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Not just the students. We get a top 50 bball recruit and even this board spends little time discussing. That thread is not even on the front page when I pull up the site.

My kids had 2 good teams (1 guys and 1 girls) but faced juggernauts early. Regional finals makes for a fun year. Hopefully next year. Such a fun game. My daughter’s team won a playoff game this weekend with a golden goal in overtime. She is near the bottom of the pile and even though the win was awesome the joy she shows here is what I enjoyed most.

Not necessarily IU, but @WayneFleekHoosier did your sons team win state? Wasn’t sure if he went to Blackhawk but thought he did for some reason. If so, congrats to the family!

Would he tend to clog up the lane?

This was what I was going to say. An awesome combo

Anyone, like me, that went to school in the 80's just had it too good. NCAA champions and even with the season on the brink we were always relevant. Soccer was great. Football had the best Mallory years and then AT followed by Dunbar and usually a bowl game. I think the girls were prettier too!

Another thing IU fans/Alumni can do is to try to get your companies to become corporate sponsors. I am sure the sponsor level has gone up but from 2016-2022 the company I worked for supported IU this way. We paid ~ $250k/yr and got 4 tix to all football and 8 basketball games plus some extra events. I had trouble taking people to football games back then and basketball was not much better so I am sure the pricing has gone up. But we got really good PR, in game program, on screens, I got to do the game ball thing, did a quick interview each year with someone from the radio team for a quick commercial promo. It was well worth the $250k. If anyone has an interest let me know and I can connect you with the guy who runs this.

Coaches put in a lot of work on the HS route this summer, more so than many other teams based on feedback from some of the reports. I am not sure that the amount of work put in matches the results (so far) but another way to look at it is that we had to overwork just to get the 2 we got. We may not have them if we had put in the same amount of work as others. Hopefully this is indicative of the staff's willingness to grind. Going to have to have on court success and competitive NIL to keep up. I am hopeful but also had hoped to land some big HS names in '26 based on the work we put in vs other schools. The interview someone had with Brian Snow also makes me wonder how this one went down. He indicated that the $ is decided pretty early on and is not usually a factor to sway a kid late. He referenced Jalen Haralson and that in the end he was more comfortable with ND than with our $. Not sure that applies to Thompson but assuming Snow's info is still somewhat accurate. I am also hoping that when Snow said IU was a beast to recruit against (even when we had woody) is also true and if we have on court success, we become dominant recruiting the Midwest. But apparently, we are not there yet.

I was amazed to learn how strong Florida is now academically. I suspect some of that is attributed to the bright scholars program keeping Florida's best in-state but do you know what else have they have done away from sports to make such a turn around?

what was the Oregon line? I would agree however, that money is getting smarter with regards to IU

Does he lose some % of the NIL/Revenue share pot? I would think so which could make it interesting if we can’t land kids to compete at the top of the conference let alone country

So many want to hire the creative offensive guy so maybe that helps. He has been great

We can probably bump salary for him and the assistants to compete but our NIL budget vs the bigger schools has me more concerned. I also worry our coordinators get poached this offseason to get their HC opportunities.

I have seen the coke/drug reference a few times now. Where did that come from?

Unfortunately back in the hospital again. This time looking at an ablation, hopefully tomorrow. Can’t blame it on the Iowa Indiana game this time.