DChoosier

Nothing wrong with that…to say the least. In 2 days he turns 27 (hard to believe he is still that young) and he has already made over 31,000,000!!!

Bad look for all involved (Woody, Scott and frick and frack). Optics are poor but this mess won’t mean anything to the “regular”, and/or most, fans if we reach the Elite 8 for the second time in the last 30 years. Am I willing to bet $$$$ that we will make the Elite 8….hell no, but looking forward to see what happens.

I understand some of the Woody complaints but don’t get the “he got 6 million from his millionaire buddies” take as if that’s a negative. A lot of other schools have tons of money sloshing around and those that don’t wish they did. If we didn’t have the cash some of the same posters would complain we don’t have funding because the donors know Woody sucks but when they do in fact pony up it’s somehow a negative.Oh well. Looking forward to seeing how (or if) these guys mesh together.

Four really bad words for Redick: ”LeBron is my boss” Four really good words for Redick: ”Four year guaranteed contract” He is getting paid no matter what.

It will be interesting to see how it play out for Cig/IU in football. On the basketball side, as an example, Dalton Knecht from Northern Colorado? Grand slam for Tennessee. Second team All-Mac Payton Sparks for IU? Meh. Eagerly awaiting the opener.

Stars is one thing but it’s still kind of nice that this kid had offers from another 7-8 power schools. I admittedly still cringe a bit when we land, or have landed in the past, an unheralded guy that only had an offer, as an example, from Eastern KY. In those cases is our staff, or past staffs, really that much more insightful than every other D1 staff (cue up the Micah McFadden example…LOL) in the country? He sounds like a good “get”. Keep the train rolling!

Yes that was my point.

Kansas has Hunter, Bidunga and a bunch of guards and wings. Bidunga will get a lot more minutes than we have to offer (albeit not the amount of minutes 5* normally get), I agree that we have a TON to sell but not sure it outweighs “enjoy the bench”. We will see. A serviceable big man would be great to get but I don’t see it.

I agree it would be helpful but I don’t think we could attract a playable backup with the limited minutes we have to offer. Right now we are at Ballo, MR and then Hatton. Last year we had Sparks, who “on paper” looked like a great spot minute guy (and we were lucky to land an all-Mac player because he loved the idea of playing at IU) but he only played 2 minutes against Illinois when Ware was out injured. I assume Hatton could handle that. It would be great if we could get another 5 that is good enough to fill-in in case of injury, and willing to spend most of the season sitting at the far end of the bench, but I don’t see who that would be.

Sure hope he wants to stay close to home and represent Indiana. Official visits to UCONN, UNC and Kansas are no joke.

Sad. She was only 57.

Yep., That was a multi-million dollar road trip that Hurley took from Connecticut to California.

From a scoring perspective IU really stands out with 3 returning double digit scores and 3 high major portal players that averaged double digits last year. UCLA is the only other school with as much, “on paper” firepower. PS. looking at the rosters I don’t get the PU love.

I would also, of course, take a young player that was better than, or had more upside, than Hatton but here we are with MR filling in at the 5 if Ballo gets hurt in addition to Hatton and/or small ball. Kansas has Bidunga behind Hunter but really don’t have any other big men which gave FB a clear role when he was being recruited (not to mention some thought HD might go pro). Sliding MR to the 5 puts us close to having the same insurance policy Kansas has. Bidinga has a role, JHS had a role as a 6-th-7th man (but then X got hurt) but at this point I’m not aware of a talented available big man we could land with the limited role we have to offer. If we find one that would be great but I wouldn’t bet on it.

As someone old/ancient enough to have lived through the “glory days” (freshman at IU the undefeated ‘75-‘76 season) I find it incomprehensible that IU has made it to the Elite 8 once (ONCE!!!) in 30 years. I get that winning the natty is tough, and often requires a little dose of luck, but ONE Elite 8 in 30 years….Mind blowing. Hats off to the young fans as I’m not even sure what they are latching on to. EDIT: I was curious how the other “traditional” blue bloods have done during that period. In the last 30 years, 29 tourneys due to covid, the number of times the schools have made the Elite 8 is as follows: UK - 14 UNC - 13 Duke - 12 Kansas - 12 UCLA - 6 IU - 1 In addition, UCONN has made the Elite eight 11 of those 29 seasons. One of the schools above doesn’t belong with the others :(