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I wonder at this point if @ISP has any new info on top of good feelings he had yesterday.

Well Maryland was one of the other couple of places Connor happened to visit, so hopefully it’s just Maryland insider saying dumb stuff because they aren’t getting him and aren’t happy about it. If its true though, then kinda takes the wind out of my sail after seeing people say a deal is done with him on our side. I understand this stuff is fluid and people hear what they can, but man, I really hope we get him. My hopes are high on this one for multiple reasons.

Just realized one of my daughters brought this home from her 3rd grade class for info about a field trip a couple days ago…heck of a sign if I do say so myself. He’s even getting chaperoned around campus and getting paid money.

Hopefully it’s today. I waited too long yesterday already haha

If staff is trying to get him, would he be an “instead of” Essegian, or an “along with”?

Im hoping we get a commitment today from someone who was on campus last night. Waiting all day and night with no announcement thinking there was going to be one was a nightmare. I didn’t have enough thumbs to twiddle haha. Good to see he was hanging out with some teammates last night. Hopefully yesterday was a matter of sealing the deal, telling him to go hang out and have some fun while we work on your commitment video, and tomorrow we’ll let it be known.

I feel like this has happened before. We pretty much know we have a guy in the bag, someone hears another school is about to get involved, and then boom, they announce their commitment to us haha.

It was just someone else on the other forum saying “sounds like..”, so not sure where he’s hearing it.

I saw someone say Hoiberg trying to get Connor to Nebraska this weekend…sure as heck hope there’s no need for that if that’s true. I’d like to think Connor would rather stay home if there’s mutual interest with IU

I wonder if his visit is still going on at this point or if he’s already gone? I didn’t know if they just stayed the night of the day they are visiting or left same day? I guess either way could be the case, but I’d assume he still may be there.

Ok, NOW I might be getting impatient haha

I know a lot of hometown Central Noble people who are big fans of Connor are also big Purdue fans..so that’s funny to me and I love it. All the IU fans around, heck just the entire community in general are going to be so happy and excited for him.

At this point I’m hoping there’s no reason for him to feel the need to take visits to other schools. Awesome that his AAU coach is with him and wants him to go to IU.

Another thing about Connor, his freshman year when he played a good amount of minutes at Wisconsin before his back flared up, he was at about 89% on free throws. Good guy to have in there late in the game when other teams trying to foul. If he can be a guy who’s willing to accept a role as someone who can knock down some 3’s and be money at the charity stripe then he’d definitely be a good get.

Right, I agree. Connor was for sure option 1 at Central Noble and didn’t have as much competition. I’m just bias and trying to talk him up since I went to CN too (even though I graduated the year after he was born haha)

Oh for sure, CN was only 2A, I get that and agree, but heck you still gotta put the ball through the hoop…I’m just trying to talk him up haha

Agree…and obviously there are some factors that go into this that people can nitpick, but just to put into perspective: Indiana high school career points: Leal - 1,620 Essegian - 2,526

I wonder if Michigan is in a spot to offer him more minutes or even a starting role. Not too sure what their situation is with what they’d be able to give him. If both Michigan and IU are saying he’ll be a role player off the bench then hopefully our higher money will be the tipping point. I also think, like Chris said, he’s probably going to like Michigan’s system better and think he may get more shots there, so that worries me a bit. Not much tape on IU the last few years that shows snipers getting a bunch of shots…I guess we’ll find out.

Yeah doesn’t surprise me that he’s down to IU and Michigan. I knew he and his family grew up big Michigan fans. I’m sure they’d think it’d be really cool for him to play there. Obviously playing at a place like IU is no slouch either obviously, so in this case hopefully money does talk. I’m bias on him though since we went to the same high school. My sister in law was his teacher in a couple classes too, so we all think it’d be cool for him to be at IU.

Definitely interested in how the Connor Essegian visit goes today. If he’s 100% healthy from his back issues like I’ve seen he is, I think he could be a more reliable shot maker than Miller Kopp was for us. I feel like Kopp wasn’t as deadly as I thought he’d be, although I wish he had gotten more attempts. Thing is, Kopp probably ended up being a better defender than Connor could be. No reason why he can’t improve there though. Kopp improved his defense while here, so Connor could do the same if he puts in the work.

Oh yeah, forgot about that, which I did see he is 100% ok from that as of now.

I saw that Connor broke the record for 3’s made as a freshman at Wisconsin and was only the 5th frosh in school history to average double figures. Just odd to go from having that type of impact (27 mpg) to being pretty much non existent this last season (7 mpg). I know it was said because Gard didn’t like his defense but still..kid wasn’t afraid to be a sniper. Dusty May was one of the first to contact him at Michigan once he hit the portal and after that has visited South Carolina and Maryland..now IU.

Right, that’s true, I agree with that. Probably wishful thinking that we’ll actually have an offense that would get more open looks for guys like him. I was just talking to a friend of mine who is also a big IU fan and CN graduate and he thinks he’d be surprised if Conner ends up at IU. Thinks he’d probably rather go to a smaller school where he could be a starter and get more minutes. I guess we’ll see.

As a fellow Central Noble graduate, I’d like this a lot. Really good kid. Made no sense to me for him to play in the Wisconsin style offense. He probably picked them out of his other list of suitors because it was the big name school. Obviously don’t expect him to get big minutes with us but to come in and bang in a couple/few Zeisloft/Roth 3’s would be great.

If Quinn and big boosters wanted Stevens and couldn’t get it done when they tried, maybe Quinn went with his buddy knowing that there will indeed come a time when Brad does want to take the job. Quinn gave the job to Woodson to have him coach in the meantime and is just waiting for Stevens to come back around. Obviously wishful thinking, but just trying to tie everything together if this Stevens resurface holds any weight. Boy wouldn’t that be something. Hard to type out knowing it could be wasteful thoughts haha.