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Did we just dodge the biggest heartbreak of all time or is this just a setup for when Brad - I mean Dusty - returns years later to bring us to the top?

The greatest Hoosier alum booster ever. Keep opening that path to the top for your alma mater brother Cuban.

And he commits to Indiana. Of course, hopefully he signs. We beat out Miami and Georgia... just like with Fernando. I liked this quote: "Miami, Georgia, great programs, they develop players as well, but nobody does it like Indiana."

OV Sept. 5.

Ha.

OH YEAH? Well @Class of '66 Old Fart has been following IU Basketball since Branch McCracken was in diapers and HE thinks that Mike Woodson was always a poopy-@$$ coach and the IU fanbase is jus' ducky, so THERE! (OF - you are welcome for me making you look... wise).

Only one man for the job. Has a FF, multiple B1G titles, and knows the state of Michigan like the back of his hand. No brainer. Don't overthink this UM.

First thought it was a joke but all the major outlets are running with the story. Means only one thing — Brad Stevens to Michigan.

If Dusty had come to IU and left after a couple years to go to the NBA I am not sure this board could have survived. I think it would have exploded.

Happy 5-month anniversary, everyone! Jan. 19, 2026 -- a date which will live in infamy.

What’s crazy is that we are in a place in which IU fans feel disrespected because we are being picked 3rd in the Big Ten ahead of Michigan, PSU, USC etc .. THANK YOU COACH CIG !!

egad, a real non-con opponent....in Assembly Hall! I'm guessing this is the day after fall finals.

Now that the initial shock of the trade is beginning to wear off, I think some things are clear. I love Jaylen Brown, my kids grew up on "The Jays", but the reality is the Celtics were not going to give him the Super Max extension that he is eligible for this summer. They were already struggling with paying him #1 money when he's a #2 on a title team, and the window was closing or even closed on the Tatum/Brown Celtics given new ownership and all of these different "apron" rules. The Celtics weren't going to commit to paying him $70M annually as he approaches the other side of 30 and would have had to commit to paying him that at 33-35 years old. I love Brown, but Tatum is the better player by quite a bit and teams no longer want to pay two guys the Super Max. The package Stevens got in return sucks. But it also shows nobody else was really willing to commit those dollars to Brown either. Teams want to reserve the Super Max for top 5 guys, not guys in the 10-25/30 range.

IU has lost their minds on exhibition game pricing. For those prices you can go to regular season game(s) at Assembly against as good or even better opponents. Or you could go to a football game. For an exhibition game decent (not amazing) seat… $40 max imo. Cmon IU… price these games lower to get people in the door. Get more fans engaged with IUBB again.

If he won a title here, I'd be fine with him leaving even after 2 seasons. I'm just glad I can now like the guy without him being a conference opponent and that Michigan should be much less formidable, at least this year, with someone else running things.

Hey, they remembered Assembly Hall exists!

i suggest contacting Brandon Sorsby to get the latest odds.

Great stuff from Coach Bielema: https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/illinois-coach-bret-bielema-calls-iu-football-coordinators-haines-and-shanahan-extremely-special/

Rhode Island fans are toxic too?

Shay made her WNBA debut against the Fever here in Indiana for the Mercury last night and hit a 3 late in the game after playing in a blowout in the final two minutes.

We start building Cig's statue earlier than planned. He delivered the most improbable story in college sports history -- 98%+ of IU fans will forever be grateful for the 16-0 title in the biggest college sport. Just my $0.02.

Oh look, Ponds winning a 50/50 ball from some 6’3” kid who probably thought he was open. The Jets so don’t deserve that kid.

lol

CTC is everywhere

I’ve spent the last week hiking in and around the Canadian Rockies with my family and IU hat proudly displayed. Middle of nowhere, in the mountains, and I get a Go Hoosiers without fail at least once a day!

Good thing Dolson passed on him. He would have been a disaster at IU. /s

Unable to do a thorough job with an initial post for an offer. Following my weekend in Vegas with Sorsby and Diego, @Hovadipo felt I had besmirched the integrity of the mods (as if that’s possible) and put me on super secret probation limiting my posting capabilities. No idea how long that will last, but I’ve got to tell you that watching Sorsby placing bets on what article of clothing the stripper would shed next and Diego trying to tuck a buck and only being able to reach their shoes makes it all worthwhile. Meanwhile we offered Mohler on his UV. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/early-in-state-name-to-know-for-class-of-2029-micah-mohler-visiting-iu-basketball/

I actually trust CDD, Kenny, etc. to do this exactly right. FWIW, among these pictures is one that is really ridiculously depressing. Looks like a teenager pushing grandpa’s wheelchair at the convalescent home:

One of these things is not like the other. Crean rebuilt IU from the ashes of Sampsongate, won B1G titles, took us to multiple SW16’s, gave us Yogi, Cody, Vic, Wat, OG, etc. He wasn’t a great basketball mind but he doesn’t belong in the discontent over the abomination of coaching that was CMW or the failure of CAM

Has the applicant pool really gotten worse? DDV was at WVU, IU took another P5 school's coach. Archie had a lot of national hype at the time he was hired. The cycle where Woodson was hired seems like the anomaly where we hired a candidate nobody else would've. And people can make their own interpretations as to why before and after Woodson, IU was able to hire coaches that were considered rising stars or already at P5 like DeVries, Crean, Sampson

At practice this week. Note his choice of wristband:

In regards to it being slow. At least now we are waiting for football season to start instead of November

True! Timing is everything. Thank goodness Indiana University hit the timing exactly right on a multiple generationally great coaches: Bob Knight, the single best tactician and motivator in colege basketball history, Curt Cignetti, the leader of the single most improbable and dominant season in college football history, Doc Counsilman,the greatest coach in college swimming history, and Jerry Yeagley the greatest coach in college soccer history All Hall of Famers - all extraordinary. Kudos to @AH1971 for the reminder that Indiana University and its extraordinary fanbase have the greatest record of timing and coaches of ANY university. Your infectious optimism has reminded all of us that we have so much to be grateful for, and that the current era is a big part of that success!!

Man. Imagine the pressure to get this hire right. I hear Mike Woodson is available

Bostad made his name turning kids like this into absolute maulers on those road grading Wisconsin teams before his NFL stint. He is elite at spotting traits. I imagine he wipes with analytics print-outs.

Ann Arbor seemingly didn’t care they won a title. My family was on that campus the day after the title game and said you couldn’t tell a championship had been won. Combine that with the lack of enthusiasm I saw by Michigan fans at the national title game and it’s not hard to see why Dusty left. Michigan will need to decide if they are serious and care about basketball or program will continue to see extreme swings. Also for IU fans who wanted Dusty, you have to wonder if being treated like a king in Bloomington rather than an afterthought in Ann Arbor would have kept him around longer or lure of NBA would have been to strong after a couple of years?

BYE DUSTYYYYYY

Missouri pushed hard, but in the end the good guys won.

The indictment is still sealed until his initial appearance, but from media reports it appears to be Federal Wire Fraud/Mail Fraud charges out of Kriisa's one year at West Virginia. To me, that impies that the victims of the fraud scheme are well-monied friends that he met along the way - hence it would be likely that Ballo is a potential victim and that Kriisa is a Matt Roth type defendant.

Same. I picked up 2 adult and 3 youth for the whole family to go. Any night in the Hall is good night. Great seats as well. Looking forward to watching IU basketball in July

Sampson didn't trash the program. IU self-reported what today is a non-issue and then fell on its sword to show the NCAA how contrite it was. IU was desperate to maintain a "squeaky clean" reputation, to the absolute detriment of the basketball program. My disdain for Woodson is 100% warranted. He was given the job that he didn't deserve. He was entitled, lazy, petty and protected. He (and Buckner) have earned every bit of my disdain, in spades.

The mystery man speaks! Seems like a super likable, intelligent, and reasonable kid:

And because it's being played in the U.S., our foreign players are allowed to play.

Markus Burton – two seasons Darren Harris – three seasons Vaughn Karvala – five seasons Bryce Lindsay – two seasons Trevor Manhertz – five seasons Justin Monden – two seasons Prince-Alexander Moody – five seasons Jaeden Mustaf – three seasons Jordan Rayford (walk-on) – one season Aiden Sherrell – three seasons Trent Sisley – four seasons Drew Snively (walk-on) – four seasons Clemens Sokolov – five seasons Ian Stephens (walk-on) – two seasons Ben Winker (walk-on) – four seasons Samet Yigitoglu – two seasons *Yigitoglu's eligibility clock began during the 2023-24 season, while he was still playing overseas. this is with the new 5 for 5 rules

Really embarrassing when they have to bring out a booster seat for Diego at the blackjack table.

My dignity by resigning

I don't know, I'd say this was pretty unexpected. The sports world is shocked given the precedent penalties, like cases of tiny bets sometimes not even on CFB resulting in player bans. The betting markets had this priced as a ~90%+ chance he would be ineligible. Betting can be an addiction. But two thoughts with this situation: 1) Addiction does not exempt someone from penalties and consequences. Nor does treatment involve playing CFB. I really don't understand what the judge was thinking. 2) I can't know for sure, but I'm not buying this "addiction." His behavior looks a lot like someone who enjoys gambling. $90K bet across 2,900 wagers is $31 per bet. And he did this over four years. He's probably +/- $10-20K over four years, which is not crazy, especially for all the money he's made playing CFB. He's not destroying his finances or spiraling. I've got friends who bet that much. Gambling shifts from a bad habit to a serious problem when the amounts bet get very large, the person inevitably chases losses and loses big money, and their financial and personal life spiral as a result. No one saw anything like this with Brendan. Treating what Brendan did as an "addiction" that was miraculously cured in a 35 day rehab program makes a mockery of people with serious gambling addition problems that need to work on it a day at time for the rest of their lives. I find it annoying and I'm not ready to sympathize with what I think is most likely an addiction manufactured for his eligibility defense. I dunno, I could be wrong, but I doubt it. I think everyone can see this one stinks to high heaven.

“All I'm saying is that you could have robbed banks, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded. But shaving points off of a football game, man that's un-American.” - The Longest Yard