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That's really interesting. The 1 thing I would've bet they'd do is draw. What the hell else is there to do in Waco in January?

With Drew's name surfacing, it lends itself to sort of an interesting hypothetical, at least to me. Old Fart asked in a separate conversation a while back whether given his age and his history it was reasonable to assume that even if Stevens came that he would stay long term. Wouldn't it be entirely possible, if not likely, that after a few years of getting coaching out of his system he wouldn't take an ownership stake in some NBA team and go run it? Or go do something else, he's a talented guy. So here's my question: if you had the choice would you take 4-5 years of Stevens and then you're looking again or 10-12 years of a guy like Scott Drew? It's not a very interesting question if you're comping someone like Brownell. but Drew's a top 10 coach in CBB by pretty much any standard. Do people around here consider Stevens so good that you'd be willing to take him on a shorter term basis over an elite CBB coach?

That strikes me as a pretty solid take with 2 important exceptions: 1) I do not believe they have an appropriate appreciation for the difference in assets. Drew had to ask for NIL enhancement last year, something he would never, ever, have to do at Indiana. 2) The slightly snarky take at the end regarding the enthusiasm of the fan base is actually something Drew, who understands it, would very likely appreciate. The difference between being a legend at Baylor and at Indiana is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.

Kind of tough to see it, but if it’s possible the timing would certainly make sense. He’ll lose Edgecombe for sure. He’ll lose Roach and Ormier. He’s only got a 1 man class right now, even if the kid is really good. So it’s not like he’d be leaving a no doubt NC contender.

It’s pretty fascinating that this thread continues to chug along and remains reasonably interesting when there is a 0% chance McCollum is coming here. And I absolutely mean that as a compliment to those engaging in it.

An under appreciated really funny element of this is that Drew’s wife supposedly wanted no part of Lexington because she thought the environment was too decadent but she may possibly be down with…..Bloomington. Haven’t been back in a minute, but that’s not 1 of the selling points I would have anticipated.

Yup. They had enough money to buy those 2 but not enough to keep Omoruyi or surround them with much of anything.

Every coach that beats Sampson should get a “F that guy” bottle of Dom courtesy of IU alumni. It’s Guns Up tonight, baby!

Rutgers seeing what they hoped to be getting all year from Harper and Bailey in this stretch against USC. In the last 4 minutes they’ve hit 4 incredibly tough contested shots between them.

Goodnight

Why are they not punishing that press? They’re playing this like there’s 90 secs left.

Don’t be running clock at this point. Run your freaking offense.

Thought the one in the 1st half was worse.

Some 12 seed on selection Sunday is gonna see Purdue as their 5 matchup and cheer their a$$es off.

That might have been the best defensive possession of the entire year.

“Assembly Hall is up for grabs right now.” What does that mean?

Ridiculous overhelp by Leal. Smith had nothing.

You knew Mgbako wasn’t giving that up. Freaking knew it.

That’s 3 possessions late on the TO.

Woody is gonna play Ballo and Reneau together if it freaking kills him. I swear to God.

Kaufman-Renn absolutely threw an elbow. They ought to look at that.

Wow

Leak’s going, but there better be a hook and hold on Furst.

Getting a body out of the lane combined with Purdue’s complete lack of rim protection kind of makes this feel like it could be the Rice game we thought we were getting.

It would be awesome if for no other reason than the giant middle finger it would be to that ridiculous Dan Wetzel “Hire a Brad Brownell and be happy about it” article. I’ve got this visual in my head of Dolson making the Degeneration X move.