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Freaking. Awesome.

The staff basically wanted him on campus this weekend or they were planning on moving on. He’s not coming this weekend and the staff feels like they can’t waste anymore time. Plus the entire staff wasn’t on board with paying his number so it sounds like they’re cutting bait. Could something crazy still happen? Sure, like it has with Baldwin but I highly doubt that happens.

I’m fine with Tayven, Cherry, or another old dude they get in the portal. Lewis was always a clout play for me and I never really expected an instant on-field impact from him. I do think he’ll be a good player though and it may not hurt to have that relationship in our back pocket in a couple years.

He posts as @ap2345 here, and is a very credible poster. One could see this writing on the wall.

Everyone assumes Cherry will be the next guy but I don’t know that I’d count out Mendoza either. If he develops at all like his older brother he could be a really good QB. Just throwing out another possibility that sometimes gets overlooked.

I was at the game up close-4th row. I cannot for the life of me figure out what Shay Czeski is good at. Striplin looked slow and glued to the floor-Meister was really really good but Striplin was practically unplayable against quickness. Parrish and Garzon looked like themselves-just a bad shooting night which happens. Chloe? Yikes she looked like a confused freshman. Is she sick or something? We got literally nothing in transition. We have no back to basket scorer and no one that can break down defenses off of the bounce. It was not encouraging.

Going with a freshman, albeit, a talented freshman would be a big risk imo. Trust in Cig and the QB staff tbh. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners

I touched on something like this in a thread a year or two ago. CTM was getting (deservedly) a lot of love for turning our program around and into a top B1G program. I said then, that we needed to start competing with and landing bigger recruits to capitalize on the success. A lot of the response was “I trust CTM to find her type of players” and “we don’t need five stars, we need girls who will commit to playing the way CTM wants.” That was all easy to say when we had Grace Berger’s, McKenzie Holmes, Sara Scalia, etc. We’re talking first team all Americans and best 3pt shooters in the country types. My concern then was that we weren’t recruiting like a Maryland, Ohio State, South Carolina, etc. So at some point the success we were having on the court wasn’t going to translate into sustainable success as a program. I still think CTM is a fantastic coach for IU. This team will certainly grow and be competitive this year. But next year losing CMM and Syd, it doesn’t feel like we used our best years as a program with generational talent to set ourselves up to stay there and become a great program and not just a couple great teams.

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And that’s where trusting the staff decision-making and leadership is paramount. Prevents us from running into a situation like the basketball team guard rotation last year.

I don’t. Sometimes QB commits at other schools will keep things quiet if possible until they are ready to decommit and flip. That’s what the Clemson commit that flipped to ND did. It came out of nowhere for most people. I can say that the staff is working on it.

I really think my biggest thing is just selfish reasons, honestly. lol Getting a player of his talent and star power ability to IU can make a huge statement a couple of ways. One, it says to IU, "I see you and want be a part of that". Second, ... when other top recruits see a player like him committing to IU, they are also intrigued and would be more apt to come and play with him. JMO....

I blame @rayl456 for the bad news. Let's get 'im guys! If this is true, I'm not too surprised. He's always "too busy" to make a visit which comes off as wishy-washy. I don't think CCC takes that. There are some good QB's on the roster and after the year Rourke is having, I don't think there would be much trouble landing a good QB from the portal if needed.

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I'm ok with this, Lewis was really getting annoying. Just pick Colorado already and get it over with

This narrative that Woody is some kind of “bad guy” kinda pisses me off. Criticize his coaching? Sure, I get it completely. But anything other than a personable guy that cares deeply about IU, its fans, and its history? That’s a bunch of crap to me.

Nothing I saw last night made me rethink anything about Woodson. Dude isn’t the guy. Doesn’t matter how much talent he has. He doesn’t know what to do with it. We need the AD to knock another hire out in about 6 months is my guess

I know that player comps generally suck eggs (a sure intro for me about to be doing one). It seems as though Lewis is a whole lot like Dylan Raiola on Nebraska, who has been pretty damn good as a freshman, and is a five star without optimal NFL size. That gives me a window into how a top ten QB that's immediately thrown into the fire performs. So, the operative questions are (in order of easiest answer): Would we rather have a top tier freshman than Rourke? Clearly no. Would we rather have a top tier freshman than a 3/4 year guy hand selected by Cig/Shanahan/Tino? Probably not. Would we rather have a top tier freshman than a junior Tayven or sophomore Cherry? Yes for Cherry (even though he may be good) and maybe to Tayven. For me that's about a 50/50.

I think sage got sideways with political differences but DD was regularly going after people on twitter while at ESPN and became too much of a liability. Too bad because when he first started doing games he was good.

Meh. Literal politics played a huge part in this. Dakich and Sage Steele both had enough of ESPNs ways and likely vice versa. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

Spread that NIL around. I’m ok with this.

This is painful to watch.

They finally woke up and only trail 32-30 at halftime.

SIAP

Finally a 3:30 game. I'll be in the parking lot with the Old Smokin Bucket ready to watch the Hoosiers kick @$$