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I am not sure. The show cause expires in June and he is only limited to off campus recruiting during that. With the portal, the off-campus recruiting before June is not an issue. The penalties associated with that would not be illegal now. Given the island (of being a bad basketball program) we have been on, it we miss on a few candidates and they feel he is unlikely to do something that would embaras the school, he should get consideration. I know @Uspshoosier or @Demohas some misgivings about him that go beyond the recruiting stuff but I have forgotten what those were. When considering candidates from the "shady background" or "comes with baggage" category I think I would take him over Beard based on the assumption his errors are less likely to be an issue going forward.

Note to all. If in your bosses office and you share your screen to his tv to display a presentation, make sure you stop sharing before going back to your office where you think you are catching up on BtownBanner posts in secret.

I have seen this a few times, about him being fake. What does that mean?

Thought the same but it could be Fitz was on a candidate list only. He would not really be a bad hire though, just Cigs ended up being great.

So did the conversation on the board that said Otz add anything else? Did the person close to Scott who said Brad add anything else? It got real quiet again, too quiet

can you pan the camera so we can see who he is talking to lol?

Someone bought a house today?

Not that he is coming, but it is a bit of a character reference for a guy who might need some positive references

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=After+All+This+Time+Scene&&mid=E8C7C742EA90F6CACC2FE8C7C742EA90F6CACC2F&&mmscn=stvo&FORM=VRDGAR

Bill Murry, Luke Murry's father? Trying to trick us a bit here Tony ;>

If he were not on a Celtic plane or one owned by someone affiliated with IU that would be a little telling yeah?

Special pineapple envoy?

Better get busy. They might attach it permanently if not active enough.

Or leave the a BTB page up on a tab on the PC when someone stops in the office for a loooong chat and you can hear the new messages dropping in. Sitting there hoping it is something big happening, not able to look, acting like you don’t hear that funny sound randomly coming from your desk, only to later catch up and see if was a normal day. Better than the flu, but still a bit torturous

Curious. I flew down to a FF once with one of his former professors at Depauw who still kept in contact with BS. This was many years ago and she said some things that always made me doubt if he would ever come back to coach. But the stories from 4 years ago also seem to make some sense so I am curious if you think things got far enough last time that we discussed money and term? Did we extend an offer? Did they take the family vote?

This is a good point that I am not sure has been mentioned yet. I remember there were pretty strong rumors he was a strong TX lean and the "we were not interested anyway" comments could be from vetting, partial vetting or just what you say when you come in 2nd.

Still convinced they are the burners. So funny to see some expert with a handful of posts come on here and immediately start lecturing us as if we have been bff's for years. Then burner 2, 3, etc chime in supporting. They remind me of those ufo's that fly together during Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Burners traveling in packs. Odd fellas. If they came in with some humility and wanted to talk about stuff like a few of the other new posters all would be great but these burners are...unique

Can you expand that to sweet 16's, FF's, Rankings, that would help differentiate from being a mid-major to being more of a P5 school now

I think his coaching acumen is strong enough but does anyone know how he has done upgrading talent in the portal and developing talent via HS kids? Here, I presume, he will have access to a lot of $ to recruit but the portal recruiting seems to be a different strategy and I wonder how he has done evaluating and then getting results that route. I liked Cigs approach to recruit production over potential and wonder how a guy at a "smaller" school will do with those resources here

We have too many guys that cannot play 1v1 defense. MM, MR, Goode and tbh even Ballo seems to have guys score over him a lot. That really limits who you can put out there We also get blocked from behind so often. Can MM and MR not jump?

Is there something handy that ranks CBB conferences by year? I don't doubt that the Big East may have had some teams at the top better than the BT but I would be curious how all the teams compare by conference.

Amen to the saint!

Well that is obvious. McDermott is 6'8", clearly a big and we know Woody favors the big man whereas both Stevens and Drew are wings/guards. So I think Woody is putting his own scouting report together on this search.

I could see where Drew may have thought he could keep getting players in the new realm but things are changing quickly. In just one year IU increased their NIL in huge ways and announced they would invest more revenue sharing in BBall than contemporaries. Remember how frustrated many were that Woody only stayed because he got $6million to spend on players. That was a huge jump from prior years and that will continue it seems. The arms race used to be facilities but it is now cash and IU has moved to the front pack here. Secondly, at UK he may have had higher expectations than at IU. For all those who wanted Cal out he had strong results during his time there. Sure he had the best players but the results were pretty good and comparable to what Drew had done at Baylor. So if Drew replicated his Baylor results he would probably be on the hotseat at UK whereas if he replicated those at IU, who had not had consistent success, he would not necessarily get a stature but should be much further from the hotseat.

Except Ferguson, right?