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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.

The days of really skilled bigs at IU are likely in the past for the foreseeable future. The 5's role in this offense are to 1. defend, 2. rebound, 3. set screens, and 4. catch the ball and dunk it on rare occasions. Being able to make any kind of post move is largely irrelevant. Opurum doesn't appear to be as stiff and lumbering as a lot of inexperienced kids his size. He also has a good frame, good timing on blocks, and appears to be able to catch the ball. He probably won't contribute much his first year but is worth a shot as a backup on the bench and a developmental piece.

I think there's a little Charlie Brown in most of us where IU basketball is concerned... and for good reason. Still, there's not much value in assuming failure, there will be plenty of time for negativity if the ball gets pulled out from in front of us again.

I think there are relatively few that are negative for the sake of being negative, although those few do really stand out. Unfortunately, there are more that are simply desperate for attention and have found that being outraged and throwing tantrums is a reliable way to get it. Still others use negativity as a defense mechanism. Sustained winning will eventually cure a lot of the problems. Until then, no news is bad news, good news is not good enough news, and bad news will be the end of the world.

And when they are found by the coach, fans will still b**** until the kids actually show out, if they ever do. Even ignoring the reward vs. effort expended component of things its damned if you do, damned if you don't for coaches. It makes a lot more sense for coaches to pursue kids after they show out at lower levels, than to simply pursue hidden players in the hope that they will someday show out.

How quickly we forget the fan reaction when a coach goes prospecting for one of those hidden gems. In the ancient history of late last week, fans were complaining about the possibility of getting a 3 year veteran D1 player that contributed to two different teams.

They seem to be getting better every game too!

Come on now, the three positive comments in a row probably caused him intense pain as it was. If he had waited until the end to say something negative, he may not have had the strength to hit submit.

Is it too early yet to re-name Memorial Stadium Cig's Woodshed... where BIG teams go for their beatings?

IMO, Painter without Edey is a poor man's version of Wooden without Sam Gilbert. He's still a good coach, maybe even a very good coach but he is not the myth and legend some make him out to be.

Purdue may have caught lightning in a bottle with Edey and the way he was allowed to play but at the end of the day, Purdue is still just Purdue. Top rated recruits understand this, whether from Indiana or not.

My wife got her Masters and Doctorate from UIndy and we'd never recommend anyone ever go there. The terrible thing is not that tuition is high, which it certainly is, the truly terrible thing is what you get for that high tuition. The quality of the education is severely lacking and the administration is poor. IMO, the place cannot close soon enough.

Excellent posts! Excluding those rumor sharers/spreaders that are obviously just looking for attention and those that have an agenda, it is important for people to keep in mind that even reliable posters with solid information are often not sharing direct information from the recruit and that 2nd, 3rd or worse hand info is subject to both the telephone effect and interpretation at every step along the way. Even when the info being shared is from the recruit himself, it is still both subject to change over time and entirely likely that the info is what the recruit wants shared instead of accurate information. As someone who had a little bit of inside info on a recruit once upon a time, it was both pretty amusing to see the conclusions people jumped to with little or no provocation and interesting to see how both the tone and type of info I received along the way changed. I can't say for sure if the initial, positive and ultimately accurate information I received was correct for the entire duration of that recruiting battle or if it did indeed change at least a few times as was suggested. I'm absolutely certain it didn't swing as wildly as the rumors suggested and I strongly suspect that some of the info I and others received at different points was spread deliberately to counteract the notion that a decision was all but made.