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With having all his teeth he would have been a target for ridicule?

Coach Cignetti enters the chat:

Good gracious, clutch the pearls much?! If criticizing the game of men that make $1M+ playing basketball on a relatively obscur message board is the worst thing I ever do I feel pretty good about my chance at passing through the Pearly Gates. And if, by some off chance, they ever venture onto this site and are mortally wounded for being called unathletic, soft,or slow, God help them with the remainder of their lives.

If there was ever a less athletic Todd Jadlow it is Reed Bailey.

Marsh mellow fingers Reed Bailey being blown out of the post by a cheerleaders fart. Cement shoes Tucker DeVries missing his Ozempic injection for, apparently, forever. Being out hustled by more athletic, less athletic, equally athletic teams. What you got?

True, stubborn as an egotistical billy goat and in 4 years he never stopped trying to and never got over that damn hump. Hump 1 Woodson 0 Or is that Hump 4 Woodson 0 The hump was like a highway mirage and Woodrow was thiiiirsty.

Just came to post that exact passage. Sure is refreshing to have a coach with enough self confidence to admit to an error in judgment and be willing to self scout.

Bailey's NIL was like lighting $1-2M on fire, TDV has not played to up to his NIL cost, he has contributed as much as he can with great effort but he is just way too slow for the B1G. Conerway, Enright, Alexis have been about as expected. Wilkerson's replacement is the biggest concern for me.

Dorn, Sisley, Miles are solid returning pieces that should all improve along with other younger pieces with a year of college coaching vs 0 returning players from the previous season. Three top 100 HS recruits vs the single Sisley commitment. Class rank 100 spots higher (17 vs117) A coaching staff that is already in place scouting transfers and making connections with future recruits vs DeVries working alone trying to recruit, scout, and hire a staff at a card table in a broom closet in mid March. Now, how does it look to not be more promising?

Hopefully we never find out, but if you think merely missing the tourney his first 2 yrs will get him axed, I've got some bad news for you. Looks like after all the pearl clutching he most likely has his first team headed to the tourney and his current 26-27 roster looks even more promising.

Already prepped and ready.

Fact is he absolutely does not need to make the tourney this year and probably not next year either.

Yeah, just a little morning sarcasm. The worst thing Cig did was create Cig like expectations for every sport. Expecting a top 5-7 B1G team from an entire 100% thrown together team was always unrealistic. A .500 record in the B1G and making the tourney would be a good first step for DeVries. He already is proving to be a good recruiter and the brand of basketball is of the 21st century variety, so that's good. Checking in on the other options IU may have had: McCullom(IOWA) - similar 16-5 with not a single top 25 win Buzz Williamson (MARYLAND) 1-9 in the B1G and an abject disaster Bucky McMillan(T A&M) 7-1 in the SEC but 6 wins are against teams in the bottom 7 of the SEC and they are ranked below IU in NET Richard Pitino (XU) best described as floundering. Will Wade(NC St) Doing well in conf, but again against, except for Clemson, all sub .500 conf bottom feeders. As an apologist, I will wait into year 2 at the very least to light my torch and grab my pitchfork.

Reed Bailey has been there all season. The inability to bring out his inner Shaq has been a huge indictment of this coaching staff.

Christ on a cracker! He literally built an entire team,no hyperbole, zero returning players from scratch in a short period of time. Not even Dusty May had to do that. So he did not McGyver together a Ferrari...shocking! He has put a competitive product on the floor and they are showing signs of growth, something that is foreign to these parts lately. He also has a few quality guys coming back, 3 top 100 recruits and plenty of time to attack the portal this year, so progress should be evident. That is,if he isn't fired in the next few weeks.