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Some of you complain about the Big Ten not being able to compete in the tournament due to antiquated style of play. But as soon as you have a coach that is attempting to run a more modern style of play with a modern roster you begin to complain about the lack of big men. It doesn't make sense. Let Coach worry about who is playing what position. If we see issues next year, we can voice our complaints in the "Fire Coach Devries" thread. :)

I have no idea how this team will do next year. I do know that if you are unimpressed/disappointed with the roster at this point, you’re just the type of person who complains about the taxes when winning the lottery. We have much better shooters, much better guards, more athleticism…but we don’t have traditional big men so how are we going to compete in the mighty Big 10 with all the titles the conference has won since these players have been born? Again, I have no idea what will happen next year. But sitting here today, I feel much better than if Woodson was still coach and trying to get some more ranked players to get us over the hump.

He protected it once. That was enough.

You could argue some are more concerned with the optics of how IU is perceived by the national media and other fan bases then they are actual results on the court. Some would rather lose a close game to a national brand team like Duke then actual win a close game where IU looks bad against a team like Northwestern. Been that way for a while for some people. The reality is doesn’t matter how IU is perceived next year coach DeVries is going to have to win. He could have gotten the top 12 transfer portal guys this year or he could have gotten 200-212 ranked transfer guys in the portal and his expectation is going to be the same. Win. Optics would look better for some with choice 1 however expectations would be no different the door number 2. Unimpressed or impressed with what he has done doesn’t matter just got to sit back and see if this is the year IU claws its way back to where people want it to be

Trilly bomb for Josh Harris to Indiana.

Can someone please create an NIL thread

DeVries is cooking. Just stole an SEC teams top assistant. A sec team that just went to back to back elite 8s. Not even May and DeVries has 3 assistants that are known to get dudes and has a roster of 11 possibly 12. Heck of a job in my opinion. Impressed

Note to Coach DeVries... stay away from the police officers and trash cans. It's not worth the hassle. Signed, A Former IU Coach

Jason Drake on ISB radio earlier this morning said that Indiana will be taking an international trip to Puerto Rico sometime this August wasn’t sure where to put this

Guards win games in March plain and simple

What if we were mentally tough? That'd be a fantastic change.

Trilly posting a gif for Harris tomorrow morning alluding to him being a Hoosier, nice long term pick up

Not a single big on the staff. I was hoping for at least one rim protector.

Here you go. I think you would like this roster.

He’s the prototype of what most coaches want. Woodson destroyed his stock.

I’m gonna go to HSN and tell everyone that Old Fart friggin sucks.

Hey, isn't Josh Harris on campus. Can we please stop the p*ssing match about players getting paid. The genie is out of the bottle.

This post reads like you’ve seen the payroll and compared it to other payrolls you’ve seen.

Recruit news???

We’re going to play very fast too. I’m not worried about the possibility of losing a couple games because of a team’s post game. I want to win in March. I think we get another 5 anyway.

I mean do we want to promote the party lifestyle as a key recruiting tactic? We want grinders not party animals. I’m sure they will all have their fun but let’s not make it a key selling point. Sell basketball first.

shoot the piss out of the ball

Harris is now official. Huge pickup imo. Getting promising freshman are very important in the portal era imo.

https://x.com/theportalreport/status/1916859174014603664?s=46

We had big advantages in the post last year with Ballo/Reneau, how’d that work out? Gonna take some getting used to but the gross post-centric basketball we’ve seen for the last 8 years is going to be a thing of the past. Teams with less size managed to slow us down somehow and beat us from outside.