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Yup, and I really, really hope that the decision makers have the appropriate understanding that some jobs are just different and being a smart, hard-working X’s and O’s guy is miles from the whole deal here. Pope absolutely gets it and if they’re 3-7 in the SEC and he starts catching some crap he’s gonna be ready for it. But I keep thinking about Archie’s intro presser and he looked like it had just hit him and he appeared spooked and he just looked too small for the job. For all the criticism of Woody’s arrogance, if you take this job your ego better be bullet-proof.

The Man Comes Around! And I think it absolutely has.

It's got to be kind of a weird mental place to be in to be a guy with a chip on his shoulder the size of Stonehenge and who desperately wants to stick his finger in everybody's eye but then doesn't actually want to take the steps necessary to do that. Would love to see him be able to rationalize stepping away of purely his own accord, for simplicity's sake, but I don't really see how that happens.

Yeah, for any issues we may have with the current staff, there are no McLeod’s on it.

Love it. What I do remember is that after he was offered the only thing I could find was 1 video of an individual workout in an empty gym. Hell, by comparison Harper’s positively over-exposed.

Actually, and we’ll see how recruiting addicted some are around here, the name that came to mind for me here was David Williams. He was an unknown 6’7” lefty from Florida who CTC offered way back in the day and then we never heard of him again. I don’t even know where he went to school.

It’ll always make me nuts the way a kid who’s a pretty good athlete with really good feet doesn’t maintain knee bend and can’t keep his weight centered. Again, coaching problem. Total side note: Am I the only one who really liked that uni for the girls but didn’t like it for the guys? No idea why.

Yeah, he’s got physical limitations and if they really want to get him small ball 4 minutes in the B1G it damned well better be with Ballo and not Reneau. Every time he drops that Reneau/Goode/Tucker front line I just have this vision of UM playing absolute volleyball on the boards against them.

oh boy

Goode brings value whether he’s making shots or not and if you don’t see that I would question if you know what you’re watching. In fact, what Hatton and Goode contributed today really pi$$ed me off because they’re well-coached and they didn’t get that here. Example: When Hatton was guarding high ball screen actions he took 1 jab step out from the screen before he dropped forcing the ball handler to take 1 more dibble before trying to get downhill and giving his primary 1 more step to recover. He didn’t learn that at IU because Woody doesn’t teach it. If Reneau played it that way it would probably save him a foul a game. He also managed 3 blocks despite being completely landlocked because he’s been taught to reach for the lights when he contests at the rim and so he forces adjustments by guards to finish but he’s not going after every driver from every angle so he’s not putting them into forced rotation the way Ballo does. Again, that’s how he’s been coached, and not here. And watching Goode hunt and fill crack after crack and have himself in perfect shooting position at all times in comparison to Mgbako just hanging out waiting for ball reversal with no prep other than putting his hands up made me want to throw my drink at the screen. Yet again, 1 of them has been really well-coached and knows how to play and 1 of them is just really talented and waits to be fed. This game really got to me because those Winthrop kids absolutely understood their gameplan and what they were attacking and there way too many possesssions where IU flat didn’t.

Might be the most underrrated player in the entire country. Will never get his due because Penn St is such an outpost, but he controls games like very few kids.

I love Thornton. That kid is such a warrior. Both ends. Would take him over Smith without a thought.

God knows this is fair criticism of Woody, it’s the thing that pi$$es me off the worst about him, but not in this specific case. There’s a reason Reynolds has a shockingly weak offer list. Izzo and Underwood never bothered to offer him. He was supposed to visit Dusty a few months ago and then cancelled. Shrew’s 15 mins from him and barely pays attention to him. No one thinks he’s going anywhere but Purdue.

2 things here: 1) watched 1 of those day in the life videos of him. Seems like a good kid who’s had a pretty tough go of it. Imagine he ended up there because he still had grade issues. He was taking 5 classes during his 1st summer semester. 2) Kid’s a freaking specimen. He’s the quintessential “1st off the bus” guy.

This might be recency bias, but I don’t know if I have ever heard announcers more shamelessly shill a program than these guys have shilled Colorado in a beat down loss. And to top off their game-long snuggling, Prime leaves Shadeur in the game to stat pad, he throws a 3 yd TD pass to cut the lead to 24 with under 2 mins left against BYU’s subs and the play by-play guy proceeds to tell us how super impressed he would be if he were the Giants brass that Shadeur is still in there competing. I swear to God.

I didn’t realize that was the deal. Thought maybe he’d just gotten nicked a little and shut it down. That is a touch sketchy.

Appreciate the insight and welcome to our little corner of the world. Once you get past our bitterness these days we’re ok to hang out with every now and then.

Ohio U edge Bradley Weaver has entered the portal. Had 15 tackles for loss with 8.5 sacks and was 1 of of PFF’s highest graded college edge players this year. Maybe there are a couple of ex-Ohio U players who could maybe vouch for their experiences in Bloomington.

Pre-portal I was a big believer in using a 12th or 13th scholly on a traits guy at pretty much all times. Churn them and when 1 hits you stole a kid. But in this era it’s always gonna be tough to get the ROI.

https://x.com/YnRbball/status/1873049130651811986 https://x.com/DonBoscoHoops/status/1869751284074746364 A couple of highlight reels. Watched a couple of his junior year games on YouTube. The natural reaction is looking at this as sort of a Grant Gelon situation. Don’t think that’s quite fair. He’s clearly a high major athlete and if you believe in the kid then it’s worth exploring. And, man, does he have a pretty stroke.

Ole Miss S Louis Moore returning to IU, per 247.

My favorite part of USC with their backup QB and a million guys sitting it out beating Texas A&M is that A&M was, like, the go-to win for all of the SEC teams making a playoff argument. “Indiana hasn’t beaten anybody and _________ has a big-time win over Texas A&M.”

Example #100 or so of the culture change in Bloomington. A year ago if CTA had an AA CB I would have just assumed you’re losing that guy. But now, since Ponds isn’t draft eligible it never occurred to me for a second that he wouldn’t be back.

Am I the only who didn’t realize that guy was 78? Selection Sunday will not be the same.

Oh yeah, a snarky Navy feed is just the best.