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If those two are available, that’s a top-25 maybe top-15ish team all season and the DD conversation is completely different right now. The fact he still had them a tournament team was just good coaching. (Snubbed obviously but that team should have been in)

This game is so good.

I thought Archie would be good, but him looking like he’d seen a ghost from the jump should have been a sign. I always questioned Crean due to DWade. Obvious he was a good talent evaluator, but how much can be drawn from a final four with a guy who had a top-20 all time NBA player on his roster. Woody I hated from the jump but tried to see the positives. This feels completely different. He’s a coach, a recruiter, and someone who embraces NIL. I also like that he pointed out we and he respected his current team. Also Iowa and WV people are melting down over it, so that’s a bonus.

Luckily Tennessee football and WV basketball aren’t really comparable. And USC football was in a completely different position at that time than IUBB is now. Also he was quite a bit younger and had already flamed out in the NfL. Pretty awful comparison honestly.

Personally I think I’ll just be going with the double Ds. So enjoy that for hopefully the next 20 odd years lol

GP was like the only national guy hating on us for giving Woody an extra year and not hiring Dusty last season. He thought giving Woody a fourth and losing an alumni who was the hottest mid major guy on the market was insanity. So I appreciated that lol

I dunno, “Not Mike Woodson” has a nice ring to it, probably too long for a nickname though.

That was a ridiculous jinx.

I know if I had his name I would wear Devries Nutz jokes out.

He better be, I’m not trying to go through another AI driven coaching search in here until I’m retired.

If somebody in Bloomington doesn’t offer a free large Defries every time an opponent misses two free throws in assembly it will be the greatest marketing miss in the history of advertising.

Finally got to watch, and all I can say is that first 25+ win regular season is gonna hit like absolute crack. Recruiting is about to be so fun again.

We hired a guy who flipped Drake, flipped WVU, who had a top three transfer class in his first year, who has a top 25 high school class for next year, and continued having a decent year after losing his best player and from a P5 school. and people are pissed. Anyone who thinks it’s not a solid hire is living in fantasy land

You might wanna take a breather.

A successful athletic department isn’t going to be giving ultimatums to the types of donors you need to fund a 7 million dollar roster. Zero chance he threatened the type of people he needed to secure that kind of money on top of profit share. I know nothing but I’m guessing Ferguson didn’t lose his access for supporting his buddy. Also very little chance that he convinced them in 72 hours. That was my main point. If, and it’s an if, the numbers are accurate, that didn’t happen in a 72 hour vacuum. JMO

That’s pretty big time if true. There’s boosters on board with this if those numbers are legit. Those numbers also mean this didn’t happen after WVU got left out Sunday. Dolson had this in motion at the very least and this was his guy. I’d imagine Iowa was never a real player until they found out they weren’t. Also, we need a complain about the hire thread for those so inclined. No judgment from me for those that want to complain, but GD the program has been negative for long enough. Let him give us a reason to be negative. This isn’t remotely similar to the Woody hiring.

I have only one buddy who went to WV and he is big mad, so I’ve enjoyed the last hour at his expense. A direct quote is “our nil is dogshit so I’m sure IU takes the recruits too except for maybe the kid from WVa.”

I’m so excited to have an actual college basketball coach again. Guy recruits really well, has fully embraced NIL and transfer portal. Maybe it doesn’t work, that’s life, but this is the market. Successful coaches aren’t leaving programs with basketball commitment and decent NIL. Every example of recent “basketball school” opening has confirmed it. There’s a ton of data. I imagine Kansas will be in for a rude awakening too eventually. Let’s go. Portal SZN

Thought you guys might like this, my Facebook memory today from 2014 lol:

This is just my thought on the transfer portal and IU not based on anything else. If we see guys not flooding the portal I think it has zero to do with waiting to see who the coach is. No reason to believe that in this era. The reality is the coaching was bad and no one here increased their earning potential beyond what they currently make. Reneau could probably get similar money for his scoring, but Bako, Rice and Carlysle are almost certainly not going to make more on the open market than they have already contracted at IU. Maybe they can enter the portal and return without impacting previously held agreements, but that seems super unlikely to me given the new coach may not even want the player to return and teams are not obligated to allow a player to come back.

I'd be perfectly fine with DD, I would personally prefer McCollum. That said, if the noise coming out from national rumor mills is that it is done, I think you can tea leaves that to what our people here have said which is essentially that it has been done for weeks. If that is the case, it is someone big. If it just got signed, it's probably Devries.

Scouting for Jay Wright? Or the Maine Red Claws?

Search szn 2k25 will definitely go down as the year of horrifying AI generated photos.

Well having gotten caught up today, I think we can definitively rule Brownell out. No way Tom Allen isn't seeing this and heading straight to Brownell's office to make sure he knows how little we LEO now and how much more LEO he has at Clemson.

Serious question for the brain trust because I ignore DD in all forms. Does he usually have coaches on for chats on whatever that website is? Seems kinda odd all things considered and the IU job being open. Maybe I am reading too much in the tea leaves, but I also do not know if a tournament bound coach talking to DD is normal.