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The Ball Coach is at Homefield’s new brick and mortar store shaking hands and kissing babies today. He will not lose the likability battle with this fanbase.

Normally I wouldn’t care who wins the ISU-KS game but pulling for Iowa State today because….. A win will keep Iowa State ranked Iowa hopefully beats Iowa State and Iowa will then be ranked. IU’s win at Iowa (hopefully) will look that much better.

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And I win my first college football wager of the year...

Yep we will look for reasons to love our bball program. It’s a very toxic relationship in a lot of ways. lol. That being said I know I have always had the negative tag attached to me. But from my point of view this is the first hire serious about winning since Knight. Sampson would count but because his past he was always going to get run out of town at the first sign of scandal it was always a gamble

Good stuff. Overall, our fans want to love the bball program and will do their best to — in my view they only flip when things are obviously going very bad. The fishbowl narrative is nonsense. I like the fit with CDD here and I think he will get a fair shot to succeed. Fingers crossed we got our guy for the long run.

So the word is that the SEC is going to 9 conference games plus require a P4 OOC contest. If that’s the case I am sure the Big Ten will match the P4 out of conference game requirement. I’ll bet Scott D wishes he didn’t give UVA $500,000 to get out of that series as UVA would have been a perfect way to meet the requirement (the downside is that the scintillating Kennesaw State rematch would not have been scheduled). If we have another great year, which I am expecting, it will be interesting to see if a UVA-type team will even want to play us as I’m sure that, when the deal was originally signed, UVA assumed they had a good chance of beating us. In any case getting both conference on 9 conf games+1 P4 schedules will be a good thing for CFB.

Is that Acimovic and Ristic in the background with Kenny?

https://x.com/IndianaMBB/status/1959068171517743579 Love it.

Per Raby, he arrived late last night in Bloomington. He measured 6'11"

EXHIBITION Yes, it is a good early test but the fact is, it is still just an exhibition. Remember IU vs TN last year.

Silver (Coho) Salmon from Valdez, Alaska!!! God i love later Summer

We should definitely schedule a home/home with Florida

UK may be tough to schedule -- I'd guess their P4 game will be Louisville?

From a poster on 247 re: Baylor tickets - Ticketmaster presale Aug 26 and general public sale Aug 29.

Iowa St

I so hope it works out. For every reason! Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

Praying! Sorry I quoted you twice

Terrible news. Prayers for your grandson and your entire family.

Praying for him and the doctors. Keep us posted so we can follow and keep praying.

Rooting like hell for the young man. He will stay tough and come through.

Prayers going out right now. So very sorry for your grandson, his family and you.

Well now you just ruined it

And for that reason, I won’t get to high or low with the results we get. It’s a long season

So Scott Drew IS coming to Indiana after all.

That, and a young guy looking to grow his career in college football LEFT GEORGIA FOR INDIANA. Have officially entered an alternate universe.

He can be a fantastic stretch four on offense with proper spacing and scheme; it will help if he's not relied upon to handle the ball or pass much. And on defense he can easily guard other fours. But they better have some active rebounding from their guards because he is pretty glued to the floor and doesn't have much burst to the ball..

He can be so good. I saw that potential immediately. The mentals also hurt him when we were struggling as a team which affected him adversely. Reneau and Mgbako are gonna have really good years this year. And maybe Myles Rice too. Putting a speed guard who isn't a great shooter in a system with 3 bigs was wild. So, my guess is Rice does well this year too.

This will connect a few controversial/polarizing topics - Mgbako & Woodson. I like to check in on how former IUBB players are doing and thought this was interesting from the 3 Man Weave's evaluation of Texas A&M: I feel like there's at least a few kids who garnered a lot of hate from certain fans last year, and I'm really curious to see how they'll perform under different coaches.

Deion gets a tough rap from fans, but he’s a-okay by me: ————————————- "No slides. If I see you with them - I'm gonna send people to campus - if I see you with slides on campus, it's gonna be a problem," Sanders told his players. "If I see you with a hoodie on in class, or some headphones on in class, it's gonna be a problem. If I see you sitting in the back of the classroom, it's gonna be a problem. Do we understand that?" Sanders is also implementing strict rules for Colorado players enrolled in online courses. "If you're online, and you have online classes, and you don't have a shirt on or you got a wife beater on, or you've got something stupid on that's causing a distraction, or you're walking about during an online session, it's gonna be a problem," Sanders said.

'Cause your taste buds are always frozen!

Well in fairness, in Bobby's 1st year as head coach, just how much stuff did the average student have in the way of worldly possessions? Basically all I had in 1966 was a small radio, a Royal portable typewriter and my clothes.

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all for me! got to fill the freezer. Still have to go hunting for moose and caribou

nope!

Good grief man. Did you ever consider leaving a few for some other fishermen? :-D

Works for me. LOL! Make a 68 team for all I care. I was just pumping the 24 team layout because it already works for the NCAA. And the format is pretty good.

Maybe he’s a nice guy in his personal life (as long as you’re completely subservient to him), but the Mike Woodson we had the displeasure of experiencing the past four years is a petty, lazy, insecure narcissist.

I mean, is he really? Don't know him personally and I'm not saying he is a bad guy, but does a good guy surround himself with yes men and fire those that dare disagree? Does a good guy mock a large portion of the fan base? Does a good guy doing a half assed job proclaim himself "King of Indiana?" Does a good guy collect million yet refuse to go out and do his job on the recruiting trail? From afar he looks more like an entitled lazy @$$ with a fragile ego, not a horrible human, but far from a good guy.

That’s a damn big fish to have caught in your swimming pool. Even more impressive because you’ve got a cage on the pool deck.

Cloer now has 7 officials set with the intention of a fall decision and IU is not 1 of them. Not like this one ever looked very promising, but it’s probably safe to call it over.

I just got a call from my son. My 16 year old grandson was injured in football practice on Wednesday. They just got the report from the MRI and CT scan. It's not good, and I'd appreciate your prayers. He has: Complete ACL tear Complete MPFL tear (ligament that connects the patella to the femur) Partial MCL tear Lateral miniscus tear Gastrocnemius tear (calf muscle tear) Tibia fracture Femur fracture thru growth plate, which is still open The doctor is very concerned about blood clots and compartment syndrome, and we are waiting to hear what the next step is. No doubt, it will involve some serious surgery, and a long, brutal recovery.