten titles was a normal occurrence and goin' to the NCAA Tournament and advancin' was expected. 

It was nothin' to be on the yard and goin' to class with cats that were All-Americans! Dappin' boyz up in front of Ballantine Hall or hoopin' in the summer at the Hyper with duns like Calbert Cheaney, Steve Alford, Jay Edwards, Keith Smart, the big homie Greg Graham etc. You knew the legends when you saw them like Randy Whitman, Scott May, George McGinnis etc. These young boyz around here walk past Quinn Buckner and don't have a clue of who he is. He's the only cat in the history of basketball to win a high school, college, NBA and Olympic championship and he's an IU legend!!! You can't be an IU student and not know that. Shake that man's hand when you run into him bruh. 

Even though I couldn't stand Bobby Knight I respected him because he was winner and he got in his players butts at all cost. We knew that the hoopers wanted to be wild on the yard but they knew that ole Bob would find out. So they would tell the fellas, "Naw playa I'm cool on that bruh! I'll see y'all later." Cuz Bob wasn't playin'!  

Now watchin' IU basketball was like watchin' paint dry for all of the brothas but they won and that was good enough for us. We had braggin' rights all over the state and that kept duns from Purdue from even comin' our way with some foolishness. 

I just hope these young boyz appreciate the Hoosiers advancin' to the Sweet 16 as much as I do today because it ain't promised like all of us old heads thought that is was. Stop me when I start lyin'! 

Playas Thesaurus: 
1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and its non-gender specific. 
3) Yard: noun - campus
4) Old Heads: noun - anybody that is at least 40 years old relatively speakin' 
5) Sigmas: noun - members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. 
6) Nupes: noun - members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.