IUrocker

I’m from the Fort Wayne area. If a kid from one of our local schools announced at his school that he was going to Duke, people from their school aren’t gonna be like “uggh, you should have stayed home and went to IPFW!!”. They are gonna be excited, pumped, and proud that he was going to play basketball at a big school like Duke. (I’m not trying to compare Vanderbilt and IPFW as basketball destinations, only as local stay home schools). This is why I don’t think it matters that he is announcing at his school. I’d like to think that if he chose IU, people in his area are gonna think it’s a big deal and be excited for him because they know IU is a big deal.

I almost wonder if Darius and Romeo chat with each other and talk about exactly what’s going on with all the anticipation these two have built up among the IU and Vandy fans. If so, then I don’t see Romeo listing Vandy in his top three as an issue. He knows Darius has a top two of IU and Vandy, so Romeo keeping Vandy and IU in his top three keeps up the anticipation and excitement of their recruitment. May sound silly, but with big recruits like this, knowing they are interested in playing with each other, keeping a couple of the same schools on their list instills the speculation until it’s all said and done.

Nice, yep that’s an early start to the day! My place of employment only has two shifts, 1st starts at 3:00am, 2nd at 3:00pm. I’ve been there 13 years and about 7 of it was on the 3:00am start. Even though I did it that long I still couldn’t get my body to be ok with getting up at 1:45am to go into work.

My work schedule is Fri/Sat/Sun, three 12 hour shifts, and then I have Monday thru Thursday off. I ALWAYS want the weekends to end, but yes, especially this one! Ha

If Meyer is known as one to change his picks late in the game and last minute, then I sure hope he isn’t messing with us by keeping his IU pick now but then plans on changing it Monday..

As we watch the IU game in progress on Wednesday, we see at the bottom of the screen “breaking news: Darius Garland commits to Indiana University”...I mean, that’d be cool...

If Garland doesn’t announce until Monday and Meyer somehow thinks that it’s not IU, would he wait until Monday to change his pick?

Hopefully Darius and family see the Vandy staff’s last desperate shot at hope with all these phone calls and contacts as annoying instead of thinking something like “wow, they are really putting in work to get us to go there”, and be impressed by it (which I highly doubt). Plus, if he has made up his mind already then hopefully nothing they do or say at this point could change it.

Could Shittu want to go to Vanderbilt if he knew Garland was gonna pick IU so that he could be THE guy at Vanderbilt?

Hopefully his dad saying he is focused on just one school at this point goes along with the Shittu info being put out there, but in a way that says “we’ve had our school in mind for a while now, and this new info about another kid hasn’t changed that.”

Hopefully Darius and his family had their hearts set on IU, Bryce Drew slipping in to talk to them after they discussed things kinda gives the family a “we know what you’re trying to do here” feel, and they are smart enough to not let anything he does or says affect their decision.

So if he does make an announcement tonight, it will happen by what time? Gonna try and advise my wife how long I’ll be refreshing my phone every minute BEFOREHAND so I can avoid the “being annoyed” stage, lol

Cool, thank you....send a little prayer our way while you’re at church!! Haha

I know Yogi mentioned Evan being there watching Garland could mean something like him getting a date in which he plans to commit, or actually committing tonight. What is the most likely scenario just based off who Evan Daniels is? Does HIM being there make it any more significant than the other?

If I remember correctly, Hoosier Guy’s same calm and confident demeanor was on display once the Crean firing rumors started swirling. There were people saying he was gone, while other reports said he was returning, which led to tons of people wondering what was really gonna happen. All the while, Hoosier Guy stood firm with the “Relax, he’s gone”, or “Be patient...”, etc. Then bam, Crean was announced being let go. Personally, for me and that in mind, it really makes me lean towards thinking we really could be getting our guys. Same deal goes for Romeo and Darius with the whole “Relax, they are coming to IU” stuff. If I’m crazy for leaning on those comparisons, then maybe so, haha, but dang it sure does make me believe!!

True story: On Saturday before HH around 2:00 or so, some family members and I were walking down Walnut street heading to Brothers to get some drinks before the event. I happened to look at some people getting out of their vehicle parked in a spot on the street, and it just happened to be Darius and his family. I went right up to Darius and said “You’re Darius, right?”, and he smiled and nodded. I shook his hand and said “well thank you for coming and we’re very excited that you’re here.” He smiled and said thank you and then I walked off. I turned to one of my brothers and said “that was Darius Garland! He’s one of the top recruits we are trying to get!” He laughed and was in awe that I noticed him and knew who he was. (He’s not nearly as obsessed with IU b-ball as I am, haha). Anyways, you can thank me for that moment with Darius as the tipping point that made him fall in love with the place, hahaha, just kidding. I did indeed think it was really cool that I saw him out and about though!

This shirt I had made after the hire says it all!! I could cry!!!

Does Jerry changing his pick all of a sudden mean announcement is going to happen anytime now? Or could we still not see anything for another couple weeks or so?

Right, I see what you mean, yeah I did mean by a 3rd party like stubhub. Was wondering when the soonest they would be up for sale that way. I agree that with all the season ticket holders and students being there that getting them otherwise would be pretty much impossible. I usually take my family to non-conference games when most of the students are away on break and get them for decent prices on stubhub, but I'm definitely aware that the price for this game will be nowhere close to what I get the non-conference cupcake games for.

Anyone know when tickets for this would start going on sale along with the rest of the games for the season? Not until August or so? I can't image how fast the Duke game will sell out.

Indeed. Definitely glad we got Archie! I saw that a source said OSU's wish list of coaches to go after are Brad Stevens, Tony Bennett, Jay Wright, Sean Miller, and Billy Donovan. Seems like a pretty hefty list. Donovan seems interesting if you think about him reuniting with Urban Meyer from their days at Florida, but to me, IMO, Ohio State just doesn't seem to be a wow factor type of job for guys on that list...but that's the lifelong Hoosier fan in me speaking I suppose. On a side note, I'm wondering if Archie is thinking about that job now a bit in the back of his mind knowing it was said to be his "dream job". Now that he's at IU I doubt it. He knows IU is a special place to be.

I agree. I believe that if the Donovan name was never even in existence to happening and Archie was announced, everyone would be like "YES!!!"...now it seems like a letdown to people just because we got our hopes up about Donovan. The way we need to truly look at it is this: Crean is the coach we fired, so is Archie an upgrade to Crean? IMO, I give a resounding YES.

Would the first announcement of Donovan being the coach and a formal introduction press conference with him being present go hand in hand, or could they announce him as coach and then he get formally introduced at a later time?

Agreed. I think if he is indeed in town then an announcement will be made. He's not gonna risk being seen if he isn't gonna take the job.

So yeah since it is indeed Todd's twitter page, maybe there doesn't necessarily need to be photo evidence as far as Donovan being out in public. It could very well be a matter of someone who is in the know is aware of Billy and his wife being in town, and that person told Todd. Like someone else has stated, just because Billy and his wife are in town doesn't mean he is out in public walking the streets, or heck, eating wings at Buffalouie's...