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That'd be great. Get Dusty out of the B1G. Also, maybe we can pry him more easily from an out of conference foe? (I don't know about the last part ha ha. But it would be great to get him out of Michigan.)

Seeing UNC take basketball seriously makes me jealous. Nothing against DD specifically. More musing about the last 25ish years.

Seems, based on stats, things didn't work out for him at VT. Any insight as whether his game isn't a fit for high major ball, or if something else didn't click with the Hokies?

Interesting. Where'd you hear this?

Really? I don't know him. Do tell.

Everyone has the will to win. Not everyone has the will to prepare to win.

I think its dangerous to have two freshmen as your backups. I'd prefer another experienced player or two in the backcourt before relaying on PAM and a player like Quentin. Also I wouldn't so no to Haralson, but he doesn't make m eyes dilate. I'd prefer a better shooter.

It's disappointing to see no adjustment on West's repeated layups.

We, and many high major programs, know some of our targets. Backchanneling begins as early as the new year when kids are unhappy enough. There are agent who work diligently for their clients. And kids--and their agents--have preexisting relationships with coaches from the recruiting process. Coaches backchannel through high school and aau coaches. New targets emerge for sure. You won't necessarily get the targets you know of early. But things are becoming clear behind the scenes.

Pics or it didn't happen. Ha ha I don't have espn+

I don't know that IU was a top 10 - 15 resource program in the past year. That's been thrown around a lot about IU basketball since the NIL era began. In some years that was accurate, but not in all years. Certainly IU had better resources than our record shows though.

I don't think CDD should be fired, but this team is not worthy of my time and money. I'm curious to learn what can be done in the transfer portal this spring. CDD can coach. He proved it at two previous stops. This roster was very poorly constructed, but with a full stable of assistant coaches here (which wasn't the case last spring) and better commitment to NIL perhaps we'll have a more pleasing product to enjoy next season. If IU isn't remarkably better next year CDD is toast (whether he's fired or not), because it's been proven my multiple coaches across different conferences that during the portal era it doesn't take 3-4 years to build a winner.

Seems there are at least 20 schools who claim to be top 10 in NIL. This fall I heard a lot top 15 talk from IU sources. At some point we're talking a couple bucks here and there that separates the 15th from the 16th biggest spender, and so on. I think college athletics and the various sources who report things like top 10, 15, 20, etc. need to be taken with a grain of salt. It's very difficult to know precisely how much money the school you are covering is spending let alone 20 others. IU may have spent poorly, but then again maybe IU didn't have the funds to be top 10 like the athletic department thought it would last spring.

Any word on if Payne will play?

I think he got some time against the Utes. Unless he reaggravated last night, he may be in Bloomington with the team.

BTN needs to find an IUBB alum for our games. I'll never stop missing Laz and Ted.

A lighter finish to the wood.

Congrats to the young man and his family. Congrats to CDD and his staff. Nice pick up late in the cycle.

I've had the displeasure of slipping into Sleepers pods on and off for a couple of years. Sometimes I break a little bit when overexposed. I know not to take them seriously, but it does peeve me that they take themselves seriously . . . and some of their listeners do too. It just feels good to vent about them.

The lack of intelligence or unbiased projection in this episode is astounding. They say they'd pick UH because their best big will be gone and the other really good big may choose to leave, but it's not as if he's prevalent on draft boards. They put down IU for not having big. They don't mention that because IU doesn't have a quality big returning that Arafan has a better path to more immediate playing time. Another thing, and this is really interesting to me, is that they say he should go to UH because the way Arafan plays fits with the traditional way UH plays their bigs. What if Arafan wants to develop his game beyond the traditional big man role? IU offers greater development. IU can make his more versatile, which in a few years will make his more appealing to NBA teams. Also the, "Come on man, it's Houston." argument is flawless. Arafan may very likely go to UH, but this episode does nothing to expound on the rationale for either UH or IU. It's just a ignorant hottake, which is par for the course for them.

From my outside perspective, I could see paying more for Diane as he's at a greater position of need with rare similar talent--and he is more likely to stay at IU multiple years--compared to Anthony Thompson.

This came from two different sources in two separate interviews: a recent former assistant college coach and I think from Jeff Goodman. Maybe they're wrong, and maybe you're right. Just passing along what I heard.

@HoosierDevils and @Hardwood83 - This came up in a couple of college basketball podcasts in the last month or two. I don't know the ins and outs, but essentially Big Ten schools (and the like) will be giving 80-ish percent of revenue share to football and slightly less than 20 percent to basketball (in most cases). However, even though the Big East won't have the same total dollars as the Big Ten, because they can give 80-some percent of their total revenue share to basketball it will equate to more basketball dollars. Essentially, 80-some perent of the small pie is more money than the not quite 20 prrcent of the larger pie.

I'm not suggesting he picks Xavier, but just to pick up on your mention of dollars to give athletes, Big East schools have plenty of money. Even without outside help for NIL, Big East schools have a potentially larger share of revenue to give basketball players because they don't have to split it with football players.

I don't like these changes, but at least these are stated rules. Ed and boosters like him are still the seedy underbelly of college athletics because that was bald-faced cheating. Nothing about it is romantic, quant, or cute.