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Kid is relentless. Saw this and thought that’s it 9 on a Saturday night he should be out having fun. But then thought, yeah friends invited him out but he declined to follow an August exhibition game on Twitter. That might be the coolest thing I’ve ever heard. That right there is my boy.

Yeah, it is. He’s gonna have a Chaz Lanier-type year.

So, was Ristic translating smack talk back and forth?

https://lastwordonsports.com/basketball/2025/08/09/top-ranked-center-arafan-diane-leader-in-recruitment/

Well, as it so often does, filthy lucre seems to have trumped God. Would imagine even the Lord will be advocating for NIL guardrails at this point.

Have been completely obsessed with this from the great Gary Moore for the last couple of weeks. Was originally done by Roy Buchanan in the late 60’s, who played it with something of a jazz feel. Moore punted the vocals, turned it into this bada$$ instrumental and recorded it for 1 of his late 80’s albums. That’s how I knew it. Then I saw this. This thing. Live performance at Montreux in 1990. Jesus. From the cool as hell intro motif to the last note, the most incendiary yet melodic electric guitar playing I’ve ever heard. Maybe no one else does, but Gary Moore is on my Rushmore of rock guitarists. Guitar God gets thrown around pretty loosely. That dude was the genuine article and needs to never be forgotten.

I just think the kid needs to be in the right situation with appropriate expectations. Flagg, Dybantsa, those kids classed up because they were just ready to be top 2 options on really good teams. I imagine on a good 26-27 college team he’s probably a 3rd option. More like Nate Ament’s gonna be this year rather than Cam Boozer. But I’d buy futures in that kid all day.

https://x.com/babaoladotun_/status/1811141192869896384 IU offers consensus ‘27 top 10 Baba Oladotun. 6’9” wing who attends James Hubert Blake HS in Silver Spring, MD. Plays in the EYBL for Team Durant. 1 of the best prospects in HS, regardless of class. Will have a huge list. https://247sports.com/Player/babatunde-oladotun-46142915/ https://n.rivals.com/content/athletes/babatunde-oladotun-312585?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF2fm7vMTISiHhG5PiC7v7NFKwg1BeAjhKPmFJ1ZdoaLkUoEUKFxzbC3p7hcbXOuva1HT095F-VybLt7qP159CxYtQ4iFuMnujG_0FGdgdALnw_qAAwuilKj-4xF-DZ9Owg7pXNIr_l_-r-n-VW5V1QriuUQLGmm04HXXJra7fB4&view=pv

This is a great freaking listen. Highly, highly recommend.

On shear talent it’s a no brainer, but physically he’s a ways off. Kind of the opposite of Jordan Smith. Smith will be a monster next year in college but his NBA fit is a little funky. Oladotun is probably not physically ready to dominate in college next year but in about 4 years he’s gonna be a stone killer on the wing in the NBA.

https://x.com/TMarkwith14/status/1934281014995476485 IU offers 247 top 50 PG Nasir Anderson. Plays at Georgia powerhouse Norcross HS and in the 3SSSB circuit for Game Elite. Has had a huge spring. MVP of the FIBA U16 Americup event and was apparently 1 of the hottest ‘27’s at the NBPA Camp. https://247sports.com/player/nasir-anderson-46148955/ https://n.rivals.com/content/athletes/nasir-anderson-323443?view=pv https://www.hudl.com/profile/18960336/Nasir-Anderson

And now the 1st official, per Tipton: Indiana 9/5-6 Arizona. 9/12-13 Maryland 9/19-20 UConn 9/26-27 No PU visit scheduled yet.

Becoming a pretty common part of the bigger showcase events. Last year the Marshall County Hoopfest, the City of Palm Classic and the Quincy Shootout all had the same deal. Flyin’ to the Hoop probably had some pressure to get in because their event directly overlaps the Spalding Hoophall Classic, which is probably the biggest showcase event in the country, and they may have had some trouble drawing the high profile programs.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45910378/espn-get-nfl-network-rights-redzone-nfl-equity-stake Please, God, tell me ESPN isn’t gonna F with RedZone.

Correct! This is the easiest money in the history of easy money. Don’t get at all what the rationale would be for not being able to monetize actual games.

Oh Dude, a “graham cracker/butterscotch/carmelized sugar flavor” would be such a problem. I don’t need to develop debilitating alcoholism in my 60’s and that would probably do it.

I think that’s probably fair. IU’s by far his newest offer. The others have all been on him for a good while. Kid’s never been to Bloomington and has no relationship with DeVries. But his longest and by far closest single relationship is with Johnson and that’s not nothin’. IU can compete money-wise, facility-wise and exposure-wise. If he gets on campus and he and DDV click and he likes what he says of the offense and the students do the students thing and start chanting the kid’s name out of nowhere and then they offer to write him a big check? Wouldn’t bet the house on it but he may well be gettable.

Like the backpack

Has always felt like a Cal sort of kid, and I don’t mean that critically, but we shall see. On the plus side, Paul VI is playing in the Bass Tournament of Champions in January and there’s a pretty decent shot Smith plays against Colben Landrew and/or Chase Branham. Those would be must see games.

Same day, no hotel, no nothing? Oh man, that’s a tough no for the truly rabid..

Not just you. I looked at flight information as recently as yesterday. Found a great flight down tomorrow morning and back on Thursday that got me pretty crazy before the actual stupidity of that hit me.

https://x.com/Phillies/status/1952532841071247756 Love. It. So. Much.

Forget the $10. Just play the “Do you know who I am” card. I do it all the time…..and 1of these days I’m sure it’ll work.

You clearly need to use your alumni influence to make this happen. And if they’re not on NFHS they need to be because as much as I’d want to see that game, and I really would, I don’t think a St Louis—->Milwaukee trip in like January is in the cards.