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I really feel like this is a huge hire. Maybe the game changer we need to get back on track.

One day left of radiation treatment! Also, this is 1000000% MUST WIN. Very literally can't lose this. Honestly need to win by 15+ and have full control of it. Not only would losing to such a garbage team be incredibly embarrassing, but it'd put quite the hamper on any March possibilities.

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I feel it's INARGUABLE that is not the most ACCOMPLISHED team of all time. the "best ever" ... idk how anyone would prove that... We beat the #2, #4x2, #5, #9, #17, #25 ranked teams... plus.. 2 other teams that won their bowl games-- Old Dom, Penn State, and another team that won their conference- Kennesaw St. Won the B1G, Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl, and Natty... NCOY, Heisman winner, Broyles award winner...

Jared Kelly - Four months after a torn ACL, Lee Beebe Jr. was back deadlifting 500 pounds.

I think a lot of us have been relatively happy with Devries from a coaching standpoint, but less so with his year 1 roster building. So hiring a guy like this to help build the roster feels like outstanding news.

Yeah -- Tuck got fouled. But it shouldn't have come down to that. This was friggin' ugly.

Tom chimes in with some positive views. Good stuff.

4 new Contracts with only 2 seasons coached absolutely has to be a record

New contract for Cig. His contract had a clause that said when he makes the CFP semis, there is a good faith renegotiation of his contract so that he is a top three paid coach. Worth it!

Every so often, I'll look back on my younger days and think "I wish I'd have asked this girl out." or "I wish I had asked that girl out." I really wished we had dumped Woody two years ago and asked Dusty May out.

Love the fact it's a newly created role (staff identified the need) and we filled it with an NBA guy (good connections). Hopefully this is a shot of adrenaline heading into the portal fully staffed.

Awesome news. Glad to see this.

I don't disagree with your line of thinking here. If we really are spending top 10-15/25, then having the somewhere between 40-45th best team is unacceptable long-term. I agree NIL has to be factored into the discussion. With all of that said, when looking at this season I think you also have to handicap that the roster had to be built 100% from scratch with a completey new staff. That part has to factor in as well. That's why the bar should absolutely be raised for next year. While they're not great, we'll have some guys returning and the staff is fully in place. I've been pretty happy with his actual coaching, but I do have big concerns on how DeVries pulls this off next season. He is going to need to land a massive haul in the portal, and it will need to be a big upgrade over last offseasons portal haul. I'm not sure he can do it? It's a tall task given what IU has been the last decade.

There is a legitimate argument that the best college football team ever was based in Bloomington. Last undefeated national champs in football and basketball. Damn, it's good to be a Hoosier.

He has the inside moves of a 14 year old boy on his first date.

Respectfully, these two do not belong in the same sentence. One is a 2x AP Coach of the Year with a National Title who has been credited with the greatest coaching accomplishment in CFB history, and perhaps even in all of sports. The other is a good coach who spent ~$13-15M and has a very good bball team at a historically good program. Nice, but that’s not much. Also, football is the much bigger sport and powers college athletics. The Cig hire has taken us from the bottom third of the B1G in athletic dept revenue to the top third, which is a game changer. And exposure for IU is through the roof. CBB doesn’t come close. I wouldn’t trade our CFB Championship for any realistic number of CBB titles. Maybe 10 schools care about CBB. The whole country cares about CFB. Sorry to be a bit dramatic, but this is not close.

Seems he’s a lifelong fan and previous student manager. So it means something to him. Pay must be at least in same neighborhood if not more though. I love this move, and think it shows we know how important portal season is about to be.

The starting point problem here is the assumption DeVries’ recruiting after his late hire with 0 staff was strategic. IU had just once again missed the tournament, had 8 years of mediocre results, had 0 returning players, players recruited to Woodson’s failed front-court non-outside shooting teams, zero staff. That’s the opposite of hitting the ground running. If we make the tourney (I think we will), which is step 1 on this obvious complete rebuild, he’ll have a year of budding success grounded in high output 3-point shooting/ guard play and a staff in place and returning players to add pieces to in a system already in place. This offseason (and next) is very important but no reason to tie it conceptually to last year, as if DeVries would go chasing mid-tier players. He’ll chase the best with more time to get them. He knows we’re undersized for the B1G, he knows we need more athletic forwards. He landed Wilkerson and beat UK to get him, that’s the kind of guard he wants, who he’ll pursue and how many forwards remains to be seen but what he was able to do starting with nothing is not somehow the model

These last 5 years are maybe the best stretch in Purdue basketball history. And amongst the worst for IU. And still, over those 5 seasons Purdue is only 4-5 vs Indiana. Please let us win this game, it would be so fun.

Something kinda crazy happened on Jan. 19 ... HAPPY ONE MONTH ANNIVERSARY, EVERYONE!

JHS' epic performance from three years ago. Maybe Wilkerson can have a similar night and help get us that sweep!

D-Rock took a page from Cigs and wrote a note to the kids ...

Cignetti all day long. Not close.

Seems this move could also help in securing more money for the program. Part of Carr's connections would be to the top donors like Cuban, Simon Skjodt, Cook, Pfau. Appealing to the confidence of heading in the right direction of continuing to building the program.

Maybe but just shows where the program DeVries took over is at currently. I don’t care who the coach of IU is going 3-7 in a 10 game span where those wins were 1 in 2OT, 2 pt win and 4 pt win is ridiculous. Hopefully he starts a new winning streak

Former IU guy, likely big salary, ability to play a real role in rebuilding the program, life in Bloomington all come to mind for me

Read the 24/7 article on his background and Bird’s comments about what expected from Carr. I would think/hope our staff would want his input on players from an evaluation standpoint, even though it is their final call. Carr has a ton of evaluation experience at the highest level.

That will boost their NET Goalie saved them in the 3rd period

It's gonna need to be an A this off-season.

Can you imagine Cronin at IU? That would’ve lasted all of about 15 minutes. And some of the dorks on our beat would’ve been eaten alive in that short period time.

This was Hermey last night -- thinking he's Caitlin Clark.

I always knew Archie was the guy.

Tonight’s performance with an NCAA tournament on the line was all on the coach. How can you not get your players ready to come out and kick butt in the second half? We looked like a Woodson coached team tonight falling short after leading most of the game.

You can piss and moan all you want Devries but we lost this game when we didn’t make a basket from the floor for 9 minutes.

The whole give the ball to Tucker 34 feet away from the hoop and back dribble the guy 4 feet to still be 30 feet away from the hoop is something.

Love. This. So. Much.

Just saw this. Sorry if already posted somewhere: https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-pacers-vp-ryan-carr-is-joining-darian-devries-indiana-basketball-coaching-staff-275311374/?source=column&lctg=26140&eid=a7f2d363bcb10ce63ad46f2c04fa551423d8bf1a7468dda686c3080c3f76cc4b&utm_source=247Sports Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=260223_090959_Peegs.com&utm_content=Link

Head coaches don't build rosters. Assistants do. They have national and now international connections that bubble up names and they go see see them. The come up with a dozen or so names in each class starting when they're incoming freshmen. They start working them it depends on the culture of whomever they're working for on who the put the most time into. DD hadn't been working players for damn near a decade and he thought he had Murphy and Moikobu coming in to build a roster for him that reflected their prowess. Rod Clark was prayer answered but too late to do anything about the 26' team. Kenny and Drew have temp contracts. 2 years each. I have to believe it's because they're were emergency filler and will be replaced. Geoff Alexander and Chin Coleman would immediately change our talent level. Along with Rod Clark, that's a serious staff. All of this will come down to money though. I believe in DD more now than i did when we hired him. He can coach an offense that can hang a banner. He needs talent acquisition specialists.

Oh well. WL is a dump, Purdue fans are ugly, and IUFB is the reigning national champion.

#1 reason to want Painter to leave the conference. He’s been the most vocal voice in keeping the officiating terrible. Probably because Purdue can’t win without it

A lot of people wrote them off after a tough 4 game losing streak and took that opportunity to say they weren’t a tourney team and would be lucky to win 7 conference games. Reality is they are basically exactly where most the national basketball media and most fans thought they would be at this point. Even with a flawed roster DeVries has them positioned to make the tourney in his first year(all I heard over the summer was just find a way to get in the tourney). Still have 5 regular season games left but as of today IU is a projected tourney team.

Translation: It’s what Cignetti does.

DB/CB/WR rooms are impressive. AJ Harris, one of the top 3 CBs in B1G in 24-25, is listed as a 2-deep. Sanks at 2-deep, wow. DE seems to have more depth than last year. I wonder how they'll use Burnham, he was very highly touted originally at ND, never lived up to the hype. Ndukwe will be a starter before the season is over, very apparent in the CFP that he was a high-level B1G starter. Looking forward to seeing the Tulsa transfer Hjelle DT, monster at a lower level. The obvious standout to me is the OL is all SR+ aside from Ajani. In the box offensively we are very old. Sr+ Hoover, Sr+ Beebe (dawg), Sr+ OL. I don't see a world where Indiana is any worse than 11-1. Becker, Marsh, Chandler, Preston, Morris, Bond - good luck to opposing DBs. If Khobe Martin is the 3rd back then we are sitting pretty - guy is a stud. ST looks to be top 5 in the country again. This is where IU separates from the 99. Guys like Clay Connor really make a difference. Indiana does not take a step back next year. "We are the emerging superpower in college football,why would I leave"