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Would be great to seek flexibility to cancel it.

Nowhere near 17, but I once took 10 3's in a game in college...Don't ask me how many I made, was a little cold that night  :D  

That's ridiculous if true. I remember my high school coach always cut practices down after the holidays. Practices the day before a game would be about 45 minutes to an hour long and mostly just shell/walk through game planning, scouting reports and fine tuning our stuff. We were always better as the season wore on.    My college coach was the complete opposite. He'd run us hard even in February. I remember one time having a full 20 minute intra-sqaud scrimmage the morning of a game, and another time actually running suicide sprints during a game-day morning shoot-around. My college teams were always worse as the season went on. 

We're too busy wasting our time in the Crossroads Classic. While the big boys play each other on ESPN with the entire country watching, we get to play Butler or Notre a Dame and nobody cares unless we lose. Sorry for the rant, but I think the Crossroads Classic is a waste of IU's time and is actually a negative.

Just caught a second of the Michigan game, and they were talking about UK potentially going undefeated. Seth Davis said he would never predict a team to go undefeated, but if UK got to January undefeated then "lookout". That says more about how bad the SEC is then it does how good UK might be.

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I've said this before, but ESPN's coverage on this UNC thing has been an absolute joke!   

I don't like that SMU has a "real" game before our matchup. With us only playing complete cupcakes up until this point and trying to integrate Troy and Stan back in (which shouldn't be a huge deal, but still) I worry about getting of to a good start against SMU. 

My only issue is the waiting until Spring part. He says he's down to three now. But a lot can change over the next 6 or so months. If Tom Izzo calls, he's not answering? If Billy Donovan calls, he's not answering? I like where we stand, but I'm sure there will be more competition over the course of the season.

When Hanner Perea isn't practicing or studying, he should spend his time watching film on Montrelz (sp?) Harrell on Louisville. Similar build, similar athleticism, but that kid plays like it's the last time he's ever going to play. Don't get me wrong, after two exhibitions and one real game I'm happy with what Hanner has done, just saying he could learn some things watching Harrell.

I agree with you on the point that Crean rarely takes blame after games, I don't like that either. I think that's weak, and I don't think it sets a good example for players or motivates them at all. He has taken some of the blame this week though, if you're going to say he hasn't then you're either not paying attention or your lying because you hate him so much. I think you know he has, but you're jaded you refuse to look at anything concerning Crean objectively. He certainly deserves some of the blame, and he has accepted that. Will he change? That remains to be seen. In general, he doesn't have leaders right now. He had leaders two years ago, so was he better leader himself then based on your theory that he doesn't have leaders now because he's a poor leader? I don't know about you, but as a fan I expected Yogi to be a much better natural leader. I'm not not sure why he isn't, and I wouldn't really blame Crean for Yogi not being a better leader. I mean he's a point guard, he got to play/ learn from Hulls, Cody, VO, etc., everything was setup for him to be the next leader.

You said you've never heard a coach blame leadership before. I don't know what all this other stuff has to do with it. Coaches blame poor leadership on their teams woes all the time. I never even mentioned Crean in my post.

You've never heard a coach blame his teams issues on poor leadership before?

My problem with that, is what is the solution then? Sounds like we're keeping the coach, yet we only dole out a 4 game suspension to a guy like Stan that has a wrap sheet of incidents. If Crean's staying, then don't the punishments at least have to be heavier? Something has to change, right?

There's not really a double standard. IU didn't get the death penalty from the NCAA, we got the death penalty from Kelvin Sampson. If his teams didn't have numerous failed drug tests and all the failing grades, Dakich and then Crean wouldn't have had to kick everyone out. We would have survived the probation just fine. If Sampsom had left good kids behind and we don't have too kick everyone out, Crean or whoever may have come aboard, would have had a decent team when they took over, and would have been able to better add to it in the '08 class or even convinced Ebanks and Holloway to stay.

The NCAA tournament is an "any given Sunday" type of thing. Who knows who we'd play, how the match ups would play out and if Yogi/JBJ might have a "can't miss" game. If we overachieve and get in, anything can happen. I'm not predicting all this will happen, I'm just saying if it does (which I think it's with the realm of possibility), then with everyone staying and adding Bryant we'd be positioned really nice for 15-16. Also, I don't look at it as replacing Noah. This is a completely different team. It's not last years team without Noah. But with that said, I share your same concerns on our inside game. A lot of guys have to step up and a lot of question marks all have to go our way for us to overachieve, but we are talented and with a certain style of play we can be one of the surprise teams this year. Again, it's not my prediction, but it is within the realm of possibility IMO.

We were talking about next year, if everyone stays and we add Bryant.

I don't think those are crimson colored glasses. If we progress this year (overachieve in conference and win a game or two in the tourney), and bring back Yogi, JBJ, Troy, RoJo, Stan, Devin, Hanner and Holt, while adding Bryant, that seems like a top 10-15 team to me.

I'm not sure I buy the whole "I didn't know what I was going to do until right when I picked up the hat" thing. Who selects their college that way? Why even schedule the announcement if you don't know what you're going to do?    It doesn't really matter now, but it's just always made me curious. Who send their kid in front of a national audience like that without knowing what the decision is already? 

Completely agree, it's not even about Lyle in particular, adding anyone that point, especially in an already crowded backcourt, could really mess with chemistry.

Definitely huge news! I'd assume he's coming from Huntington, which is in West Virginia. 

It's 13. But Crean could sign 13 players this fall if he wanted too, as long as he could demonstrate a plan to the Big Ten as to why he'll need that many.

I guess it is his first time trying to land a 5* at IU, right? It's gotta be a pretty big deal for him.

The problem with the NCAA is that unless you self-report, there's really nothing they can do. Indiana's problem is that they had the integrity to self-report. It ended being good for IU though, because it uncovered the real crime of the Sampson era. It wasn't phone calls, what screwed IU was horrendous grades, failed drug tests and overall lack of character in the program.    The phone calls would have been easily overcome if the team had kids with good grades and high character. The next coach would have come in and hit the ground running. 

I'll trust the staff on adding him to the '15 class. Obviously the talent is off the charts. One thing I think would be a disaster and I'd honestly have to severely question Crean's judgement on, would be somehow adding him to the team in the second semester. If they want to add him as a walk-on in the second semester and have him practice sort of like a redshirt, that's fine. But the idea of considering adding him to the roster to play is insane to me.