SI TIX. Home Indiana Hoosiers Basketball. Here are the highlights, and the complete video interview is below: 'It's been a tough day I'm confident in my decision but that doesn't make it any easier.
I think there is an opportunity for someone to take this program to the level we want it to be. If we find the right person, we'll do everything we can. The championship team on which the Hoosiers true story is based is actually the Milan High School Indians.
There is no town of Hickory in Indiana. Was the Coach really a middle-aged man? Screenwriter Angelo Pizzo said the following about keeping the Coach in the movie the same age as his real life counterpart, "I wrote it that way and the movie didn't work.
If he had failed, he still had the rest of his life. I went back and made the character older, a guy with a last chance. At Butler, Marvin played on two Hoosier Classic championship teams and when Butler defeated both Indiana and Purdue in the same tournament. Was the Coach really hired to replace a former Coach who had died? In the film, Coach Norman Dale is hired to replace a well-liked Coach who dies. The team's star player, Jimmy Chitwood, refuses to play for part of the season because he's so upset.
In real life, Coach Marvin Wood was hired the previous season to replace Coach Herman "Snort" Grinstead, who was fired for ordering new uniforms against the superintendent's orders.
As stated above, it was Coach Wood's second season with the Milan Indians. He actually took them to the semi-finals the previous year. During his second year, which is what the film depicts, the town was no longer skeptical of his new strategies for offense and defense.
The town was behind him. This is opposite to what is shown in the movie, where a community referendum is held to determine the Coach's fate. Did the team's star player really sit out half the season, upset over the previous coach's death? The Milan Indians star basketball player, Bobby Plump, played the entire season.
Although the former Coach was well liked, he did not sulk over the firing not death of the previous coach, Herman "Snort" Grinstead. Did a romance really develop between the Coach and a teacher?
In real life, Coach Marvin Wood was married with two children pictured left. He was not romantically involved with a teacher from the school. Coach Wood's wife, Mary Lou, often worried aloud, "If a basketball and I were placed at half-court, which one would he choose?
The film's romance was an element of fiction added by screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, whose other work includes the script for the football drama Rudy , also based on a true story. Was Dennis Hopper's character based on a real life assistant coach? Dennis Hopper's character of "Shooter", who is the town drunk and father to one of the players, is entirely fictional. It is a little ironic or maybe not so ironic that this fiction-based performance resulted in an Oscar nomination for Hopper, which was the only acting nomination that the film received Hoosiers was also nominated for Best Original Score.
In real life, Marc Combs and Clarence Kelly were the assistant coaches. Neither of them were drunks. Did the real Coach wear a shirt and tie to practice? In the movie, Gene Hackman's Coach Dale is a hardliner who runs his drills in a shirt and tie. Coach Marvin Wood was much more soft-spoken and often suited up and played with the team during practices. Had the real life Coach been previously fired from coaching for punching one of his players?
The somewhat volatile Coach Dale in the movie had been fired from coaching on the collegiate level for punching one of his players. In real life, Coach Marvin Wood had never been fired for punching a player. Many who knew the real Coach have stated that Coach Marvin Wood was much more soft-spoken than his onscreen counterpart.
Coach Wood often said of his championship squad, "God was coaching that team, not me. Not entirely. Similar to the fictional Hickory High in the film, it's true that there were only students enrolled at the real school Milan High. However, unlike in the movie, 58 of the 73 boys at the school tried out for the basketball team.
There were 10 players on the Milan team in , not six. Did the real-life Coach practice the philosophy of four passes before a shot? Crean would go on to be hired by Georgia, where he's just in his first two years.
He was replaced at Indiana by Archie Miller, who has yet to make an NCAA tournament appearance, though he probably would have this year. Our timing is good, because there are great NCAA tournament memories through the years on just about every day.
I'm really looking forward to reliving them all. We'll pick the best one every day, on into April for sure. Please share with your friends. Other Sports. Football Schedule. SI TIX. Home Indiana Hoosiers Basketball. First in a daily series, published March 16, By Haley Jordan. By Tom Brew.
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