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From the game a couple days ago. Demo gave a better report on Cupps but this helps some. https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdr97sa4/ https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdr9WRgK/ Yes, obnoxious the guy never states Cupps has committed to Indiana. Several in the comments point it out.

You should DEFINITELY be a power 6 coach by now

Um. As a better lawyer, we enjoin him from changing out of his suit. The suit being the status quo we seek to keep. It’s all in the wording. Then you forum shop to file in a court with an IU fan judge. Win the temporary injunction while the case is pending, and just rack up the billables for years. Follow me for more practice tips.

I guess maybe it’s better Booker couldn’t make it for that meeting. Awwwwkwaaarrrdd.

Galloway coming in off the bench if this keeps up.

Young fella seems to have upped his production

Pretty crass. He and the mom seem thrilled about it.

Can’t imagine what he had to be upset about. Head scratcher. Love seeing CJ have himself a game. He’s been the forgotten man here, maybe I’ll get down to watch a LN game sometime.

Woodson over there going “Float it” Same theme but for the holiday

Josh let’s go golfing together

1. Ping I-2 irons. A Cleveland driver a buddy gave me because it’s “forgiving.” A Cleveland hybrid 3 rescue club. Pretty sure the putter is a Wilson. 2. I play with whatever balls I find in the woods while I’m looking for my ball. I did get gifted some CostCo balls once from a father-in-law that wanted better for his daughter. 3. Rescue club. Rescue club. Rescue club. 4. Maybe the real golf score is the friends we made along the way. 5. Kinda rude question tbh. I get my money’s worth 6. I prefer holes that dogleg right. Dramatically. Poor luck finding a pin location that aligns with my excellent tee shots. 7. I went to a bachelor party in Miami. The bell hop gave us a cigar that helped me time travel holes 3-16 at the Miami Beach Golf Club. Also beat the aforementioned father-in-law on a few holes at Kiawah. These are the memories that make me a wealthy soul.

Yeah. That last sentence is positioning. So if noncompliance comes out they can play the “he lied to us and we had no knowledge of wrongdoing” card. Aaaaand to editorialize a bit…. Nebraska getting the hammer isn’t justice. First off, my general take that when there is this much money involved, the talent deserves to get something resembling fair compensation. Second, as EVERYONE points out, they punish the worst team in the B1G while there is blatant noncompliance by the marquee programs. It’s silly. It does nothing to create a level playing field. Yeah sure it’s cheating, but this isn’t the kind of action that creates change. Because they don’t want change. No, I’m not saying anything groundbreaking here.

SIAP Hoiberg in hot water?? https://mobile.twitter.com/speed_in_space/status/1470609401476177924

Yeah my one Boiler buddy was explaining to me last week how Purdue would go undefeated, explaining in the obnoxious way every single one does like it’s some math equation the rest of us can’t understand. I tried to tell him the B1G is tough, and that’s not a reasonable expectation. He wouldn’t hear it. I tried not to text him after the game. Tried.

People, I’d like to win this game. We’re either good or mediocre again. And to be good we’ve got to steal a few of these that could go either way. We are a little better on offense, and a little better on defense. So let’s keep the ball when we have it and let the game play out. As much as we talk about the bench, I’d like our starters to show out tonight, and not just X and Trayce. And yeah I’d like to see some fire in these guys, like it’s a fight they want to win.

The Lander DNP is going to dominate discussion at least until the next game, eh? I tend to agree that the hand-wringing would be far less if he didn’t have 5*, and wasn’t from Indiana. We’re rooting for him and want to see a player that can be a star. I’m reminded of the phrase, if you name two starting quarterbacks, then you really just don’t have a starting quarterback. Neither of those guys are making much impact on the outcome. Lander is much better than last year, and I get that the trajectory is an argument in his favor. Hard not to speculate that’s there’s something going on that we don’t know about. I agree with the poster that pointed out that the staff is aware of the risk that he may transfer. Jordan Geronimo is making a case that he needs more time on the bench. Haven’t seen those Oladipo comparisons in a while. There are some of you here who can talk Xs and Os better than me, but I don’t think this is the offense Woodson intended, mostly because there’s no way to leave Race on the bench. He just does too much, and as a result we’re mostly an interior based team again. If Bates keeps growing he may earn more of Kopp’s minutes and make us a little more dynamic. Not a huge win, but a great win. We handled it and can add on another W.

I think we’ve all stated our viewpoints here. Repeating them won’t make them any more or less accurate. Please move on and contribute new thoughts.

I love analytics and I’m usually the guy arguing them over the eye test. But using team defense to discredit Rob’s defense over Khristian’s doesn’t work today. Otherwise, I agree there’s some unquantifiable value to playing/developing the younger, promising guard. We’re all really rooting for Khristian to become another plus player for us. Especially with X and Rob possibly done after this year. But what if Rob had made a pass at the end of 1st OT against Syracuse? In that game, he was the guy effective making the entry pass, and it may have translated to an important win. Aaaaanyway. It’s Xavier’s show this year. And Khristian is no guarantee next year—to stay or start—regardless, so I’d be inclined to pick the backup PG that gives the better chance this year to get wins. And my man. Woodson, Matta, Fife, etc absolutely deserve some benefit of the doubt. And yes more than Archie and Schilling. But I do appreciate not having blind faith.

Love the profile pic. Even announcing 2nd vs 3rd backup PG seems unnecessary to me but whatever. And stats or not, I can watch the action and tell you Rob is a better defender than KL. Rob can stop a drive by himself, KL gets targeted and requires help. That said KL is much, much better this year, to the point that it makes sense to give him minutes.

Holy crap I love this

IU 79 Syracuse 71

I think Archie enjoyed a ton of patience from fans in a lot of areas, and the pack line is one of them. I doubt we’d have been so patient if Virginia hadn’t just won. But yeah, in retrospect, the idea that you can not guard your man on the perimeter but just get to him super duper fast once he gets the ball is silly. And we got torched. It doesn’t help that the team started to hate playing basketball for him and effort went down.

Some retribution against the Thundering Turd for soccer last year. Hoosiers 90 Marshall 58

The ‘15-‘16 team doesn’t get enough credit around here. Yogi was awesome. Having your PG be a scoring threat is like a cheat code.