Stuhoo

It's NOT fair! The coffee he drinks is excellent.

That is some partisan, inside the fanbase press. A "sleeping giant" is just that...sleeping.

I'm thinking he either commits to Michigan in the next few days, which is a real possibility, or if we can get him back for an official we are the front runners.

Watford and Brooks's position is..."basketball player." Plain and simple. And they are really good ones from great families. Damn straight they can play together.

Yes! That's why we are all excited about the prospect of Lugentz Dort from Canada. Absolutely no bad precedent with that name combo. ;)

Holtmann said that grades were the start of his off-court problems. Not the entirety of them. The press articles say he's a likable kid but with no self-discipline. Sounds kinda Troy Williams-ish, and that turned out as a net positive for us, but with many bumps in the road along the way.

I guess ya never know, and if the staff has a personal relationship with him they know better than us, but he sure seems like a pain in the arse that's not worth the talent. Same with JaQuan Lyle.

For instance, there's a team in the B1G that has: 6'10", 240 6'10", 220 6'9", 225 6'8", 230 6'7, 220 6'7", 225 6'6", 220 All on scholly. How are we gonna defend them?!? Oh, wait...that's us. We'll be fine with the size we have, though if DeRon gets hurt we'd suffer for sure.

I'm your "unwarranted rainbow sunshine" guru! BTW; if DeRon Davis gets injured, we are gonna suck so so much!

IMO, you forgot an extremely important component of that 18-16 record: Yes, we lost our three most talented players from last year, but that 18-16 record was the product of a steady slide during the season that occurred after the loss of by far our best player, OG (especially defensively). OG also missed almost all of the Ft Wayne loss with stomach flu prior to his knee injury. So, while we sucked last year, we really didn't lose as much from our suckfest as it might initially seem like. And, we don't just gain three mid ranked freshmen, we also gain Collin Hartman. 12-5 with OG, 6-11 after he got hurt. No doubt some really bad losses before he got hurt, but also some very good wins.

I see your point. Hard to argue with... "J".

1) Tom Crean is a far better human being than Jim Boeheim. 2) Tyler Lyndon kinda sux. I'm with Tommy on this one!

I don't consider tea leaf reading articles a must read very often, but I LOVE this pre-IU hire article on Coach Ed Schilling. Enjoy: UCLA's Schilling remembers his Indiana basketball roots Mar 24, 2017 Ed Schilling talks to UCLA's Lonzo Ball during the team's open practice on Thursday. MEMPHIS — The game of basketball was always in Ed Schilling’s blood. His grandfather Walter Cross was the Mental Attitude Award winner for the state finalist Thorntown team in 1915, and his father Ed is in the Butler Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a player. So it was no surprise that he got into coaching. But even Schilling may not have expected all the success he would have when he started out as the Western Boone head coach fresh out of college at 22 years old. Now he finds himself on the bench at UCLA, where he has been an assistant to Steve Alford the past four seasons. They play in the South Regional semifinals on Friday night against Kentucky. “They have been so coachable and so much fun to coach,” Schilling said of this year’s Bruins. “They listen, they work and they don’t have egos. They are quality people, and it has been a great, great time and a great year. More than anything, we want to keep it going.” Schilling has deep ties to Boone County basketball. After moving to Lebanon as a sophomore, Schilling excelled with the Tigers and eventually earned a scholarship to Miami (Ohio), where he held single game, season and career assist records.He has fond memories of how close his Lebanon teams were. “Our team here is really close at UCLA, but at Lebanon we did everything together,” Schilling said. “The starting five did everything together, from playing in the park to working out in the gym at 7 a.m. to going to the movies together. We were a big family. More than anything, I remember the camaraderie of the team.” Schilling also remembers how tight knit the Lebanon basketball community was. He took pride in being a Tiger. “There is a just an enthusiasm from Jim Rosenstihl, to Rick Mount, to Brian and Steve Walker and on,” Schilling said. “There have been some great players, and they would all come back to the Lebanon park. Jim Rosenstihl would sit on the bench watching the pick-up games. Rick Mount would spend hours and hours playing — we played 1-on-1 every day for about four years. A lot of the former players wouldn’t just play but would try to help us and pass the torch. That really helped continue the legacy.”Along with his family ties, Schilling said his relationship with Rosenstihl was one that helped him realize he wanted to have a career with the game.“A lot of it was started by Jim Rosenstihl, who was my high school coach,” Schilling said. “He won over 500 games, and he was always at the Lebanon outdoor court. When you look at all the history, you can trace a lot of it back to Jim Rosenstihl.” Schilling’s coaching career started earlier than he expected when he suffered a knee injury in college and never fully recovered. He got the head job at Western Boone, where he coached for three years for Lebanon’s biggest rival, leading the Stars’ to a school record for wins in his final year. Schilling then went to Logansport for four years before getting a job with John Calipari at UMass.The Minutemen went to the Final Four that year after spending 10 weeks at No. 1 in the country. After that season, Calipari got the head job with the New Jersey Nets and brought Schilling with him. In less than a year, he went from coaching Logansport to an NBA bench. Coincidentally, he will be on the opposing bench of Calipari on Friday. “It is really unique,” Schilling said. “Having a chance to work with Coach Cal at UMass, the Nets and at Memphis, it was a tremendous experience. But he is one of my best friends, to have a chance to go against him is good and bad. That is challenging but a great thing.”Schilling eventually left the Nets to become the head coach at Wright State and then was an assistant under Calipari at Memphis for two seasons.He then returned to Indiana and ran Champions Academy in Zionsville and became the head coach of Park Tudor, leading the Panthers to state championships in 2011 and 2012.When Alford got the head coaching job at UCLA, one of his first calls was to Schilling, and in the past four seasons, the Bruins have made three Sweet 16 appearances and have had seven players drafted into the NBA. Despite traveling from coast to coast at all levels of basketball, Schilling said there are some things that Indiana has that are unmatched across the country. “The fan support is great and the crowds are knowledgeable, but beyond that, it is the high school coaches I love,” Schilling said. “At New Albany, you have Jim Shannon, who coached at Lebanon (per Stuhoo: and now has a pretty good SG named Romeo), North Central has a great coach in Doug Mitchell (per Stuhoo: who sent Kris Wilkes to UCLA, y'all), and these are all guys that I coached against and exchanged Xs and Os with. Mark James, who is coaching Ben Davis (Per Stuhoo: who may encourage Aaron Henry, if IU is interested) in the state title game this weekend, used to ride up to coaching clinics with me. The coaches in Indiana really have a passion for basketball and a passion for their players that you don’t see elsewhere.”

Uh-oh Mo Bamba: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/texas-responds-allegations-brother-prized-recruit-mohamed-bamba-060646692.html

Chris Collins getting it done! Hires assistant coach Billy Donlan away from Belien and UM. Could be helpful where Donlan was the primary on recruits we're competing with UM for: J Hunter and B Johns maybe?

C'mon home, Jerome.

Looks like 335 on the bench press to me. Outta my league!

I don't have a problem if it does (that is, for if we're waiting on a real player like Romeo, not an imaginary one like Ivan), as long as the lesser recruit isn't mocking us for us ridiculously thinking we have a chance with the high-level recruit when we really don't. And, it's not like we don't have plenty of offers out there; we do. In-state for '18 I believe we already have offers out to Romeo Langford, Robert Phinisee, and Damezi Anderson, along with 'next state over' offers to J Hunter, Johns, Bazley, etc. Not to mention '19 offers to Keion and Jackson-Davis in-state (and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few). But, when we get a chance to not plaster the country with offers, or offer way too early to a 'maybe we want him' recruit at the expense of a better one, we do ourselves a disservice.

Nope. That's not the primary reason why it's such good news. The best part? It gives a clear impression that an IU offer is something to be coveted, and that if you get one, you're special. Want this dynamic to be further magnified as our roster quality improves.

That is a zero-information article vis-a-vis his true intentions or thoughts on any school.

Committed to WVU.

Good. It would scare the crap out of me if Michigan had an in-depth, on campus look at him and decided he wasn't offer-worthy.