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Appreciate, Brother, very nice summary. I watched a fair amount of Hawthorne Wednesday night. Has some Brandon Ingram to him. Will need to dig into the other 2 this weekend.

Murphy feels pretty pipe-dreamish, but I’ll be happy as hell to be wrong. Side note: for those concerned during the coaching search that IU is too, what was the phrase, holier than thou, to compete with the best, dude had a 2 year show cause after getting caught up in the same deal as Book Richardson. So, hey, there’s that.

I wish I had a dollar for every time Self looked at Dickinson in the last 2 years and thought, “Jesus, what was I thinking?”

Barnett’s, what mid-30’s, something like that? He needs no part of ORU. Right now that’s a bad job. If DeVries wants to bring him along he should absolutely do it and after helping flip this thing for a season or 2 he’ll have a shot at a proper starter HC job.

Yup, he was Texas’ Mike Davis. He had no chance to keep that job. Put it on my tombstone: Never hire a guy under unusual circumstances that you wouldn’t hire under normal one’s.

I’m a firm believer that when a player turns 25 their eligibility should immediately terminate….except for Jerome. That guy hasn’t caught a break. Good for him having a night.

Hard to picture a worse fit. Sampson/Mgbako is Knight/Funderburke.

I got nothin’ but I’m already sick of typing DeVries, how lazy is that, so something needs to stick.

I hope Calbert sticks around in a shaking hands and kissing babies sort of role in the Athletic Dept. I think Chris mentioned a dept role at 1 point. But absolutely not in an actual coaching role.

I have no idea who this guy is, but he’s really good and I like this a lot.. The only thing I would quibble with, and he’d have no reason to know since he’s as not invested as we are, but since DeVries made it clear in the presser that Dolson was communicating during the season I doubt there were many guys at all that Scott would have burned through before landing on DeVries. Stevens and Drew, sure, probably Otzelberger, but I sort of think DeVries was the next name and if he expressed real interest anybody else subsequently was a contingency. I know we had pages and pages of “Scott loves McCollum” stuff, but I would think if that were really, really a thing he would have waited a week. He had the time to do that. I really think once you eliminate the no hopers this was his Guy.

Outstanding value added. Thanks so much and, please, keep it coming.

I love that he has a do not contact. I wonder if he didn’t if anyone would actually call?

If we’re lucky he’s Greg McDermott minus 12 years and with IU resources.

We’ll see but I doubt you’ll have to worry about it for long.

I hope this is a thing. Every Iowa game I saw that kid was really good.

Yup

I imagine UVA thought the idea of big NIL was icky and beneath them until they had a couple of bad years.

It proves the exact same thing as a 13 beating a 4. You were better than that team on that night and that’s it. It remains ridiculous that they got a bid, though in retrospect I’m ok with it for some strange reason.

Oh yeah, that’s the whole deal here. These guys all think they’ve been under microscopes in their old jobs, but they have no idea. But I feel good about DeVries in this case because Dolson has had literally a year to profile fits here and I know he, of all people, understands the importance of a temperament fit. That being said, now DeVries has got to do it.

Yeah, did a fair bit of reading about WVU last night and Calhoun was literally the only name coming up. Apparently was an Asst under Huggins for several years. Gotta confess, feel pretty bad, not too bad, about the WVU situation and I’m gonna be rooting pretty good next year.

You’re not wrong.

God, have already thought more about HS recruiting in the last 12 hours than in the last 18 months. How awesome is that?

Is THAT what that means? That’s way more concise.

Of course that’s true. And if someone provides content that proves correct they deserve the respect they receive and to take a victory lap. If, however, they get it wrong while being obnoxious in the certainty of their conclusions they need to be willing to take accountability. We are in real time watching the opposite of that right now.

I wasn’t. So, since those strike me as pretty reasonable questions given the vitriol with which you’re expressing your disappointment , how about taking me through it? Being new to the game of basketball, I’d love to learn.