HoosierTrav

Are we sure about this? Or just joking about it?

How hard do you guys think NGW is sweating right now? Now that the reality is starting to set in that we have to start landing close to 7 or more players, he’s got to be feeling it.

He missed all but 2 weeks of his last high school season and all of his freshman season at IU. He had to have microfracture surgery. I don’t think it’s as much doom casting as it is having realistic expectations. Can he come back and help us? Possibly. But the likelihood is EXTREMELY low. Is it reasonable to expect him to come back after nearly missing two full seasons (in a row) and raise our level of guard play beyond X, Cupps, and Gallo? I don’t think that’s reasonable at all. The injury and surgery has completely derailed the careers of nearly everyone who’s had it. Amare Stoudamire is the only person who has had the surgery and came back to match or exceed previous levels… his athleticism was nowhere close to what it was afterwards. There is also a direct correlation between the time missed and performance (or even the ability to play again). For example: Stoudamire only missed 5 months. Greg Oden missed 13.5 months.

I really hate to see people expecting Jakai Newton to be explosive. He had one of the worst injuries a basketball player can have. I cannot think of a single player that’s had it, come back even close to athletic as they were prior to it. Best case is he retained some athleticism and developed a ton of skill and IQ. Count me as one who thinks we get close to nothing from Jakai Newton in his time at IU. Which sucks bc I was really excited about him prior to his injury.

Guessing this one was forced.

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?