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That’ll be up to Coach, but if you’re able to make that happen I will give you every red cent of my April Mod stipend. And I’m talking before taxes!

Ryan Conwell and Josh Dix.

These visits tomorrow are gonna be surreal. No players giving tours. No Assts who’ve been recruiting them. Just the HC and some support staff, and they don’t even know their way around all that well. Doubt either of those kids will ever be on another visit like it.

Nate Oats/Maryland may be the funniest rumor of the cycle. Nah, no may be, it is.

Good for UNM. That was absolutely the move.

Arizona’s KJ Lewis in the portal. Texas kid and TTU was supposedly his other finalist. Can’t imagine 1 of the deep pockets schools down there won’t step up.

Would be my inclination as well. But my view of roster building is set in stone. If a coach wants a player I want them to have the player, no exceptions, and then judge the results. If DeVries wants to bring the kid in, and that’s tough to see since it would fly pretty hard in the face of everything he’s said so far, ok then.

Yeah, he really, really does. One of the great a$$holes in a profession with more than it’s share of them.

BYU’s Kanon Catchings in the portal

True, the 2 SoCal Academy kids. Pretty sure Odih is actually from the east coast and just playing there but MacLean is definitely from California.

A Kid from SoCal with inquiries from USC, UCLA, other west coast schools plus Arizona and Arizona State feels like a pretty dicey proposition o get to Bloomington, IN. But we shall see.

It takes a certain disposition to look at a great game like that and the conclusion we reach is that now we can steal an Asst Coach. We are of that disposition.

Clayton is such a freakin’ Guy. That kid is utterly fearless.

The value of having the single toughest, most competitive kid on the floor all the time always gets underestimated and Ziegler is that guy. He wins them games on shear will.

Couldn’t bring myself to watch PU-UH last night, no thanks, but just saw the Uzan no call and that really was about as egregious a swallowing of the whistle as you’ll ever see. Dude is 10’ from the play with a perfect angle and 100% clear view of an easy call. Easy, that’s offense 100 times out of 100. Wow. I don’t care about PU getting jobbed, but I freaking hate refs “not wanting to decide the game” by not calling something they auto call for 39:50 of the game and thereby, whoops, deciding the game. Much worse than the missed goaltending because sometimes they’re just gonna not see things. But this was consciously deciding that there’s simply nothing that can happen here that I’m gonna call. Nothing.

Imagine you’re right. Gonna have to be someone with deep pockets because I imagine he’ll be asking for Donovan Dent money. I think he’s from south Florida, so maybe if Miami wants to make a splash with their new HC someone down there writes the check. Suppose Texas could do it and Miller certainly saw him up close. But more likely KU or someone like that. The one I think it wouldn’t be is UK. Bad scheme fit.

I’m probably being too nasty here, he’s obviously a good player, but he hits 2 of my personal hot buttons pretty hard: 1) He’s an inveterate shot hunter who stops the ball and stops your movement. That’d bother me less if he was actually a good shooter. But he’s not, he’s just a volume shooter. 2) His defense is tied to his offense and when he’s not scoring it’s a problem. But not in the usual way. Most guys like that get lazy when they aren’t scoring, but Luis gets kind of manic and undisciplined. I don’t know what Pitino said after the game the other day but I doubt he subbed him for shooting 1 for a million. I think he subbed him because his defense got unplayable. I just think he’s a hard guy to win with if he’s your best player, and he’ll get paid that way, I just don’t know how that’s gonna go if you’re not a Rick Pitino.

St John’s RJ Luis in the portal. Big East POY. Will get big, big money from someone. Hopefully that someone isn’t Indiana.

It’s just that if this is DeVries’ 1st offer and it wasn’t someone he’d offered previously or had some other connection to then it’s reasonable to speculate that the offer was precipitated by an incoming Asst. Currently the only offers mentioned in his timeline are IU, K-State, Mizzou and Austin Peay. None of the coaches on those staffs has a previous stop with DeVries that I could find, but I would still venture to guess that when the staff is named 1 of them will be from a staff that’s been recruiting this kid, whether they’ve actually offered or not.

He’s probably the presumptive next guy at Mich St, wouldn’t you think? And he’s so young and Izzo’s gotta be 70 or pushing it. Maybe he hangs in the A10 for another year or 2 and then heads for East Lansing. Regardless, his next job’s gonna be a really good one.

I get why UT could land on Miller, I suppose, if they wanted a guy who’s run a really high profile program and gets that. But, man, it feels like they overvalued that piece and there are definitely better coaches, McCasland being 1 of them.

Oh God, no. But I am rooting for them tonight against the only guy whom I ever would. That I’m forced to do something that gross pretty much guarantees that Houston’s gonna win it by 30 and the soul-sucking feeling of rooting for little brother only to have them embarrass themselves will make me hate them even more.

My neck of the woods! Ok, not really, it’s like 3 hours. Doesn’t matter, in my to do’s for December. Also, doesn’t this feel like it should be an Asst Coach tell of some kind?

Nowell is gonna be a nice buy low play for someone. Was nicked up a lot and never got into any flow at all, but he’s a tough kid.

Absolutely. Pharrell Payne minus 25lbs is easily within his range of outcomes and given how springy he is he could be a fair bit better. Would take the kid in a second.