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Aiden Sherrell’s brothers (his agent) last 4 followers on Instagram are Ryan Carr, Markus Burton, Jaeden Mustaf, and Samet Yigitoglu fwiw

Sounds like we’re looking to add a backup big man and a sharp shooter.

I see now that we can't argue about player quality, we are now arguing about who gets the most credit for the quality players we are getting. At least its a change of pace.

IU just had 2 commitments where nobody had any idea they were even a possibility for IU at the time. Doesn’t seem like this staffs style to leak news to anyone regarding their roster plans for next year. I wouldn’t worry about what others are writing about the staffs intentions.

Seems to me people are getting a little anxious over some poor stylistic choices in Rabby's writing lol. IMO "The heart of the Indiana basketball roster is set" is not supposed to be insight. Reads more like a fluffy lede to me. The follow up tweet just reinforcing that the freshmen don't add post depth so the portal will "remain under consideration" as in we'll continue evaluating options, including possibly Euros. I don't see Ryan Carr adding dead weight like Ristic or Andrej to the roster. Doubt they're taking a break for milk and cookies.

So rumors I’ve heard in the last hour is Hall and Gavin Sykes visiting maybe this weekend.

IU a program that has been down forever just brought in 5 power 5 starters ( 3 from teams that made the ncaa tourney). Also brought in a power 5 former top 40 kid that has tons of potential. IU might have money but they don’t have unlimited money. Bringing 6 power 5 players to a program that been down wasn’t going to be cheap. Don’t need to be rabjohns to see they spent most their funds on the first wave of players. Roster is and probably has been set since the staff aggressively went after the first wave of players. Only thing that’s left is to see if the on court results change. Time will tell

We scour every place imaginable for tidbits of info on players we're recruiting and post every update and crystal ball prediction we find. And then Samet yesterday and Lindsay today. Kinda fun to have the names just pop up out of nowhere. This year's portal recruiting almost resembles a military campaign in how it's been managed and executed.

Watching The Turkish Towers highlights. From his frosh to soph year a nice jump. He keeps it simple. A surprisingly good feel for the game. He knows how to set up early, get behind his man and drive him up the lane for position. Soft baby hook with the right. The counter back to the left looks slow and deliberate. He runs the floor well for 7'2 270. He tries to jam everything. Has some nasty to him. Good day in the portal. It's what we deserve.

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The “IU social media industry” including Rabby has no clue who IU is currently shooting for, there’s really no basis on which to form an opinion at this point, other than what staff has actually done, which speaks for itself, pretty strongly

That is a Ryan Carr thing.

Carr works for DeVries. DeVries has final say in roster construction. That was reported when he was hired

....It's funny how some posters seem to "know" privileged information, like how much NIL $ we actually started with and how much we currently have left. GM Carr's "No Leak" policy covers a broad scope. I wouldn't be surprised if Coach DeVries and Carr already know who they want.

pretty logical stuff when you look at the rest of the roster. I don't think he/anyone would need inside info to throw poop at a wall here and get that right.

Bossi said IU just started talking to Lindsey yesterday when his camp said he was still in play and not committed to USC. IU likes him alongside Burton and in case of any guard injuries. Also his relationship with Kenny Johnson played a big part.

So much for needed to make the tourney for momentum. It would have helped but in this day and age money talks

Got a feeling he'll be wearing No. 9 -- even if by accident. Manager: "Hey Clemens, you got a preference for your jersey number?" Sokolov: "Nein." Manager: "You got it!"

You could also make an argument that the real success will be in the middle 3-4 or so guys. We probably know roughly what we're getting out of Burton, Sherrill and Yugi, but the difference between 5-8 in conference vs top 3-4 in conference is probably how well Mustaf, Harris and Lindsay or maybe Sisley perform.

Given the huge amount of money spent on the roster, which will be near $20M, we should be thinking Sweet 16. That's not unreasonable. Everybody in this program is getting paid a lot, from coaches to players. Time to earn it and win.

Yeah, they aren't done looking. They moved swiftly and bagged the priority guys and can now step back, take in the whole roster without the "if" hanging on to their vision, and put finishing touches on the team as they see fit. Plus getting 6 P4 signings in a week where you're competing with other big market players had to be exhausting. Mental gymnastics morning to night; I'm sure they need a break. They do in fact deserve their milk and cookies.

He left a great job to come to IU. If they maintain some level of consistent success I think he gets to be here as long as he wants.

There's our combo guard. We clearly have some serious juice right now. Pretty awesome.

Good morning my friends. Today the talking heads of the internet are all going to have to eat a big giant bag of D"s. We're shaking up the world of college basketball. Because we deserve this. We've been through hell for too long. We've fought amongst ourselves We've tolerated administrative malfeasance, we've been tortured by stupidity. C'mon Aiden. Bring it all together. Preferably before me dentist appointment.

Everyone agrees DDV should've been able to come in and assemble a staff quicker for the most part. Fact is, not being fully staffed likely explains most of why we assembled the lackluster roster that we did. Looks like he has owned his mistakes, not made excuses, and set out to correct them. For that, we can all be thankful.

Alrighty, there’s the 4th big. The 3rd big is now on the clock.

Fitting they're asking him to their "mini" camp

Somehow you manage to spin getting Sherrell into a 3rd choice overpay. Bravo!

You can tell just how closely guarded the staff has kept their recruiting strategy by the fact that the major IU sources don't already have stories up and posted on Lindsay.

Ruptured Rafters is floundering. They even have a thread called "Whiff Watch".

This may be Ryan Carr’s biggest impact yet. Absolutely nothing leaks from the Pacers. Ever. The out-of-the-blue commit yesterday had Kevin Pritchard and Chad Buchanan written all over it.

I’m old enough to remember when people freaked out because we were signing Adam Olsen and it was proof that our staff were morons and they were gonna fill our team with mid major players again. Speculation is indeed fun but not worth getting worked up over. Choose optimism with the portal!

Here’s our boy diving for a 50/50 ball during a travel ball game in April. Follows that up with chasing down a loose ball and just casually burying a corner 3. If that doesn’t do a little something for you not sure what will.

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Thank you to our deep pocket donors! IU basketball looks like it's going to be fun again!

Love seeing a clear coherent plan from the staff. - Went for Estrella at C... he went elsewhere, immediately pivoted to Yig and closed - Went for Sherrell... when it dragged out a bit, immediately lined up the Rancik visit as a contingency plan in case things fell through. Ryan Carr is the man.

He tweeted something very stupid about our portal recruits. Feels like a few posts bashing him for him being an idiot fits to me.

Might be time for Dakich to give up social media if he's now being triggered by "let's work" posts.

Put some respect on Max Biefeldt's name

MSU board was pretty entertaining. Some good posters over there. The best sequence over there was someone asked where their Rabby and a board insider was because they had been silent for days and someone posted they had committed to IU as well. If I could post on their premium board I would of gave him some props because that was funny

Looks like Rancik cancelled his IU visit according to On3. My feeling is that the Sherrell commit is imminent and the starting front court is set. Rancik was probably looking for a starting role and that’s unlikely to happen here.