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He had a lot of great roles and elevated a lot of characters but if ever there was an actor and a character made for each other, Robert Duval as Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove was it.

Painter is the best Purdue is likely to do as long as he wants to continue coaching. The more delusional Purdue fans may have champagne wishes but their tap water budget is not likely to change any time soon. Even if it did, the pressure to make their football program at least remotely competitive is only going to mount and its going to take a lot more investment to even get to that point. If Painter hasn't figured out that he can't win a title at Purdue yet, then he probably should consider a long vacation somewhere with some nice padded rooms. I'm not sure he could win a title anywhere but it certainly isn't happening at Purdue.

People keep saying that like the Purdue part matters in the slightest. IU will always be a national champion in football now AND Purdue is never winning a national championship in basketball.

What does a creepy guy with a hammer like Pedo Pete have to do with Pur... never mind.

It depends a bit on where the whitetail is from and what it has been eating but I'd generally agree.

I can't really fault AI for making that conclusion about a Purdue player... that kind of thing does tend to happen when family trees do not fork.

UTRGV may not even qualify as a dot on the basketball map but it's not a bad area to spend a year or two for a young guy and DOBO is a nice promotion.

If only there was something other than (alleged) NIL dollars spent and (often questionable) player rankings to evaluate an assemblage of portal players... Lost in the near constant tedium of the endless discussion of IU's severely flawed roster is any serious discussion of players that would have definitely made a significant difference for IU. Many of the players suggested when IU was trying to fill the roster were either pure fantasy, bigger question marks than who we ended up with, or more of a balm for fans' sense of desperation than real solutions. Many of those so touted almost certainly knew where they were going before they ever entered the portal as well. When I look at the rankings of the top portal players for this season, I don't see a lot of surefire stars as in years past. Some will turn into stars, as some always do, but many of those will be surprises.

Rim protection, at least in the form of tall guys blocking shots, often looks far better to us fans than it provides actual value to the team. Best case scenario is that the team grossly overpays for a skilled big that is talented at blocking shots. Worst case scenario is that a team grossly overpays for big that is constantly out of position, giving up rebounds and easy buckets while chasing after blocked shots. IF, this team can play good perimeter defense, at least marginally competent post defense, and rebound, then they will be fine. The rebounding worries me the most.

There's plenty of videos of tourists getting trampled by bison in Yellowstone, it should be easy enough to take one of those and paste the opposing coach's face on the Darwin Award recipient.

His cousin Harry is still in the portal. He's a bit more raw, a bit less vocal and his guardian, Mr. Henderson, is looking for a big payday.

Leal certainly makes for a good Rorschach Test. Some look at his career and see an average to above player that was used poorly. Others have a much firmer connection to reality. All joking aside, I can't recall any other IU player that was so acclaimed by so many and has generated so much debate with so little apparent accomplishment to base it on. Every year it seems fans have a player or two we misunderstand, its been kind of nice to have Leal as one we misunderstand in a positive way for once.

Can't be, it has too many teeth remaining to be affiliated with Kentucky.

If he can hold up guarding the 5 spot in the BIG without picking up a ton of fouls, he has the potential to be a heck of a weapon on offense IMO.

Bailey may play the 5 on defense but he's not a traditional 5 on offense and will likely be used more like a big slasher/wing.