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Has there ever been more of an underperformer in an ultra talented collegian than Hunter Dickinson? Amazing when you consider how good that Michigan team was when he was a freshman. Dude is now 103-57 after having a 27-7 freshman year and leaving to play at Kansas. Incredible with how talented he is and how much talent he had around him in his career.

TJO would be the best realistic if we could ever pull from the Big 12. McCasland would be phenomenal imo, but he wouldn’t leave Texas. Similar to what it sounds like with TJO at this point. We’ll see and hope it ends well.

https://x.com/CoachAdragna/status/1900367366476718285 Tony just posted this. 30 minutes

Yessir. All my life.

Wow, that’s takes a pair. Respect

Do we know anyone that lives out of Huntington and knows Miller Aviation? They could tell you who is on that Boston flight lol.

I definitely appreciate it man, but I am more hopeful to watch sideline and timeout clips than someone telling me how they feel about him. How attentive is his players? Is he a screamer? How is he out of timeouts? I know his team hasn’t run and is extremely efficient. Is that due to talent or him? I hope to watch some game footage if we end up going that route. Which is odd for me.

How is he immediately after games? How is his coaching/communication style? More so than a presser. Those are easy if you win and are impossible if you lose here. He has won no doubt. Will it translate? A lot of questions. But I think once we get past the McDermott/TJO level we were always going to have exponentially more questions. Even at that level there would be some.

I honestly don’t know if I have heard the man speak. That’s where my trepidation stems from. I am not USPS lol, but few are. I feel I watch a lot of ball enough where I would hear and see someone enough I can sell and get behind. I legit have no clue other than stats and advanced stats. Those will no doubt change with better talent and different/stronger opponents. But to your point, personality is huge at a place like this. I would have to run on blind hope here if that’s the way it went in the end.

We really haven’t landed “the big fish” in a long time with any level of consistency. We are not Kentucky, Kansas, or Duke and haven’t really recruited at that level since the early 90s. EG? Bracey? DJ White? Cody? Noah? Not a ton of big fish in 30 years. We really need x’s and o’s and wins more than a Calipari. Especially in this era. Have no clue who we hire in the end. Just hope he is a top 10 x and o guy with a better personality than Archie.

Bet the offense would be fun as hell and he could do better than Luke Walton. Maybe not quite Chris Collins as x and o’s, but I would pay to see it. Who doesn’t love a legit 2nd gen coach?

A man (or lady) can dream.

Would feel a lot better if Bozich didn’t instantly report on Goodman’s tweet.

Goodman is just setting it up so when Iowa hires him Saturday, he can drag IU through the mud. With the interest we have, if that happened it would be one of if not the most embarrassing thing to happen to the bball program in a long time. If that wouldn’t be rock bottom, I hope I am not alive to see it. But I have a feeling these back channel messages going back and forth are getting their points across.

McDermott is who I am holding out hope for. But if it’s not him, I would happily take McCollum over Brownell.

I would absolutely be thrilled if it was that at this point. That’s where my hope is centered for the remainder of this search.

Our company hitches rides. Usually from the Boston Sci people. They are the moneybags in all this. Our part is big for us, but like 1/5 of the project. Piss in the wind for Cook or Boston Sci. But we support 10 other Boston Sci’s globally. Our cheapskate company would never buy a jet. They would just put us in coach if we weren’t offered a ride lol.

My guess that’s info from the Indiana side. Still trying to warm up to the idea lol.

Dude I would amputate parts of my own body for Brad Stevens to be our coach. Very few truly have an idea how much a fan girl I would be for that dude. People in the Boston area don’t feel too strongly for us lol. But I am not here to rain on anyone’s parade. I am not sitting in the room with that family. Or any other. Just happened to sit with a family more games this year than usual that would have a better idea than most. And they are probably only sharing 10% of what they know. So I will never pretend to know more than people that are around the program or office daily. This was truly an odd coincidence that has happened twice in 25 years.

I wish man. I would have fan girled more than most on this board had I seen him. Promise that lol

Man, in all my years on this and other websites I have only ever had a decent idea on this and the Gary Harris recruitment as he was my aunts neighbor. This is where my tidbits will end quickly lol.

I have no idea for certain what today was. It didn’t have to do with my company. But that’s is one big deal for my company I will be glad when it’s done. I want to go to IU games to entertain myself. Not others….

I have flown into that airport as part of this project. Others have flown out of there. It happens. Not saying it’s the only thing that will ever happen, but that’s a pretty large partnership with a lot of back and forth. Cook Medical/IU Health/Boston Sci/Various vendors beyond the company I work for. We aren’t the only ones.

They were mistaken