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I think you’re being too hard on Green. He had some maturity issues in dealing with fouls and getting yanked, but he also is our best post passer by far (he got the ball to DD a ton), and he brings some speed and athleticism at the guard spot that we really lack with Newkirk and RoJo. I think that with experience and maturity he maybe should be the lead guard. Definitely has to clean some things up though.

This kid has a chance to be a really good player. The key will be improving the talent around him. Since he’s more of a scrapper/hustler/tough type of player, I’d think he could really thrive when surrounded by really skilled guy, just not the case yet though.

It’s a running joke on TOS.

It doesn’t take 3 years for every individual player to learn Archie’s system, it takes 3 years to implement it into a new program from scratch.

It’s literally been 1 game. I get the whole “bench guys for poor play” thing, I really do, and I know we’re all frustrated for nine years of Crean, but as a new coach you don’t bench two seniors 30 minutes into your tenure. Like it or not, you’re going to need those guys and you risk losing them before you’re even started. This is coming from someone who thinks RoJo is one of the more disappointing players in recent IU memory, so I’m definitely not trying to make excuses for him.

Agree completely, which is what makes next years class (even if there aren’t any additions) so exciting, they seem like Archie kind of guys. With all that said, I think Archie will figure this team out to an extent. What that means I’m not sure, but he’s too good a coach. The season won’t be a complete disaster.

At this point what guys were ranked doesn’t really matter. The bottom line is we have a team full of role players. Newkirk is a 3rd guard. RoJo reminds of Will Sheehey, great guy when he’s your 4th or 5th best guy, but a train wreck as a leader and primary player. This team just has a bunch of average guys. Nobody on this team is great at anything. No great shooters. No great ball handlers. No great rebounders, or defenders. No great slashers. Not particularly long or much size. It’s just a bunch of role players.

Something to think about is when he’s going to notify the coaching staffs. Can you imagine calling Archie an hour before a big game, “Hey Coach, I know you have tip-off of a big game in an hour, but wanted to call and say thanks, but no thanks. Good luck tonight!” This doesn’t seem like the type of recruitment where they give notification too much beforehand, as they haven’t seemed to want things getting out.

Yeah, not be Debbie Downer, but likes on Instagram don’t really mean that much. As you scroll down your feed you just double tap on almost everything that looks remotely interesting as it passes by.

Haha, that's funny. I lost to Barry in college too. We played them in a holiday tournament they hosted in Florida my freshmen year. The big difference is my school was also DII, not a team in the SEC.

To me, if this is even for real, it only makes me feel better about IU landing Romeo. I'm sorry, I just don't see a reason for Romeo to go to Vandy. I was more worried about UNC and KU.

If this package deal does play out, that's got to (at least I hope) be good news for IU. There is no way Vandy made the impact on Langford that IU made on Garland. There's just literally zero reason for Langford to go to Vandy, but there are numerous reasons for Garland to go to IU. That all made sense in my head.

You too! I feel like I haven't seen you post much lately, good to hear form you!

I couldn't care less what numbers the players wear. I don't see any reason to restrict it, unless it's an NCAA-wide thing. Agree with Hardwood83 overall, Indiana doesn't need anything crazy in terms of jerseys, but I would love to see alternates that use the Indiana script, which I think will happen at some point as that seems to be the new 'sign off' on all the videos. Not sure if that's a directive from Archie, but it seems like it happened after he got to IU.

It could have simply been that Green didn't spend the summer in Bloomington. Over the summer, Archie seemed to mostly be talking about the guys that were there, which makes sense. Doesn't mean Green wasn't bought into the philosophy.

That was awful. Feel horrible for Gordon Hayward, and pulling for a full recovery. As a Celtics fan it sucks too, I mean that pretty much ends their season, and then as an NBA fan in general it really stinks as the East is pretty over as well. Stinks all the way around.

Steve or Sam? Sam's not on the staff.

Pretty sure Cal called and flipped him literally minutes after his press conference announcing for Washington.

My recollection was that he was down to UNC and UK and then both backed off, and that's when IU became the destination.

It will be something stupid like an X games suspension for Roy and "probation" (which is essentially nothing) that will allow the Dick Vitale's of the world to complain about how Roy got hammered unfairly and he only cares about the kids, and it's punishing the current team, etc., etc., not people that did the crimes. Which actually takes the focus off of how egregious what UNC did actually was. Yet, in reality the penalty will amount to basically nothing.

I agree. RJ Barrett trimmed his list last night. I think it was Duke, UK and Oregon. What do those schools have in common? All Nike schools.

Just heard Jeff Goodman suggest Chris Mack as a replacement at Louisville. Just makes me think the more things change , the more they stay the same. Goodman said he'd be a good candidate because his wife is from Louisville and he's done such a fantastic job at Xavier. Really? Really? In this climate we're just going to recommend Chris Mack and not question how he's landed the recruits he has at Xavier? I have no idea if he's dirty or not, but I know Xavier has been in on a ton of top recruits the last few years.

Kind of sad that Pitino couldn't win more than 1 title with all these hookers and cash payments over the years...

The NCAA has clearly turned a blind eye, but I also put some blame on the coaches and media. I realize doing so would put your coaching career in jeopardy, likely ending it, but the coaches have had chances to clean this up and they haven't done it. The coaches and the media know who the dirty ones are. Several years ago Izzo came out and ranted about not being able to compete with dirty coaches. Well, if it bothers him so much he could have named names. I realize that's a stretch, and Izzo would have essentially been giving up his career, but if some coaches became whistle-blowers years ago, again an incredibly difficult thing to do, a lot of this could have been cleaned up. The media too. One of the reasons I have such little respect for Dick Vitale is how he constantly waxes poetic about certain coaches who we all know are dirty. You think Vitale doesn't know that Cal, Boeheim, Pearl, Pitino, etc. are dirty? Of course he does, yet you'll find him there every Saturday this Winter defending them all. Same with some of the other mainstream college basketball media, especially the more investigative guys. I also realize you need proof and can't just start making accusations off the cuff, but the larger point is this could have been cleaned up by the industry, yet for decades prominent people who claim the virtuous and in it for the kids have have turned a blind eye as well.

I realize this is focused mostly on Adidas, but it will be incredible if Cal/UK come through this unscathed.