Chris007

On one hand as nice as they come. Always how are you doing? How is your son, wife? Things like that. On the other hand, he was gods greatest gift to basketball. He knew it all and don't try to tell him anything.

He was worried about way too many other things than a practice schedule. I was told that one of the first things Colin asked Coach Miller when deciding about whether to come back or not was will there be a practice schedule. The next day when he came into the locker room there was a schedule of the next week's events on Colin's locker.

When the officials were asked to show up the players had already been going for over an hour, hour an half. First time I ever was there it was so weird to officiate 10 players, 4 or 5 managers with boxing gloves on hitting offensive players. Do you call a foul? I understand he is wanting the players to become tougher but there were no parameters in what was a foul or not a foul. A manager hit a player so hard it knocked him down. Before I could call a foul, Crean comes running over yelling that's travel you have to be stronger than that.

The language is nicer. I'm not old enough to have been at one of Coach Knight's practices but remember going to the open scrimmages with my dad and hearing words that weren't used at my house.

Cool. It is pretty well known how Crean was. It's frustrating to get that text asking you to leave your job to go officiate practice in the middle of the day instead of just having a weekly schedule like we have now.

One thing I know for sure because I have seen it with my own eyes is now that games have started Coach Miller has already started shortening practices. They go just as hard but they are shorter practices due to playing games. Coach Miller puts more focus on using video to teach the kids. He will use a 6-minute clip to show a player 4 minutes of what he is doing wrong and 2 minutes of how he is doing it right. He does this individually with each player. Crean never did any of that. He wasn't organized enough to do something like that. He didn't tell players, coaches or officials when the practice was that day till around noon the day of practice. Just a text saying can you be here at 2 for practice. These kids have never practiced or been around someone as organized as Coach Miller. It's just totally different and going to take time to adjust too. They will either adjust, buy in or they won't be here next season.

He said he was going to share some things later but yes he hinted that himself & Evan Daniels were misled by Winston.

Do you think he is trying to make us look bad to get Romeo? Winston still mad that Bob Knight never offered? IDK but no way we were 4th.

Holy Cow!!! I'm absolutely stunned by him saying this. There might be some hard feelings somewhere.

I don't feel good about it at all anymore. I thought if we got DG than it was likely we got Romeo so the rebuild would go quicker. Romeo can't help us rebuild by himself. And the rebuild is real that's for sure. I told people in here after watching practice that we need to slow down expectations.

On a college and professional level yes they are. All SEC games are on ESPN, plus NBA is on ESPN part of the time. That what I meant when I said they needed them

Believe me they need ESPN a lot more than ESPN needs DG or his family.

I think we have the same chance as KU & VU.

He broke my perfect streak. Good for him staying home. The one thing I didn't care for is he played all the schools for attention. He knew two weeks ago he was going to Vandy. But he told each coaching staff what they wanted to hear. Then it gets leaked to ESPN 3 hours before the announcement but he hasn't even told any of the coaches. The Garlands did a great job with the recruitment up until today.

I thought it was 3:45 Bloomington time. 2:45 Nashville

I agree with this. I think it is IU but as you said no one knows yet. The coaching staff doesn't know yet but from my conversations with the staff, they feel very good about it his recruitment and conversations they have had with him. All of this is opinion of it all and I still think it is IU

I love Bill Walton. We always called him carrottop

Holy cow that is exciting. That might have been a team that not even Crean could have screwed up. LOL Just kidding

As someone who spent several summers following the Grateful Dead I like nature too.

Vandy is the home school like IU was to Wilkes. Were the UCLA for Garland going away from home.

Yes I believe so.

No I'm not saying that. I don't think he will Tuesday. I'm just saying stay ahead of the game and get his jersey now.

Or D all of the above

Because Monday seems like forever right now

Smart way to get ahead of the curve. Early Christmas shopping is done for you. Make sure on Tuesday you order the Romeo one too. Keep both receipts just in case