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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.

Purdue = the clearance aisle at Harbor Freight

I think he's going to Purdue and not visiting them officially is just a super secret deep fake to throw us all off. Wow, it is really, really easy to post dumb S on the internet! Unfortunately, the thrill of doing so is lost on me so I guess I will just go back to waiting patiently to see how this all plays out.

I agree with most of this but I'm curious, would you have called Painter elite prior to last season? Personally, Painter has done a more than respectable job with limited resources but I wouldn't have considered him anywhere near elite. Nor does last year's run change that in my opinion.

After 3 years of Edey being allowed tp commit assault and battery on both ends of the floor with hardly a call, Ballo should never be in danger of fouling out. The BIG being the BIG, I fully expect this will be the year they rediscover the whistle though.

In a way, that's part of their problem since they can neither duplicate the way they played last year nor easily transition to a different style of play. Even if both Smith and Loyer significantly improve their play from last year, an extremely tall order without Edey, they're still going to need one or more freshmen to perform at a high level and/or one or more veterans to take major strides. Kauffman-Renn is probably going to have to carry a lot of the load offensively down low and I just don't see the mini-me version of bully ball working really well without Edey there to command the focus of the opposing defense.

While that would be hilarious indeed, I'm not entirely convinced that Purdue makes the tournament next year and would be even more amused if BYU or FSU were to knock them out of the NIT.