MonteMarcaccini

I believe IU can only survive a loss if they beat USC (quality win) and lose to Wash OR lose in the B1G champ. Lose to USC and it will get very interesting

Been mentioned plenty about needing to get to the bye, so I looked at the top 30 or so teams ranked today in the Athletic. IU is the only one that had played 9 straight weeks. (USC has played 9 games but played week 0 and had a bye on 10/17). Every other team has had a week off. After playing on the road in front of 100k getting NEB and MICH best shot in between playing a grinder against OSU, to say they were on fumes going into MINN would be a major understatement. Makes it all the more remarkable what this defense has done. MUCH needed rest this week.

He might want to do a little dive into DDV’s background. Soft is the last thing that comes to mind. So much drivel in these mediums

Agree with a lot of this. WKU was athletic and disruptive with one guy that can really score. Type of team that likely wins their league and will be a tough 1st rd game. Great to play against that in an exhibition game as they clearly were looking to knock off Indiana. The starters weren’t good, which can be a good teaching game for the staff, and I suspect we will see some very good nights and some not so good nights from both Burton and Lindsay just based on how they are wired. Hopefully not both struggling at the same time. Sherrell is the one I worry won’t produce at the level needed. Skilled, can hit the 3 ball and is good defensively but doesn’t have much scoring variance and struggles when driving or putting the ball on the floor. Will be interesting to see how the staff develops and/or utilizes him.

My guess would be Evans.

When asked yesterday, Cig said “we are very optimistic about him”. Didn’t give a definitive return though

Yesterday Cig mentioned coming off two physical games, and this being the 8th game in a row, that some guys weren’t feeling the way they were 10 days ago. And they would have to “suck it up”. Reminds me of the stretch last year into Penn St and then kind of limping into the Wisco game (played lethargic in the 1H) Injury report will be interesting. Hopefully Khobi can inject some juice into the run game starting this week.

If it was the 2H, it would’ve been ill advised but worth a shot in the 1H

Drew Evans got abused and gave Hoover no time. Going to be a rough day in the film room for Evans, had a rough day. Never thought that would be an issue.

Thanks for the recap, good stuff. Built this team around rebounding was interesting to hear and certainly showed on Sunday. Rebounding, multiple shooters and rim protection will win you some games.

Anybody have access to Bossi’s article and comments on Chase at the USAB Fall mini camp?

Wasserstrom is a 5th year kid, not returning

Huge get. As much as I’m looking forward to this season’s group, it is hard not to be very excited if most of those pieces return and you add two (likely) McD AA’s to the mix for the 27-28 season!

Winston was a counselor at the Bob Knight Basketball school I attended as a junior high kid. He was awesome to us, made a huge impression and became a favorite of mine.

Cig brought up facing Colandrea when he was a frosh at UVA. JMU won 36-35. Colandrea went 20-26 for 377 yards, 2TD and 1 int. The 2 TD’s were over 60 yards. Also rushed 7 times for -30 yards. obviously completely different teams but interesting that he exploited Haines D for long throws but was also sacked a bunch. I think IU has a good edge at the line of scrimmage but the QB could make this interesting ala NW game

And he should’ve been rewarded with his first TD, couldn’t have been more wide open

Saw the visit breakdown of his contenders from the other site. Yikes to what he said is our pitch which is essentially we will hand him the keys and he won’t be on campus long.

This assumes Lonergan has time to throw or is able to make plays off schedule. My guess is he won’t and D has a big bounce back game.

Kid is really good and only getting better and bigger. Took a slant 80 yards against Carmel Friday, out running their whole secondary which includes the highly regarded safety Drake Coellner. Dad played for the Colts- Justin Snow. Justin played at Baylor. Wouldn’t be surprised if the big Texas schools are heavily considered. He’s basically been offered by every top program though. Would be great to keep him local!

IU!! He’s a fun watch

Great news! No further info from the guy close to it but can assume IU stepped up and did the right things to close the deal.

Announcing today? Any word on this one?

Heard some inside stuff here and it wasn’t especially favorable for IU. Not saying it won’t happen but IU’s approach of “we are IU and why wouldn’t you want to be a part of this” isn’t fully resonating.

Run it back with Reed!!

Haven’t watched Branham live but have seen plenty of highlights and his stats against good competition and there is a lot to like. Looks like a possible McDAA and a kid that could help IU from the jump. That said, I’m way past taking much of Rabby’s player evals serious. He gets so biased with certain players and just often sounds like he’s making excuses for when they don’t play well. His evals and commentary on Lander, Cupps and Booker to name a few were borderline ridiculous if not embarrassing. And partly why I jumped off that site. If Trevor has things to say, I’m all ears. He is an evaluator. Rabjohns is a journalist. Anyway, looking forward to seeing more about Branham’s play this spring and summer.