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Purdoo’s Daniel Jacobsen=skinny Will Berg. Discuss.

Purdue hates playing at Northwestern when they’re better than this. Big ol upset alert tonight.

Conerway has completely checked out. The other seniors loved on all the coaches, but they all REALLY loved on Kenny J. Coach Kenny gets maxed out luv!!

I was impressed

This one, OSU and beat a crap team in the B1G tournament and we’re in. Lose to OSU and I’m thinking two more needed.

Apparently, the crowd is going out of its way to big time support Reed Bailey tonight. Love that.

Five minutes in and we’re up 18. Lovely!

It would be really lovely if this wasn’t a six point game a few minutes into the second half

Shaping up to be one hell of a good day for IU hoops. That first half? As an illustrious IU bball alum would say, “A total team effort.”

My thoughts are, unlike developing culture, scheme, and attention to details, how to wisely spend a budget is much easier to learn. Also thinking that a staff that was put together way too late is a serious hindrance to player evaluation.

Imagining Noyan as a backup big next year. With four starters returning and a top ten class. yupyupyup

WHAT A WIN!! The future is increasingly and incredibly bright. Never Daunted gut check masterpiece.

They are out of timeouts

Caffey is so freaking tough at age 18.

NEVER daunted.

Never Daunted

Well ****, now we agree!

Agree. May, Pope, and Cal were pretty much best case examples. BTW, in year two, May is still a great example; Pope is sliding into the abyss, and Cal is solid but not great.

Last year's national champs Florida disagree. They dominated with an estimated NIL budget of $8 million. Their natty game opponent Houston was definitely not a relatively big spender. Not to say that a top ten budget isn't helpful - it is (and if we had one this year we likely would have had enough to overpay for a true big with a pulse). But neither team in last year's national championship game had a top ten budget.

Yup - "playing like crap" is all the critical analysis needed.

Okay... I'll bite: Give me one single statement from Darian Devries where he set won/loss record expectations for the current season. Or, are you stating that the one and only factor that sets expectations is a direct correlation between program budget and won/loss record, and that are other factors affecting results are irrelevant to expectations?

Cig is also a player evaluation savant. He is special because he is so incredibly rare.

In other words, we are right at performance expectations. And I agree - we are below average on return for monetary investment. Because the size of a team's budget is only one of so many factors that can contribute to success or failure. And that can be at least partially explained by having to pay 'transfer in' price for everyone except for Sisley and the two Eastern Euro kids.

Not cheering that. Not jeering that. It's about what was expected. "They thought they were better than what they were?" All I've ever seen and heard from staff is that they were trying to win the next game on the calendar; not how the entire season would be. Top 20 NIL? Maybe - sure. NIL is a bell curve. If we're top 20 we were a lot closer to 20th than 1st. Heck; maybe we're 15th! The message board or RMK era fan expectations are very, very different than the expectations of people in the business and media that regularly covers the sport. Those folks more or less had us as a 17-20 win team. They aren't always right, but in this case, that's how it's shook out.