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Absolutely correct, thank you. Not necessarily my hope but among other reasons it’s why I’m not worried about e.g. Brownell rumors.

Jerry pipes up and doesn’t walk it back. Folks we’re gonna land the plane

The Indy flight plane returns to Indy in the late afternoon

Not sure there’s a “typical” tbh

I mean I’m not defending him! A good coach with this roster even without swapping Carlyle for Conwell could’ve comfortably qualified

Showed up to defend during the 23-24 season, thought different players would make a big difference this year, everyone’s reasonably sure he’s Tyme on twitter

No idea if he would’ve but he was and remains a good basketball player at the same position as Carlyle, swap the two and IU is, what, a 9 seed minimum

Not to make it all about the same thing but preferring Carlyle to Conwell was part of what doomed IU this year

Wish I’d been wrong but I called WVU getting hosed on Friday

Are you aware this happens all the time and contracts are made with contingencies for when it does?

I think in my rooting guide I said BSU over CSU, but a CSU blowout is probably not bad for IU; most folks have IU ahead of BSU if evaluated as at-large candidates

@Hoosier987 might have more intel but the consensus from plugged in folks has been that Iowa prefers DeVries and his additional D1/high major experience. He and McCollum are both from Iowa and have spent most of their careers there or in neighboring states. Not sure Iowa will have the cash for DeVries or the donor NIL promises to get him, in which case they’ll pivot to McC, who would prefer that job to ours for location/pressure/institutional reasons that I don’t think IU can just choose to overcome.

No news is good news on that front, partner

“Search firm talked to one candidate ~10 days ago” does not equal “neither search firm nor athletic department will take to other candidate now”

“Will Wade wants the IU job above all other openings but can’t even get an interview” is not evidence of an incompetent search, it’s evidence that the search is complete

Tyme has been hinting that Wade wants the IU job. I think at least he’d like to drive his price up

Right, the exception is 1) private schools or 2) schools with slow FOIA response times and/or 3) in states with less strict open records laws. Thus there has been some mystery this cycle about Drew and Otz, probably others.

Tend to agree, I guess I was saying setting aside location, a small school like Nova makes some sense to me for McCollum though he may feel differently

Seems like Collins will be interested, I think McCollum might be too (just a hunch).

Totally sensible to me that, adjacent to @8bucks question earlier and adding to @Trish’s answer, you’d have regional scouts camped out at tournaments and execs either popping in to one for a day or maybe catching one near their team. Not sure how normal it would be to go to 3 in 4 days (if this were to happen) even if one of the three was to watch family play. Maybe it is! Seems at least a little atypical to me, not trying to stir the pot though.

Saturday rooting guide: VCU over Loyola Chicago Memphis over Tulane UC San Diego over UC Irvine Boise State over Colorado State (not bolded because either winner is probably a bid thief, but BSU has an outside shot at an at-large; other games are obvious bid thieves)

I wouldn’t make tooooo much of his presence, as suggested by my earlier comment that scouts and execs are fond of tourneys. But I noticed this too.

Can’t speak for BS specifically but tournaments are a great way to see a lot of players in a short period with minimal travel. As a bonus the games have clearer stakes than regular season games and the neutral court setting mitigates potential home/road effects, so yes, plenty of executives and scouts are typically at them

Won’t be awake when the bottom 3 end I don’t think, but the first 4 went our way. My hunch is Texas is out and IU oughta be ahead of UNC; if so we need to worry about bid thieves but there aren’t many left.

Duke doing us no favors.