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Good coach. Worth a phone call, but that's all it would be. He's got a great job and he's built a long-term program. Not going anywhere.

Coach, Thanks for taking a gig a lot of higher profile guys ran from. Thanks for doing what was necessary to create a job that a lot of high profile guys will now embrace. Thanks for being incredibly gracious to me on the couple of occasions that I was fortunate enough to speak with you. I wish you and yours the best of success going forward. Hooking up in a Final 4 game would be ok with me.

Regardless of who my personal preference might be, I'm prepared to support the leader of the program next year, whether it's CTC or someone else. The only exception is Alford. His credentials are secondary. His handling of the Pierre Pierce situation ends it for me. He is less fit then Sampson to lead this program.

Agree with you completely on White. Terrific coach. The thing Underwood's teams do so well is constantly work their stuff until it creates the matchup they want. Then they're disciplined enough to just hammer it until the other team is forced to make a change. I'm telling ya, watch the OSU-ISU game on Thursday. Prohm's a legit guy and ISU can certainly win it, but I guarantee you it'll look like he's a step behind Underwood the entire game.

So now Mark Few can't coach? Not that 15k posts wasn't already a pretty good indicator, but this thread has become officially and unassailably nuts. Few is an elite coach. He would compete at an elite level in any conference in the country. Ridiculous to suggest otherwise. That being said, if he wanted to be somewhere else, he'd already be at UCLA. My guy in this theoretical is Brad Underwood. Watching that guy coach is an absolute pleasure. Like watching John Kresse when he was at C of C. Underwood is 1 of the 10 best coaches in the country. Would take him ahead of 90% of the name guys that this board seems fixated on.

Meaning Behind Username: -Nickname from childhood Approximate Age and Location: - 55 St Louis Are you a born and raised IU fan? -Yup. My father had a Master's in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue and even he was an IU fan, though I was actually an IUFB fan first. When you first knew you were an IU fan? -1973 NCAA tournament. Came to basketball late. Remember watching the Regional final against UK and just hating the look on Joe B Hall's face. So my love for IUBB and hatred of UKBB literally happened simultaneously. What sports did you play in High School and College? -basketball, golf and soccer Besides IU, favorite sports teams? - Colts, Pacers Did you attend IU? -played for 2 years as a walk on at Oral Roberts. Gave it up and spent my last 2 years in Bloomington. ORU played in the Hoosier Classic my Freshman year. We only lost by 9, but I remember sitting on the bench and thinking that there wasn't a single guy that IU played that I could guard. Of course, since they won the NC, that didn't make me rare. What is your favorite IU Basketball Memory? -That. Sitting on the bench watching that team. They weren't playing well yet, but a blind guy could see the talent. Also got to shake everyone's hand. Who is your favorite basketball player of all time? -Mike Woodson What is your favorite IU Football memory? -beating Michigan in 87. Who is your favorite IU Football player? -Anthony Thompson Best sporting event ever attended? -Colts-Pats AFCC game Best IU sporting event ever attended? -IU-Illinois game in, I believe, 86. Awesome crowd. largest lead by either team was 3. Just competitive as hell. Might be off on the year. What brings you to this board? - love finding a board with a breadth of opinion, and yet pretty civil about it. Haven't found a lot of those. How long have you visited/followed BtownBanners? Late '13

I agree with you, but I thought the conversation was about Bryant's future.

i guess it depends on how you and I are defining where his game is from a draft standpoint. Does his game extrapolated out over the length of a career translate to the NBA game? Sure it does. If you want to see his floor, Imo, this is it: http://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3460/marreese-speights That's 9 years as a rotational 4/5, the last 3 with really good teams. Is that a star? Of course not. But I'm pretty sure if you told GM's picking in the 20's that they are going to get that production, they aren't all going to pass it up. And I think his ceiling is good bit higher than that.

Pretty sure neither of us are going to be gm's any time soon, but if you're saying that a kid who's going to measure 6'11" in shoes with a 7'5" wingspan, who can make perimeter shots, who can make the correct pass both out of the post and on the perimeter, who flashes the ability to make plays off the dribble, who can run the floor and has a motor, who works at his game and is coachable, is a good teammate and competitor, and will be 19 years old on draft night, is a 40-50 player in June, yeah, no. That tool kit won't get out of the top 25. Bryant absolutely needs to improve his game. I agree with your view of some, though not all, of his flaws. But when that kid decides to go, he's going to have as long a career as he wants.

Fox is really good. But if you haven't had a chance yet, check out Markelle Fultz.

I agree, and I hope he does because I love the way the kid just competes. But but my biggest concern with this team is that Newkirk really struggles to control pace of play. He missed multiple opportunities in the 2nd half to push pace. He worries me, but man am I rooting for him.

About the best recruiting video we could have asked for. And who was the kid in the Oak Hill sweats behind the bench? Never could see a face.

Buss is still a junior? Wow. If I remember it correctly, he was a year old for his class when we recruited him. If so, he'll be finishing his eligibility at, I believe, 25. There are NBA guys on their 2nd contract by then.

Not happy about this one at all. Wanted to see Eastern somewhere else. Kid's a really good player. Keep seeing him listed as a wing. He's not. He's a legit 6'6" PG. Terrific court vision, really understands angles and how to use his size. If he can improve his shot, release is slow, and his lateral quickness, defending really good college PG's will be an issue early on, I think he's a pro.

Mike Schmitz does terrific work. For anyone unfamiliar with him I highly recommend as regular reading/viewing.

Literally impossible to envision. A guy with the level of ambition to accept a job like Indiana is not the kind of guy who would then leave for a job like Vandy. No chance. None.

Now that we're into transfer season, an elite athlete with a D1-ready body is going to see much better offers. If CTC wants this kid unconditionally, it's full court press time.

The 62 turnovers looks a little scary, but it looks like 16 were in 3 games. Troy would be proud. Seriously, that Hudl video is some pretty breathtaking explosiveness. Looks a lot like Jordan Bell from Oregon. The jumper would need some serious retooling, but there aren't many coaching staffs better at that than ours.

If Thomas comes back this looks to me like, physically, the best roster top to bottom since the early 90's. Size, depth, athleticism and shooting. Love it. Troy staying worries me, but not because of his inconsistent play. I worry about him as a leader and the team kind taking of on some of that hair on fire thing he has going on. This year's seniors were such grinders. Troy, past mistakes aside, seems like a good kid, but absolutely not a grinder. CTC has intimated several times that he's not exactly the hardest working kid he's coached. Think I'd rather have this team evolve into Rojo's and\or Bryant's team, maybe even Hartman's, than Troy's.

Is that supposed to be CTC? Looks like he had a few dozen celebratory wings after the game.

Then you need Brey to break out that "zone" they were playing in the 1st half again. That was about as passive and bad as a zone gets.

True, but unless having his ego stroked by the alumni is a big part of the equation for him, and it may well be, I would think Dixon could do a good bit better. He's a really solid coach, I just don't see how he competes for and wins the best Texas kids against a guy the caliber of Smart and UT's resources. Kind of feels like taking the NC State job with Duke and UNC right around the corner, except TCU is a worse job than NC State. If he does do it, I hope he negotiates himself a Texas sized buyout.

Wow. Surely he's doing a Painter-to-Mizzou power play to Pitt. TCU is a pretty tough gig under any circumstances. But now that Smart is at UT, I'm not sure why someone like Dixon would touch it.

Crean coached an incredible game. Just a joy to watch that one.

Pick any 1 from that assembly line of roid rage bigs from the 80's. If I have to pick 1, Jim Rowinski.