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I kind of get the reasoning. Big success and even the players were gushing about LEO and TA. That one TV game where players were running to the reporter interviewing TA and telling everyone to come play for this man. It all looked so promising it is simply amazing that it crumbled so quickly. Still think TA is a good DC and if he had made reasonable personal decisions it might be better

This is clever. A boogie with a hoodie, hmm

He may not want one but wonder if there might be a way to get him on the staff in some capacity. Can colleges have scouts or ambassadors? He would not have to hit it hard but for about 2-3 recruits a year it would be nice to get a visit from Carmelo

RMK and TA are pretty much of polar opposites in both success and how they treat people. Winning grants you a lot of leeway whereas being a great guy dies on the vine quickly if the team is bad. If we just had an average football team TA would be in a good spot.

Hmm another small forward now taking a visit to Kansas.

Most of those freaking out are doing so because we have not had regular success with getting 5* high school commits. History cannot be ignored but hopefully we can change history. We seem to be in really good shape but as you said, Woody needs to close the deal. Second place in recruiting is terrible. It is really worse than being eliminated early because we have all the efforts in a few kids and if you lose out you are in scramble mode.

This is one I hope to watch. My daughter played club soccer with Bramblet who is starting as a freshman for the Buckeyes and I am curious to see how her game translated to this level. Outstanding, unselfish, midfielder but I wonder how that translates with the physical play of the BT.

Good to hear. Staff seems confident in landing all 3 or getting what they want in the portal. While we have been good in the portal I would not want to count on that every year. Hoping Woody's confidence in getting things done once at the table doesn't backfire. Would sure be cool to have a narrow search and get most of your top targets.

When does Boogie and DQ finish visits?

I think USPS can confirm but I think there were questions about TJDs motor coming out of HS.

I agree. Theoretically, they could line up quickly and then try to spike the ball to stop the clock. Since he was sacked and everyone was spread out that would probably take 8-12 seconds to get set and maybe a second to snap and spike so then they would have about 4-9 seconds left with the TO. If the higher amount they could probably try the pass in the middle but not if they were near the 4 to 5 second mark.

This is how i saw it as well. The announcers kept saying they would have to use a TO to avoid the 10 second runoff but it looked like that never happened.

Physical second half. Wasn’t always beautiful soccer but it was what was needed to get the road win. Gerstenberg was great.

Probably our recent history of not getting a big class and missing on the long recruits for 5* kids but I worry that we are in a “all eggs in one basket” position. Give Woody and the staff credit for getting the 5* kids to officially visit but if we miss, we miss big. There is that saying, Lose big, lose close, win, then win big. Hopefully we aren’t in the lose close stage but have moved to win or win big.

My daughter plays at the NAIA level, which is between D2 and D3, but they are too young a team to consider something like this.

Hanover College? Aren’t they D3?

has he been ranked yet? could not find anything with that

whew this really made my eyes tired. hopefully their real board is easier to read

If Givens helps to land DQ and LM then his value goes up right

I think this is an important year to see what this staff can do. Can they get to another level or become more consistent? I am hopeful but skeptical

For a school like IU, Tom Allen is a very good DC. He just unfortunately has the wrong job.

Interesting. Did he visit again? Is it common to repost pics like this if from a prior visit?

Did he also have something done a month or so ago?

And this is his first offseason where he has not spent recovering from an injury or surgery. Hopefully this is huge for him to add more to his game.

What reason do you have to suggest that Leal has been busting his butt? I have nothing against the guy at all but to say a guy is busting his butt, to me, suggests he has been doing more than the average IU player. Has he been getting more time in the gym than others? Has he been getting more shots up than others? I hear the coaches talk about Gabe doing this, MM some too, but have not heard anything about Leal doing anything extra. One of the coaches on HH suggested that XJ, Gallo and Leal could be leaders this year. They went on to give some reasons why each could/should be a leader but when they got to Leal it was basically "he is a senior". I would love to see him find a role and get some regular minutes. Those would likely come as a shooter or potentially as a ball handler here and there. Both of those skills could have been developed more with a lot of gym time doing the extra work.