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Someday there will be another coaching search, and he should be a consideration, absolutely.

Even in the portal era, missing this big in back-to-back years is probably a good way to get fired. There are ways to mitigate it of course, and this year’s team has the talent to have a chance to do it. But the miss here is in part because CMW misperceives where IU stands in the hierarchy, when to push in, so on

Absolute guess: we got matched.

We’re being naive if we think some recruitments haven’t always worked that way.

If there’s any truth here I wonder if he was looking for a lifeboat when it seemed like there might be major turnover.

Interesting — reclamations with legal trouble haven’t really been his stock in trade before unless I’m forgetting some things.

Per Trevor Andershock’s Twitter, he had 48 of his team’s 77 in a 3 point win over Attucks today at IU’s team camp. Andershock is glowing about his game today. The word has been that if IU pushes its chips in, he’d be interested, no? Because I’ll remember this performance if they push for him and he commits.

Yep, from memory they went to the baseline cross screen for Zeller on all possessions down the stretch and he scored or hit FTs. Just rewatched, that was 2/3 and the other was a high PNR. The other thing that stands out rewatching the end is that M went 1/4 from the line with a parade of guys (GRIII, THJ, Burke) who you’d expect to hit at least 3/4. I’ll also always remember that Beilein played some deep bench guys just briefly, in at least one case because he was a senior, I think. And of course that’s not the reason UM lost, at least not more than the 1000 other things you can point to in any one point game…but man, I wonder if he’d like to have some of those choices back. I’d love to ask Yogi if he got a piece of the tip in that rolled out.

Happens way too much with non-athletes too, and it never goes well even if parents are just pushing an academic major, let alone a particular school, over the student’s wishes.

Why does everyone insist on pretending Ty Rodgers is a guard? This article continues the trend. He’s clearly a small-ball 4

Yep, no reason at all to write off Cupps being a contributor as a backup PG as soon as this year. In addition, IU has the depth for him to get only minutes he earns, health permitting. So if the TOs dry up, he shoots even better from 3, and he tightens up defensively, he’ll see the court.

Would imagine the U of A budget issues may be a concern too: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2024/01/31/u-arizona-takes-steps-address-financial-woes

ASU is a good place to go if you’d like your HS All-Star games to be the brightest your star ever shined. Anyone other than Lu Dort played for B. Hurley make an impact on the P-12 or NBA yet? I love Dort’s game but he was there one year as a top ~35 recruit and went undrafted. Not sure I’d even want my son to visit ASU if he was lucky enough to be a coveted prospect.

This AND/OR they have proof of concept that their track record gives them a good shot at the best big in the portal each spring.