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Not Always.

Eric Gordon wasn't at IU during the time period of that graphic. Indiana had 6 early draft picks and Troy Williams and James Blackmon as an early entrant. Purdue had Swanigan and Carson Edwards. The best player leaving after 1 or 2 years definitely reduces the impact of a draft class and Indiana had at least 1 leave a class from '11-'15 and 6 of 11 classes.

You are correct. I had the visits backwards.

Except this season when we go 2-0 early against Kansas and UNC, please don't let the wheels fall off a few games later, like last time.

The getter isn't always the slimy one.

We had a spot available the day he visited. It's my understanding that staff tried to get him to commit and he didn't. A couple days later Reneau visited and committed.

Looks like Providence might be the Texas of portal hauls for 2022.

If they were deciding country of citizenship, based on "offer", that would be slimy.

That's barely half of Irvin Stepp senior year avg in Kentucky. Crazily he avg under 5 ppg in college.

and anything close to that at college distance, regardless of conference.

This pattern repeats over and over. Steve Fisher, Mike Davis, Bruce Webber, Kevin Ollie... Hubert Davis (likely) and John Scheyer ( up for his 1 and done run next season)

If we run a 2nd unit, I think Banks would be a great 3. Bates, Galloway, Banks, Kopp, Reneau.

I doubt we would redshirt 2 and only have 11 scholarship players.

and 37% at college distance.

It's not supposed to be an offer in advance. A kid AT IU will have paid advertisement for your auto dealership. Not a kid who may come or who is coming.

Except it's "supposed" to be outside the uses of NIL. Having NIL set up in advance, and only if you come, is the text-book definition of an enticement to commit. It's supposed to be what value an athlete at your school had created to benefit your company. Pre-commitment he's not an athlete at your school.

I think he'll more likely have a bates-like freshman year around 4-5 ppg.

Yep. Doubtful Pack has a LIKENESS that the Miami company recognizes. They probably didn't know the NAME Nigel Pack 3 weeks ago. And they wouldn't know a good Nigel Pack Sillouette, or IMAGE. and without any of that, they can sign him to an NIL deal... only because the Miami coach wants him.

I mean the overt nature of "Ohio State offered $250k and Miami $350k" will go away. And it will become more difficult to funnel LEGAL money to players.

H probably wants to see what kind of bidding war $ bump he can create.

I'm not sure if we would lose defensively if we get McNeil and his shooting wasn't much better than Kopp's was it? It may for him, but it doesn't have to for us.

If he doesn't start he would be a few minutes of a game sub and when the other team gets a hot had, he would be brought in to shut him down, and maybe to contain the other teams crunch player in crunch time. The whole "it's who finishes" mantra.

That kind of thing will get regulated and go away.

Like I have said, and people continue to Poo-Poo... Someone is going to take action to come down hard on NIL that is outside the bounds of the "spirit of the rule". It's not supposed to be a recruiting tool or a retaining tool. And it sort of magically appeared and regulating bodies were caught flat footed and I think they will clamor to catch up. Especially when a senators favorite team has no NIL pull.

They were behind because while Kentucky, UNC, Duke etc had dudes earmarking hundreds of thousands for under-the-table recruiting, they simply had to funnel into acceptable deals. IU didn't have this pipeline of companies earmarking illegal funds. A new thought process had to be established for potential IU donors. Also, because NIL was so new and so radical, I imagine it took some time for IU boosters to get their head around the reality and OK-ness of NIL money.