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It will be interesting to see when he gets on campus tomorrow. I will be on the lookout tomorrow at Assembly Hall. My son and daughter have junior Archie Miller camp tomorrow starting at 9 Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

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IU would take Carton and Newman. Carton is a point and Newman is a 2. They wouldn’t take Newman and Franklin.

I almost feel as if Archie and Belein are rubbing their hands together in glee wile thinking "we can find out really early if our top target is gonna come, we've got a 50/50 shot, and if it's a no-go we can move on really early."

I can testify that Justin Smith was in Assembly Hall this morning by 7:30 since he followed me to work.

I think you take both for sure.

The sooner the better. I would highly doubt they would give him an offer but he can’t commit. His build is of a more physical guard ala Quinn Buckner. What he has in common to Carton is they won’t get pushed around. This is exactly what we need in the B1g.

GET IN MY BELLY

I think you'd have to say this weekend is the most important point in IU's recruiting efforts since the Romeo commitment. Almost for sure he'll have a "great" visit but we'll see if the staff can edge out UM here. I'll try to dig in on this

Jerome and Romeo, in Cook Hall at midnight. Both made quick Instagram posts, 5 min apart. Can't tell if anyone else was there. One of the 'insiders' reported that Romeo has called his dad raving about Jerome, how good he is. Maybe these two have an iron-sharpens-iron thing going here.

One is a ball distributor the other isnt?

Wow, I didn't know Oladipo spoke directly to him or that Carton loved Oladipo as a kid

This is where I am at as well. All three of the outcomes (commit to IU, commit to UM, no decision for the foreseeable future) are liberating for the staff...obviously I would love for Carton to commit, but if he doesn't the staff can redirect resources to other top targets during a super competitive July open period.

I don’t think we are slow playing Newman. We would take him today or tomorrow.

Exactly. OV's before July eval on a top kid indicate an impending commitment. If it doesn't happen and it goes until fall, something changed. Could things swing back, sure, it's recruiting. But IU should know the general situation in the next week and a half

In my opinion? Best of all worlds for IU...currently. In saying that, I strongly believe that DJ Carton is the guard that IU is most enamored, with serious interest in Ramsey, and that we are slow playing Newman, Franklin, and probably Curtis from Ohio. The beauty of it is that IU and Michigan have a visit this week from Carton, and as Bozich said on his ITH podcast this week, the fact that the IU and Michigan visits this week are official visits is telling. To paraphrase Bozich's logic, if Carton takes these two official visits and thereafter decides to wait for the fall, and then schedules other official visits in the fall, that is a pretty clear sign that IU will not be his first choice. So, the beauty of the situation is that we can slow play the other guards, but we don't have to do so for very long.

Like Gnarly said, if Archie wants him I think he gets him. Slow playing it is smart at this point though

So very excellent! Thanks Strom!!!! The team wasn't half bad last year, and that was with major minutes going to the less experienced and less able (Freddie as the starting center, Collin with major injuries). Our talent level is about to skyrocket.

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Jerry Meyer CB pick to Indiana.

Great honor for Vic and very well deserved.

This shows what more than two decades of irrelevance and perpetual rebuilding has done to the perception of our program.