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As some one who has lived in a small-rural town, a college town, and now a city, all have their own dangers and require people to use common sense and awareness to not put yourself in dangerous situations (which I realize for some people it is difficult to escape dangerous environments due to life circumstances). People that think one place is more dangerous than another by nature either a) don't get out much or b) have some bad experience in their life. Both are understandable, but we need to stop with the whole boogeymen mentality of inner cities and realize that there are a lot of good people everywhere and they live in all different places (albeit some bad but there are bad people everywhere too). Gun violence is never funny but the only people I have ever known to be victims of gun violence were from my hometown in rural southern Indiana, not my current home in Indianapolis. College towns can be really dangerous too (especially for women). I also believe everywhere has something special to offer. Every city or town is a home to someone and has its own culture, traditions, and experiences to share and enjoy. It would be cool if Matthew Hurt went to IU, but I am not overly confident. Guy has Duke written all over him.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2018/07/30/iu-basketball-recruiting-trendon-watford-2019-christian-archie-miller-hoosiers-penny-hardaway/862597002/ We will "definitely" be getting a visit.

If IU were located in Indy someone else could make the same comment and I wouldn't really argue it. Reality is, if my son were considering a school I'd be quite aware of environmentals such as crime rate. He didn't refer to anything untrue. Now if I may excuse myself, it appears one son has locked the other in the dog's kennel. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

We received another crystal ball pick. 10 total for IU. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Kofi Cockburn? Sounds like a McDonald's drive-thru incident.

MICHAEL CARTWRIGHT OT 6-6 305 CLASS OF 19 HIALEAH, FL(CHAMPAGNAT CATHOLIC - HIALEAH) 247 Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Here's a tweet we don't see everyday. Jeff Borzello‏Verified account @jeffborzello Jeff Borzello Retweeted Djjeffries™ Five-star forward D.J. Jeffries is decommitting from Kentucky and will reopen his recruitment. Djjeffries™‏ @lildjj0 After careful consideration prayer and countless hours of consulting with my family I decided to reopen recruitment it was a hard decision but I am confident that taking my time to choose the right school for me to better myself educationally and athletically is the right choice

Haven’t gotten to see Love play yet. Will definitely check out CBC this fall. But I have heard 3 things consistently about him: 1) He is a great kid who any fan base would be proud of. 2) He is an absolute defensive menace. 3) Contrary to the article, Love is currently, in fact, a terrible shooter. To the point that he will turn down open shots. I’m looking forward to seeing him.

I forgot all about this kid tbh

Indiana Women's Basketball - First pro regular season in the books for @lebrona23, who averaged a team-high 20.3 points, team-high 14.7 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game for the Mildura Heat! The Heat will get a bye to open finals play on Aug. 12!

Oooh... in with the jokes before this recruit officially fades from IU's radar: "IU to have a high-character/Cockburn-free 2019 recruiting class." "IU gets mixed news - bad experience with Peter Jurkin, but no Cockburn." "Dunks will continue in Indiana, but without Kofi."

I haven't seen him play in person but, as demo said, people who have seem talk highly of him. I'm down with the offer.

Kentucky, Duke, and UNC have all worn black alternative jerseys. I get tradition, but everyone - especially players - like to shake it up every once in awhile.

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Blessed to receive an offer from Indiana University![emoji1431] Caleb Love Top 50 pg Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

That’s a big kid Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

“Every true IU fan’s wish; Ol’ Fisch.”

https://twitter.com/brucesjohnson/status/1023299574595837955?s=21

Excuse me?

I’ve been on here for awhile now and I know this has been discussed, but anyone who tailgates in lot 12 or grass lots wanna meet up with me and my gf for a few tailgates this year? I go all out typically ribs and sides and the whole nine. I have a nice sound system as well that I setup. As of right now I will not be attending the home opener due to the fact my gfs best friend is getting married on that Saturday.....in Minnesota. Gf has said oh you can stay and go to the game, but we all know what that means....

Kira Lewis as well. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Drew Davis - #iubb targets Keion Brooks Jr. (@KeionB_12) and Trayce Jackson-Davis (@TrayceJackson) both received invites to the Nike Basketball Academy.

Must be a hold up with the UK bag man with all the FBI snooping. Don’t commit without the cash and Memphis must have put in a nice bid.

Taking Trendon's spot I hope!

50% means down to final 2 schools, but I'd say we're top 4 for Harris, Franklin, Newman, Bouknight, Brooks, TJD, Hurt, Nnaji.

It’s pretty dumpy. It’s kind of like Butler in terms of the surrounding area, but Butler’s actual campus is decent.

Yes! Everyone needs to start slamming Lafayette and Purdoooo. Kumbaya Btown brethren! ;)

Stripes...

CAM, Ostrom and Schilling watching TJD today. Just drove into Indiana so vacation is over Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Ahem. Step aside, everyone. I've got this.

I was sitting around the home office today and started thinking about this years football schedule. I’m not going to do predictions as that thread will start mid August I’d say. What i would like to do is look at each opponent and basically what I see from them/read on other boards. Have fun with discussions. First three opponents FIU- they lost their QB, but they made a bowl last year and have Florida talent. I expect a decent offense with a subpar defense in the opener UVA- they lost their QB and they lost a lot on their defense. Lost a great LB and then in the off-season I believe they lost a few players to off the field incidents as well as a pretty good DL retiring from football due to injuries. They have a JUCO QB coming in very mobile....And returning leading rusher is back....like I said their defense will need to fill some pretty big holes. Ball State- all I have to say is stomp on their throats and don’t let them back in the game like we did 2 years ago gosh that was ugly and so vanilla in play calling once we were up. They have a decent to good QB. RBs will be good, but again I would say our opponents biggest question is their defense. I will do my thoughts on big ten opponents once I look at their returning starters lists.

Local sports take today. He has no inside scoop but he isn’t happy with the decision and mostly blames dad. He has always had that take. He doesn’t know what Keion can gain by the decision but he ignores that he will get national spotlight games. He said if he was going to do this he should have announced earlier to respect the new head coach and then they wouldn’t have scheduled North Side vs Southport in that Classic. Idk, I see it as Brooks trying to increase his name and brand to better his NBA chances. Not my favorite move as I liked how Romeo handles it, but I don’t hate it either. I’ll report back as he will talk about it all week I’m guessing. He’s big time local sports and supports them over anything so his opinion is predictable. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Are you planning on going to the away game at the Rut? Its the same day as Hoosier Hysteria, but I was considering going this year.

The space above the videoboard is for cameras and speakers. I'm assuming they will put a covering over the speakers.

I'm on board with an alternate the hoops team could wear a couple times a year, but not black. I'd like the see the script Indiana though.

Why can’t the basketball team get new unis??? Puhlease!! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Christian Watford (@Cwat205) and Eberlein Drive won today to advance to the semifinals of The Basketball Tournament. The winning team gets $2 million to split. They're among the last four alive for the grand prize and play next on Aug 2 in Baltimore. https://www.thetournament.com/teams/eberlein-drive

Different teams; both the Nike circuit.

I'm really digging the subtle stripes. Those are nice.

Pretty sure a joke about gun violence is quite irresponsible regardless of whether it was made in jest or not. I appreciate him calling out the other poster for it. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I used to live in Memphis and I have to say I loved it very much and I would not call it one of the "worst" cities in America

I technically live in south Delray off Linton just east of 95. I usually just say Boca because most people haven’t heard of Delray and I’m in Boca’s school district.

Can someone please remind me how to block specific user's comments on here? I'm beyond tired of reading the garbage this dude posts on here daily. Thanks in advance.

For Indiana to be in on these top players such as Hurt helps us in every way in getting better results. We will sign some of these, helps us in recruiting moving forward, and we will win a lot more games. Players of Hurts caliber can still be in the south relative and cut his parents travel in half to Tobacco Road. Those schools pillaged our state for years and now we can become the destination school. We need results on the court this year.

Lol nothing is happening to those programs. The scapegoats have already taken the fall

That was a way too positive response,get with the program.

Anything can happen on an OV. But the way you make it sound we shouldn't even let him come because the odds are so low. He might fall in love with the campus, he might like cold winters like he has in Minny, he might like stroms and thinks Nicks is the best. He might want his parents to come to every game and we are the closest of those schools. Just get him here and you never know what will happen.

Kofi Cockburn: 16 PTS, 12 REB in a 57-55 win over Long Island Lutheran (Devonte Green's high school)

Hope he marries a girl named Anita... Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G935A using BtownBanners mobile app