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Yup, neither Iowa nor WVU have the financial means or NIL potential to compete with IU if Dolson decides he’s the guy. He’d have to take a lesser deal to go elsewhere.

Watched a locked on podcast from a couple of WVU guys and they weren’t that worried about Iowa poaching DeVries because they thought the financial situation there was no better than WVU. But they did a whole hypothetical on IU and absolutely thought that could be a problem. Apparently DeVries has an extension on the table that he has not signed.

That would be a spectacular result.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/487-kxno-the-morning-rush-28237133/episode/the-morning-rush-3-17-25-hr-1-270370871/?position=157&cmp=web_share&embed=true Pretty interesting radio interview with McCollum from this morning. Starts about 3 mins in.

Doubt it’s him but would take Chris Collins in a New York minute. Very good X’s & O’s. Understands the B1G. Kept his head above water at a brutal gig. Was the lead recruiter at Duke. Has seen the IU thing up close and would undoubtedly view this as a destination job. Young enough. I know there are folks around here who’d hate it. Don’t care, they’re wrong.

For sure. I made a joke elsewhere about how wild it would be if neither of the major Indiana schools were recruiting a Xavier Booker-type because they were slugging it out over some kid from Mt Vernon. But I’m completely confident that scenario would arise at some point, though IU will always be able to recruit higher end kids than Purdue.

You got it. No matter where he’s recruiting going forward, McCollum’s gonna recruit to what he values. When you listen to the guy talk the game and his players there are 2 qualities he clearly values more than anything else, self-motivation and mental processing speed. And given how much motion he runs and how much read and react they have built in that makes perfect sense. But the thing we’d have to get used to with a guy like him is that he’d be the anti-Woody from a roster building perspective. For all the criticism of Woody recruiting based solely on the stars next to a kid’s name, the fact of the matter is those made for sexier, more interesting recruitments. I doubt McCollum gives the slightest $hit about stars. We say we want that, but if he starts recruiting dudes with offers from directional Michigan schools, and I doubt that would solely be the deal because every coach wants talent, but if he does, ya just gotta trust he knows what he wants and judge the development piece and the results.

Tamar Bates with a really nice half with 12 as Mizzou leads Miss St by 5 halftime.

Can you expand on this a little bit. My assumption would be that if there was a guy at this point they absolutely wouldn’t be talking because IU is/was still playing as would the team of any sitting coach. So that sounds exactly backwards to me.

So…..Assistant Coaches? Yeah, that is concerning. Seriously, and I didn’t hear it so I’m leery of context here, if Goodman suggested that McCollum has an X’s and O’s problem that may be the single stupidest thing anyone has said so far. In fact, no maybe, it is. Now, if he said he’d need an experienced recruiting coordinator, that I’d agree with.

What if Dolson thinks he’s the best coach?

RIP. Wrote some wonderful books. The Punch is an extraordinary read.

Yeah, the best Pikiell teams are those deep, grind you down with defense and physicality and score just enough teams and this one was the literal opposite. And I may be alone here, but Harper gives me that whole Hardenesque he’s-great-but-you’re-never-actually-winning-anything-with-him vibe

Literally the only circumstance where I’d actively root for Rick Pitino.

If you’re Minny I’m not sure you even make another call. But they better figure out how to get their NIL house in order.