MonteMarcaccini

Thank you and please do. I’ll share another story relevant to some of your expertise. My son, again, was waiting tables and had an older couple in Celtics gear, it was this summer a couple days after the Celtics won the title. He says to them you must be happy and the couple said yes, especially since their son is the GM (which is funny as he is actually the President). My son tells them he is a big IU fan and that we are always hoping Brad would coach IU. His Dad says, “us too! But he would never do that to Butler” It is a Dad talking, who knows, and things obviously can always change, but I always found it interesting that he said that. One can dream…

Longtime lurker here. Kind of. I have some perspective here as my kid grew up with Braden and we were around the Westfield program. His mom was Miss Basketball in Arkansas and met his Dad at Arkansas Tech. His Dad grew up in Kokomo area (I think played at Western) and then Ark Tech. Braden lived most of his life in Indiana. I believe he liked the Crean Zeller teams as a kid but I never saw him in any IU gear. A lot of MSU gear tho. My son laughed when I told him people said he was a big IU fan. He was smaller and played for his Dad’s AAU team on a lower circuit instead of Indy Heat (which he could have), thus the lack of early HM offers. He also popped for Purdue before the summer of his senior year, where I think he would have garnered plenty of HM offers. Belmont was the first offer and he was telling people he was going to go there (until Purdue offered). He did an unofficial to IU for the PSU game before the world shut down. Lander was there too and then committed soon after. Plenty of people were telling Archie the kid was special- smartest player and one of the best passers I’ve seen in Indiana HS basketball. It wasn’t hard to figure out and Painter has admitted as much once he saw his tape. Anyway, enough about a Purdue player and back to firing this clown that is torpedoing our program into the ground.