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Everything posted by Rayl
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I hope your post works as some kind of reverse jinx because Iowa State is losing its four to graduation.
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If we went to 5 overtimes every game, the substitutions would literally make some fans' heads explode. I can see it now: Rabid Fan: Why is that clown playing Peter Jurkin??? It's the 5th overtime. Crean doesn't want to win. BOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Reasonable Fan: Because everyone else either fouled out or is about to drop dead from exhaustion?
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LOL. I can't really see Crean giving anyone 38 minutes per game. Definitely not his style.
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Yeah, hopefully. You never know with big men. Kansas took a 5th year guy this season. They don't ever seem to need another big man, but not many coaches would turn one down who can play. It doesn't seem like Iowa would have as much PT for him as us. I hope that is a big factor for him.
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According to another site, he said that Midwest schools are a plus for family reasons in an interview with Temple's student radio station. The only school mentioned was Iowa where he apparently has some connections.
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Is Philly no longer on the East Coast?
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There is always some hope. But..........you knew there was going to be a "but," didn't you? Lee just announced that he is transferring. He hasn't agreed to come to IU. We don't even know if he is interested in us. If he's as good as what we want, then he's likely to generate a lot of interest from other teams. There aren't many that couldn't use another big. Hopefully, we can get him signed or if not him, then a different big. We just need to be patient and see what happens before declaring the end of the world or declaring that everything is rainbows and unicorns.
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You must have a very high threshold for pain. Even though we won, that game was brutal to watch.
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I don't remember him. Anyone have any thoughts on if he might fit into Crean's offense?
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Fred Glass Interview (CBI, Mike Woodson, IU Scheduling)
Rayl replied to IU Hoosier41's topic in Indiana Men's Basketball
I agree as well. It's a good rule. I do take issue with Glass' use of it though. Perhaps it is just his style of speaking, but it came across as somewhat dismissive and as an excuse. We really shouldn't be in a position where automatic qualifiers can knock us out of the NIT. Maybe we would have made the NIT in any other year. Maybe. A bottom of the bracket entry into the NIT doesn't make everything better and it wouldn't satisfy the critics. We do expect more than that at Indiana. I think Glass knows that, but he seems to be going out of his way not to acknowledge it. The entire interview had a bit of an Iraqi Minister of Information feel to it. It really sounded to me like Glass is feeling some heat and he's trying to put an everything is going according to plan spin on things. -
Fred Glass Interview (CBI, Mike Woodson, IU Scheduling)
Rayl replied to IU Hoosier41's topic in Indiana Men's Basketball
Our overall strength of schedule is decent because we play in the Big 10. Our non-conference strength of schedule is only tougher than 13 other Division 1 teams and the worst in the Big 10. While it might not be easy to bounce back after losing most of your starters, no one expected a number one ranking. Making the NCAA was not insurmountable. It is hard to have the talent we have and completely whiff on the NIT. -
Steve Alford doing great in first year at UCLA
Rayl replied to WayneFleekHoosier's topic in Indiana Men's Basketball
The Pierce thing should automatically disqualify Alford. Don't care if Crean wins another game. I'd rather keep him than replace him with a coach who doesn't take sexual assualt seriously. -
There are just as many posters who freak out and whine every time someone posts something negative. You think people who don't always try to find something positive to say don't see any positives? Really? Congrats, you guys bitching about what others post have taken over the site.
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Devil's Advocate: Indiana's Schedule
Rayl replied to IU Hoosier41's topic in Indiana Men's Basketball
Yeah, I got that it wasn't you. That's why I said the flaw was in the logic, not in your logic. :) -
If we shut up, there wouldn't be a message board. But, yeah, I would love for some people to shut up. I'd start with people who try to tell others how to be a fan and get angry when they read something from someone who doesn't share their opinions. That really doesn't lead to good discussion. See what I did there? P.S. I rarely even go to the grocery store without my IU hat on. I might not approve of the current coach, but I am just as much a Hoosier and IU fan as you are.
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Devil's Advocate: Indiana's Schedule
Rayl replied to IU Hoosier41's topic in Indiana Men's Basketball
You stated the flaw in the logic yourself. The schedule didn't prepare us for the conference season. Ultimately, our postseason fate will always depend on how we do in conference. Sure, we might have lost some more non-conference games with a stronger schedule. But, if that had better prepared us for the conference, we might have still made the NIT. Chalk this one up to remembering who we are and how we got there. We used to schedule in the non-conference judiciously. Knight would try to schedule an opponent that resembled a conference opponent. So if someone in conference played a 3-2 zone, Knight would get a non-conference opponent who ran it. If someone ran the Princeton offense, he would get a quality non-conference opponent who ran it. He would try to schedule at least one true road game in a gym where fans were known to be rowdy to prepare the team for what they would face on the road in conference. That's what our non-conference schedule should be. Prepare the team for what they will face in conference as best as we can, then try to win the conference. -
I will say that it appears Troy didn't learn social media skills from Crean. Perhaps the pupil should teach the master a thing or two.
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Troy doesn't know if he would have learned more from a different coach. This tweet is pretty meaningless. It's great that he likes his coach. I hope our administration is smart enough not to listen to the players concerning coaching changes. Hopefully, we've learned that lesson.
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Sure it does. Etherington is always going to be one of the last wing options for Crean. His situation gets worse next season with Blackmon, Johnson and Hoetzel coming in. Marlin certainly might have reconsidered his decision to walk-on at IU. He gets no playing time. He can transfer down to a D2 school and play right away if he wants.
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You're getting crap because you aren't really telling us anything. Vonleh going pro is something of a no-brainer. Etherington and Marlin transferring is a gigantic who cares and not really going out on a limb. Even if you end up being right, it doesn't prove you have the level of inside info to be correct about players failing drug tests.
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They have to be in a position where they can restrict admissions standards and still admit enough students to pay all the bills. That takes care of itself with more applicants and more people wanting to attend IU. There is a proven way for schools to increase applicants and the percentage of admitted students that chose to attend: have success in football and basketball. That's why we're spending so much money trying to rebuild the programs.
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Meh. There are two sides to this one. A lot of IU fans have had a ton of bad things to say about Lyles and a certain talking head has as well. If it's OK for people to trash talk about him, it's OK for him to give it back.
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The sad thing is that SMU is playing us in an effort to boost their schedule, but if next year goes anything like this year, then SMU could again be in a position where the committee says that they didn't play anyone. This season, SMU did actually play 10 teams with a higher Pomeroy rating than us. They won four of those games.
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For those wondering why Indiana would turn down the CBI...
Rayl replied to IU Hoosier41's topic in Indiana Men's Basketball
Nah, we don't need to get over ourselves. We need to remember who we are. More specifically, we need to remember how we became Indiana. McCracken and Knight were very different coaches, but they shared some things in common. In their own ways, they both taught their players to strive for perfection and not to accept anything less. Neither accepted losing or made excuses when they did. That's what led to hanging our banners. We need a coach and an administration that remembers what it means to be Indiana. -
If Knight was crap those seasons, what does that make Crean now? 5 of those seasons, we won 20 games. We won 19 the other two. In all of those seasons but one the team finished with an above .500 record in the conference. And, in that one off season, they were exactly .500. Those seasons weren't up to the high standards that Knight had previously set, but that crap is looking a lot better than what we have now.