In Episode 1 of Xs and Joes, Mike and Bob provide the backstory on their decades-long research project and conversation trying to identify what it takes to build a winner in college basketball. Then they jump right into exploring one of the Big Questions they've been wrestling with since 1996.Here's the outline for the episode:Segment One: The Conversation at 7th and Washington that launched the primary question. 1) Dec. 7th, 1996...A Date That Lives In Infamy.2) Comparing the two teams3) The Initial Findings: Talent does matter, and IU was quite talented in their heydaySegment Two: The Hoosiers Mythos: The movie is not a documentary.1) Mike's Process: How Excel aggregated the paradigm?2) Elements of Winning Programs: Two Good Examples and Butler. 3) "Convincing" the BarbershopSegment Three: Is talent enough? 1) 2015: Wisconsin Saves the 1976 Legacy2) The Tobacco Road Scrolls: Dean Smith on System vs Flexible Coaching3) What this means for IU right now? Can Woodson get "buy in"?Segment Four: 1996-97 Season Epilogue1) A Trip to Tobacco Road, A Disaster, and An Open Practice: recognizing just how special the sauce has to be.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.