All Activity

He was 8 ppg 38% shooter on volume last year. It all counts. That’s more than practical for a 5th starter that plays a little over 20 mpg. Harris is going to need to far exceed that as a 6th man to justify paying 7+ figures. Dorn and someone like Del Jones probably cost similar to what IU paid Harris. Thats a ton more bang for your buck.

I tend to agree with this. Before the Penn State kick-off last year, a sideline reporter said to Cig, "Indiana has never won here at Beaver Stadium, how does that change today?" Cig: "This team has never played here." G-damn it he's the best. I think should fundamentally apply to IUBB. We've stunk for a long time, but all the people that stunk are pretty much entirely gone. Everyone that had to do with Mike Davis, Sampson's problems, Crean's down years, Archie, and Woody... are gone. I get it's technically not everyone, Scott & Pam were around for Woody (though as we know he was mostly pushed on them) and there are probably some meddling donors in the background that have been around for decades. But in general, all the people who struggled here are gone. And whatever the IU admin is now, it is natty capable. Now, our image isn't great after 30 years of struggles. Fair, that's a headwind, though not an insurmountable one. But another thing that's gone is the era we struggled in, the pre-NIL era. Now we've got ~#15 roster spend last year and ~#7-10 roster spend this year. We've never had this before. This is quite the advantage as we know. So, yes, we've not been good for a long time. And maybe there is something weird in the water in Bloomington that makes us mediocre at MBB. Not sure what that is but it's possible. But overall, this current IUBB program has almost nothing in common with the iterations of our program that struggled. Frankly, while I don't expect CDD to be Cig, I wouldn't mind CDD laying down a marker that the past is the past, this team has nothing to do with it, and things change now. I can kinda buy the excuses for season one... some of them. But this season he's been given everything needed to improve significantly. There is no reason IU can't be a six seed or better and think S16 this year, then build on that for season three and really start thinking big.

It seems that Alabama’s Preston Murphy and Texas Tech’s Achoki Moikobu, both of whom had previously worked with DeVries, may have taken a long time to decide they weren’t interested in joining his staff. That hesitation hurt us last year. However, pivoting to Kenny Johnson may ultimately prove to be a blessing in disguise.

Yeah, I'm with you on what maybe else could have been done with that money. Split between two other guys, etc.? Just not with you on Dorn. Dorn was pretty bad last year. We don't know what Harris will be, completely agree there, but I can't imagine him being worse than Dorn outside of that 3-4 game heater.

Wouldn’t that in theory also apply to Dorn? IU lacked a consistent 2nd scoring option all year behind Wilkerson. After Dorn went on a little heater in late January, teams treated him as such, and he struggled. Dorn would never be more than a 4th/5th option in almost any combination lineup next year. 8 points on 38% volume 3 point shooting for your 5th starter isn’t bad, especially when he’s only commanding $500-750k. What level of production do you need to see from Harris to justify paying 7 figures?

Hoosier alum Sam Sarver had the game winning goal for FC Dallas + a very IU celebration RDT_20260517_004406.mp4

Women's season came to an end last evening in a 9-7 loss to Virginia. But it's been a really enjoyable several months to follow this team. Hess started but couldn't make it out of the 1st inning. Faced 4 batters - a BB, a double, a HR and VA had a quick 3-0 lead. We got 3 of our own in our half the 1st; 2 on a Josie Bird HR. VA scored 4 in its 3rd; we got 3 right back in our 3rd and tied it at 4 apiece after 7 complete. But VA scored 2 more in the 5th and that was the ball game. VA had a total of 10 hits and we walked 6. We had 7 hits; Bird with 2 and Bird and Haberstroh each with 2 RBI.\ Thank you IU Softball and we'll see you next spring.

I would bank that Harris will have a better year just for the reason that indiana has a much better PF, C combo than they had last year, which is going to open up the floor. In theory anyways

Was explaining to a friend today who isn’t big into sports just how meaningful Mendoza will be to the university for the rest of the existence of the football team. She thought within 4 or 5 years nobody would remember him. It was mind boggling.

From a production standpoint, Harris isn’t likely to surpass Dorn from last year and you’re likely paying Harris 2-3x the amount you could have paid Dorn. When you’re operating on a budget and need to fill as many holes as IU did this offseason, every dollar counts. If Harris can average 10-11 off the bench and shoot from the perimeter at a clip similar to Dorn, I’ll shut up. But more likely than not, Harris is going to put up production numbers similar to Dorn but at a significantly higher cost.

Ok, we haven’t been relevant for sure, but DD could’ve transitioned here like Dusty, or Cig that has been mentioned bringing in assistant coaches and former players, etc., but for whatever reason he didn’t, and so our first year was what it was, but in this era, a great coach can turn around a program in the first year or two, which is the point no matter how miserable we have been we have resources that are far superior to Most.

2 things: 1) like that shirt a lot. Very simple, very cool, 2) What is up with dude’s toes? Those look absolutely painful.

Rico? suave.

Women stay alive with an 8-0 run-shorted win over Northern Kentucky. Re-match with Virginia scheduled to start at 8:15. Troutt pitched all 5 innings and allowed just 3 hits and didn't walk a batter. We had 11 hits scattered throughout the batting order and 6 different players had at least 1 RBI. 8:15 game will be televised on ESPNU

https://247sports.com/player/rico-jackson-46159697/

This is never gonna look right

Have no thoughts on his actual game, but look at this kid’s frame, movements and stroke and tell that doesn’t look like Hood-Schifino.

Depends on how early he thinks he expects to see the field

And the fat lady has sung on the 2026 baseball season. Certainly not what anyone expected but at least the team did win the final weekend series beating Illinois 11-2 this afternoon. We pounded out 10 hits off 5 Illini pitchers. Cal Gates unloaded the first home run of his college career in the 4th and it will always be memorable for him as it was a grand slam. Lots of questions to be answered before next year. Good read from Ari Shifron at the link below. https://www.assemblycall.com/p/pro-development-or-program-decline?r=2xu6ia&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Any intel on this one where he’s leaning?

I would of used IUs stats dating back 16 years compared to those 2 but IU hadn’t been relevant enough for anyone to compare them to those 2 top of the B1G teams in that timeframe

My point was that the stats dating back 16 years between Michigan State and Michigan do not have any relevance pertaining to Indiana. Yes I understand that Michigan is usually good in sports and IU predominantly has a history of being good in basketball (until now) and yes, we’ve had a rocky road ever since Knight was fired. We are a program in the NIL era that, with a good coach should be able to rebound just as fast as any. I am not trying to cast shade on what DD is doing and I hope he succeeds like I stated, and I think most fans, though critical of things pertaining to the roster build are just pointing out weaknesses that they perceive based on past history.

I keep thinking this one isn’t really a thing and things keep popping up just enough to make it a maybe and now they watch him 1st weekend and IU gets an early mention from the kid. If Clark is doing work here I guess we’ll see.

You, too, boo boo? ;)

Schwarber last 18 games- .300/.402/.857 -- 12HR Last 8 games- .353/.421/1.147 --- 9HR