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Would be really interested to know what he’d run at the combine. He’s quick out of breaks but he doesn’t seem to separate on shear speed. Wondering if he’s 4.6ish, something like that.

Moody’s gonna be in heavy rotation next year, no doubt. Probably more minutes then Sisley’s getting this year. Other than needing to add about 15 or 20lbs his game’s just ready to go.

Off to check out Karvala at the Quincy Showcase in beautiful(heavy, heavy sarcasm) Quincy, Il. Plays tonight agains Iowa United(Arafan Diane) and tomorrow night against Wasatch Academy(Junior County). Should match up a fair bit with County. That’ll be fun. Downside of these freaking winter showcase events: We’re supposed to have a bunch of snow, something in the 6-10” range, where I live starting Saturday morning and through the day. So I have to punt on the Saturday games, which is a really good 6 game slate. Not that hanging out in a hotel in Quincy for a couple of extra days wouldn’t be super sweet. Side note: Iowa United is coached by Indiana mega-legend Keith Smart. If I see him for a free moment will probably be forced to ask how it feels to now be sharing the pedestal for the greatest moment in IU sports history with Fernando Mendoza.

Hardest I’ve laughed in a minute.

Yeah.

No quibble with Kamara being DMVP, made 1 of the 2 plays of the game for Chrissake, but in real time this is absolutely how it felt. Ponds was, as always, a freaking monster.

Wish nothing but the best for the young man. He’s rep’d the school very well. I still feel like Cig would love to grow his own QB’s but since he’s clearly never conceding to the idea of a rebuilding year, and at his age why would he, it’s gonna take a pretty unusual kid to be good enough to play somewhere and yet willing to possibly spend an extended period of time not playing until they believe he’s the Guy from pretty much the 1st day he steps on the field. That’s a tough needle to thread.

Unlike position guys, strength coaches are basically just career strength coaches, right? If that’s the case I can totally see the move for that role pretty much always being whatever the best money is. If UT wants to reset the market with Owings, good for him.

Made a joke about that exact thing to a friend today. But that guy just screams the whole Rick Pitino I’m-gonna-coach-until-I-die thing.

That kid’s story is almost beyond belief. Just incredible. And gotta confess, would pay pretty good money to watch the 1st meeting between Mendoza and Mark Davis,

Those JMU kids who came from nowhere to this, God love them all. I’d adopt Ponds if I could. Love that kid.

Not sure what to say. Just extraordinary. And to think that 25 months ago a fair number of us, raising my hand, thought this was just a stone dead program and no one was gonna want the job. And the Mendoza touchdown is this generation’s Keith Smart shot. Will never, ever, be forgotten.

Does the A10 have a shot at 3 bids?

And it wouldn’t be an IU event if Prince didn’t jump in.

No No, no No, no, no Do not want this and will NEVER reciprocate it.

Funny how that works

Wow

The Bears vs the Stan Kroenke’s. There can’t be enough losers.

Flyin’ to the Hoop is a 1st rate event. One of my favorites. Didn’t go this year because I wanted to see Vaughn Karvala at the Quincy Shootout and couldn’t do both. But, man, if I’d known Manhertz was a thing when I was making plans I would have done Dayton.

Daughter 1 told me I needed to check these guys out. Wolf Alice is a British sort of all over the map but apparently mostly indie band with 4 albums and 4 EP’s. Had not heard of them. Was told specifically that I needed to listen in order due to their pretty pronounced evolution. So busted out My Love is Cool, their debut album from 2015, and it’s terrific. Sort of grungy, but not really. Great edge. Big thumbs up. Sent daughter 1 my opinion and my thanks and was informed I didn’t start far enough back. Apparently if you start with the early EP’s they were basically a folk act, which is pretty wild listening to this. Got to do that. Anyway, here ya go.

Not gonna bother to dig into it at all, but am willing to predict that as this gets around a fair piece of our fanbase will validate his point pretty quickly.

In St Louis was planning on absolutely watching it alone, and then this came out of nowhere: got a text from 1 of my oldest friends who lives in Hagerstown, IN, which is basically Richmond. He says he’s gonna drive over Monday and watch it with me. So he’s gonna drive like 10 hrs round trip to watch it on my TV instead of his TV. Seems a little nuts, but this is what IUFB has done to otherwise sane people.

If 247 is to be believed, since IU offered Curry has received offers from Tennessee, Ohio St, Clemson, Xavier, Texas A&M and USC. I don’t imagine that will be the end of it. From a style of play standpoint Tennessee feels like a pretty good fit.

Paul VI ended up winning by 3, but just got to point that our ‘27 PG recruit dropped 21 on and outscored the #1 guard in the ‘26 class. The kid is really good.

Read somewhere that they had 2 different packages put together with him, 1 if he was the Guy next year and 1 if he wasn’t. No idea if it’s true but it certainly makes sense.