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I watched several streams of him as a Soph at Julianne and his Jr year at Centerville and saw him twice live at a showcase event Centerville played in. Side note: If we’re back to recruiting high school kids again and you’re into that piece of it, I highly, highly recommend a subscription to NFHS. A million high schools are on it and you can find games of pretty much any kid you want. It was awesome when they were recruiting all the Georgia kids because seemingly every Georgia high school was tied to it. I watched a million Jakai Newton and Kaleb Banks games.

I’m sure you’d have to re-recruit him. But just like the 1st time around I imagine the bag will do the talking.

I watched Powell several times when he had the IU offer and the year he played with Cupps and I didn’t love him at the time. He was 6’6” with the great frame. He was a good athlete, though kind of straight line-ish. Beautiful stroke. Looked like an NBA 2. But he HATED guys getting physical with him and wouldn’t take it into traffic at all even though he could have lived at the line. And his defensive effort was very much tied to his offense. But he played a bunch of minutes for DeVries and if he comes, no problem.

Yup. He didn’t reject IU, he rejected a career path he didn’t want to take. Not a single thing wrong with that. Now, if ends up at KU or UNC down the road, seriously doubt that, that would be a pretty giant FU and would rate some pretty lusty booing should that opportunity present itself.

Assuming Zrno sticks and Goode wins his extra year, and neither is obviously guaranteed, that’s 4 6’7”-6’8” guys with skill and switchability. That’s a nice start.

Wow, if WVU can’t keep a kid from Huntington, WV that’s just another kick in the teeth.

Yeah, it may have gotten stale there and time for a move, but if they think they’re just gonna automatically upgrade and that guy was the problem they’re nuts. Dude is a good coach.

Tucker missed back to back 3’s here. I cannot believe Dolson hired a guy who’s gonna bring along a son who can’t shoot. Typical mid IU AD decision-making. Smh.

https://247sports.com/player/jalen-montonati-46135970/ Top 10ish kid. Nice initial list

The 1st test, does he project big enough for the job or does he have the whole Archie “kid wearing his dad’s suit” thing going on? Pretty confident it’ll be the former.

I feel like he had a redshirt in there somewhere. I think he has 1 more year.

Now you’re just showing off.

I’d probably say something like, “Yeah, can’t believe we hired that stiff. It will be so utterly humiliating to lose to us next year. But don’t worry, ‘cause that’ll never, ever, happen”

Thank God, now I just have get past this putting 2 A’s in the 2nd syllable in his 1st name and then I‘m gold.

Outstanding information! And also begs the question: which did you think was more likely when you rolled out of bed this morning, IU having a coach by the end of the day or you writing a post using “Frisian”?

1 interesting element for the current roster: DeVries got 10/6 out of Amani Hansberry, who’s very similar, though not nearly as good, as Reneau.

I’ve already found 1 thing to be annoyed about with Devries. My phone is convinced the V is capitalized and it’s not taking no for an answer.

The other element there is the West Virginia deal he took over was dead broken. They won 9 games the year before and returned no rotation guys at all. So he took their ok, but certainly no IU, NIL and rebuilt an entire roster from scratch to the point that he beat Tommy Lloyd, Mark Few, TJ Otzelberger and Bill Self, Otzelberger and Self without his best player.

I imagine that's correct. The Stevens stuff was such nonsense past shear due diligence. Dolson most likely spent the last 12 months profiling what he wanted for program leadership and doing some investigation into candidate fits who might be available. The search firm then filled in the blanks for him and when 1 of the guys he identified became available prematurely, thank you UNC AD, Dolson jumped. I don't see how that's not really, really good.

From your viewings of Devries teams at Drake and his year at West Virginia take us through the shortcomings and blindspots he exhibited that you spotted. Be specific. Come on, dazzle us with your insight.

Define your terms: a big name to people who eat and sleep basketball or a big name to people who pay attention to their favorite team and then watch the Final Four?

You are correct.

I agree. But if Devries asked them about NIL and they told him they were still at a million, which they supposedly were last year, I imagine that would shut it down pretty quick.

I read somewhere that his plan was to stay there until both of his kids had finished school. I believe his daughter already has and his son is a senior and was a manager for the basketball team this year.

Because he’s a terrific coach who kept his head above water at a program that’s not built to win at the B1G level.