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The addition is coming along nicely. After the SEZ expansion, it's time to get that press box updated. Both Virginia Tech and Wake Forest have the same stadium as us, at least in its original form. VT has since expanded, but both give an idea of what the stadium would look like with a better press box. Both stadiums also have their press boxes above the shorter sideline, so to mimic the model IU would have to move its press box to the other side of the stadium. Virginia Tech Wake Forest

Rumor is that another big name coach is going to have his name dropped in this wiretapping business this week.

It may be a Midwest-based league, but it has been and is continuing to grow as an East Coast-based alumni deposit. IU's 2017 freshmen class was only 57% in-state. It's about as much of a state-school now as Notre Dame is. And while this may sound surprising/disheartening for Hoosier locals, IU isn't doing anything that most of the other flagship universities aren't doing as well. Between Michigan's undergraduate and graduate school enrollments, UM is now at 50% in-state. Wisconsin is barely hovering above the 50% range as well. At the extreme end of the spectrum is Alabama, who has piggy-backed off the success of the Saban era in reeling in OOS student tuition, and now sits at only 41% in-state. Penn State, Indiana, and Michigan have the three largest alumni associations in the country, and a good chunk of them live in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. I have seen Kelley backpacks riding the T in Boston, SPEA shirts walking around DC, and IU hats in Central Park. I don't think it's a bad idea to occasionally bring the product to where much of their market now resides. Delany stated he wants the Big Ten Tournament to be located in the Midwest (Chicago and Indy) 80% of the time and 20% on the East Coast (NYC and DC). I think that's fair considering Rutgers, Maryland, and Penn State are east coast schools, and Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio State and Northwestern in particular have a lot of alumni in NYC and DC. Maryland was a decent addition, but adding Rutgers was more of an excuse to further open the product to the east coast market. It helps the universities as much as it helps the athletic programs to break into these markets. IU really isn't a state school anymore (besides the whole public funding aspect...). Neither is Michigan, or Wisconsin, or Alabama, or West Virginia, or Arizona State, or Colorado. These are national universities that happen to be located in their respective states. And yes, the concept of a state-school is founded on providing a quality education to primarily state residents, but college is a business, and the truth of the matter is that out-of-state students are worth 3x the amount to the university as in-state students. They pay more in tuition, they naturally market the university across the country, and their higher admission standards raise the academic reputation of the university. Downtown Bloomington has flourished the last two decades due to the influx of out-of-state students. I know this may feed the "OOS students don't appreciate IU basketball as much because they didn't grow up with it" crowd, but it has been great for the school as a whole. Regarding appreciating the tradition of IU basketball, it's not like OOS students are indifferent about IU being good at basketball. Being a part of major college athletics is a huge selling point for OOS students as part of their "college experience." It's something that isn't offered in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic nearly to the degree as it is available in the Midwest and South. You have Penn State football and Syracuse basketball as far as tradition goes. Maybe UConn basketball too, but that's a program without an identity at this point.

If Iowa holds on against Northwestern we are looking at the winner of Minnesota-Rutgers on Thursday night. Win and we play Purdue.

Well this is going to be likely the last Big Ten Tournament held in NYC for a while, unless they go to Brooklyn. Delany said in an interview yesterday that he regrets the condensed conference schedule that was necessary to make the NYC tournament work this year, and that they will not be doing this again to try to get the tournament in Madison Square Garden, followed by stating that the only way they will play in MSG for it again would be if they can host it during the regular championship week. Since the Big East has a longstanding deal with MSG for their conference tournament, it will be unlikely the B1G is in MSG for their conference tournament again anytime soon. Link

When things get this ugly, I just step back a bit and smirk thinking that all this mess is over a child's game...

I'm just going to put this out there, and I don't know how relevant it actually is to this discussion, but given the cost of college these days and how many kids are graduating with debt, I find the entire concept of an athletic scholarship incredibly stupid. And yet we have "student athletes" not only getting full rides, but this extra crap on the side too? I realize they're adults and deserve to get paid what they're worth, but how about taking a step back and reexamining the role of sports at a university in general?

I still think that IU's involvement in all of this is minimal at best given who was our coach then and the circumstances under which he took the job, but if there is anything, just tell the NCAA to F off. The FBI is about arresting dirty coaches, agents, and the middlemen, not postseason bans and scholarship reductions. Unless something big happens involving us, we're on the low end of the totem poll...if there at all.

Allowing 19 offensive rebounds and committing 19 turnovers will do it.

Why does Nebraska only allow Fiji brothers to walk on?

If Archie wants to seal the deal on this, he needs to get Eric Gordon in town while Romeo visits, or at least sell him on Gordon's story of how even a one-and-done can stay connected to the university after all these years, especially considering his ties to the state.

How the hell would you know?

Regardless of how this recruitment plays out, I'm confident that Archie will get IU back to the level where instead of recruits picking us, we're picking recruits.

Florida is a very stupid team, which is encapsulated by that late foul. Terrible help defense whenever Vanderbilt drives to the basket as well.

Congrats to Coach Miller on his ninth conference win. Crean didn't win his ninth until his fourth season.

School record is nine 3's I believe. Roth and Wilmont?

My goal heading into this season was nine conference wins. Why nine? Because Crean didn't win his ninth conference game until his fourth season.

I think the GA policy needs to be revamped. It encourages a "show up early or don't show at all" mentality. The students sitting in the lower 25 rows are usually lining up several hours before tip-off, so the most fanatic fans who also are likely willing to skip class to get good seats. Students who aren't able/willing to line up that early know they're going to be sitting in the cheap seats, and we're not back yet to the point where regardless of record or opponent, just being at an IU game is good enough.

Step slow on everything. Illinois came to play. Our offense has no flow either.

This is why I avoid recruiting threads. There are three people in the entire world who even have the slightest clue where he may go, Romeo and his parents. That's it. Unless you or your "sources" have bugged their living room, you are not "in-the-know" any more than anyone else. Other than keeping a periodic eye on trimming lists and who is visiting where and when, following recruiting is nothing more than wasted energy, even with prospects of the caliber like Langford, Gordon, and Zeller. Everyone should lighten up. We're in his final three and we know when he's announcing, at the end of next month. Getting this worked up over the slightest change in perceived direction of the recruitment is akin to punching someone over the Bucceto's logo race on the Jumbotron at IU football games. Just let it play out.

I had been saying for a while (pre-Scott renovation) that IU should get rid of the balconies and make AH a steep horseshoe, keeping the banners low on one end and rounding out the other to be even with the lower sidelines. It would be a steep and very intimidating end akin to what Maryland has, and that could be the student section. The balcony at AH truly is terrible, but fortunately it is hard to tell when it's empty on TV due to the lighting.

My biggest concern in this recruitment is if his family wants him so far away. From what I recall during Christian's tenure, they drove up to IU from Alabama a lot to see him play. Can't imagine that they'd want to do that again for several more years, but it is just conjecture on my part regarding it.

Or Archie would have put an end to Bryant's whining on Day 1, and hopefully would have taught James how to play better defense.

First I had to clarify that it was Donny Marshall and not Donyell Marshall, both of whom played at UConn. Donny Marshall's wiki currently reads: "Donny Marshall (born July 16, 1972) is an American retired professional basketball player who played six seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Cleveland Cavaliers and New Jersey Nets. He is currently an awful college basketball television analyst." "Donny currently is an NCAA basketball television analyst for FOX Sports. Also providing analysis for WestwoodOne national radio broadcasts during the men’s NCAA championship basketball tournament each spring since 2014. He stated he hates the candy stripe pants at Assembly Hall. He has permanently been banned by the IU fan base." Get it while it lasts boys.