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Mark Cuban, pls.

G: Burton G: Brumbaugh F: Juke Harris F: Aiden Sherrell C: JP Estrella. My 5 are on the floor. (Dear Cook Family: Please donate an additional 8 mil in NIL for this to happen)

Big guys are going to get paid above market value. It is what it is. If you won't pay, somebody else will. And you will most likely end up with somebody much worse. You swallow the pill and pay the big and move onto the rest of the roster with your remaining budget.

How many times am I going to read about a 3 point specialist's rebounding numbers?

We are onto Juke Harris. Hoosierfanyuh basically guaranteed it happening.

Appreciated his effort at the end of year after it appeared most of the rest of the team gave up. Was okay on defense by the end of the year, but ultimately brought nothing on offense.

I am now blaming you if we dont end up with Juke Harris. That would be an incredible get by DeVries.

Estrella officially in the portal.

I dont think anybody really does. Seems like another guy that could sue for more years if he wanted to.

Blackwell to the portal.

He's listed as a junior online. But only 1 year of college basketball. I think he played in Canada before South Alabama.

This place will burn to the ground if our first commit is a mid major PF. Love it. I'd recommend waiting for the whole portal class to come together before assuming we learned nothing from last year. But that's just me. A 6'7 3 point specialist is good to have if that's all your asking of them to do. If this guy is our 5th or 6th best transfer, I think its perfectly fine. You need shooters. You just dont want him to be a focal point of the class and roster (Bailey).

We would be in a little bit of trouble of there was anything official.

I choose to believe this is true because I want it to be true.

April 7th can't come soon enough.

Sorry, a guy with IU interest either has to be too expensive or not good enough to play at IU. There's no in-between. At least that's what I have learned from the "Transfer Portal w/ IU interest" thread.

Oh definitely. He just made it seem like we only reached to one guy, figured he must have more info than us.

Is he the only front court guy we targeted?

I'm not going to pretend to know much about Fru, but I am just not sure how many other realistic options there are out there. The "Big" market is going to be insane this off-season, and almost every team is going to have to "overpay" to an extent. IU needs at least 2 centers, and it seems like Fru is a very solid option to take one of those spots.

Would be a great start. Would need to add a couple knockdown shooters around them for sure. But would immediately be a big talent upgrade.

DeVries, Ill forgive you for last year if you can shove Sampson into a locker on this one.

What I gather from this thread, is that it doesnt matter who transfers in; a lot of people will be unhappy. I've seen a lot of good players listed here get lukewarm reception in here that are going to get strong offers from teams that have been much better than Indiana recently. Most college basketball players will have flaws, very few are going to be good in every area. It's piecing those together to make the puzzle that's important. They failed at that last year, and need to do better this year. Either way, can't wait for next week to watch this sub implode because we got a player they didnt know existed 2 weeks ago. Should be fun.

My personal order would be: 1. Zona 2. Michigan (hate Michigan, like Dusty) 3. Illinois (hate Illinois) 4. UCONN (hate Hurley + recent success)

Idk, it seems Yaxel Lendeborg is now officially a portal target for IU. I say we go with the AI on this one.