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Actually think DeVries has a pretty similar offensive philosophy to McDermott; we'll get to see something like it before long!

So glad we get to attend to high school recruiting again...

I do think people are underrating what it means that Dolson hired Cignetti. Cignetti being the coach this season made them $29 million over and above what they made the previous year. The basketball job used to be the only bellwether for the AD; opening football up as a revenue source changes the game. I really doubt he's going anywhere until he wants to leave.

This is also true, which is awful for a team so attracted to 2-big lineups, and which had Oumar Ballo...

I'll concede that point; the 5 is around the basket, and is the lone opportunity at second chance points. The other guys vacate immediately, but you're right.

Well, I'm not sure about the Oreb part of that... one of the markers of his system is that he sends no one to the offensive glass.

Yeah... I know that she's not popular, but IU has shown that the President is able to undermine the basketball program (Brand & Herbert). She has not shown herself to be anything like that. I won't be raising any voice against her.

An underrated aspect to this? There literally are not very many pastures greener than IU for men's basketball. We have to remember that we're literally at the top of the food chain in terms of relevant support.

*Brad coming to this board to mean mug all the IU fans with the temerity to think he would condescend to coach college basketball again*

I'm old enough to remember when Collin Hartman was telling anyone who would listen that Archie Miller was going to win a National Championship at Indiana. Think that says a lot about the different variables that go into coach success, and how unpredictable it is. I don't think we'll begin to have an idea of how this hire has gone until about a year from now.

The last one he loved this much was the Archie hire; has me a little nervous...

That's almost 2/3 of a season, but get him a good lawyer and give it a shot, I guess...

I actually forgot, in all the excitement. DeVries definitely better than Turgeon.

Would really prefer we not target other states like this; it's not like much of Indiana is some metropolitan haven, and there's nothing wrong with that. We just took their coach, so I think it's fine to leave it at that.

Not to be a party pooper. Woodson's offense scored 112.4 pp/100 this year. The offense drives people crazy. Everyone's expecting things to get much better. I hope they do. DeVries has coached 7 seasons. 6 at a much lower level of competition. Only one of his offenses has been better than this year's IU offense. Not trying to be negative. There's a LOT of growth necessary.