Dave from Dayton

I'll be in Palm Springs. I guess that I bet against that happening. I hope IU does go to Dayton. Irony rears it's usual head. Gotta laugh. I can't even predict correctly when the next full eclipse will happen. Or where. Palm Springs will be in the 80s. Joshua Tree will be hot. (More predictions?) Go IU!

Just win, baby!

Xavier turnovers...

MSU is not good rebounding.

I wasn't concerned. Happens. Go IU!

IU will get a lot of assists. IU will make 78% of a bunch of free throws. IU will hit over 40% of the threes. Inside game will click. Defense will be great all game. Xavier will not have any turnovers in the first half. Cupps will make 50% of his FGs and score a career high. Izzo will toss a chair onto the court. And later will say he learned everything he knows from RMK. The balcony will be full. IU will win by 15 and the bench will be emptied and everyone plays except Jakai. Walker scores 6. Coach Woody gets 2 rebounds. Leal gets a technical for laughing at the refs. Wait! No. It's on Xavier...a flagrant.... Galloway and Leal both give Senior speeches but say they are open to come back another year. Liam McNeeley says he was just kidding about asking out of his commitment. Calloway says he likes recruiting on the road and introduces some 5* ballers.

MSU is in a season ending slump. Their 3 pointers are not going in. They cannot compete with Ware, Reneau and Mgbako. Their guards could get hot. They defend. If IU plays defense and rattles MSU...this game could break big for IU.

I predict.... booze, a lot of it FIFY MSU 72 IU 73

Yeah. For the GDI teams in the Little 500.

I go to lunch and there are 60 more posts. I have the same plane reported already 3 times here. Bloomington 9:57 EST to Naples Muni 12:01 EST. Naples is halfway between Ft. Myers Beach and Marco Island which is SW Florida Coast area. Since it is a great place to visit just now there could be anyone vacationing on the beach there. It is just about 3 hours to Miami and about that to Tampa. That whole coast is upscale. Naples is just a little more so. A CL35 needs at least 5000 foot runways for takeoff...assuming lots of things. So there are two runways at Naples Airport. The longest is 6600 foot. I stayed in a condo in Naples between the pier and the airport. Constant action during the day. I speculate that there are numerous airports on that coast that can accommodate such a plane. But there is a reason that plane is there at that one. Very close proximity to a meeting or delivering/picking up passengers. Goes without saying. So what's up? Why do we care where this plane is?

Louisville has 17 public and private airports. See, that is the problem. Smaller airport? Some are too small to handle corporate jets. Some airports like the...ahem...UPS super cargo hub, does not want to be bothered with corporate or private aircraft landings and takeoffs, etc.(Edited: Clark County Airport search is begun.) Is it one of the UPS cargo or corporate jets? Just kidding on the UPS. Have you ever see that Hub sort packages on the inside? And then fill planes? I have.

Sorry, so far I don't have enough information to pursue this. The FAA has a site that one can search if one has a plane number. I cannot put an owner's name in that database and come up with a serial or tail number. However, just searching online just now, there was a jet aircraft, may still be theirs, that was co-owned by Zoeller and Pfau. That is from an Indiana Business periodical and I have no idea about whether it is correct. Subscription required. Plus, having been retired since 2007...well.. Tell me where it is based. Tell me where the Pfau corporation and Ned Pfau's home is. I can search nearby airports, the fixed base operators (service stations and hangers for corporate and private aircraft). We do have our ways to ferret this stuff. Also there are airport managers in Indiana and they have access to all sorts of...ahem...information. And we are a small group. Another source is Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Heh... Not a private investigator here...but I am able to fake it. Need more information. Where is the plane based? City or County? Address of HQ? Nearest airport to his home. I do not want his home address. Zip code is sometimes too large an area. Type of aircraft? Tracking with the tail number is easy. The local airport or FBO does not and should not give out details on schedules. (To just anybody.) As a past president of the Ohio Aviation Association.... eons ago.

Clearly, trying to compare Crean to Woodson for being a college coach is apples to oranges to say the least. Looking back at Marquette with Crean...there is Wade. Crean's hype did not translate to on court performance. He was lucky to parley Wade as his ability to recruit. He sold but could not sustain anything. Look at the cupboard Crean left for Archie Miller. And look at what Crean has done since. Woodson has only been at IU 3 years. How can one compare Woodson's 3 years to Crean's many? I say that there are a lot of variables in recruiting, developing players, getting staff, scouting teams, planning game strategies, adjustments, leadership, scholarship, defense, offense, flexibility, planning for the future, public speaking and PR. Crean recruited anyone who made eye contact. He was lucky to get Cody Zeller. He was not well received by the High School coaches in Indiana. Crean thought offense should go faster and faster. He didn't learn to adjust. Defense was less important. Woodson went after the top recruits. He doesn't come across as someone who is open to suggestions...but he does adjust belatedly. His players did get better as a team. Mgbako, Ware Reneau, others improved. One cannot take that away from Woody. Will he learn to recruit and use the portal more effectively? I have no idea what Woodson would be doing after 6 or 7 years. I was ready for Dolson to pull the plug on Woodson. However, there was potentially worse risk and downside ramifications about starting from scratch, again, for IU. Unless IU had locked in a phenomenal and experienced college basketball coach prospect. I want to see Woodson pulling a rabbit out of his hat next season. Will he? Will the team? Will the portal? I have no idea. Watch McNeeley stay with IU after Woodson recruits him, again. Watch those players at IU stay. Yeah? I don't know.

Not surprised that Woody is to be back. I want Ware to be at Indiana next year...and playing better. I wonder what the odds are. But if he goes pro, then that would help IU recruit. IU will need a better defender in the middle than Reneau next year. We need a point guard that has some size. We need shooters. We need basketball players that can make plays and create. We need experience. We need Mgbako to get better. We need the team to play like a team before the Big Ten starts every year. We need the IU's use of the NIL to step up...like some have said. We need someone on the bench that can help Woody maximize matchups and design plays. Blocking out and getting rebounds would be nice. As would moving feet and not reaching in on defense. Getting into the NCAAT every single year is a requirement. So is having world class guards. Competing at the top of the Big Ten year in and year out is a good goal. Making a huge run in the NCAAT every 4 years is a requirement. Not churning head coaches every few years would be advantageous. In other words, I have nothing new to add. And I always cheer for IU to win. I can't do otherwise.

Defense has been decent. Once IU guards stopped getting trapped by 2 defenders at the point... Hitting 3's. Keep playing to win. Do not go into that dreaded slow down game.

Guts everywhere...all Gophers'.

Payback foul call.

I'm beginning to look forward to the insurance ads.

IU is going to score 50 points in the 2nd half. Rope a dope.

Some say that Archie Miller was the flavor of the month. But that does undersell what he had as a resume...albeit at a mid-major. He took over a Dayton Flyer team that had an empty cupboard. His predecessor, Brian Gregory, would have been run out of town if he hadn't gone elsewhere. Miller's. 688 win percentage (139-63) ranks second in Dayton history in the NCAA Tournament era (post 1939) after legendary Don Donoher. Anthoney Grant is doing well at Dayton since Archie Miller left for IU. But he, as yet, has not taken Dayton to the NCAAT. Miller spent time at several programs as an assistant coach, spending a season at Western Kentucky (2003–04), two at NC State (2004–2006), one at Arizona State (2006–07) under former coach Herb Sendek, two at Ohio State (2007–09) under Thad Matta, and two at Arizona (2009–11) under his brother Sean.[4] While at Arizona, Miller shined as a top recruiter, helping secure Arizona's top 10 recruiting class for 2011 recruits. He also excelled as a game strategist and designed the Wildcats' upset of eighth-ranked Texas to get them to the Sweet 16.[5] University of Dayton (2011–2017)[edit] Miller became the head coach of the Dayton Flyers men's basketball team in 2011 and turned around a program that had back-to-back disappointing seasons.[4] His first season with Dayton saw Miller take the school to 20 wins. In his third year, 2014, he had the Flyers in the Elite Eight with 26 wins; to get there, Dayton upset three higher seeded teams. After the Elite Eight run in 2014, Miller faced replacing three starters and four seniors from that team. Despite having a depleted roster featuring just six players who were recruited to Dayton and no active player taller than 6-foot-6, Miller led his Flyers to a 27–9 overall record and to the third round of the 2015 NCAA tournament.[2] In the following three seasons, Miller averaged over 25 wins and each year coached the team made to the NCAA tournament. The latter two the Flyers also earned regular season Atlantic 10 champion titles.[6] Per Wiki. Ohio State wanted him. Others wanted him. But something happened and he did not transfer his success at Dayton to IU. I had Archie Miller somewhere below 5 in my list of potential IU HC candidates at the time. I liked Archie Miler here at Dayton. One year he had 7 scholarship players and won the conference title and did decently in the NCAAT. He never got the players at IU. Point guards are critical. IU has struggled getting a good one for years, except for Yogi's freshman year...and he was a freshman. And his pack line defense sucked at IU. But in all honesty it worked at Dayton because he had players that bought into it, were long, gave effort, and played like a team. At IU, the team went the other way. Partly because of...ahem...locker-room issues and the administration's lack of support. Cure those few things, which I believe IU has to some extent, and Dusty May could get an assist that Archie Miller never did at IU. Do I feel strongly about it? Yeah. Did Archie Miller need to be gone. Yeah. I just hope that someday soon, IU puts a good plan into place for winning at IU. Not saying we don't have one. (Cough, cough.) I just don't see it. And if I don't see it...

Gardening inspiration:

People always asked me if I played basketball because I was so very tall. I started responding: Do you play mini-golf?

Yeah, that could be it, too. When I learned what attorneys really are involved with...I wondered why in the heck would anyone really want to do that for a living or calling. Handling other people's legal problems...they have to be kidding me. But, then again, these are youngish people playing basketball and growing up. My father-in-law would always say..."They are young. What do they know?" He was joking...and not joking.

Lots of people may tend to oversimplify all of the related issues to unionization. Categorization of them vs. us is not the right way to look at this. I am not saying anyone on this site is doing that. It does come down to how we see an organization controlling and not respecting the workers vs. large amounts of dollars being centralized in order to do large investments and 'great' works and the resultant will to power (ie controlling others). What is really important is to listen with respect to what the others are saying. I am not saying to agree. Just try to understand their perspective. Why are they saying and doing something differently? What is the real reason? It may not even be what they are saying. They just may be...hurting, frustrated or struggling with coping. The answer usually is to reach out and truly partner. We are in this together.