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49ers would be nice

Do other schools know the portal is open?

Was just an attempt at humor

I heard it was Kenny who is out of town. The staff is full on secrecy mode and Kenny was down in Louisville walking around telling people he was a recruit from Alabama.

Would be nice to see Sherrell commit too. I know some, many, think this helps but just hoping that is the case. They seem to be different players so he does not on the surface look like a replacement. I guess if Sherrell isn’t sold on us he will schedule a visit somewhere

Did Carr get a staff to help research all the potential players out there? Recently He seemed to lead the evaluators vs doing the evaluations and I wonder if has a crew helping.

Well doggonit now we don’t have class balance anymore. Too many kids with 2 years left lol.

Sherrel seems like the guy that makes the class really good. Without him, Burton is a big need but a lot of holes otherwise. Landing Sherrell and Burton takes this class way up a few notches. Seems like we have been to the 11th hour a few times in the past and ended up short. Hopefully Sherrell commits and we keep adding first choice (from the staff) guys

Is this center supposed to play right away. Does Sherrell want to be a 4 vs a 5? Both would have an impact here

Hoosier Dentists for Good need to step up is what I have heard.

It was an estimate.

I think the difference is that if a school that has had success recently (with that coach) offers $2 million and we offer $2 million we lose out to their reputation. We have to offer more. Playing time can help but several schools can offer that. Until we can catch up to other schools by winning our NIL bucket say of $14 million may only land us players valued at $10 million.

I think that when hired DD felt he was going to land 2 of the better assistants (Alabama and TT?). That was likely conveyed to Dolson too which is reasonable. We locked in DD early and before a lot of other coaches who were hired and had his staffing plan worked out we would likely have had a much better season. It did not though and led to the difficulty i putting his staff together. Can we blame DD for swinging for the fences on those 2 assistants even though when he missed it hurt us? Probably but it will be forgotten if we have a very good season next year. I tend to think like @WayneFleekHoosier and unfortunately fall on the pessimistic side too often. I hope though to be wrong and come to these threads often looking for some evidence that I was wrong. It just feels like we get an audience and may even be able to land people (whether top assistants or players) but we are not willing or able to meet their price.

Del was from Plainfield, my old town, unless he started in Smithville. He went to HS though as a fighting Quaker lol

This was me last year. And he was right then and I started to see it once you think through it and take off the IU bias. This year could be different, we hope, but it is a wait and see. I think even if we spend $14 million we are having to pay more for some kids than a competitor school who has had more success. So while we may spend top 15-20 overall, because we have to overpay we are probably getting $10 million level roster Even with a $10 million roster we apparently have enough money for coaches/staff/facilities that they should be able to grind it out and produce results above than $10 million level. Last year I don’t think we did