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So 51% is like a good thing, right? From the Bloomington, Herald Times - Anthony Leal, So., Bloomington South: Incredibly accurate from distance, the sophomore made better than 51 percent from 3-pt range. In total, Leal hit 66 shots from beyond the arc. Scored 14.4 pts per game, including six 20-pt performances.

I have no reason to doubt what the conventional wisdom here is, and there seems no logical conclusion other than IU, but.......sometimes the thing you are most familiar with grows a bit stale and something new becomes appealing. Especially if you become annoyed that everyone thinks they know what you are going to do.

That doesn’t stand for defensive back by the way! Lol Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

Highly doubt this would have anything to do with his, or any recruit's, decision. This is nothing but message board reverse-psychology mumbo-jumbo.

I’d rather UCLA be a close 2nd than MSU. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I think it's because people have been leading us to believe, that whatever school is 2nd, they'd be a far 2nd. A close 2nd existing isn't as comfortable.

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I am as worried as I was when we were sweating a commit from Yogi. For those that do not remember we weren’t sweating. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I would put them in a close 2nd right now. Sam Alford has been visiting with the family a lot from what I have been told. The bright spot is Alford should be fired after underachieving again this year.

I dont see how this recruitment is anything but legit. Frankly a kid of his talent we are lucky is deciding in the fall

His heart is there for sure. Mommy is happy! Lol Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners

McRobbie specials! Nothing will change till he is GONE! Well, you all know my opinion of that DB so! Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

I'm blaming them (adults) for making it a 'circus' and a skeptical. Most adults should not need to get joy from a decision of an 18-year-old. I think adults should sit back and wait for the young man to make his decision. The whole 'crying' about when the young man is going to decide seems like an 'adult' problem to me. Just my two cents... like I said ... I'm not too in touch with the recruiting scene. I personally think the young man should be the one enjoying the process. Kinda of my point in the first place... And 'NO' the well-rounded comment had nothing to do with an adult. I listen to the young man speak and gave my opinion. I'm sure he has had adult influences in his life and I'm guessing the ones that matter don't want any part of the circus. If they want part of the spotlight then they're part of the problem.

Look what came yesterday!! Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

You can pull my Sweet 16 ring off of my cold, dead right ring finger, pal.

Just what I read from Brian snow/ Rabby on peegs gave me the impression Iu is clearly in the drivers seat.

Hmm no bueno.

My prediction is we better see Panix or you might see me out on the field. PSU 45 IU 12

I was there, too. And think -- back then we actually sold out a few games! I just can't imagine us selling out a game these days. Mallory had it going good, but just couldn't sustain it. Is still boggles my mind how everybody caught up to us in basketball, but we haven't done the same in football. There was a 20-25-year stretch there where Wisconsin couldn't beat us. When Penn State came into the league, that was an automatic W. Now, we can't beat Wisconsin and Penn State is an iffy proposition at best. But they continue to beat the crap out of us in football. I think in the past 50-60 years or so, we have a total of four wins against Penn State, Michigan and Ohio State. You'd think by accident we'd get a W every now and then against those schools. But nope. Doesn't happen.

Tough week. Nobody got any scores correct and less than half (15 of 34) predicted the correct winner. Here are the Standings after Week 7: CURRENT GAME - Iowa OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 Old Friend 114 1 ThompsonHoosier 584 2 323SGrant 110 2 WayneFleekHoosier 581 3 fwgreenway 109 3 HoosierAloha 580 4 mdn82 109 4 lucel15 579 5 Class of '66 Old Fart 109 5 LamarCheeks 576 6 NaturalHoosier 106 6 IUsafety 569 7 IUsafety 106 7 mdn82 566 8 WayneFleekHoosier 106 8 IUc2016 563 9 biteoftheapple 106 9 fwgreenway 563 10 jmsgws 106 10 JHoosier914 561 11 rcs29 105 11 MemphisHoosier 560 12 Josh 103 12 biteoftheapple 558 13 HoosierAloha 102 13 jmsgws 558 14 VPC 102 14 NaturalHoosier 557 15 Str8Hoosiers 101 15 CrossboneIU22 554 16 The Ola Depot 48 16 johnsoniu 554 17 MemphisHoosier 46 17 Class of '66 Old Fart 554 18 ThompsonHoosier 46 18 Str8Hoosiers 551 19 VO5 46 19 KDB 551 20 KDB 45 20 jbell833 546 21 JHoosier914 45 21 LIHoosier 542 22 IUc2016 45 22 The Ola Depot 540 23 LIHoosier 45 23 Josh 538 24 Alaska Hoosier 45 24 VPC 533 25 LamarCheeks 44 25 Old Friend 530 26 CrossboneIU22 44 26 rcs29 526 27 johnsoniu 43 27 Napleshoosier 516 28 Napleshoosier 42 28 HoosierRobbie 515 29 jbell833 42 29 mamasa 496 30 HoosierRobbie 42 30 VO5 491 31 e_powe11 42 31 RBB89 480 32 mamasa 42 32 thebigweave 479 33 thebigweave 39 33 e_powe11 403 34 lucel15 36 34 Alaska Hoosier 352 35 BabyJandJDaddy 0 35 323SGrant 222 36 thehoosiersound 0 36 HOOsier Thunder 184 37 Defenserocks28 0 37 BabyJandJDaddy 162 38 RBB89 0 38 Defenserocks28 150 39 HOOsier Thunder 0 39 Fkfootball1 117 40 Fkfootball1 0 40 Dalton26 114 41 Chris007 0 41 thehoosiersound 109 42 Dalton26 0 42 coonhounds 107 43 coonhounds 0 43 Chris007 95 44 DChoosier 0 44 DChoosier 46

Crystal ball is obviously not foolproof, but until it changes from 100% IU, I’m not losing sleep over anyone.

I agree that fans in particular should just have patience and let the recruits decide when they want to decide. I don't care if they choose in the spring of their Junior year, the summer, before their senior season, during their senior season or after. Until they have eliminated IU we are in a good position. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk

Well of course when you are describing politics. Guessing you already know the difference in spite of ignoring the differences. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Ultimately, no matter what this would still come down to if she wants to press charges. If IU had physical evidence that could be entered into a court of law they would have an obligation. They don’t in a lot of these cases. That is why all they have a moral obligation to is determining whether or not that student lived up to the code of conduct. Not whether or not they are a criminal. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I don't fully understand the recruiting landscape, but I blame the adults for about 99 percent of this nonsense. I've listened to a couple of this young man interviews and I'm impressed. He's a well rounded high caliber player that IU would be happy to sign. I'm okay with him picking how/when.

Alright...... No more political talk going forward. Please Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

WTF........ this thread...... just talk about it in PMs. This thread is about Vic

Made final cut; Troy will be on the Pelicans opening night roster.

Duke 42 Free Throw attempts IU 16 Free Throw attempts 1992 Final Four Ted Valentine officiating Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Northwest Kansas State University or something will feel the wrath of the NCAA like never before!

Gassnola responded with a text that said, “In my mind, it’s KU, Bill Self. Everyone else fall into line. Too (expletive) bad. That’s what’s right for Adidas basketball. And I know I’m right. The more you have lottery picks and you happy. That’s how it should work in my mind.” Self replied by text, “That’s how ur (sic) works. At UNC and Duke.” Gassnola answered by saying Kentucky as well. “I promise you I got this. I have never let you down. Except (Deandre). Lol. We will get it right.” Theres your admission of payola, pay to play, Adidas pays, or whatever you want to call it. Self saying that’s how it works is an admission of that. So what will the governing body of college sports do? Nothing.

Ted Kitchel-like

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I'm with you on Hep, but his goal was "play 13," and we can do that under Allen. At least I think we can. His recruiting is on par and even better than what Hep's was; and the goal is still 6-8 wins every year because that's IU's ceiling barring lightening in a bottle every now and then. Even if we hired an up and comer, the odds of his staying if and when he has success are minimal. Again, I don't mean to be defeatist; but we are who we are.

No reason we can't get the up and coming coach from Toledo like Iowa State got. However, we have no chance if we are going to pay what we are paying for coaches. The odds are already stacked against us with being in the BIG East but I do still believe we can find a coach having a good amount of success at a mid major that might bite. Terry Hoepener is the only example I can think of in recent history where we went this route and it was sstarting to pay dividents until his unfortunate passing. Those were the best coached teams we have had since I have been following IU and not the most talented persay. However, when you don't want to actually conduct a coaching search or choose not to pay what Minnesota, Purdue etc are paying you will never have even a remote chance with these guys.

of course they were packed because no one in their right mind goes to see IU lose most of the time..

But the tailgate lots were packed.

Honestly, not at all. The lure of playing close to home I think has a good impact here. I've been wrong before so....... Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

Yet you ignore the fact that Luck is called upon to win games for a team that has had a terrible defense and less than adequate weapons on offense. TY Hilton, his best weapon should be a slot receiver. A beyond terrible O-line that is finally improving. Never an impact making running back. Luck isn’t a hero. He isn’t the best QB in the league. But he is for sure top 8. Manning was top 5 All time. At least he had great offensive weapons to go with a terrible defense. What Luck is asked to do is insane. Other teams know we can’t run the ball. Our defense isn’t good enough to shut teams down. So we end up in situations where Luck has to throw the ball 50 times a game when the defense knows it’s coming. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Um, whoops. Spoke too soon

We also lacked in at least one area most seasons. No bigs one season and zero shooting the next. If he would have landed some of those players it would have fixed our problems but I don't think it would have completely masked our ability to adjust mid game. I'm excited about this years team because we have, what seems like, a good mixture of players. A BIG low post player, more athletic bigs and wings, shooters (big and small), dynamic guards, players willing and able to defend, etc. The one thing I'll be curious to see is who gets the ball late, JMo on the block or Romeo up top.

What rules would you like to see? 25 picks/week drop one/two lowest scores throughout the season week starts Monday and runs through Sunday HoosierAloha always wins or he'll take his game and go home deadline to post predictions will be Sunday night Any rules you would alter or like to see in place?

Big agenda, yep, that's it, you got me. Busted. Ever hear of the word opinion? If so, understand what it means? "Seemed like" is another way of saying, "In my opinion" Opinions are still allowed, right? When I read his full quote "in my opinion" it felt more like 'how does he get showcased?' than it did in most of the player quotes about development. So it set a little weird. I didn't feel all rah rah. MY OPINION, I'm sure much like many of yours, could be 100% wrong.

IMO it's unfortunate because as officiating goes, I think he did a fine job. His problem was always making himself the focal point and going out of his way to draw attention to himself and away from the game.

Who’s coming to Big Blue Madness? UK has another star-studded guest list. BY BEN ROBERTS broberts@herald-leader.com ...Five-star forward Matthew Hurt was rumored this fall to be visiting for Big Blue Madness, but he will not be in town this weekend and said at last week’s USA Basketball camp that he plans to take most of his visits during the season.

Yep and if they cover him too nice wide lanes for Smith and Romeo

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