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I'm liking what Armaan has to say about this visit, haha!

I'm liking that TJD liked it.

He’s tearing it up in the German Football League! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I'll be that guy, lol IU 35 O$U 31

Agreed. I was asked privately what I saw of Rob after my post the other day. My response was basically "He did fine, but I didn't see anything that put him over the other guards." I thought Rob did well with the group he was with, but he's not starter material and to be honest...its ok to let him watch the game, get some playing time, and grow. I will offer that I think Rob is definitely a player that can be used to make Green become better. Rob is definitely good enough to take Green's minutes if he starts playing hero ball..that's the way it should be. I want the "best" players starting, but too often we discount experience in favor of production (be it offense or defense). As long as Green/Durham show they can run the offense effectively and defend with purpose, let Rob grow and become a force.

Recruiting threads before this FBI scandal were so frustrating. I’m glad Pandora’s box has been lifted ajar and people see what has been going on for decades. Crean’s tenure was interesting because he landed a few recruits that I’m convinced were not clean AND he recruited a gazillion of them that were dirty that either he steered away from or they opted against Crean and Indiana. I’d love to be a fly on the wall to know some of our own skeletons in the closet. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I don't know if it's been mentioned.... Don Fischer was interviewed and he stated that this is the deepest team he has seen since 1975. Don't know where I read or heard this but it excited me.

How can you not love Victor Oladipo and Cozy Zeller? “Honestly, we felt like we didn’t give that school what we wanted to give them, which was a national championship,” Oladipo told reporters earlier this week. “Giving back to them and doing that, it doesn’t necessarily fill the void, but it just makes it feel a little better. Just wanted to give back to the guys like guys before us gave back to us.” https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2018/10/03/victor-oladipo-cody-zeller-give-iu-basketball-locker-room/1510259002/

I asked for a PM awhile ago and no one bit, but I did read on one board or another that someone thought it was related to a potential domestic assault.

I feel recruiting threads since have been equally frustrating. There are some that dedicate every post to insinuate every player is being paid even if it’s not about that player but the school recruiting any player. Recruiting threads have turned into gossip girls. When it warrants it I get it. Like this thread, I get it. But recruiting threads like you said in your opening sentence I don’t get. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Darius Leonard has been named NFL defensive rookie of the month. He is looking at greatness.

Worst kept secret since Yogi. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

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He’s beginning to be disliked here also. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I think Steve spends more time in Indiana than he actually does coaching his UCLA basketball team. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

‘I handed (Brian Bowen Sr.) $19,400 in cash...to ensure that Brian Bowen would attend University of Louisville’ - financial planner Munish Sood Pitino's comments immediately after the commitment: "We got lucky on this one," Pitino told Terry Meiners of News Radio 840. "I had an AAU director call me and ask me if I'd be interested in a player (Bowen). I saw him against another great player from Indiana. I said 'Yeah, I'd be really interested.' They had to come in unofficially, pay for their hotel, pay for their meals. We spent zero dollars recruiting a five-star athlete who I loved when I say him play. In my 40 years of coaching this is the luckiest I've been." https://www.thescore.com/ncaab/news/1314238

Wow. Given your moniker, I would expect something less pessimistic. Have you been paying attention to the way he's recruiting and the success he's having? He won't get them all, nor will anyone, but the days of Izzo getting "whoever he wants" are over.

Adam Zagoria has also been doing a lot of tweeting about the trial in addition to Dan Wetzel. One of Z's latest tweets implicates Spiece: Bowen Sr. said he got "like $5-8,000 for him [Bowen Jr.] playing with MeanStreets." Said Spiece "was offering like 18 grand." After I typed this post, my eyes locked on Cody's quote below that I use for my signature. The irony of it all.

Thanks. If what HoosierX and others said actually happened then good riddance.

If this is true then coaching will make the difference. How do you win when you’re deeper than your opponents? Defense. You press, trap, and play at 100% on every possession. Winning time will be in the second half of games where talent is evenly matched otherwise. Just ask the General.

I think there will be a lot of guys getting some minutes in the first few games in order to see who actually can play when the lights come on. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Being tweeted that Darius Leonard is gonna play tonight. Is it obvious how much I love this dude? Guy is a monster.

For now it does, and it may in the long run. But whether it will in the long run is still far, far from clear.

Arizona just landed it's 2nd 5 star for 2019. Remember cheating pays and pays big. Sent from my SM-J700T using Tapatalk

Thanks for the info.

Great post. Different layers for sure. I dont know what to make of it all. That’s why it’s interesting. As far as Romeo and Indiana goes. My opinion only, it’s completely a hands off thing from Indiana. Adidas funding the AAU program may be all that is relatable here. I’m not sure I even care, but I’m glad the slimier programs like Kansas couldn’t get him. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Just a reminder that we landed Romeo in the aftermath of all this. Like the earth was still smoldering, and Romeo took steps to distance himself from Pitino and UL. IN THIS CASE, I think we can safely assume the recruitment to Indiana was clean, almost as result of the current case hitting so close to home. Since Romeo, we've got Armaan Franklin, and a growing list of rejections. I would not take Romeo's commitment as some prima facie evidence that IU is now entering the game as you see it. Otherwise, I agree that this stuff is layered and not as easy as a coach paying a player.

Yeah most of the time, too much stock is taken into recruits and their social media choices. However, this is significant imo. He basically puts down the Michigan State visit with his like of Franklin’s comment. As Mdn said, worst kept secret since Yogi. Absolute fact

I'm fine with it. This is a rebuilding year and year for experience and growth from the young guys. Get another high pick on top of all that money and we could/should be back to playoff contention next year.

Why would his stepfather be pushing him out west unless he plans to relocate the family out there? Not happening!

Play at 100% on every possession? For sure. Use the bench as a motivator? You betcha. Press and trap? Not going to happen - that is the antithesis of the packline defense. The packline has a few basic principles: Always pressure the ball, never double beyond the three point line unless the ballhandler gives up his dribble, play off your man when he's without the ball beyond the three point line, force drivers into the lane where help awaits (and never allow baseline drives), an the help defenders should slap at the ball and double in the lane.

I loved it when he made that comment. Like the world didn’t know what was happening there. 5 star falling into our lap and we didn’t even recruit him. Good stuff Rick. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Forrester gets some minutes with his high energy for me. Phinisee I think is going to be really good, but I think he is going to have a learning curve this season.

The first step will be McBob actually taking those shots with confidence. Defenses will be focusing on Morgan and Romeo, hopefully Green if he's improved. That'll leave McBob, Fitzner, and others with open looks. If we can consistently hit those open looks, unlike last season, we'll be a dangerous team offensively. It'll also force the defense to rotate and give Smith and Durham open lanes to slash for easy buckets. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Not sure how true it is but heard on a podcast that McRoberts' shot has improved more than anyone else this offseason!

It had to have been the scrimmage....

He did so for the educational "benefits" provided by UNC. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Maybe so. I guess we'll see when the games start. It feels so close now that HH is over :) They also hyped McRoberts as "the hardest working man in college basketball" at Hoosier Hysteria and named him a captain...my guess is he gets the start in the first game and can either keep it or lose it as the season progresses.

Apparently a major part of the defense during opening arguments is that the shoe company employees on trial could not have defrauded universities, because the universities were part of their effort to pay recruits. That theory will be buttressed by recitation of the shoe companies' discussions with coaching staffs which encouraged player payments. And THAT is where the juicy testimony will flow. The shoe company defendants are fully embracing that they broke NCAA regulations left and right. The government's case theory will counter; that these complicit coaches were rogue employees acting in direct contradiction of their respective university's compliance departments and documented policies. Soooo .... the testimony that exonerates the defendants and potentially produces "not guilty" verdicts could be extraordinarily damaging to many big name coaches.

I’ll take IU’s chances after landing Keion and TJD

Let's just say it went really well

Pre-season action last night and Mr. Ferrell had quite an opening act for his new team. 30 minutes and 26 points on 9-14 FG's and 6-9 on 3's. Troy with his new team the Pelicans had 11 pts. in 14 min. but was just 4-11 from the field. And Vonleh also with a new team this year, the Knicks, had 8 pts. in 12 min. and 5 reb. Am I the only one that has a really hard time associating Vonleh with IU basketball?

That he didn't his senior year was a crime; but had we beaten Purdue, he would have. One of the better people I have ever known; and Andre Ware was nowhere near the college football player AT was.

Well said Conner, and welcome aboard.

Do the thing where they charge admission and donate it to charity and watch them sell out Bankers Life.

Indiana will play Loyola Chicago in a secret scrimmage on Oct. 28 in Indianapolis, source told @WatchStadium. Can’t wait to see them try and keep @JeffRabjohns from breaking into Bankers Life. ... Jeff Goodman Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I believe it was the Oladipo Zeller Legacy Lounge.

made it! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Indiana just released their mini-series package: https://iuhoosiers.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventList?groupCode=MBMINI&linkID=indiana&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode= PRICE: $276 - Main Level; $174 - Balcony; $120 - IU Student PRIORITY DEADLINE: October 19, 2018 This package includes the following games: Nov. 20 - UT-Arlington Nov. 23 - UC Davis Dec. 19 - Central Arkansas Dec. 22 - Jacksonville Jan. 3 - Illinois Mar. 10 - Rutgers *There will be a limit of eight (8) main level seats per account. All seats will be assigned using the IU Athletics Priority Point Policy. *A maximum of four (4) seats will be assigned together on the first allocation pass of main level seats. *Per Big Ten policy, everyone entering into Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall must have a ticket, regardless of age. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners