MikeRoberts

How do we shut those guys down? Seriously, the damage those guys do in the name of Indiana is super frustrating.

Bagman?

He has offers from Indiana, Illinois and Michigan State and isn’t rated?

IU was definitely not more worried about our football game. Barely showed up and those that did played for Indinia

Are you Tom Crean?

I still liked it but feel you just put the kids of death on it with that dad joke. I did a similar one for sensabaugh and he dumped us a week later

There is little chance he will make as much money at IU as he would oversees. How much is that bank contract worth that Stuhoo mentioned. I mean, the other kids are selling t-shirts/)

Can you outline the newly formed NILs?

We have had some really good centers starting with Cody, then, Vonleh, Bryant and Jackson-davis. Id say that is the one position we have had a stud at for a while Center U We’ve only had 1 good Pg in Yogi over that time, this is definitely a position we needed talent at

There is a lot of optimism in this post:) I would love to see TJD be an All-American but he may not even be the best 5 in the bigten with who is returning and we also have a 6’10” top 70 ranked 5 that will be a sophomore when he arrives.

Yeah, they could make some money from social media if they are really active creating content and build big enough followings but even then, odds aren’t great many will make money that way. In recent IU history, I think Vic and Cody may have been able to do well in that fashion but very few others have either had the personality or fame to do that, and then they would need to impact people outside of Indiana and the Midwest to really make a splash. getting back to the origin of how this started, someone suggested that players, hood-schifino would make more at IU after NIL than what he would make from a cheating school like Memphis or this semi pro team that was brought up. I said that is tbd but unlikely. I think people see what is happening with the quarterbacks at Clemson and Alabama and think that is happening all over and it isn’t. I think it is great these kids can go sign some autographs and make some cash, sell some shirts, do some social posts for a campus company. Iu players should have no issues making thousands of dollars, maybe tens of thousands, but it will likely be rare that they pull in hundreds of thousands and maybe almost impossible they pull in millions.

I think we are agreeing. an alumn that donates $1,000,000 a year to the school or athletic department isn’t likely going to start dividing that up to now be split between the school and players. however, there are schools like Duke, Kentucky, Kansas that have already gotten these guys to do that a long time ago. So that comes back to these kids true marketing value and it isn’t much. I work with talent and influencers and the biggest ones make a ton and there is very little left over for everyone else. If TJD averages 25 and 12 and is an all-American he may get some legit local/regional/national brands and people interested but there hasn’t been a college player since Zion that would legit bank

Is this kid posting pics of him wearing other schools gear? Love seeing this, curious if it means we are a favorite or just posts everything he has/is sent

I’ll leave it at this. Most college athletes have little to no true marketability. Indiana basketball players have some but unless you are a big name, TJD or bigger, they won’t see big money that is coming from true marketing budgets. big money would have to come in the guise of marketing but truly be a gift and that has not been established at IU yet like it has been at other schools for decades

I think the schools that have been funneling kids and their handlers money will continue to, they will just do it out in the open. Schools like IU where that is more rare don’t have those pipelines already created. It’s going to be harder for IU to persuade a booster to move money away from the school and direct it to the kids in the name of an “appearance” or “social post” than a school that has already developed that sort of pipeline. the majority of athletes have little to no marketability.

That’s very much tbd... nobody knows what these kids will make at IU yet until there is a track record

I didn’t know about OTE, never even heard of it. It’s definitely not a destination place - they couldn’t even field a team right now with the roster of kids they have. seems like a startup that is never going to get passed that stage. Playing 2v2 everyday in practice would get old quickly

I love the optimism. I was actually thinking IU would have a pretty good year this year, maybe 24 wins and a tiny bit of success in the tourney and then take a step back next year before hockey sticking back up. we could easily lose our top 5 players, at least 4 out of 5. That’s a ton to lose

I think the teams that can stack as many guys ranked between 20-40 have a great chance of success. Top 20s don’t always stick around long and outside of top 40 don’t always contribute a ton right away. UNC, Virginia and Villanova types

Durr may in fact be better, maybe a lot better, just curious what people are basing that on, seems like it is being stated as a fact by many but not sure anyone has seen enough or really anything to determine that. there are a ton of freshmen that come in and outplay upperclassmen as we all know. It’s not like he was an unheralded, unranked recruit, he was a top 75 player that played against a lot of top talent in high school and AAU

I heard one first hand, one practice point of view but is this based on more than that? Do we have a consistent point person in practices every day that is reliable? Just curious if that one practice is getting quoted as gospel or if there is more to base that on

Is Durr better than Duncomb?

Fair point and I agree I think, XJ is going to be a big part of our success this year. maybe more credit is due to IU for the disjointed play of the Serbians. I just expected them to be more polished in what they did and they looked like they had never played together and hadn’t shot a ball all summer

I have to agree with honkeyman, the Serbian team was anything but impressive.

Any word on how the staff is feeling about this recruitment? Obviously the kid is interested but is a commitment likely?