Hoosier987

Sherrell > Bidunga. Sherrell is far more skilled, and if I had to choose every time, I’m taking Sherrell without hesitation. Haralson is athletic, but not a strong shooter. I’d rather have Darren Harris and Lindsay—both proven shooters who’ve played on NCAA Tournament teams. Burton is an elite in-state guard. Instead of chasing someone like Juke, who’s unlikely, it makes more sense to prioritize a former Mr. Indiana Basketball and one of the top guards in the portal. He’s a great fit for our system.

They’re will be mid

It’s one site. We’ll be better than this. Our portal haul was tremendous.

We’ll be preseason top 25. Rothstein updated his rankings this morning and has us at #15. DeVries and Staff have done a fantastic job. Also, it shouldn’t go unnoticed but each of our transfer players have multi years left of eligibility (assuming Burton gets a medical waiver).

Playing catch up. What a tremendous stretch of commitments. We have a monster class. Exciting times

Does anyone recall when Barttorkvik updates their rankings? It will be interesting where we land. Have to think we're trending towards a top 25 metric ranking after our transfer haul recruiting class is completed.

Seems like we're on commitment watch at any moment.

The way the team is taking shape, Rancik would be a depth piece. He's likely wanting substantial minutes.

I think his commitment is imminent.

I wouldn't expect that to happen. He's a Michigan man now.

I understand. I’ve always appreciated multi-year players. But last year, was there anyone truly worth investing in long-term? We needed a reset. Wilkerson stands out, but he was out of eligibility.

Carr is good. Lets continue to have him do the evaluations

Often, schools seek a commitment before a player leaves campus, which gives an advantage to the programs scheduled earlier in the visit process. Mgbako’s recruitment is a strong example—he had a visit to Louisville planned after ours but canceled it after committing. Similarly, Ware had SEC visits lined up but chose not to take them following his official visit with us. However, If Burton makes it to Bloomington without committing to CKS then that would probably be a good sign for Devries.

Sampson has coached a ton of great guards. From Hollis Price, to Eric Gordon and LJ Cryer. Hell, he coached Earl Calloway to a really good year in our 06-07 season. He can point to a number of successes.

Hope we get Burton but there are also other schools involved too.

The irony of it all, is we had our own Brad Stevens.

I understand. Year 2 is going to be pivotal for DeVries.

I knew people would start saying this. We have no earthly idea if DeVries hired the wrong guy. Let’s circle back to this after 5 years. If there was ever a time for McCollum to make noise it would be now. His two best players in Stirtz and Banks (who have been in his system a long time) are both gone after this year

Whoaaa, let’s get a participation trophy for beating the eventual national champion lmao. That’s even more of an indictment that we couldn’t make the tournament and lost 16 games. Keep digging

I was about to say, the OG argument is pretty weak at best. We had already lost a half dozen games including to IPFW and were below .500 in conference when he got hurt. All by mid January.

What are you talking about? He had damn near a decade here lol! Nobody ran him off.

Crean was fired because it was time to move on. Yes..he had the # 1 recruit at UGA - a generational talent - and still was abysmal at UGA. Yes, He had 2 top 4 draft picks at Indiana…and didn’t know how to beat a zone. All things considered, Im taking CDD all day over CTC…and I still don’t know if CDD is going to be a great coach but I do know what CTC is, and that’s not very good. He had plenty of time here.

What are you talking about? That quite literally happened. Why aren’t schools lining up to have Crean as their next coach? Let me guess, you’ll say it’s because he’s doesn’t want to coach. lol, keep dreaming.

Lol. Even if you ignore Crean’s abysmal record at UGA with a generational talent in Ant Man (btw Mike White, has won a lot more at UGA than Crean, which isn’t saying much) I’ll repeat…He still had burned a lot of bridges, especially in-state, indicative of him handing out scholarships like candy. The program also had multiple embarrassing moments including anumber of arrests under his watch, and another incident where one player quite literally ran over another with a car…moving on from him was the right move. It was time to move on. He had 9 years.