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By all accounts Gunn had looked good in his earlier games coming off the injury. Multiple 20+ and 30+ scoring performances. And now he gets thrown under the bus after one bad game? Odd.

Line movement seems to imply a notable absence for Indiana. This line shouldn't be as high as 5.5 with a full strength roster.

Bizarre quote.

Warren just not a fit or what? Seemed like defense regressed/changed identities this season.

Do you have any insight on the timing of Warren leaving and Wilt being announced next day? Seems like this has been in the works for awhile.

Don't think so, but Bossi said expect a commitment in the next couple weeks in his pick post

Did he ever visit IU? Assume it's UVA or UK considering we haven't had any chatter recently.

Page 34 of this very thread.

Va Tech people hadn't felt confident in weeks (pre Bama visit). Clowney himself said he didn't think he was going to Bama going into that visit. 2+2=4.

In this case, the grain of salt from the player himself aligns pretty much exactly with what had been reported in the last month. So maybe everyone is wrong. Just don't get why people are making a federal case out of this when there's really been no conflicting timelines presented.

Yeah, maybe I'm just dumb and don't get it. Are you saying Clowney is lying with his above quote and that the lean was actually Alabama going into their visit?

'“Initially going into the (Alabama visit), honestly, I had the least amount of thought that I would go to Bama,” Clowney said. “I didn’t think I was going to Bama, going into the visit. So I get there and they showed me a lot that I didn’t see before.' From the horse's mouth. There's a pattern because recruiting often goes like this - it's all the whims of 17 year old kids. I definitely buy the narrative that he was thinking IU post Bloomington visit; I don't think that was some "insider" conspiracy.

Clowney himself heavily insinuated it was IU going into the Bama visit. Sometimes things do actually change.

Not a fan of the football approach of committable vs not committable offers at all. Why not just slow play him on the offer like they did Leal?

Simply from the sanctimonious Gregg Doyel columns/propaganda pieces for the Brown family that would come demanding he play more, it's a "no" from me as well. Purdue takes fliers on 3 star kids all the time (see Brian Waddell and Braden Smith in recent classes) and stayed away. Tells you all you need to know.

D-1 Hockey is very hard to finance. Illinois has been struggling to get one started for years - and they have a much stronger youth hockey base with the Chicago area to build off of.

Whoever sparked that rumor on the Vols forum is 100p just running with the staff telling JHS that Xavier and Rob are most likely graduating and that there will be a lot of minutes available at the point guard spot, considering the only competition will be Lander. For reasons already explained by others, there's no way Woodson out right promised the starting job right away.

Read the Illinois 247 site breakdown of the situation. Didn't leave his most recent school (Hamilton Heights in Tennessee) on good terms and also questioned the Illinois staff on why they were continuing to recruit guards after he committed.

Or just get a good NIL package together for TJD and convince him to stay for a fourth year and cement his legacy as an all time IU great. He'll have the stats for it, just needs to make a tournament run now and win a Big Ten championship.

I find that a little interesting. I feel like every recruit interview from this summer referenced Woodson being very open and honest and not promising anything.

Are you referring to Trent Ramsey? I thought we were done recruiting the OL after the Moore commitment.

"National top-30 class of 2022 prospect Jalen Hood-Schifino has tested positive for COVID and is out for the rest of the Peach Jam, his mother tells Peegs.com. She said he feels pretty good after flu-like symptoms, and a full recovery is expected." Wow his mom is so creepy. Can't believe she announced an illness that tens of million of people have had in the past year. Edit: Just saw that the New York Times has joined the creep show in reporting on the outbreak at Peach Jam that affected Hood-Schifino. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/sports/basketball/basketball-recruiting-delta-variant.html

I guess the preference would be for him to mysteriously not play the rest of the AAU season and have everyone speculate on the reasoning? The kid and his mom are free to disclose whatever they want. Odd comment from you.

https://slubillikens.com/news/2021/7/16/mens-soccer-billikens-announce-2021-recruiting-class.aspx I follow SLU athletics a bit, and I was surprised to see that AJ Palazzolo is going to use his extra year of eligibility back home at SLU per this release. I hadn't seen anything in the IU media space announcing this transfer. Anyone have any insight? Seems unusual for a captain and regular starter to grad transfer like this, but maybe just wants to play one year in front of family?

He reads Rabjohns.