AZ Hoosier

Guess he wants to "be like Mike"... tell me again how many baseball games the Wizard of Broad Ripple attended in 4 years as coach? :D :D :D

Yeah, after 45 years, you kind of get used to it or adapt... but it's still hot... Arizona desert is a "dry heat", but so is my oven - and it still cooks the chicken... thank God for the rim country.

Interesting... he originally chose ASU over Indiana and West Virginia... now the WVA coach is at Indiana, and Leo decommitted from ASU. Could the stars be aligning?

Yep... we've been talking about it...

He seems to be a bit immature, and had a couple of incidents similar to what Xavier Johnson pulled... not sure that's a thread that we need to pull on... https://arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona-state-basketball/bj-freema/3574855/

You couldn't make me live in SoCal (or anywhere in California) for any reason or any amount of money... the state is a hellhole with a government to match.

Yeah, I always crave a good sub sandwich when I'm stuck in traffic...

I grew up on the southside of Indy, graduated from IU in 1977 and moved to Arizona after graduation ... seen a lot of change here - growth has been insane, and with the general political climate and the weather climate, Phoenix is just too much these days. I've been retired since 2016 and now split my time about 60-40 between the "rim country" around Happy Jack and the Phoenix metro area. Traffic is off the charts in Phoenix, and I avoid it as much as I can. During "snowbird season", we get an influx of midwesterners, northerners and Canadians, and everything bad about traffic and the sheer number of people just grows off the chart. The number of people fleeing California has caused home prices to soar, doubling in the past 5 years or so. The desert is hot - at times unbearably so - temps approaching 120º in the summers, followed by a relative cooling (105-110º), higher humidity and incredible dust storms during the "monsoon season" that is late summer. That drives most of the snowbirds back to their other homes, but it's too hot to do much outdoors. That's why I prefer the Happy Jack area where temps are 10-20º cooler, but it's also met with an influx of folks from the valley of the sun (Phoenix metro area) invading the high country in search of cooler temps. I lived in Chicago for a year or so, traveled to NYC over the years for work, and those big cities have a buzz and a culture unique to themselves. There is no real draw to downtown Phoenix - it's hot, dirty and overrun with the homeless. The one redeeming season is spring and Cactus League baseball. We currently have 10 stadium complexes and 15 MLB teams train here. It's a great way to spend a day in the sun watching current and future stars of the sport with family and friends. The weather is generally perfect for this - temps ranging from the low 60s up to 85º or so. Before my parents passed, I would get back to Indiana several times a year, but it just never felt like "home"... and I've not been back since about 2014. With all of that said, Arizona is home now and we cope with the people and climate as best we can. I've seen this sign on multiple cars over the years, and it's a fairly widespread sentiment:

Yeah, don't forget that Christian Watford had the audacity to hit that three and beat them nine years earlier... how dare he? :D :D :D

Sounds like he was chasing a bag and Woodson complied... when Woodson "retired", Zrno decomitted and now he and/or his agent are crying that DeVries didn't reach out, and now isn't taking his calls... sounds like a true head case chasing a bag, IMO.

Does anyone have an idea about the timeframe for a decision on Goode's request? Would be great to have him back, and would help Coach DeVries as he plans his future player recruitment...

Welcome B-Town, Jasai!

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I’d prefer an official commitment announcement. If we get that, the pages will appear.