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I left the word ‘agent’ out after CAA. Suggesting that the likelihood a player is sticking to his plan to take all four trips is more likely than a hypothetical story isn’t going out on a limb.

Transfer portal closing date is Thursday.

Or maybe he is just taking all four visits that he said he was going to take. Seems more logical than just guessing if something happened between Payne an a CAA who we don't even know the name of.

Iowa and Iowa State both investigating potential gambling from their student-athletes. Iowa received notice of 111 individuals including 26 current athletes across five sports (football, basketball, wrestling, track and field, and baseball) of potential criminal conduct and NCAA violations. Iowa State had 15 athletes potentially involved from their football, wrestling, and track and field programs. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/37568592/gaming-commission-investigating-iowa-possible-ncaa-violation

Indiana (among lots) have made contact with Andrew Taylor.

Least impressive announcer tweet ever. Tiger looks drugged and Girard's squatting jersey pop....ugh. And don't even mention how badly photoshopped that blue jersey is..

I think dad might vouch for Woody.

Not a good look for Bob Huggins. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37571594/wvu-reviewing-incident-huggins-uses-anti-***-slur-air This was an interview with Bill Cunningham of WLW of Cincinnati (if you are familiar with Cunningham....ugh). He was asking Huggins about when he was in Cincinnati and Xavier fans threw objects on the floor: ------------------------------------------ "Any school that can throw rubber penises on the floor and then say they didn't do it, my God, they can get away with anything," Huggins said in the interview. Cunningham then responded and said, "I think it was 'transgender night,' wasn't it?" Huggins then said, "What it was, was all those f-gs, those Catholic f-gs, I think."

It’s why he needs to watch what he says in the first place. You can’t control what people do with something you say but you can predict what will happen. As Chris had mentioned earlier, Rabjohns isn’t in the loop with the current staff….have to say that this certainly would make that worse.

Carmelo’s son.

I’d say he’s either trying to damage control or shouldn’t have said what he said earlier. Either way, it’s not a good look for him to try and dispel something that he seems to have said in the first place.

FWIW, Jaylon Tyson just committed to California over Kansas. While I'm not sure how MM fits into Kansas' lineup, he most definitely wouldn't have fit in if Tyson signed. FWIW, Kansas is still recruiting Texas decommit Ron Holland (#1 recruit in the nation). Hope our staff doesn't choose to stand put while waiting around for MM to make a decision. Can't waste time not getting a foot in a door with some guys if the MM recruitment doesn't pan out. Think they made that mistake already with Ledlum.

So recruits go back to a time before they were born when looking at a team's success? I don't think you understand recency bias.

I think the biggest thing that changed was that the most pro-IU media guy just said that a school that MM hasn't even visited yet is the leader for him.

Cool. They were 13-19 two years ago and missed the tournament the last three years.

It just seems like a strange take for someone to make that is an Indiana media guy. Why even venture a guess?

He’s 6’4” and a 32% three shooter.

Maybe we should go 4-28 like Louisville.

Except Slater has already went after another media guy for releasing information on the Mgbanko recruitment. I don’t think he’s feeding rabjohns information here because I think he knows that rabjohns is going to release information related to IU.

Could be. Just my opinion, if he doesn't choose Indiana then I hope he picks Kansas.....because that would at least make sense.

We'll see how it plays out, but that is simply not encouraging. Funny thing was Ware transferred from a Nike school to IU. Sadly we may see a time when players will be limited to what schools their agents have a relationship with. Kansas is a big enough power broker that if the reason they did not get Mgbanko is that CAA steered him to Louisville, you could see the Jayhawks moving on from working with players represented by them. Agents certainly have power but I don't think they want to stretch their power just yet on a true blue blood. Indiana doesn't currently wield that kind of power.

In a 'no kidding' move, Boo Buie withdraws from the NBA draft and will return to Northwestern. Expect Audige follows very shortly.

Certainly could be, although his father officially announced he was taking the Ole Miss assistant position a month ago so there has been a little time lag.

Would feel better if it were coming from somewhere other than Rabjohns. He tends to paint an overly optimistic picture of things for IU, so him saying that 'Louisville currently leads' without him even visiting is not encouraging.

The pool of great is dwindling rapidly.