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Field of 68 guesstimates from yesterday: Potential top ten in the country offense Buzzing on Dorn and Reed Bailey Big questions about Bailey's ability to defend the five 8/9 tournament game is center mass of predictions; 4-ish seed if they become pretty good defensively and a Fran McCaffery Iowa team if they don't Very fun team to watch

The disconnect with fans and IUs high school recruiting in my opinion comes from the fact the basically the last time we had a coach that put in effort on the high school avenue was back with Archie over 4 years ago. Sure Woody had some success with landing highly rated high school kids but none of them were long term recruiting wins. IUs footprint in high school recruiting has been non existent. DeVries seems to get it and has made himself visible in the recruiting world. He seems to have no problem grinding and doing the work even if the results hasn’t shown up in the first cycle. Establish connections on the recruiting trail again for your program and maybe down the road you get IU back in the game that they have sorely been absent from. Looking back at high school recruiting that IU as a program has had since Archie’s last year through this year will make you not feel well. The number of those kids that were only here 1 year to help or left before they could contribute to the program and it’s no wonder the program is where it’s at today. Results might not be there yet but the fact they have a coach willing to roll his sleeves up and actually recruit like the job demands is nice to see in my opinion.

Feels like it’s a matter of time until college teams start trying to trot out 23-28 year old pros with “eligibility.” CBB needs to be careful. If the sport gets away from college age players I think people will lose interest in a meaningful way (much more than anything NIL or the portal did — which was not much imo). Good job by Izzo to speak out as one of the statesman of CBB (and yea I know he isn’t a saint).

Somebody needs to. For Chrissake, we have full blown European pros, now we have American pros, we have college players who graduated from HS in 2018, 8 figure rosters and when private equity inevitably gets it’s foot in the door uniforms are gonna look like NASCAR. It’s beyond gross and the NCAA is worried about nothing but getting sued and clearly doesn’t even have the concept of a plan.

https://x.com/BenShockley_/status/1980835813534626049 Izzo on the London Johnson situation. Of course he!’s right.

Got to laugh at UCLA fans posting, "And David pulled a stone from his bag and slung it . . . " not realizing this is not only a scripture but it is also a memorable line from the locker room scene in the movie HOOSIERS !!! LOL

I like it. Dorn is something of a wild card imo. From the Marion game, the defensive rotations, switches and extensions to perimeter looked pretty good. Marion isn’t good, but at one point it was something like 31-4. That was a result of energetic D. And the shooting was without our best shooter finding his touch. Wilkerson is going to light up teams. it is absolutely going to be fun to watch, and based on the effort and communication I saw I expect our D to improve and adjust during the season. Imagine that, actual adjustments. So looking forward to watching this team grow

The Daily Hoosier - Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst), and Jenny Taft (sideline) will call the UCLA at IU game on Saturday for FOX.

Looks like the replay of Marian vs IU tonight on BTN @ 10pm

I like IUFB being compared to Goliath. That’s a new experience.

https://www.on3.com/news/how-g-league-players-can-now-play-college-basketball/ Some explanation of the NCAA’s thinking on the G-League situation. If I’m reading this correctly it sounds like any undrafted G-League players still within their 5 year post-HS window will be eligible to make the London Johnson move. Sounds a little murky as far as whether they were in the draft but undrafted vs a kid like Johnson who hasn’t gone through the draft process. The old days of the Fab 5 getting envelopes from Ed Martin seem positively cute now.

Recruiting has seemingly been fixed with the switch of recruiting coaches. Three top 60 recruits including the two highest ranked players in program history directly out of high school for 2026 both in top 30. Also 2025 has two top-40 recruits. These classes (especially 2026 which is likely to be top-five in country) are in line with other top programs of last few years and is what should have been happening the last few seasons when winning. It was all about switching lead recruiting coaches. The job under the previous recruiter was not commensurate to the results on court. This new one in last year very much is. Glad Moren recognized it and made the change. It shows she expects winning and strong recruiting as much as fans and recognized job was not getting done under previous person.

I agree. Although I strongly believe we will beat UCLA, at Maryland and at Penn State none of them are “sure things”. Who knows how PSU will respond to their new coach, add in their talent and 100k fans and the game could be a challenge. The bummer about PSU is that it has turned into a “ho hum win” or “bad loss”. Cant wait for Saturday and watching our D take care of Nico.

4-1 final. Hoosiers 16 shots, 9 on goal and 5 corners. Wisky 7-3-4.

Full game is up on YouTube

People just continue to underestimate Moren. Personally, I find it comical. She’s an outstanding coach. Her team is now faster and more athletic. There’s going to be some growing pains as she and the team adjust, and then the team will rise under her coaching. Let the Debbie Doubters keep at it. That’s all just fuel

I wonder if Jenny's # is 867-5309?

Private equity makes everything it touches worse. Hope it stays far away from the Big Ten.

Wisconsin can’t even get any love with insults

No such thing as an easy win in the Big Ten. Except for Turdue :)

I’m really scratching my head over all the angst regarding this game. Cig has proven that he’ll have his team ready to go. We’re playing at home. UCLA will be playing a game when they are normally just getting out of bed. Too many are buying into the media loving the Bruins’ turnaround. Trust in Cig. Trust in Fisher, Monds, Kamara and the rest of the lads. Watch with the quiet confidence that comes with being the superior team. I know, this is new for us. Gotta start thinking and acting like the programs that have been there before.

They should be out shortly, but are not out yet.

Not sure how good Fisher is but the word is that Cig played once, complained that it took too much time but, he shot an 18 as one would expect.

I don't like these changes, but at least these are stated rules. Ed and boosters like him are still the seedy underbelly of college athletics because that was bald-faced cheating. Nothing about it is romantic, quant, or cute.

(Getting way ahead of myself), if we do play OSU this season I think it would be to our benefit to wear these and psych them out.

The 7' Ratliff twins both commit to Southern Cal.

A little fun with the nation's best linebacker ... https://x.com/B1Gfootball/status/1981007690794222066

Vaughn Karvala, Come on down You're the next contestant on the Price is Right.

He's right, and he knows that he has the influence and the cache to speak out when a lot of other coaches will not. I have been saying for a couple of years now that the NCAA needs to get their sh!t straightened out or these power leagues will start their own governing body.

Next Friday night, men are on the road to face Maryland (9-0-3) (5-0-2) who has not lost at home this year. Match will be televised on BTN at 8:00. 7 min. left in tonight's match with Hoosiers maintaining a 4-0 lead.

In my perspective, mostly because of who we targeted, this is the least impressive recruiting window I can remember. Went hard after 2 PGs, 2 or 3 wings, and 3 or more centers only to land 1 100+ recruit. I wanted the portal anyhow so it’s kinda whatever. But from a program momentum perspective this looks bad. No juice.

Hold your horses. We gotta let this play out so that we can see how big it needs to be.

Wowsie wowsie woo woo

I think that thing is end of life at 60 years old. I’m pretty sure a new one is coming.

Talia Goodman published her list of the B1G top 10 freshmen in the upcoming season. Makalusky and Caffey both on her list. It was basically just a list without any real narratives.

That’s a good point. It’s crazy that in 1.5 seasons Cignetti has already won as many Big Ten games as Wilson did in 6 seasons.

The rout is on. 50' | Josh Maher; assist Palmer Ault. They gave this one another VAR review and it was upheld. Hoosiers leading 3-0.

I'm literally quoting Coach Cig's angst.

EVICT PURDOOOOOOOO!! Yessss Trade them to the MAC for Kent State.

You're not wrong. Coaching matters!!! I will say this though, before Coach Cig took the job he was promised a budget and resources the administration had never done, ever. So while the type of success we are seeing currently might not have happened we would most likely be looking at a much improved IUFB program from top to bottom. A school like Kansas or UK more than likely. Dolson had a proper checklist for his coaching search. That type of checklist was the first time in the history of the program. You can find me talking about it ad nauseum in this thread. This is why I say, the IUFB program essentially started during the November 2023 coaching search.

The last 4 years have taught me that I really, really miss vintage Bobby Knight.

Even if he has a huge drop off and starts to only win 6-7 games a year he will be our all time winningest coach most likely

I assume the BoT has to sign off on this so not that big of a deal. But that’s a nice little piece of self-dealing if you are Whitten/Dolson…lol

It looks like IU is also committed to keeping him well compensated as long as he does well. If he makes the CFP Semi-finals, they'll make sure he's the 3rd (or better) highest paid coach. They've also committed to the coaching staff, keeping it top 5 in the B1G and top 10 nationally. Firing him would be very expensive, since it's not only 100% of his remaining contract but also all of the remaining retention bonuses.

Expect a tough year. WIll win a few they shouldn't when hot, but looks like an average Fran Iowa team from first look.

CDD probably feels fine. I doubt his resource allocation changed since he signed seven months ago. Until I hear otherwise that’s likely the case given Scott seems to stick to his word on NIL promises. He’s been given enough resources to build here — #10 to #20 in the country, something in that range. More than he had a WVU, probably quite a bit more since he left there. If he does a good job this season he’ll get more. He’s got to impress the fans to get more NIL, and that really means Cook, Simon, Ned, Andy, and maybe a few others. I think Scott is doing a good job increasing our NIL and allocating it. Biggest question for IUBB right now is if CDD can be a very good coach here and make the tourney this year without much drama. If he does that everything will start falling into place.

Pick your Vaughn Karvala doppleganger!

The kid shot 45% on almost 8 attempts a game last year. You might want to give it a minute.

A debate about who different posters put at the top of the hill among great IU players? Seems like center lane message board fun to me! S’all good- when I get a chance I’ll break it out into a “IUFB Mount Rushmore” thread.

After some of our goal line “struggles” against ODU and short yardage issues at Iowa, punching in the two Hemby TD’s at Oregon of all places was extremely satisfying.