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Rothstein had them 15th in his preseason top 45 last year. Big time optics win for the Hoosiers last year

Perfect storm for a new coach to take over a program. Payne was so bad that anything the next coach did was going to be an improvement and with the Acc being historically down they took advantage. In the non con they went 0-4 against teams that made the tourney. 2-0 against first 4 out teams. in acc play they only had to play the teams from the acc that made the tourney once during the regular season all at home. They had no road games against tourney quality teams in acc play. Finished 18-2 in conference play (16 wins against non tourney teams). 3 top 50 wins in conference (Home-Clemson, UNC) Away-SMU. They were lucky committee viewed Unc as a tourney team (last team in) or they would have had even less tourney quality wins. Louisville went 18-2 in the ACC last year and got an 8 seed in the tourney. That should show you how awful the acc actually was last year Acc had 10 teams NET 100 or more B1G had 1 (Washington-109 which would of been better then everyone of the 10 Acc teams

Agree there is a big gap on recruiting on Dukes level however most these mid major players IU signed were wanted by other high major teams that have had way more success then IU has had the last couple years. Got to start somewhere. Beating out tourney teams for players is a good start in my opinion

Interesting. most my customers on the route loved the hire

It’s all perception for posters. People you hear say iu can’t get who they want is the ones that thinks IU is on Dukes level when it comes to recruiting. You could argue IU got who they wanted this portal cycle it’s just not good enough for a select few posters. Optics drive many’s view of ius roster

Buzz was always going to win. That’s what he does. Probably doesn’t win enough for most posters on here but he is going to win. Then time to move on in 5 years.

NIL is still relatively new to the college game. IU was one of the first schools to embrace and plan for it. Now schools are adapting to the new landscape. Being one of the first doesn’t mean it stays that way. Other schools have probably passed IU in terms of NIL. Last year teams didn’t have to spend as much for players so fielding a complete roster was probably less expensive. This year prices went up across the board. Fielding a team this year compared to last year is probably different. Part of the new way. Every team will have to deal with it. Buying players with extra years of eligibility doesn’t necessarily mean those extra years will be used at whichever school the go to. Baylor lost their whole team to the portal and the draft and that program has won big in the last 5 years. If it is happening to them then no team is safe. Having said all that I like the roaster construction of the current team and look forward to seeing them play in a couple months

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I had no worries on missing those guys. DeVries had a connection and swung for the fence. Murphy is considered by some the best young assistant in the whole game today. Bama and Texas Tech stepped up and gave them both raises. DeVries still got a couple sharks even missing on those 2

Tennessee premium board sees it as a big loss. Shouldn’t be hard to fill his spot if your Barnes. His first call has to be Rodney Terry to see if he would want to come back on as an assistant

When they first started out compared to what Adam’s is making to start out yeah he is making more then them in their respected 1st years

My guess is more money and probably associate head coach title. If Adam’s is getting 400,000 which was more than any assistant on Woodys staff I’m guessing his will be more. Only 32

DeVries is cooking. Just stole an SEC teams top assistant. A sec team that just went to back to back elite 8s. Not even May and DeVries has 3 assistants that are known to get dudes and has a roster of 11 possibly 12. Heck of a job in my opinion. Impressed

Nowadays all you need is a Trilly discord account to get the latest news for anything related to college basketball including the IU related news. If you can wait for it his stuff will make it to the various message boards eventually even the premium boards.