JerryYeagley23

Earlier I said Auburn would beat IU by 30+ I drastically overestimated our team. It would be much worse.

Remember at the end of last season when people were lauding Gallo and Leal announcing they were returning as a vote of confidence for Woody that his players believed in him? Glad they’re collecting one last NIL check on their way out the door this year.

We’re, uhhhh…. Not good.

I think “both” is an answer that can exist in our current reality. ?

Watched Auburn last night and all I could think was wow this team would beat IU by 40+

Good example today of a modern basketball offense against an antiquated one. You have to shoot 65% on 2’s to equal a team who shoots 35% of their threes. Our post production will always struggle to keep up with team that shoot high volume threes.

Yuck.

Not thrilled with the two headed female announcer monster for our game. Drag me if you must.

I’ll say it again. Ton of nba potential for Duke, but their youth makes them a super high candidate for an early round exit in March. They just don’t have the experience and composure in late game situations.

I think we’re solidly fine. Win against PU and then it’s all about the matchup. Reallyyy want to win one game at least just so we can play in a new years six bowl game and get to enjoy that atmosphere.

So I guess I haven’t watched much UCONN the past few years other than in the tourney. So maybe just didn’t realize this until now. But Hurley might be the most annoying whiner of a coach I’ve ever seen, and that includes Izzo, who I despised when he was young enough to matter and not washed up and hanging onto the program too long purely for his own ego. But goodness. Hurley relentlessly berates refs and gets about as much airtime from the camera as his team. I’m shocked he didn’t get tossed from both games in this Maui tournament. Great success the last two years sure, but he’s not someone I respect after watching him on the sidelines. And the announcers glorifying him because they’ve won titles as a “ferocious competitor” etc. Just looks like a whiny ****** to this observer.

I think we need to really hit the portal hard this spring. Like I said about our women’s bball team the last five years with their success, it’s one thing to have fleeting success over performing and being coached well - but if you want to sustain it and become a regular power program eventually you have to capitalize on your moment by getting better talent. At some point talent wins out. We need to use our good press and vibes to go from a bunch of three stars to a good smathering of four star talent or we’ll fall back into the pack with time. Mich, Iowa, Washington, Wiscy, USC aren’t going to stay .500 teams and make it easy to stay in the top half of the conference. BIG Offseason ahead for our staff or we bring in the opportunity to be a flash in the pan that benefited from a down year for the conference and 13 transfers from one school. Hope we come through.

Not an excuse because we got smoked, but three games in three days is big for this IU team. CTM’s teams are historically thin on depth. We basically play five players 35-38 mins a game. They look gassed. No Syd. Already a transition year after the Holmes era. Just a bad recipe.

We don’t have the depth and without Syd it was always gonna be a tough ask. But these refs also let the game get far to physical from the tip which highly benefits UNC’s “physical” style of play. We’re getting mugged every time we go through the lane.

I’m having real trouble taking SMU seriously. They haven’t played Clemson, Miami or Georgia Tech - the 2nd/3rd/5th place teams in the conference. They lost to BYU, beat Duke by 1-point in overtime, and beat Nevada, who is dead last in the mountain west conference with an 0-6 conf record by 5 points on a TD pass with 1:18 left in the game. At some point who you play and the performance has to matter. It’s been held against IU all year and we were demolishing teams until our last two games. What makes SMU’s 10-1 record better than IU’s??

Agreed. Love what the athletic department has done in the Fall window (minus women’s volleyball which I thought was building momentum last year and has underperformed). Only complaint, it’s tragic that IU WBB is playing in a tourney title game against another top 15 team and it’s only accessible on Flo Sports ($$$). They say they want to advance women’s sports and then they restrict the ability to engage and view, by putting it on a pay-per-view streaming service.

That would be best case scenario. Them or Penn St. I’d take either one in a heartbeat as the lower seed. I want no piece of going to Georgia or Texas.

Is “none ” an acceptable answer? Ha. I don’t know how many less than 4-stars they have on their BENCH.

We were wondering how this worked on here in a discussion last week. I didn’t know if that was a moving metric and would improve after playing OSU. Helps that our wins have gotten better records since as well. This was the one number everyone was using the hate on us.

Also worth noting the B1G results. We now have wins against three bowl eligible teams with winning records.

Pretty much as good as we could have hoped for in the chaos category. Three SEC teams eliminated.

So is Ole Miss. A&M might be soon. If not tonight they will be next week when they lose to Tx.

Bama is out of the CFP.

If results hold with Bama and A&M, I’d have to guess we fall to #8/9. Loss to #2 paired with losses by Bama, Ole Miss, BYU, CO and close wins by Boise St. and PSU we should get a favorable narrative as a 10-1 team.

This. Imagine the precedent it would set for the USC, Washington, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan’s if you say an 11-1 season isn’t good enough in the B1G.