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Might have missed seeing it posted on here but someone just brought to my attention that Tommy Stevens is transferring from Penn St for his final year of eligibility.

I was still shocked after his senior year that schools like Ball State, Indiana St, Valpo, etc never offered him.

Thought I saw him sitting behind the bench at today's game. This is a tough one, because he isnt the highest rated player but I've seen several videos and interviews of him talking about what an honor and point of pride it would be to play for Indiana. We definitely need more players like that.

If Alford doesn't have success this year they probably have him on a super short list. They lost two starters from last years team but return everyone else and have a top 10 recruiting class coming in. He will probably get a pass this year but i don't know for how much longer

What AAU team is Jalen Blackmon playing for?

As of January 27th Kristian is now at Pima Community College in Arizona

Do we stand a chance with him at all?

I don't see why anyone would be upset with him coming in and redshirting for one year. His one year of practicing against high level D1 talent everything, going through strength and conditioning with Cliff Marshall, etc is going to make him a way better player than if he stayed in high school for his senior year. Welcome aboard Race!

This just keeps getting more and more odd. McDermott is an average coach. Doesn't blow me away and definitely doesn't scare me as an IU fan.

I think they were going to give Matta this year. I think the last few open recruiting periods were telling for his health and a change was made.

I was hard on Troy for leaving and he proved me wrong so I wish Bryant the best of luck. His shooting will be the main seller for teams. Hopefully he finds a spot like Yogi and Troy have where they really develop him and help him find his niche.

According to Rabjohns someone from the staff watched Trendon today today in Fort Worth. Glad to see our new staff actually showing some effort with Trendon Watford.

I think Jallow will be the first since he is so close to campus. He will also be the first recruit that Archie & staff host on campus this week. I agree that Phinisee won't be long after.

I think the potential argument for OG would be that he has shown the potential for a shot and his defense. In Troy's case, in college what you saw was what you got. He didn't shoot much and when he did it wasn't pretty. His defense lacked as well. So from the NBA perspective there wasn't much potential to grow there. Im glad he worked on his shooting and has gotten a few chances to show who he is.

He was the lead recruiter for Romeo at UCLA so he does have a relationship with him. I think Romeo's recruitment is wide open at the moment. Archie told him he is our main priority and that the ENTIRE coaching staff would be at all his AAU games this offseason. That according to the Indy Star article on Romeo this last week.

Rob Johnson rolled an ankle, OG blew out a knee on a non contact play (freak accident), Juwan's shoulder injury was a high school injury and then he rolled an ankle when he tripped on a ref this year. JBJ and Hartman had previous knee injuries in high school that have continued into college. Sorry but I still don't see how any of those seem like fault of a strength or conditioning coach or lack of conditioning.

After the last few weeks of rumors and people "confirming" this and that. I don't know if all these different people and insiders are as tied in as we are all lead to believe. I'll wait for the actual announcement with Hartman cause I think he's probably gone

I remember when I used to look forward to the NBA all star game and the McDonalds All American game and now its been years since Ive watched either one. They just aren't entertaining to me. Its a glorified pickup game and gets boring really fast.

One of the beat writers or someone on here shared an article on Archie and Sean recruiting at U of Arizona and their philosophy there wasn't too far off. They concentrated on their region 1 st in all recruiting so here won't be too different honestly. I think he gets that IU has lost influence and any sway in the state. Seemed to hint at Crean expecting things because "Its Indiana". Miller is going to work. I don't think his inside out philosophy means he ignores national recruiting but when you have the recruiting budget that we do, but aren't getting classes that reflect that budget there is a problem. Especially if in the immediate area we have so many high level recruits, we should be getting a good amount of them each year

I honestly think all we lose are OG and Hartman. Archie doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to be kicking people off the team unless there are issues with them. Gelon and Priller seem to be hard workers, so Archie will keep them around I assume. If Dayton hires one of their staff members as the head coach, McKinley Wright won’t even leave Dayton. No one from our staff has even talked to him either because he is signed. I think Archie zero’s in on Durham and Moore before anyone else. I think Durham ends up here. Moore is the wildcard here because the list of schools interested in him is pretty big. Villanova and Virginia are two of those. I don’t see us having a mass exodus this year at all. Archie has hit the ground running working hard so I think he will be able to convince a lot of players to stay. Those who stay will buy in and be ready to work and Archie will fill out the rest of the roster with those who want to compete.

One of my favorite quotes from Remember the Titans applies perfectly to this situation " Attitude reflects leadership". Theres a reason why both Johnson and Blackmon Jr were rumored to be transferring if Crean were to return as coach. Johnson has been our best defender in the past and Blackmon Jr is our best scorer. Archie seems to be one of those coaches that gets the most out of his players and I think we will see a different version of some of the players than they were under Crean.

Many people have great memories of the 70s,80, and 90s team but my favorite IU basketball memories are that 2002 run. I was 11 years old when that took place and it got me hooked to Indiana basketball for the rest of my life. I do think the administration was too quick to give Davis such a long extension right off the bat. I do wonder what would've happened if they had brought someone else in from the start. If Davis or Treloar were retained as head coach all the players said they would leave. That would've set us back a few years for sure. I do look at all the players that were missed during those Davis years and wonder if Alford would've been given the job if he would've gotten them to come to IU. Oden and Conley are of course the two big ones. Davis told Mike Conley that he was never going to be a big time college point guard and Oden always made it clear he was going to follow Conley. What could have been.

Alarming? That seems a little much. Care to provide more info? I researched this topic this morning and only found two incidents during Archie's span there. Two Dayton players were arrested for burglary on Dec 14th, they were kicked off the team the very next day on the 15th. The other had to deal with a player that was Dyshawn Pierre. He was accused of rape but after an investigation, no evidence was found and all charges were dropped. The university had kicked him out and he was recently going through the process of getting reinstated to the team. In the first case, not sure what else he could've done. He acted as swiftly as anyone could have. Granted he recruited those kids, but college coaches don't spend 24/7 around incoming recruits so they don't know them perfectly. He seemed to have handled the situation a lot better than FCTC did with the the year or two of issues we had a few years ago. Point me to a coach and a program that has not had players get in some sort of trouble. I think this is a non issue with Archie and definitely don't see it as "alarming"

There was a pretty bad no call on the inbounds at the very end of the game. Sad to see the game finish that way