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By the time it was done, Rourke was clearly the best quarterback 

4 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

The best place for breakfast…IMO…

The BtownBanners Coffee Geekery thread says differently.

I just inhaled a double shot at Soma off Kirkwood. Gotta caffeinate for the football game tonight!  :)

48 minutes ago, Demo said:

I think about 99% of these videos have been fantastic. This one feels a touch cheesy. But, hey, if Bryson likes it what do I care?

I love that video! Of course, Ima kinda cheesy myself.

33 minutes ago, IU Prof said:

https://hardwoodhoudini.com/posts/brad-stevens-addresses-rumor-leave-boston-celtics-indiana-hoosiers

Holy crap.

Did Brad Stevens really say “We’d like to get over that hump.”

That’s pretty funny.

4 hours ago, Geometry Hoosier said:

I’ve seen you tube videos that say Mike Woodson is making magic and Mike Woodson is reloading. IMO Mike Woodson isn’t doing crap. The billionaire donors are making the magic and reloading for Mike Woodson. I don’t believe he could even field a competitive team without them. 

Ummmmm…. Which coach are they willing to do that for? Most P5 teams have zillionaire donors. That budget still needs to attract talent.

Ballo apparently gave IU a discount over other programs so that he could play for Mike Woodson.

12 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Of course. There are three thousand and change eligible to vote.

However you slice it almost a thousand faculty took the time to vote on this no confidence point and 93% of them voted no confidence. For context the last time there was a no confidence vote, I think it was Herbert, and something like 500 faculty voted.
 

The backbending to minimize appx 950 faculty voting no confidence is kind of comical. It’s clearly significant.

Side note, I have no dog in this inter-college fight, it just strikes me as kind of comical to see people calling out 948 profs when they have no idea what their complaints are, but call them entitled anyway. Oh well.

Oh completely agree!

It seems as though the aggrieved were motivated, but the proponents of Pres Whitten among faculty were really hard to find.

Just now, HoosierHoopster said:

All of them, that’s why it’s 93% of 948…

But there are certainly more than 948 faculty who would have been eligible to vote. Only one side of the vote was motivated to take the time to do so apparently.

37 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

93%!!!!   that's more clear cut than the "are you happy with Coach Mike Woodson" poll.  

About the same actually.

But that was before Woodson signed Rice and Ballo 

3 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

93% of 948 faculty voted no confidence, there's a lot going on here.

Well stated.

No matter whom are right or wrong or how one feels about various issues, this is some high drama beyond those issues. Major personality clashes.

Just now, Hornsby said:

Ballo got 500k more than Malik? Wow.

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That is purely and completely a guess.

4 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

Was listening to Assembly Call last night. Assuming IU gets Carlyle, the rest of the roster might be a little hard to put together. All that will be left is reserve roles. A good problem to have but it still make time for it to play out. 

Malone. Essegian.

Filled and done.

4 hours ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Mostly Brad Underwood. They have seemed to add some good pieces. So far brought in Jake Davis from Mercer who averaged 9ppg and shot 38.7% from 3 as a freshman, Tre White, Carey Booth and Kylan Boswell. If they end up landing AJ Storr, they'll go in having the best backcourt in the conference.

If Underwood can get AJ Storr and Tre White to play team basketball he is one hell of a coach.

3 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

How much of this 6 million is left or are they now just getting more money? Seems it it would mostly all be spent at this point

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That's a great question.

I'll try some guesstimate math based on $6 million total NIL to parse out to 13 players: 

• Ballo - $1.1 million (Goodman reporting that the price for IU was less than others were offering).
• Reneau, Mgbkao; $650k each
• Rice, Carlyle; $600k each
• Galloway, Tucker; $400k each
• Cupps, Leal, $250k each
• Newton; $200k

That's a total of $5,100,000 with three spots open. That means we are under the $6,000,000 NIL even if we pay real money to two and leave the 13th spot open. Malone seems reasonably likely and he would be a low cost NIL signee. 

We good.

3 minutes ago, Golfman25 said:

Certainly a reasonable take, which I why I remain cautiously optimistic.  

Optimistic but not convinced? Exactly.

It does seem clear to me that Rice and (hopefully) Carlyle will significantly raise our floor for next season; in large part because last year, we won 19 games and were 10-10 in the B1G with a really sad sack guard rotation. It cannot be worse than a freshman Cupps, an injured and offense-lousy X, a turrible Gunn, a limited but game Leal, and Gallo counted on to be our everything. That. Was. Rough.

18 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

I was just thinking of DJ Burns from NC State. He is 6' 9" and 275 lbs. He played surprisingly well for his size and weight. However, he was definitely overmatched against Purdue, but more than that, he looked totally gassed as the tourney finally appeared to catch up with him. Ballo is at a much different level that Burns.

He kind o reminded me of "Big Baby" Glen Davis a little. He was 6' 9" and 289 in college. 

 

Ballo is a completely different player than DJ Burns. Completely different.

• Ballo is bigger, stronger, in better shape, and a world's better defender.
• Burns is super skilled and a low post clever scorer and passer option in a way that Ballo never will be.

2 minutes ago, IH8PU said:

And .... if not them, then who should have been signed, is a question I ask people. I like all 3. I think Rice and Carlyle is better than Gallo and a healthy turnover machine XJ. Don't overlook the fact that Rice and Carlyle were All-Pac12 and one FOY. 

I think that @Chris007 presented the alternate approach; push hard for Humrichous and Conwell first and foremost. But we desperately needed shot makers too, and both Rice and Carlyle project as P5 shot makers far more than Conwell or Humrichous. 

That, and it seems as though Rice and Carlyle expressed immediate high interest in being "the bird in the IU hand."

18 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

I wish I could like this way more than one time. THIS IS SPOT ON. Woodson is all show and no go, as they say.

He's definitely not a team player if the stories are true - not interacting with other sports programs, refusing to talk to other teams when the coaches ask him to, his distain for Teri Moren and the women's program ... and those stories came from a source that I trust implicitly.

There are no flawless players. There are players that are great fits and good for the style of play for your team. 

So, we appear to be rolling the dice that the flaws of three excellent college players, Rice, Ballo, and (likely) Carlyle will be overcome by their positive attributes:

• For Carlyle and Ballo especially, the upside is defense, motor, and quickness for their size.
• For Rice, it's leadership and quickness.
• For Rice and Carlyle, it's shot making. Damn, we needed some shot makers - guys who don't need to be wide open or be the beneficiary of a good offensive action to create offense. Last year only Reneau really brought that.
• For all three, they have proven P5 success.
• For Rice and Ballo, an upside is 2 PT fg percentage.

• Downside? For all three, it's 3 point percentage (somewhat less so for Carlyle). Only Ballo is a crappy FT shooter.

We are rolling with them while taking on the risk that Rice and Carlyle's three point percentage may or may not improve. Seems to me like a reasonable risk to take on.

21 minutes ago, Trish said:

He’s going to have to decide if he wants to come off the bench at IU or potentially start elsewhere. 
 

Indiana has seven guys in the rotation. Room is running out. 

True, but a starting role would be at a mid-major, with substantially less NIL.

8 minutes ago, IndianaSconnie90 said:

Another dominant big who can't shoot 3s. I hate to be a downer here but we've all seen this before. 

 

 

5 minutes ago, FightFor6 said:

The national championship just featured 2 bigs that meet this description.

And our team two years ago that was a 4 seed featured a dominant big that could not shoot threes.

And our disappointing team last season featured a dominant big that could shoot threes.

Hmmmm…. Maybe dominant bigs don’t need to shoot threes!

21 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Connor Essegian visiting tomorrow.

@ISP?