HoosierTrav

I’ll forgive you for all your transgressions if you buy me a round at Glendarin this summer.

Imagine having a dude that got the entire fanbase united!! We could run up some ungodly figures.

$6 mil is extremely competitive. Like elite level. Trilly stated Kentucky and Kansas were at $7m. UNC is unreported but estimated at $6m. Duke reported $4m but he knows it’s much higher. Our NIL is not what’s holding us back, in anyway shape or form. It’s the negative recruiting that will come from schools with similar NiL figures, that want the same guys we want. These numbers do not account for any latent/obscure sources outside NIL.

Safe travels!

You weren’t lying about things being a mess internally! That detail wasn’t necessary to reveal the systemic dysfunction, but it certainly highlights it more starkly. I remember watching a Brad Stevens interview and one other coach (I cannot seem to remember) speak about how they needed everyone in the program moving in lockstep. Even the janitor. I’d hate to be Dolson working in that environment. Makes me wonder how this is viewed in coaching circles. Seems pretty obvious that the administration is projecting their internal toxicity onto the fanbase.

Doubtful. Putting myself in Dolson’s shoes, having to get this right, and understanding the importance of timing with the portal, there’s no way I even reach out to the Stevens camp. Once bitten, twice shy, applies here, I would think. No time to waste. Stevens is hell bent on getting #18 for the Celtics, and they are sitting at the top of the NBA currently. If I was to guess, it would have been Scott Drew or Nate Oats. Both guys would win a natty here. Drew, in my eyes, would be a Kelvin Sampson equivalent, as far as upside potential at IU (Not relating to what happened). Oats not far off.

Haha. Who do they think they are? IU?

I think I’m with you. I’m convinced now more than ever that IU will never be elite again. They are masters of gaslighting us into believing they will eventually get there. The Woodson hire, at the time it came, was such a calamitous error. Right after firing Archie, we hired Mike Woodson. Might as well run ads that say they’re not a serious program.

I think that’s all I can watch. Ready for this season to be over. Such awful basketball.

Why does Ware always try to tip the ball away instead of just grabbing it? Drives me crazy. He does it all the time.

Going to get ugly here. Nebraska looks like the much better team.

When’s the last time an IU team defended the 3 well? I can’t remember.

Cupps is just….. not good enough.

Here come the 3’s from PSU.

I would do some UNSAVORY things to land Brad Stevens. Somebody tell Dolson I’m just a phone call away.

There is a Cathy on the BoT…. Just saying.

Whatever it is, HAMMER the under.

There were a couple great options out there at the time of Glass’ retirement. Why did the board land on SD?

Repulsive?

Why would they have hired a known cheater in Calipari, if they were overly concerned about off court issues?

It’s the only recipe for success. Identify and hire a high level guy and stay out of his way. Other winning programs seem to do this. IU refusing just lends credence to when Knight said the university wanted to de-emphasize basketball. And if that’s the case, there should be some transparency with the fanbase (paying customers).

This is all we need to see to confirm that the basketball program will never reach elite status again. There’s too much bureaucratic nonsense. Constantly making head scratching decisions. Why Indiana has been nationally irrelevant for decades and will continue to be. You can come in here and run cover for Buckner, Dolson, and the administration but the proof is in the results of their decisions. If they’ve truly been trying to build a winning program, then they are awful at their jobs. It’s an embarrassment.

Do you believe Kentucky got rid of Gillespie bc he was a drunk, rather than not meeting their expectations?

Gallo can be incredibly valuable in a 3 guard lineup that surrounds him with shooters.

This is the way of the world. Just a little more out in the open than in years past.