TheStillman

  Agreed it needs to hinge on more than 1 game and I am not counting a win.  My point is simply that playing well against OSU at home is all well and good but it is about what comes next.  You have two games ahead that I think the team should win and should go into with the mentality that its a win.  It is easy to bring the intensity one week against the #1 team in the country at home.  Bring that same intensity every week for the rest of the season and the program has turned a corner.     If we are 6-1 heading to East Lansing I think the program has positioned itself from the bottom tier to the middle tier at least for this year.  

  Absolutely, if this program has turned a corner we will be 6-1.  Have to make a real statement next week.

Haven't able to focus all week.  Let's have a good showing Hoosiers.  Keep building the program

  To your point in bold.  It is not about branding (the IU brand is strong, distinct and recognizable), arena (you can have a strong fanbase with a classic arena/stadium, look at the Cubs or Red Sox) or shoe brand (you mentioned Louisville as some we should strive to be like, they wear Adidas).  It is about winning because most people are bandwagoners, especially kids under 18.  If a team is good they will wear their products.  I would guess from 2011-13 there were a lot of kids wearing IU gear.  I know in NYC I couldn't go to a bar when IU was playing and not see a few IU fans and that has continued each of the past 2 years as well.  If the team is winning people will become fans.     The IU brand as a university is as strong as it has ever been.  

  Where I disagree with you is that this is an early commit.  This is exactly the time period that players start to commit before senior year.  If he was a 2017 or 2018 recruit I would agree it was early but this isn't an early commit.

Regardless of his ranking I would say the last thing this move was by Crean is a rush. We will have between 4 and 6 open scholarships next year and had 0 commits before yesterday.  This class needs to start coming together and if Grant can be a contributor and good teammate throughout his career then he is worth the scholarship.  As someone pointed out earlier we are in with a number of elite players but those 4-6 spots are not going to be filled with all 4 and 5 star recruits. Within the next 2 months most of the 2016 players will be committing somewhere and if you wait then the options will be really bare.   When the class is going to be as big as 2016 will be I have no problem taking on a kid like this who really wants to be here, has some skills that can translate immediately (shooting) and understands the tradition he is stepping into.  

  Find me evidence that IU is taking more risks on kids with bad backgrounds.  Until then it seems to me at any school these are isolated incidents,

  Those are interesting stats although I am not sure what conclusions you can make when the range of arrests for schools only goes from 0 to 5 even if IU is at 4.  Yes we are close to the top but I would guess if you dug into long term trends the schools that get 0 arrests and the schools that get 5 arrests is pretty much random.     We are talking about hundreds of student athletes at each school.  These are 18-22 year olds, many of which come from tough socio-economic backgrounds.  The underlying issue of these arrests goes much deeper than anything the administration is doing at any school.

What a shame and waste of talent.  

As a fan of an AL team there are few things more annoying or boring than when the O's are playing in an NL park, they have 2 outs with none or one man on base and the opposing team walks the 7th and 8th batter in order to face the pitcher to end the inning. 

Everyone needs to relax.  Bryant will be in candy stripes next year and any speculation otherwise is just people trying to get others riled up.

I don't think Stans situation this year is the same as Emmitt's next year. Stan as a player needs to have the ball in his hand for his offensive game to work. In a diminished role as he had this year he wasn't going to get the touches needed for an impact. Emmitt on the other hand is a player who can fill in as needed down low. He can play 10 mins not take up any plays on offense and be opportunistic because he positions himself on the court really well. He is the exact type of role player this program needs.

This is the Orioles year. Make it back to back AL East Championships

Alright! Go Hoosiers!

  If we're really keeping this baseball analogy going and actually being real without revising history Crean was a double when he was hired.  After sitting on second base for a couple years he got to third base from 2011-13 but could not make it home.  At this point if he is fired I would argue he got picked off while taking too big a lead at home.