AKHoosier

New Albany would sell out every game they play, home and away. If they don't already.

I'll bet Vanderbilt is anxiously waiting out this weekend. They did not want this visit to happen.

Got dammit. Is anyone else hearing Garland may not even make it to the IU visit? Sounds like he may pop to Vandy any day now per another board.

Yep this is what happened. He was actually top-10 at one point according to Rivals with offers from most of the big boys, but his play kind of fell off and he dropped in the rankings. We were really the only bigger school to not back off. I even remember reading the articles written after his commitment saying he chose us over offers from UNC and UK when in fact, that wasn't really true. More like a half truth.

Yeah I get that and know he was top 10, I guess I'm using some pretty strong revisionist history with the benefit of hindsight. He wasn't very good, or he was pretty good but it didn't matter because his team was really bad.

Guys get real. I know it's our nature to worry as IU basketball fans, but step back and assess the situation. Vanderbilt is not getting three 5* players in one class. They've only gotten 1 in the past 10 years. They're going to struggle to remain front-runners for Garland as it is, and they're not getting Romeo. It's just sheer probability.

I swear, if I learn Kenny Johnson cheated to get freaking Stan Robinson, Troy Williams, and Noah Vonleh I would laugh my a$$ off. None of those guys would have been worth cheating for.

And all guilty parties should breathe a sigh of relief if Congress gets involved. That'll ensure nothing gets done. The only governing body that could be less threatening is if the UN starts to sniff around. "You're making us very angry, therefore we're going to take 6 weeks to draft a letter telling you how angry we are."

I'm shocked by this. All those kids just want to play for Nick Saban because he's such a good coach, not because they get anything extra on the side.

Yeah I saw it, but I'm just not sure how credible chatsports.com could be. I've never heard of them before I clicked on that link.

I'm just waiting for news about Kansas. I honestly think they've been up to more shady things than Kentucky. If you remember, Bill Self struggled to get the one-and-done type talent until all of a sudden he didn't. I think it was either Xavier Henry or Josh Selby that "broke the seal".

I'm pulling this from another board because it's a tad relevant to us: According to an AAU coach, South Carolina, Kansas, and UCLA may be next. There's also approximately 15 Adidas sponsored AAU programs on a list to be investigated. Indiana Elite, Team Loaded, Mass Rivals, and Atlanta Celtics to name a few. The ASM raid may implicate some parents of Indiana players aka Teague and Lyles.

It may take a week or so, but I'm just waiting for this latest shoe to drop on Kansas, pun intended. There's no way they haven't been a beneficiary of some shady stuff.

My favorite tweet I saw earlier, not mine: BREAKING: Rick Pitino denies ever having coached Louisville.

Did Vitale actually call AZ sleaze? That's so uncharacteristic of him to talk like that about a school or coach. Usually he defends coaches at all cost, to an obnoxious level. He even defended freakin' Larry Brown.

Man I'm glad to not be a Louisville fan right now. Their boards are so sullen and gloomy, most fans just hope the school is allowed to keep their ACC membership

I, for one, can't wait for our game against University-6 this December.

I think someone is sensing an opportunity to get some more attention. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice.....

I read it, really not much to it. His dad gave the interview, gave a glowing review of the visit and staff and Vandy. But when asked about the other schools, also made a point to say Darius is from Indiana, the IU in-home visit was a really impressive one, and that actually the in-home visits are the biggest factor in recruiting. He also named the entire IU staff by name, something he didn't do for the other schools. Said Darius likes Indiana "a lot". Also Duke is out. To add, he said Darius' biggest deal will be his ability to be the lead guard. His "dream is to be the lead guard". There's no way that doesn't bode the best for IU.

I'm guessing this is in reference to the post on the Vandy board about Garland telling people he's going to commit to Vandy soon.

Not Peegs. Also don't want to get myself in trouble either haha.

This should probably go in the Romeo thread, but I read on another board that Langford actually had a very "meh" time on his visit to Vandy which, in turn, could effect what Garland thinks of VU since they were there together.

lol good, keep doing you. And for the record, it's 1,000x better than someone who is negative or the constant contrarian. I love the positivity and you're right, lots of good things happening now compared to this time last year.

lol. I can sum up the gist of HoosierGuy's posts in two sentences: What will happen? THE BEST POSSIBLE SCENARIO What definitely won't happen? ANYTHING LESS

But Hulls, Watford, and Oladipo WERE on the team when they won 12 games. Then they added Cody and won 27. I don't disagree any of the other guys weren't valuable, but Cody was by far the biggest difference. If you take him off that 2011 team, no way would we have stayed within 15 pts of Kentucky or won as many games as we did. I'd probably say 18 games would have been our max win total from that year without Zeller. Now I don't think he's on any lists of top 10 or 15 Hoosiers of all-time, because you can't really compare him to guys who won banners or got to Final 4s. But I definitely wouldn't call him overrated in any case either.