RaceToTheTop

There wasn't anyone watching Moore late in his senior high school season that thought we wouldn't want him. Anyone saying different is being revisionist. Check his draftexpress profile from last April. http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Clifton-Moore-109337/

I'll take four years of Race Thompson over a one year-grad transfer big that would have been just a rotation guy on a team headed nowhere.

Hansborough averaged 20 points and 9 rebounds over his college career. Morgan is very much a poor man's Hansborough.

Robbie Eggers really doesn’t have room to talk about intimidating anyone.

Thing Forde forgets is IU fans pretty much gave Crean a pass for his first three seasons. If we lose our next 19 games, our record will match what Crean had his first season. Sure, the circumstances were different....but let's not act like Crean wasn't given a chance. He had nine years here and only had winning seasons in the Big Ten once. He did have two Big Ten champsionships....and promptly didn't make the tournament the next year in both. Forde tweeted that he was stunned last year when Crean was fired. So the guy is just full of it.....in one breath he's talking about how IU fans didn't want Crean, and then in the next he's talking about how shocked he was that he got canned.

This is one thing I'll say: those people who blamed Blackmon for our lack of defense really didn't want to look very deep. Most of the guys Crean went after weren't known for their defense. And if you don't think we miss Blackmon, you're nuts. We most certinally need his shooting and it's not like his defense was any worse than we've seen on the floor in several of our games. I do think people truly overestimated what we were going to put on the court this year -- didn't matter who the coach was. You don't lose the talent we had the last two years and have a couple of mediocre recruiting classes and expect to miss a beat. My concern is that we could lose some of the guys we did keep that are young and are seeing the veterans out there floundering and still can't get on the court. Clifton Moore is a mirage at this point. Justin Smith barely makes an appearance. I'm truly not a big Josh Newkirk detractor, but if I were a freshman seeing him play as a senior I'd have to scratch my head as to what he has done to deserve minutes that shouldn't be going to younger guys. I don't think much of Curtis Jones' game, but I understand why he left.

If we don't get Romeo, we miss out on a terrific player.....for one season. I mean, I love Eric Gordon and all, but it's not like he changed the landscape of Indiana basketball. And when Crean did get this program to the #1 ranking, it wasn't on any one and dones.

I get that. But while the schedule in the Big Ten is going to be tough due to the division imbalance, we do play pretty much of a joke non-conference schedule every year (the Virginia win this year turned out to be a good one, but we didn't schedule them thinking we'd be playing a bowl worthy team). So most years -- if we are truly bowl worthy -- we are looking at needing to go 3-6 in the Big Ten to be bowl eligible. It's really not asking that much. My problem is that I simply don't think we went through the right protocol in hiring Allen. If he was the best candidate for the job, fine....but I don't think we ever tried to determine that. We simply went the route of taking the best in-house candidate as we were trying to keep recruits on board. IMO that's short term instead of long term strategy.

Wish him luck. Bottom line is that when a player is in there to provide shooting and they can hit shots, they can't play. Going forward, I didn't see that changing much when we have some nice wings coming in.

We certainly had to go through a hell of a lot worse with the team that Crean inherited when he came in. We'll get some things turned around and some of the shortcomings won't this season. Everyone ripping Blackmon last year needs to be reminded how good of an offensive player and needs to stop blaming all of our defensive shortcomings on him.

In the spring, Romeo could sign here, could sign at Vandy, could sign at Kansas, could sign at none of the above and somewhere else. Don't get too hung up on the recruiting. With Phinisee, Anderson, Hunter, and Forrester, we have a top 15 class....and throw in Thompson who really is a 2018 signee given the redshirt. Top 15 classes with coaches who can coach can do wonders. We've seen what happens with top ten classes with coaches who couldn't. Anyone, root for the guys who wear cream and crimson and want to be here and wish the ones who decide to go elsewhere luck -- unless they are playing the guys wearing cream and crimson.

LOL. Yeah, Crean teams were known for their defense and never losing games to lesser competition.

What, you heard no news? Where did you hear that? :0

Who had ''first basket scored at 2:55 pm' in the prediciton contest?

Against a top team like Penn State, I see one of two results......we squeak out a fluke win or WE WIN IN A BLOWOUT.

Robert Johnson. Have to respect his outside shot, ability to come inside and hit the floater, and hit the open man.

Actually, he would have buried the cows with their rump in the air so that all their critics could have 'pinched their @$$'.

I'll take three years of a top fifty player over one year of Romeo. UK has two or three Romeo's every year as well as a couple more right behind that.....and it's translated to one title.

Sounds like a very mature kid....not many 17/18 year olds would know themselves well enough to feel that it would be in their best interests to spend a year and build their body open to make themselves a better player.

5 a year? C'mon. good thing Knight never had anyone transfer. The bottom line is that if a coach is winning, if a player transfers the fans blame the player. If the coach isn't winning, the fans blame the coach. It's never that black and white,

Kind of cool, because when Troy Williams said the word 'marijuana' it was his code word for 'cocaine'.

I can't think of anything I would consider over analysis. All analysis is worth viewing and thinking about.

This is the post of a 'teacher'?

This.was.gold.

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