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I think this is my take as well. Short term, sure there are concerns. Whenever you don’t get your first choices (can only assume based on who visited) then you are hoping the next choice is similar or you get lucky. I would prefer he field a team not just guys after a payday but right now you kind of have to do both. Also concerned that we don’t seem to be well ahead of the pack on NIL. Basing this on the surprise some schools are showing up with some big offers. Long-term I think we can be in good shape. 3 of the 4 schools/coaches in the FF had a slowish start when they took over. NIL is different but Lville built a good team last year with non high end portal kids and now that kids see what they are about Lville is landing big targets. I expect us to be far better than when Crean took over but not expecting to be as strong as Michigan was

What level competition does his school play at in Missouri? Any idea if he is putting up these numbers against large schools?

I wonder if he has to be more cautious in year 1 since he has an entire roster to build. We have to overpay to get guys since we don’t have a clear vision of who we are or how we will really play. Then you have to balance getting mercenaries vs a team. I am becoming more convinced we as fans are going to have to grind and be less insistent on a super quick turnaround.

Ballo followed Tommy Lloyd from Gonzaga to AZ right.

who would you compare his game to?

What does this mean then regarding Pack and IU? Are we checking out a few options that are better than him first then coming back and expecting him to still be there?

When the dead period starts in a few days can unnamed assistant coaches contact players? I know under prior rules it was sometimes an advantage to not naming new assistants because they could still contact players. Not sure this is the strategy here but just wondered.

Anyone wonder if perhaps the coach at Texas shared some thoughts about IU too. Not hard to eliminate us when you have options

Girls athletics started to grow on my when our daughters started playing their sports at higher levels. The guys are quicker, more athletic etc but for top girl teams there is something pretty cool about the way that game is played.

I had not been to any girls games, and maybe watched a couple on TV for the first 55 years. I moved to Florida 3 years ago and so going to mens or womens games has not been on my radar since moving. I do record all the girls games that are on TV down here and have watched about as many of those as I did guys games this year.

I think if they come here and do well we will embrace them much like we did Keith Smart (granted 2 yeas but only 1 really garnered his fame here) and if they leave we will feel as CSP posted about Yarden and much like we did for kids who transferred back under the old format like Recker. Come here and win, we love you. Choose to leave us and who care about you.

Tough since we are likely, hopefully, going to be pulling in a lot of kids who are leaving their school to come play for IU mens BBall. Do we lose respect for them for the same reasoning?

where did you see Frazier say he is not going to IU?

This sounds good

Was he the one that said we had a deal with DeVries on Mar 12th?

Anyone hearing about Davidson? This Igor guy been getting info before Tipton and is saying Davidson to Indiana

I just stumbled across them. What were they sharing? Were they active during the season?

Not sure where to post but the twitter fella Coach who had some good info deleted his account yesterday and today INanon may have done the same. What is going on ?

Can you pass along a recommendation to keep manager Bennet Munds on? Poor kid has not seen good basketball here and comes from a long family of boilermakers. We need to show him what good Indiana basketball is like so he has something to fight back with when visiting family.

Put on a UConn shirt and be a jerk. Pretend you are Dan Hurley on a bad day

If he is cleared they can have a Tim Garl day later and have him come back like former players do

He is at Valpo it appears as an assistant so that might be why he was at the games this weekend.

Did not like the cooking memes last year

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