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Kind of depends what one considers to be spin. If they sign a class ranked 20th but the pieces look like a team and fill rolls and the vision is clear and the staff seems pleased I’m gonna be perfectly fine with it and willing to assume the best and judge the actual game results even if I preferred some different kids and that’s what I’ll say. Am I spinning? I don’t think I am. Now if they sign a 6 man class of 6 centers that would rate a side eye, but even then I’m down with judging the end result because it’s DDV’s vision at play, not mine. So, yeah, I’m probably only gonna get so critical unless I see an utterly incoherent process, which would shock me.

Ok, now we’re talkin’. Big fan of Thomas. Lefty. Really clever. Can get in the lane on anyone. Can get a look whenever he wants one. Good enough shooter. Very good passer. Defends. Tough. Watched him when he was at UNLV play New Mexico 1 night and he gave Donovan Dent all he wanted. They’re actually very similar players. Got hurt last year at LSU and missed a bunch of time, so might even be a bit of a value proposition. Pretty sure my personal PG1 just hit the board.

Will Wade, Lane Kiffin and Kim Mulkey on the same campus at the same time. Just chew on that one for a minute.

I can understand Butler’s thinking here but I’m struggling to understand Nored’s. He’s built his entire coaching career on the NBA path. He’s really highly regarded and would have almost certainly gotten a HC job in the next couple of cycles, probably 3 at the outside. And he’s punting that to take what at this point is a pretty underwhelming college job. To paraphrase Rob Richey in The West Wing, “Butler, boy, I don’t know.”

Don’t I recall reports last spring that he turned down Xavier? But B.C. is the gig? There must have been some very, very solid assurances made there.

True, but Ware was a freshman dealing with some ancillary issues that all kind of went against him and flipping the script here spoke pretty highly of him. Evans is a 3 year guy who is exactly what he has been since HS. He’s a good player and he’ll help someone but I’m not sure and Evans/IU marriage would make a ton of sense for either party.

He was 34 and she was 21 when they started dating. Is that the equivalent of CTC offering Blackmon as an 8th grader?

We’ll see. As an IU fan that wouldn’t bother me that much at all because imo this job hasn’t been on that level since Sampson blew it up and in reality may never have been. But UK, which is inarguably top 4, is being coached by Mark Pope. If UNC is able to bring in a Guy without any problem I would think BBN may collectively slit its wrists.

They could, and probably will, do worse. But, man, that’s a top 4 job in the country by any measure. Even in the world of 10 years ago they could have had anyone in the country other than probably Scheyer. If they don’t end up with a Golden or an Oats or an Otz, someone like that, it’s really gonna put the nail in coffin of the assumptions we used to make about this stuff. If UK ends up with Pope and UNC ends up with, say, McCasland, that would just blow my mind.

Will be a very interesting search

Tulane PG Rowan Brumbaugh entering the portal. Don’t know if it’s purely random chance because it’s not like I’ve watched a million Tulane games but I’ve never seen that kid not good.

St Mary’s PF Paulius Murauskas entering the portal. Fair to assume he’s following Bennett to ASU but if he’s actually available, man, that dude really knows how to play.

Winning player. Starting to get a little meat on the bone in the portal now.

No thoughts yet. Last year my obsession was scoring wings. This year it’s PG’s.

God, we really, really need the portal to get going.