MikeRoberts

kind of agree but kind of not. I would like IU to sign the priority, immediate impact guys first and fill out the last two spots with role players like Gelon. But, it doesn't really matter the order, as long as we get 3 or 4 impact guys and 2 to 3 role players. It would just be a nice, "we are here" type statement to land a couple 4 or 5 star guys first. It would look better and maybe help pull other recruits

Nice to see an IU fan/commit from the armpit, typically been PU country

are posts being deleted or something? I read this and go, what? Where? Who? Lots of positive comments. Maybe some concerned but...

one would think but we have no momentum right now for 2016. Need to land a big fish for others to feel good about us and join in

but he is the next Oladipo

fair argument either way. He has been our most talented player the past few years and the primary ball handler and leader but we have sucked. Is he the only reason we haven't been in the cellar or the reason we have not been great... Not sure

Based on what you/we know, are we satisfied with the recruiting options/focus for 16 and 17? I don't claim to know every recruit we are after but it doesn't seem like we are going to replace Yogi with another 5 star stud. That seems to be my biggest concern

how do suppose we reach 30 wins and only get to the elite 8. I guess it is possible but very unlikely

28-32 wins? Wow, would love that but don't think we will even be top 3 in the conference. Edit, meant to quote Recker

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its one season and it hasn't even been played yet. The past two seasons have been bad and after this season is likely going to return to bad again as we are likely to lose almost everyone.

nope, not possible because someone had good sweet corn from somewhere else at some point

you might be right, but if you are Crean needs to go yesterday.

really? So dirk nowitzky is better than Cody Zeller so Germans are better than Americans at basketball. We are talking broad generalities here. There is in general a great group of top talent that are fundamentally sound that come out of Indiana each year and therefore should be our priority. It is an efficient use of time and money to focus on Indiana kids because in general they have a sound understanding of the game. Period

you twisted the argument around. It's not that Indiana kids "have more of a desire to win" it's that they are typically very well trained in the fundamentals of the game, like individual and team defensive principles. And your soccer analogy is wrong on so many levels. Yes, it could help USA soccer if all of our athletes focused on soccer but that is only a small part of it. There are more kids playing soccer in America than countries like Italy and Germany. You mention soccer IQ, yes, the players in Italy and Germany in general have a higher soccer IQ than American players. It's why we import in color commentators for our games, import coaches in to train our teams, it's why our players go abroad to train. The game is coached and played at a higher level there, not because they have better athletes but because they are taught the right fundamentals from the time they were able to walk. I know because I trained in holland and Germany; the focus on fundamentals and their lack of tolerance for mistakes in those areas is nothing like the US

that's true. Every local kid is not a good fit. One would think Crean could lessen the likelihood of a miss by spending years recruiting the kid that includes spending a lot of time with him and his inner circle to get a sense of who they are beyond the court. Everyone has misses, both locally and nationally but the ones that are national that were not evaluated very long/well like Hoetzell are a complete crapshoot. I don't want Crean rolling the dice so much

not really. One of my biggest concerns over recruiting kids from so far away is that the coaches don't really know them that well, and vice versa. Recruiting a kid from 3 hours away, one gets the opportunity to see them more, have them on aloud more, talk to people that know them etc. We offered and accepted Hoetzels lOI knowing very little about him and vice versa. Wonder why that didn't work

yea, in the worst season in recent history they had one less win in bigten play than IU did last year 8-10 vs 9-9

The amount of money this staff spends on recruiting shows how often they are out of state recruiting. It's insane how much more this staff spent recruiting than any other schools in the BigTen and our results are mid pack

we finished tied with Illinois for 7/8 place last year. Last year was not good

One has to admit that Crean has either not prioritized Indiana kids or has just not had a lot of success the past 2 classes. He had some success prior but not so much lately

Sep Blatter was given another contract days before he stepped down. Roy Williams is a snake and will be exposed

not saying your wrong but why? Makes sense to do it now, not off in the far distance. We are a long ways away from the start of the season

In all seriousness, where did the Harrisons get the money to buy mom that car? They are college students. What agent would give them the money for that in advance of maybe not even being drafted? They could both go undrafted, neither receive a contract not get any guaranteed money and be playing in the D-League making less than that car cost