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You’re about a week late to this party. However, it was never confirmed who was involved. The person hooking up has been several different people but the victim player seems to be consistent in Smith. But no confirmation has come forward on anything to this point. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Cincinnati - (Mick Cronin) - OPEN Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

UCLA - (Steve Alford) - Hired Mick Cronin (Cincinnati Head Coach) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

Forgot this one yesterday somehow... Nevada - (Eric Musselman) - OPEN

Arkansas - (Mike Anderson) - Hired Eric Musselman (Nevada Head Coach) Buffalo - (Nate Oats) - HIred Jim Whitesell (Buffalo Associate Head Coach) Virginia Tech - (Buzz Williams) - Mike Young (Wofford Head Coach) Wofford - (Mike Young) - OPEN

Elon - (Matt Matheny) - Hired Mike Schrage (Ohio State Assistant Coach) Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

I could be wrong but I am taking the "and the players were told" means that the players who have decided to transfer, have told all the other players that they have decided to leave.

Vanderbilt - (Bryce Drew) - HIred Jerry Stackhouse (Memphis Grizzlies Assistant Coach)

Georgia State - (Ron Hunter to Tulane) - Hired Rob Lanier (Tennessee Associate Head Coach)

Anyone know how to check the transfer portal?

Anyone know how to check the transfer portal?

Montana State - (Brian Fish) - Hired Danny Sprinkle (Cal State Fullerton Assistant Coach)

With all the transfers happening in college basketball today and the potential end of the One and Done (OAD) era, who should IU be recruiting in this day and age to sustain long-term success and get back to being an elite program? As a fan base, are our expectations for recruiting unrealistic and out of whack with what actually relates to sustaining a successful program? Lets start with OAD players. They are impact players who typically start from day one. They are very talented and highly sought after in the recruiting game. However, there are negatives that go along with the positives of a OAD. They are only around for 1 season, inexperienced, can have different agendas from the team, or may create atmosphere and continuity issues. So the notion has been floated and discussed that we are not in a position to recruit OAD players at this time. Also, it has been noted that 0 of the final four teams have a OAD player and all have experienced teams. Not to mention, this era may be going away anyway. So, if that is the case, then the notion is that we need players who will be here for 4 years. I would say though that these types of players usually do not make much of an impact as freshman. So how do your recruit for this? How do you keep them from transferring when they do not get the playing time they think they deserve as a freshman? As a fan, can you accept a player who does not make an impact as a freshman? There are players that fall between a OAD and non impact freshman. Such as Rob Phinisee but these are hard to come by and do not come about every year. What are your expectations of a freshman at IU? How much playing time should a freshman player be getting? If players like Forrester are likely to transfer after their freshman season due to not getting enough playing time, then is it beneficial to recruit those players? So where does that leave us? Transfers. There are 2 types of transfers, Grad Transfers and regular Transfers. Grad transfers typically only have 1-2 years of eligibility remaining and are eligible to play immediately. Regular transfers generally will have 1-3 years of eligibility remaining but have to sit out a year before playing (in most cases currently). So, is a transfer player more or less important in recruiting than a high school player? Transfer players typically have more experience at this level than incoming freshman and are extremely less likely to transfer again. So basically what I am getting at is this. As fans, is our expectation of the players we want to recruit and the players we need to recruit in sync? I would venture say they are not which leads me to believe that our expectations for CAM and perception of his recruiting is not reasonable either based on the outcome we all expect at IU. However, in the end, all that matters is that CAM understands the type of players he needs and recruits them. Only time will tell whether or not he succeeds at doing this here at IU. As a sidebar, what about the players perception of this topic? Is a recruits perception of how their freshman year should go, way out of whack when it comes to reality? Is the OAD era partly to blame for this? Is that why we are seeing close to 600-800 transfers in the off-season? Would it be better for a player to go to a smaller school where they can get playing time and game experience and then transfer to more prestigious school as an upperclassmen instead of the other way around? How much of a burden would that then put on bigger schools having to red-shirt a player and give a player 2-3 year scholarships to play 1-2 years.

Jeff Rabjohns‏ @JeffRabjohns 1m1 minute ago More Indiana freshman forward Jake Forrester has entered the transfer portal, http://Peegs.com has learned. #iubb

Fairfield - (Sydney Johnson) - Hired Jay Young (Rutgers Assistant Coach) Texas A&M - (Billy Kennedy) - Hired Buzz Williams (Virginia Tech Head Coach) Virginia Tech - (Buzz Williams) - OPEN

Jeff Goodman‏Verified account @GoodmanHoops 20m20 minutes ago More Another name in the mix at Arkansas is former UCLA coach Steve Alford, source told @Stadium

William & Mary - (Tony Shaver) - Hired Dane Fischer (George Mason Assistant Coach)

According to the article by Borzello at ESPN Calapari offered lifetime deal to remain at UK after he had been in contact with UCLA where they offered him a 6 year $48 mil deal to come to UCLA. Link: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26417804/kentucky-offers-calipari-life-deal

Belmont - (Rick Byrd) - OPEN

Which one, slick Rick or slick Dick Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Alright everyone, this is not the April Fools thread. This is for actual roster news and roster moves. Now this does include roster rumors with a degree of credibility as well, but please no April Fools jokes in this thread.

This would be interesting and personally I would love this. Not only would it put a damper on UK's success, Cal moving to Cal (UCLA) could indicate sanctions coming for UK as well. One can only hope right!

Sunday - Kentucky

Where is Chris? Can he shed any light on these rumors?

Nebraska - (Tim Miles) - Hired Fred Hoiberg (Chicago Bulls Head Coach)