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He was 34 and she was 21 when they started dating. Is that the equivalent of CTC offering Blackmon as an 8th grader?

We’ll see. As an IU fan that wouldn’t bother me that much at all because imo this job hasn’t been on that level since Sampson blew it up and in reality may never have been. But UK, which is inarguably top 4, is being coached by Mark Pope. If UNC is able to bring in a Guy without any problem I would think BBN may collectively slit its wrists.

They could, and probably will, do worse. But, man, that’s a top 4 job in the country by any measure. Even in the world of 10 years ago they could have had anyone in the country other than probably Scheyer. If they don’t end up with a Golden or an Oats or an Otz, someone like that, it’s really gonna put the nail in coffin of the assumptions we used to make about this stuff. If UK ends up with Pope and UNC ends up with, say, McCasland, that would just blow my mind.

Will be a very interesting search

Tulane PG Rowan Brumbaugh entering the portal. Don’t know if it’s purely random chance because it’s not like I’ve watched a million Tulane games but I’ve never seen that kid not good.

St Mary’s PF Paulius Murauskas entering the portal. Fair to assume he’s following Bennett to ASU but if he’s actually available, man, that dude really knows how to play.

Winning player. Starting to get a little meat on the bone in the portal now.

No thoughts yet. Last year my obsession was scoring wings. This year it’s PG’s.

God, we really, really need the portal to get going.

Assuming he portals that kid’s list will be a sight to see.

Anybody know anybody who might be able to slide an old guy through the side door to take in a few games? That would be a nice event to watch.

CofC, you are a man of taste. My all-time favorite coach is John Kresse. People talk about “coaching geniuses”, that guy was the genuine article.

Tough to see Lundblade not following Jacobson to K-State, but if he’s actually available that would be worth getting into for sure.

Saw that. Also coached at Word of God at 1 point which is pretty much just a diploma mill but a lot of good players have funneled through there.

Wow, he does. Tell ya what, a 7’2” kid with a big frame, pretty good feet and a jump hook over each shoulder? I could probably talk myself into that pretty fast.

Check out this dude. Never heard of him. Pretty light feet for a giant mid-major kid. Also shot 34% from 3 on a look a game. Whatcha bet he ends up somewhere surprisingly good?

I wouldn’t go there, either. Even at Montverde when he was a MCDAA didn’t like him much. Was one of those “looks like Tarzan plays like Jane” kids who got deceptively little done while looking really good. But, he’s a pretty good system fit and if they want to take a swing, and it would be a big one, ok, I guess. But you better be prepared to put a big, physical kid next to him.

The coaching upgrade from Bobby Hurley to Randy Bennett can only be expressed in orders of magnitude.

Probably from me because I absolutely thought he was. He’s turned out to be a bit tweenerish, hasn’t been able to add bulk and has had some health stuff. But still a very good college player.

This may be the best game I’ve ever seen Xavier Booker play. It’s the most engaged and energetic by far.

This one might be fun if it comes together: Both KU Twitter and the one KU board I pay some attention to seem convinced that Kohl Rosario is going to portal and they are not happy about possibly losing him. Had an IU offer from the current staff as a ‘26 and then classed up to go to KU and then didn’t play a lot. Had a good game today. Is a really talented kid who’s received KU coaching for the last 9 months and who would have 3 years left. Maybe nothing but would be a very, very interesting possibility if true.

What an atrocious defensive structure by Florida. I don’t get what they thought were trying to take away. Not taking away the guy you knew was gonna get it and not only that, allowing him to use an innocuous screen to receive it on the dead run with his defender in a trail position and creating practically speaking a straight up fast break opportunity. That was bad bad.

Can’t be anyone happier in the whole wild world at the moment than Ejiofor after having a huge game and knocking out the guy who flat ran him off.

Imagine that, they’re usually so nuanced over there. In fairness I don’t think you can fire the guy. They didn’t have Quaintance or Lowe basically all year and that’s not nothin’. That’s your starting 1 and starting 5, though the Quaintance thing was 100% on them for being deeply stupid. But the inability of Johnson and Hawthorne to help them combined with no ‘26’s at all is pretty concerning.

Ditto. And unless you’re 1 of those programs like UNC or UK that don’t just want to win but want to do it with a certain sort of panache and you’d want probably an Oats-type how is Otz not what you want? That guy’s the whole deal and he’s gonna win every year anywhere. He’s gonna be like Sampson minus the awfulness.