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We get a win IU 73 Marquette 67

Indiana 93 A&M 61

IU 42 PSU 15

The best thing he did was get out ahead of the NIL era. I heard this morning there will be > $250 million in dead money paid to coaches (James Franklin, Brian Kelley, etc) as contract buyouts. That's crazy. In college football, no team can win consistently without an elite coach. There might be a dozen of them nationwide and we have one of them who is happy at Indiana. Scott being ahead of things and finding that coach before everyone else found out they had to changed the game and everything about athletics at Indiana. Basketball will benefit from football's success AND get better on its own. We're sitting in a really good spot and Indiana is most definitely here to stay. We have perfect alignment - for the first time since Ralph Floyd and John Ryan - between coaches, athletic director, and school president. That's rare and we get to enjoy it.

Indiana 49 MD 17

Your point is...? I did say "I assume that'll get reined in," and I also mentioned (twice) the quality of his shots. It isn't all about the percentage itself......which I think is your correlation, right? That Goode was fine until he wasn't and you're extrapolating that into the opposite in this case?

It never ceases to amaze me how some people have a complete inability to comprehend words that are actually written in favor of those they want to read so they can react and be condescending. I guess that's why they used to have that as a section on the SAT. Some people can't do it and get weeded out.

His numbers over 3 games at IU were the same as Myles Rice. I looked it up. I hope we never remember either of those two.

Funny how things like this can blow up when people either read them wrong or get defensive. I don't like "heat check" shots. Especially from a kid who isn't "hot." Indiana won't win in the Big Ten or against good teams with anyone taking multiple quick, bad shots. And by any objective measure....he did the other night. He's taken 37 shots from behind the line while wearing an Indiana uniform and made 32% of them. Roughly the same as Myles Rice a year ago. That kind of % combined with bad shot selection will drive me crazy whether I give it a minute or not, and I would hope the same for anyone objective given the garbage we have watched in that building for the lion's share of the last 30 years. I can see numbers and watched him chuck it with no conscience the other night. "It was just an exhibition game....relax." Yeah, okay. If the two didn't corollate ..fine. But they do. I would assume that'll get reined in but if not? It'll drive me crazy.

Indiana 35 UCLA 14

I promise he didn't shoot 45% taking the quality of shots he took the other night. My eyes work and my opinion is based on what I saw. We don't need bad shots anymore. We've tried that.

Wilkerson is going to drive me crazy. 37 of his 48 shot attempts being 3's and making them at the same basic % as teams did for the last 4 years isn't gonna' work.

One man's opinion...They don't give punchlines national shows on networks growing like Outkick. It's currently ranked 19th of 350+ national sports entities. Let alone give them morning shows. Laughing stock to who? His show on Outkick got 34 million views in January of this year and it's growing. Seems pretty consequential to me if you remove......vvvvvvvvvv I get the political angle. His network was purchased by Fox. If you look at things through a political prism

I would still love to understand why Dakich is a scapegoat with IU fans. He was around for 17 years and knows. He loves Cignetti and completely supportive of IU and of Cignetti. His delivery isn't for some, but anyone is welcome to let me know when he's been flat wrong or lied about anything relative to IU athletics. No, he isn't bitter he didn't get the basketball job. No, he and Bob Knight were never close and Knight was not exactly loyal to him. I would really love to understand why he became a villain. This contract was a no brainer. Good for all involved.

He doesn't bother me nearly as much as the other two. Desmond Howard is wrong and wrong badly VERY frequently but pretends he's smart and never atones for being wrong. He and Saban both picked Indiana to lose to Illinois and neither has made a peep. Herbstreit at least said he underestimated Indiana