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If/when the back thing ends up ending his playing career, kid could have a hell of a coaching career if wanted it. Very smart. Great leader and worker. Kids just gravitate to him. Whatever “it” is, kid’s got it.

I think this is all true. I also hope that when we are fortunate enough to witness the start of the next era of IUBB we’re able to do so with hope for the future rather than dancing on the grave of the past. I think our million page thread here has already done a pretty decent job of preemptively doing that.

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In my case I can’t write it off because I’ve never for a single second wrote it on. But I’ll be pleased as punch to be wrong.

I imagine he will test and interview very, very well.

I hope so. I’m a fan. If I was someone like Florida St I’d absolutely inquire. He’s young enough to solve your problem for 20 years.

As good as there is. St Mary’s is destination viewing. But he is just a pure basketball coach. Is not wired for the outside noise of jobs like this. He’s exactly where he should be.

Honest to God, that might be my favorite individual play all season. Freaking great.

Wow, Danny Wolf with 1 of the coolest of plays the year. Gets the ball on the left wing. Puts it down going right and loses the defender with a spin dribble into a step back 23 footer that he rains. Dude is 7 feet tall. That was awesome.

My vote would be for Stevens. Not because I think he’s going to be, I don’t, but because he’s the 1 guy who can just have the job if he wants it. So he’s probably the safest bet.

I think they can be 1A and 1B, but when IUBB is relevant it’s always gonna be the A side. Hell, we have a 1,000 page IUBB thread on a coach. IUFB isn’t gonna produce a 1,000 page thread on a site like this on any subject. At least no time soon.

Congrats to Payton Sparks on winning MAC Player of the Week. Had a giant week. 27/14 against Buffalo and 19/17 against W. Michigan. Couldn’t be happier for that kid.

To paraphrase the late, great, Anthony Bourdain, the Bill Selfs and Jon Scheyers of the world would take 1 look at the resources that guy would have available and $hit their cages.

2 things on that: 1) maybe the single most compelling thing about a Coach Brad Stevens is the simply ungodly amount of money that would produce. Hovadipo mentioned in a side conversation that from an NIL perspective IU would be the Dodgers. He’s right. 2) That’s something that some with kind of an old fashioned view of a Stevens program need to get their minds around. It wouldn’t be built on finding under the radar instate Gordon Hayward types, though I’m sure there’d be the occasional kid like that. But it’s gonna be the most talented and, resultingly, expensive rosters he can construct. And I don’t mean that as criticism in any way. That’s the world as it is. Frankly, that is the most interesting single thing in his favor for me.

True. And the thing with giving a market-resetting to deal to Stevens, and if Chris proves correct at a topped out 7/84 you’re doing that by a fair bit, is that he gets no runway at all. They better be good in November, really good in January, and competing for something meaningful in March. I don’t care if he hasn’t been in college in 12 years, if he’s making more than double what the winner of the last 2 Nattys is making he better be winning the day he gets here. As a matter of fact, if he’s the guy and they lose some Nov or Dec by double digits I may just start a Fire B.S. thread on general principle.

https://x.com/db1ken/status/1886479553737941147 Might be the biggest HS DB I’ve ever seen.

Honest to God, this may be the worst offensive half I’ve watched this year. 13 mins in and Pitt has more to’s than baskets.

It’s a guy on with Simmons saying that Knecht and another 1st were in the deal and Pelinka got them to take them out over “health concerns.”

Hamilton had a nice run there. Just hung on too long. Been talking about it for years. When you start publicly musing about it it’s time to do it.

Gotta be Hartline, right? Haven’t they been talking that guy up for years?

https://x.com/LegionHoops/status/1886460379414568984/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1886460379414568984&currentTweetUser=LegionHoops If this is true the GM in Dallas needs to be straight fired. Today. You have 1 of the top 3 assets in the sport and you got talked down? Would say that’s insane except for the part about how trading him was insane on it’s face.

100%. Listing jobs as top 5-10 jobs now has become an antiquated mindset. Crean took the job here because 15 years ago heritage jobs were a thing. If you wanted to be a legend that stuff mattered. Now it’s far less so. There’s nothing an IU can offer an Oats that he can’t get at Bama. The question about any job is are the resources and infrastructure in place to win at an elite level? If the answer’s yes then it’s a great job. The answer here is a big yes. So what they have to nail down is the fit of the guy. This job’s got heat. Not for everybody, but there are a bunch of guys who could do really well.

And they’ve got their HC in place. Funny how that works.

That is punching above your weight in a giant freaking way. Literally looks like a KissCam where they’re dating the people on the other side of them.

I think there’s probably zero shot there, but absolutely worth exploring if for no other reason than going into Houston and kicking Sampson’s a$$ in those ridiculous blue uniforms.