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It's an interesting question. The universities are not paying for NIL. However, and this is a big "however," this booster contribution effort does drain the ability of a university to get direct contributions from those boosters. The boosters aren't an unlimited funding source for all initiatives. But, if a booster wants to contribute to the Hunter Dickinson NIL collective, the university doesn't have a lot of power to tell boosters not to.

Free market baybeeeeeeeeeee. Get that socialist **** out of my face. Adults can choose where the personal profit is, within the stated industry regulations.

Dingle just started following Xavier Johnson on Instagram. Not a bad thing to see.

That Sucks

In a battle with UL's 'ladies', Bill Self's bag men, and Rick Pitino's 'I know a guy in Queens', I'm riding with Gabe Cupps every time.

Timeline that makes the most sense to me is; Tuesday/Wednesday - KU visit Friday/Saturday - IU visit Sunday/Monday - UL visit Next Monday night through a week from Saturday - Alternating Tweets inferring he is a lock to, and will no longer consider each of his four finalist schools. Next Tuesday through Sunday - meetings with and between Adidas, Agents, AAU coaches, Cousins, "Cousins" Cousins of cousins, Cousins of cousins of friends of cousins, "Charities" (lol), and Financial services professionals Key program associated individuals will include: Silvio De Sousa's defense attorney, Katina Powell, Your friendly, reliable Lexus dealers of Central Kansas, Southern Indiana Northern Kentucky, and Da Fuggetaboutit Queens Auto Association Kurtis Townsend, Woody's beer girl golf-cart attendant, affectionately nicknamed "son" and "Kory" by Woody JaQuan Lyle, Bill Self's toupee-dresser, and of course, The indescribably undeniably omnipresent Gabe Cupps. And a decision by next weekend.

Luke Brown is a competitor. He’s monitoring to make sure he doesn’t relinquish the throne to this newcomer.

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Likely indicates that IU was not heavily pursuing anymore

For sure. if Tyson committed one would expect that to notably diminish KU’s chances with Mgbako

They have “playing close to family and friends and allowing them see you on the court all the time” to offer also

UPDATED Guards X Johnson A Leal T Galloway G Cupps Wings K Banks CJ Gunn J Newton Posts/Bigs M Reneau Kel’el Ware P. Sparks A Walker

Per his Instagram he will be announcing at 1:00 today. I strongly suspect that we will have the 11th member of our roster today!

Rodney Terry giving off them Mike Davis vibes.

Maybe I didn't post with clarity, but look at the words I chose: My "We're clearly not" was in regard to if we are currently in danger that we are looking to fill all three open spots with 'depth' players. Not whether we're clearly going to land a "for-sure thing" wing. I hope we land a wing with very high odds of success. But even if we land an extremely coveted wing, I will never speculate that the player will be a "for sure thing." For instance, borderline 5* wing Tamar Bates was a great player to land, but he was never a for sure thing. Same goes for Mgbako, Dennis, or Dingle. All great gets; none a "for sure thing," none are depth pieces. In summary? I think, based on the players we're pursuing beyond Walker, we are clearly looking for a 30-ish mpg player, not a depth piece.

I'm discussing what makes sense. I have no "inside" information about what the staff or portal recruits are thinking. For instance, when I see that Adam Howard or Jordan Hulls is suddenly following a player like Rayj Dennis or Devo Davis when they aren't in the portal yet, I find that notable and worthy of discussion. When I see IU potentially signing Anthony Walker, to me that means they have a plan for wings for the other one or two spots.

Maybe Purdue needs a point guard.

It's an interesting back and forth. Please don't take it to personal insults gents. Thanks

And Lenee Beaumont from the women's team! Gallo is a new one. More importantly, Mgbako has been following Ware and Cupps for years, so he clearly knows them some.

Completely fair, but also fair that you're not exactly an optimist. So Leal will be the 13th guy. If Walker, Banks, Gunn, and Newton are the 9-12th, we are a very very strong team. I would hope we can agree that having 10+ "starter quality" guys on a college basketball roster is a recipe for team discord.

Guaranteeing? lol Are you saying if there's not a guarantee on a message board that we are landing players that, to your satisfaction, are top players you are losing faith in the staff to put together a strong roster?

While it's your prerogative, there's really no need to be a smart @$$. Woody wants to win. Not someday; he wants to win and win at IU ... NOW. Getting a guy like Anthony Walker to basically replace Jordan Geronimo would be fantastic news, and an upgrade. Our other players to replace are Trayce, JHS, Race, and MillerK Xavier Sparks Ware A high level SG like Dennis or Dingle, and A shooter like Mgbako (not overly likely but certainly possible) Would do that and maybe even then some. No need for griping when "stay tuned, this could be getting good" is a more realistic take.

Your point would be valid if we were in danger of filling all three remaining spots with depth players. We're clearly not.