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https://www.on3.com/teams/indiana-hoosiers/news/elijah-sarratt-praises-fernando-mendoza-at-b1g-media-days-hes-a-great-quarterback/ Sarratt being highly complimentary of Mendoza at B1G media day.

I’ll go to my grave on this: forget years, age is the factor. Give players unlimited eligibility until the day they turn 25 and their eligibility ends that day. No exceptions or cutouts. If they reclass and start at 17, fine give them 8 years. And they get 1 free transfer on their own and another whenever a HC leaves and other than that they sit a year and it counts within their eligibility window. There, just took 150 pages of the NCAA handbook and distilled it down to 5 sentences. And the lawyers around here will tell me why that’s a legal nonstarter, and I’m sure they’re right, but this is such a cluster and the NCAA has to find a way at to simplify this joke they’ve created.

https://www.rockytopinsider.com/2025/07/23/international-tennessee-commit-ethan-burg-granted-multiple-years-of-eligibility/ Here’s the story. Apparently UT was afraid he might not get any eligibility at all and were only hoping for 2 years at the outside. But Luke Goode played 10 games at the end of a season instead of the beginning, so screw him.

Really feels like U of L against the field here but IU has a strong pitch. We’ll see. Would bet on Rippey over Kinney.

Could absolutely be a piece of it. Also broke down and looked at Wikipedia, HATE having to do that, and saw he was part of the original Texas Tornadoes with Freddy Fender and those guys and I used to listen to that stuff once in a while.

Haven’t watched games of Keita yet, may do that tonight, but in watching some stuff of him last night I would think there is no way he’s a reclass candidate. He’s really young and a mile away physically. But as run/jump athletes go, he’s got that stuff.

Some AD at a school with resources is gonna overlook winning the presser and hire that guy and solve his HC problem for 15 years. Love the guy. May not be a perfect fit everywhere, but in the right job he’s gonna kick everybody’s a$$.

Hate not getting the kid but I’m a big Shaheen Holloway guy so I’m ok with him landing there.

Has set his 1st 2 officials, per London: Arkansas 9/20-21 UK. 10/10-11 So I imagine we’ll know in the next week or 2 whether this is actually a thing.

The Big 12 unanimously turned down Memphis trying to buy membership by offering something like a quarter billion in revenue enhancements and foregoing of rev share. You know your program’s got a problem if 250 million can’t buy you in.

He’s not replacing anyone as nearly as I can tell. Looks like they just created a seat for him. No clue what the circumstances are but it may be as simple as him getting down there and realizing McMahon’s in even worse trouble than he thought, and I think that dude’s dead man walking, and him just trolling for lifelines rather than having to do it all again next offseason.

Happy for Ya. Always liked him and Woody screwed him pretty good. I’d take that job over LSU in a second.

Check out the highlight vids Mike has posted. Not saying he’s that player, of course not, but he looks a fair bit like Kobe looked at that age.

Congrats! How long have you been waiting?

Gonna find some full games of this kid tomorrow, but off highlights alone Johnson’s got the full VJ Edgecombe starter kit going. Actually, given that he’s a rising junior he may even be a little better athlete than that. Athletically, kid’s electric.

Sir, outstanding call. That album is an absolute pleasure. Will have to blow through that discography this week. And the name Doug Sahm is deep in the attic of my memory for something and I can’t pull it. Annoying

But it was pretty on brand for what IU basketball has been for 8 years. Couldn’t close to shooters and couldn’t make open looks.

Will be a really good watch. Hines outweighs Pearson by 50lbs but Pearson’s really long and it will interesting to see if Hines can get looks off against him.

Najai Hines and the New York Rens will play in the Peach Jam final Sunday. Hines with 13pts 10rebs 3 stls and 1blk in the qtr win over Team Melo and 11pts 7rebs 2stks and 1blk in a blowout semi win over Expressions. Will play the winner of Team Why Not- Bradley Beal Elite tomorrow morning on NBATV. Really hoping for BBE because they have a 6’11” kid going to Marquette named Sheek Pearson who plays HS ball about 10 mins from me and have seen a couple of times. He’s a modern long rim running big. Would love to see how Hines deals with that kind of player.

I know he had the achilles but I’m pretty floored at how unathletic Troy looks in pretty much every way now.

Not sure how much of a thing it, probably not nothin’, but top 10 CG who wants to be a PG Jason Crowe is announcing today and speculation is that it’s either UK or Mizzou. I can tell you Mizzou folks think it’s Mizzou though they certainly don’t have the money UK’s got. Should he pick UK that could well factor into the Rippey family’s thinking.

Not sure how indicative it actually is, but Allmond said he plans to announce before the early period and so far hasn’t scheduled any other visits.

Nice. The Quincy Shootout, which is a really terrific showcase event even if Quincy, Illinois is kind of a toilet, just announced that Iowa Prep is playing there this year. So whether Diane ends up at IU or not I’ll get to see him at least once up close. Looks like the Placide twins and Junior County will be there as well.

https://www.basketunderreview.com/iu-indy-embraces-ben-howlett-and-the-system/ Nice little article on Ben Howlett bringing the Crutchfield system to D1. Will never get used to referring to the school as IU-Indy.

6’7”, kind of a combo forward. Good player.