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I suppose UCLA is likely out of the question?

As cool as this is, it won’t be over until it’s over. Makes getting excited for football recruits a challenge. (For me)

Baylor’s Yessoufou likely portaling. He’ll garner significant money somewhere. LSU and UK the big spenders left? UNC? Someone will pay him well.

We need a 4/5, not a 5.

reading some more on Sales... they actually let him play both ways last season, so he isn't a p*** ---- 56 tackles in 10 games. Made the state in the 100 (10.81), 2nd in the state in the 200 (and actually broke the state record in the pre lims), was part of the 4x1 team that won the state (as was Davion Chandler), Top 12 in the long jump, as well. Won the long jump at the MIC conference track meet Lists himself at 6'5 205 now

Sometime in July, he's still got officials to Bama, OSU, and Miami. I think Wiltfong put ~60% confidence on this prediction. So, we've got a ways to go, but we've got a decent shot here...

oh boy wait wait... do we have an announcement date on MS yet?

Who stated we don't have holes? You make s*** up to argue lol No one has misrepresented your viewpoint. It was just.... silly the entire time.

It'd be nice for our 6th and 7th guys to be more proven than 10mpg each. It'd be nice to have a back up 5 as 8th or 9th man. Moody as 8th or 9th and Karvala as 10th would be fine with me. Overall the staff deserves kudos for pulling a top portal haul. That doesn't mean we have no holes on the roster or are ensured any type of success. But why bother trying to understand what others are saying when you can just misrepresent their point of view and argue with yourself? Lol

I just did... at the 1&5 we are absurdly better than we were last year, and at PG.... I think it's the best we've been since Yogi... I'm just happy to have the concerns we have now vs what we saw in games again P4 last season. I don't play the prediction/expectation game. I except to be able to compete in every game, make the tourney, as a 9 or better seed. That would be the floor. Realistically-- you thought we were pulling in PROVEN guys for spots 6-9? What world do you guys live in?

The kids ranked around our incoming freshmen are largely either going to be fringe rotation guys at P5 like Sisley last year or play more at schools like VCU and Dayton. Basketball is played with 5 guys on the court and we bought a potentially pretty to very good group of starters. We still need to get something out of our bench. All teams need to worry about staying healthy. Especially us. Hopefully we go 12-8 in the Big Ten or better and have a core to retain for the first time in what feels like forever for IUBB. This program has no culture to attract or retain guys. That's probably what I found most disappointing about year 1 and why going into year 2 we again had to spend absurd amounts of money to flip the entire roster. Hopefully allocated better this time around. All we can do is hope since absolutely nothing is ensured when you compete at this level.

....why do I feel a few of these possible misses, high on our radar, will be in the transfer portal next year and IU back as their desired destination? lol

And yet they weren't huge. Which is astounding. But the music endures.

Well yes, maybe spots 9-10. The emphasis on top 100 doesn't mean a whole lot these days when you can upgrade your roster every offseason with 22-24 year old proven players. Karvala and Manhertz may have high ceilings, but physically, I wouldn't expect much from them this season. And why would you? If all three freshman are key components of your rotation, you're likely in trouble. Doubly if someone like Sherrell or Burton get hurt.

All this misdirection that people are concerned about 11-13 lol. People are commenting on 6-9. People have their own ideas about depth and top end talent. Or what to expect from freshmen. So everyone minimizing concerns others have, what is your expectation for the Big 10 W/L record next year?

Now do 1 & 5...that is the issue. We have no other PG on the roster and 2 Centers, that both will be starting. After that it gets awfully thin. There is no world where either Sherrell or the big Turk play 30+ mins game. So I agree IU has some depth, but it all appears to be at 2-4.

I could see Yigi playing the 2 ahead of Monden

https://www.basketunderreview.com/nil-donors-are-spending-big-what-are-they-actually-getting-back/ Decent read. Pretty sure the mid-major kid it references is Leroy Blyden at Toledo. Read somewhere that Kowalczyk talked about putting together the biggest offer he could for the kid and Kansas completely blew it away.

Who is acting like we haven't significantly upgraded the roster? Not me. I've said I have no problem with Moody as 9th man and Karvala as 10th. We agree on your last paragraph. Comparisons to last year's team don't interest me. Simply saying the bench can be a hindrance to success next year. I didn't realize saying 12-8 in the Big Ten next year is so pessimistic of me. I'll remember to give the staff a pat on the @$$ in every post if it makes people feel better lol

Collin had to do that because HP couldn't stay out of trouble and Emmitt Holt hit Devan Davis with a car. But.. people sliding over is in fact depth because you can insert Sisley at the 4, Harris at the 2/3. It's considerably than what we were doing last season lol

It sure appears that way. I would LOVE to be pleasantly surprised by IUBB for the first time, in a long time. But as it stands, the roster construction is questionable, at best, IMO. I will give it a chance, but am cautiously pessimistic and prepared to be disappointed when Sisley inevitably ends up guarding a B1G center and is predictably getting abused. Having one starter slide over to cover another position for an injury/foul/fatigue is not "depth." For instance if Lindsay is the starting SG AND back-up PG, then there is no back-up PG. Same for Sherrell at Center. It's a house of cards. My credentials? I recognized Bailey wasn't a B1G center last off-season. I also recall Colin Hartman (among several others the last 20yrs) playing out of position as "center" for long-stretches and what an embarrassment that is.

I guess I'm just confused on how we thought this would go. We thought the FR would be spots 11-13? Like we actually thought that? 2 kids rated top 100--- just won't see the floor at all/shouldn't be relied upon to offer depth? But, if we go from the issues we had last year to worrying about our 7th-9th spots--- that's measurable growth. Enright vs Burton Wilkerson vs Lindsay Dorn vs Mustaf DeVries vs Sherrell Alexis vs Yigi we're going to sit here and act like that isn't significant? Bench Conerway, Bailey, FR Sisley, Miles Bench SO Sisley, Harris, 3 FR Granted if you played a game bench vs bench--- it's probably relatively even--- but, it's not like we are taking out all 5 starters namely Sherrell/Yigi (both) ever. The bench wasn't near the issue as our top end talent was last season, specifically at the 1/5. people are going to question and pretend they know s*** know matter what lol.. it's easy to do on a computer with no skin in the game. I've not really mentioned an issue with that, though. I think realistically, we've added near the best we could... I really like the idea that all these guys can be back next year... I do hope we find another guy that's more 7th-11th... and not a clear 12th, 13th, as the last two are...

Been following the transfer portal since it opened and was writing down names of potential post players. Came up with probably 25 guys and now down to 1- Emeka Opurum is still on Mike Schuman's latest list of guys we have contacted. Pro's-7'0", athletic, rim runner, rebounder and shotblocker Cons-Not much of an offensive threat, set out last year at Auburn due to some sort of heart condition but has been cleared to play Did a deep dive in to the Euro big men available and feel like most are probably a pipe dream due to cost or NBA aspirations or other schools involved. However I did come across one fun fact: our recent addition Clemens Sokolof has the same agent as Serbian 7 footer Lazar Gacic who played for Mega Superbet (the team we played in Puerto Rico last year). Gacic is skinny but skilled and might be able to provide 10-15 minutes per game as a depth piece. Have no idea if we are in contact but thought it interesting that he has the same agent(Misko Raznatovic) as our new guy.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18phwSvxDG/?mibextid=wwXIfr Love this one. Alisa Williams