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Appreciate the insight, hoosierpap!

Don't forget, Archie is from Pennsylvania, and played college ball in the ACC. As to Bruiser, I think he offers a lot beyond just x/o coaching. Sounds like the parents like him, and feel he will be a good figure for the young men as they transition to college.

Yeah! I got murdered on there! So many downvotes!!

MSU fans are stating that MSU has always been Henry's "dream school" based on an interview from a couple weeks ago. Obviously a little different than what we understood during the recruitment.

Mo Bamba posting. Darius Garland liking.

Welcome, Jake Forrester! I hope you are a monster for us. Side note, does this mean he committed over the weekend, and they cleared out the room so he could take those pics in the jersey?

Hard not to read into this.

The Curse of Aaron Henry. Now IU has a reputation of recruiting over guys. I kid. I don't really understand the comments. But the way he said it twice makes me think that Mr. Forrester (?) isn't a huge fan of his kid becoming a Hoosier. Surely he isn't implying that somehow we shouldn't use our proud heritage to our advantage?

Go away, Izzo.

Wow. Good for both parties. I think he'll contribute. I really wanted him.

Any word on how this went?

Hey man, good luck. I have no leads for you, but hope you can find a better situation.

By blind luck, Adidas is suddenly the hot brand. Google "adidas is cool again" and you'll see tons of articles about it from the last year. I wouldn't know if I couldn't research it hahaha. But yeah now NBA dudes like to show their closets full of Adidas gear. Lucky for us, we're one of the big programs that is signed with Adidas.

And this is the one covering the Kendrick Lamar album cover, called HUMBLE.

Do you follow IU on social media? In the past few months they have REAALLLLY updated everything. Lots of creative videography set to music "the kids are listening to." There was one a few weeks ago of RoJo that copied the famous cover art of a Kendrick Lamar song that's been huge. On the Reddit College Basketball forum fans from all over the country were talking about how cool it was. The social media people bring in a lot of Oladipo, and feature our many NBA guys on a regular basis. Oladipo seems to be around the program all the time. There was a big one for the IU Twitter account reaching 1,000,000 followers that was really well done. My favorite shows the guys hustling in practice working on closing out on defense, really cool. UCLA will always have the LA thing going. Let them be UCLA. That doesn't attract everybody, and I don't want to be UCLA. It did attract Wilkes, and that's fine. Let's be the best Indiana.

One of the reasons I'm not as high on Green as the rest of the fanbase seems to be. Also why I think the best backcourt may be Johnson and Jones.

Of course that could happen. Let's keep in mind this rule would help IU more than hurt us. We are in the group of teams that could poach good players from lesser programs. I'm ambivalent to the rule. I'll deal with it either way. I generally don't like limiting the choices of these amateur athletes. I am a little curious why we're even talking about it. It seems like the major issues facing the NCAA right now are concerning whether basketball/football players should be compensated in a manner that is more fair for their value, and the eligibility if a player does try to profit off his own likeness. So where did this come from?

I was just putting some furniture together and thinking about this. Just why are we being predicted to miss the tournament? That makes no sense! This is a well built team! Our main concern is that we don't have a backup center! Most teams can't field one good center. We have plenty of height and big bodies to compete. Good to see these tweets. I wonder sometimes if Archie doesn't get excited about what he's got brewing here.

Curtis has moves JBJ never had. Curtis is a funny case, in that he's a massive talent that has been hiding on our roster behind headlines about Thomas, OG, JBJ, coaching changes, and recruiting news. He came in with two very good shooting guards in front of him. And I think he, above many others, really suffered from the schizophrenic coaching last year. That's why he started like an assassin against Kansas, and then just withered as the season wore on. I disagree that CAM will start 3 guards so Curtis can start. I think that's a lineup that is just too small for the defense he wants to run. I truly believe CAM will base his lineups on defensive efficacy, and having three guards just doesn't provide the length he wants. Look at who he's recruiting, a bunch of lengthy, rangy players. RP aside, he seems to be looking for lengthy guards, and has spoken before about Al's value on defense with his length. Even talk of moving Jerome to SG. Whoa! Having that bevy of lengthy, quick guys works with the packline and constant switching, so there are no matchups to be created and exploited. I just don't see him putting a 6'3" Curtis in over a 6'7" Hartman. THAT SAID, Curtis may still start. I've heard the same, CuJo is showing signs of being one of the team's best. Add in that Robert came back from the combine being told that his place in the Association would be as a PG, and so Archie may just decide that Johnson and Jones are our best option back there. It certainly has some merit. I am not a Newkirk hater by any means, I'm just wondering if his abilities at PG over RoJo are so significant that it merits taking Hartman off the floor... or maybe Smith or Moore. I honestly don't think that there is enough, if any, increase from Johnson to Newkirk at this point to justify not fielding Archie's best defense (meaning only two guards). Round it out with Hartman, DD, and Juwan. Plenty of depth left behind them.

Sure they do! Welcome!

Archie REALLY seems to like him.

Good to get a feel for height in this pic. Race looks every bit of his reported height, Clifton and Justin Smith, too. And yeah Jager is a funny dude. His Instagram posts are awesome, always self-deprecating.

Treesh! Long time no see!

Yeah I read it's Damezi, Jerome, Rob, Trayce, and Romeo. And the rest of the team. I did not hear this directly from any source.

Garland just liked an Instagram post from IU basketball. If only he'd post some eyes emojis to really clear things up.