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I have no idea. I just know from prior experience an overlap is helpful when coming from outside. That is really all I was able to comment on.

Hard to say if there was anything revealing about having the prior president help with the transition. I have had a few opportunities to be the successor to a retiring president. In many of the opportunities there was an overlap or some consulting type role like this to help ease in the transition especially when I was coming in from the outside. If she was not in the first round then it may have taken more time to get her on board and some of that time may initially have been planned for this consulting help.

How do you know he has not committed yet? May not have but very easily could have and the staff is waiting for him to make if official.

Just curious, if this is paranoia based, is the argument that she fears they would be recording the conversation? Can you secretly record a conversation in Indiana?

He would do better playing overseas than the G league but to follow your thought, playing in the Big Ten and at Indiana would be more attractive to overseas teams, I would think, than having played at Cincy. Now, if he wants to go to Cincy and have a bigger role, I would not fault him for that.

Sounds like she just wants ther attention. If this is “out there” it seems mild.

Many of the targets could have multiple years left which would have been better than getting all 1 year guys and doing it all over again next summer. Not all will be multi year but the first two are. Even if we get the #1 class with all our needs met we all know we have to make it work on the court. But for now, this is turning out better than I expected.

I think that is obvious to 95% if not more. However frustrating many of us were we were also expecting all the core players to leave and the staff to recruit a bunch of 1 year mercenaries. Now we see that the core came back and a lot of our targets are multi year players. Does this translate into a top 10 team, probably not but it is also not the dumpster fire that seemed to be coming based on Rabbys state of the program tweets.

Another way to look at it is they don’t have to be program changers by themselves. MM was a more confident player at the end of the year and MR improved a ton from his freshman year. If both make another step forward they are more likely to be the program changers. The guys visiting this weekend improve us from X, Cupps and an out of position Gallo.

We still have 5 spots to fill. We also needed a dynamic PG. I hoped we could get both in one player. First 2/3 of his season he fit that. Definitely need more of that than the last 1/3 but he is a huge upgrade and is young. Remember when some hoops guy said after we lost boogie we could probably get someone similar with experience in the portal. Rice kind of fits that

I would argue that it was a great 2nd get. Tucker was not a portal kid but was a late, short recruitment add and while not the shooter Liam was he can be a big help down the road.

Fair point but he is a major upgrade from Cupps and X. Major. His 3pt shooting was very good before that finish. Get tired? Who knows but this is a very good second addition to the team. Still plenty of room for shooters

This is fair and I don’t expect us to launch 30 three pointers/game next year but I would be more shocked if Woody ran with the same offensive ideas this year. I do expect some system changes and the emphasis on guards in the portal suggest this is likely.

I don’t fault a guy for looking at options before deciding.

We heard a lot of these same comments on Woody and how the preparation for the visit was better than other schools on prior recruiting wins but I think the noise around the program has many of us wondering which is true. I remember guys saying they were not promised anything, that we had tape ready to show them what to expect and what to work on, different but better preparation than kids saw at other schools. Now we as a fan base seem convinced that this guy has to start or no way he is coming if he is not a starter. I don't claim to know which is true but it is good to see these comments from Bryson's dad.

His current coaching or play style seems to be one that can continue. His teams use a big, utilizes the 3 but is not dependent on the outside shot.

Ruh Roh - Trilly have an speculation about Chris streaking across campus soon

I saw where he started the year fine but people wondered if he just did not have the energy down the stretch due to sitting out last year battling cancer. Who knows. I will take him and he will be a huge upgrade over both Cupps and X (and I like Cupps as a reserve).

Actually I was impressed. I love a good detective. Now had it been us, we would have sent @Hovadipo in for the hug which would have sealed the deal.

Chris saying Rice to indiana is done - I like that

If you cant find shooters, get rebounders!

What is the role of these GMs? From what I think, I am not sure how unsuccessful former head coaches would excel in a GM role. It I may have the wrong expectations

Ignoring his approach on the boards and twitter, I think NGW either hears what the staff's approach is or has a wild imagination. Assuming he knows their approach, I am curious to see how it plays out. I do think this, including NIL obviously, could help them build a strong team. It could also fail incredibly. I am fine with either result. If the NGW/staff strategy is accurate then we may not know many of the kids we have interest in and have talked to. After the round of visits if we still have 0 commits and we go to the next round I would imagine the staff will start getting worried.

Yikes, can he get it off?