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4 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

How does a 4-seed draw a ranked team? It’s that time of year where I start watching IUWBB and I won’t stand for this. 

How does a ranked team get a 13 seed? You’re on point with this one. Both these teams were done dirty here. I looked up Fairfield’s schedule…the only loss was 3pts at Vandy. They beat the snot out of Rutgers and St Johns. Seeding them 13 is wild

35 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

ISU has a conflict with hosting the Indiana Special Olympics, so won’t be hosting. Ideally they won’t have to travel to Fort Worth, but…guessing they’ll be traveling to Fort Worth. 

The Special Olympics event doesn’t use the baseball complex. 

2 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

I’m all for people posting info that they hear. But it’s important for people to be honest about whose info should be listened to. 
 

And besides this isn’t info. It’s idle musing for attention. 
 

Info is something like “ Caleb Love is going to commit this week or next”

Thats very different than 

“I’m hearing we should hear big news about a commitment soon”. 
 

Iirc the first time Chris007 made a prediction was Clif Marshall would be coming on board. It was out there and a bit crazy and then it happened. That was a specific verifiable piece of info.
 

He didn’t say “gonna be real interesting hire for strength and conditioning.”  That’s vague and attention seeking. 
 

If you can’t think of one thing that a person has been right about that’s fine but don’t call what they are peddling info. At best it’s rumors. 

Wouldn’t it just be better if people stopped trying to leak “ insider news”? 
95% of the time it’s BS, the other 5% will be known for a fact within 48 hours anyway. It’s such a joke. If you need attention, seek it elsewhere. If you thrive off finding out a day or two before everyone else, get a life. 
I fully enjoy swapping sports opinions and discussing IU athletics but the obsession with recruiting is pathetic and a complete waste of everyone’s time. 

4 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I would say Reneau played a good first half and Kopp was okay.  But yeah, JHS struggling now.  Kind of like Reneau is starting to get over the freshman wall but JHS has entered.

They’re letting him do too much. He needs to dial it back and facilitate. Take what the defense gives him but focus more on setting up his teammates rather than press to get shots up. We need X back in a real bad way. 

4 hours ago, Hoosierfan1901 said:

 

IU Football wouldn’t be IU Football if we had the kinda luck that would result in CTA leaving willingly to Liberty

57 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

It’s simple really. Geronimo can do things that no one on the roster can do. He’s a right spot, right time rebounder. Can hit a three. Can play against bigs. He offers so much. He isn’t Bates level of bad decision making but it’s not good enough either. My hope and we’ve seen it at times, is he can be coached out of those errors. Biggest upside player getting split minutes.

X is kinda this example at the guard spot. Some awful decision making at times but he can make plays as well. It’s a bit of Ying and Yang.




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Completely agree…For the record, every guy on this team is mistake prone at times. I don’t know why Geronimo (less than 1 TO/game) is being categorized as more so than anyone else. He shoots the 3 at the same % as Kopp yet manages to shoot 50% from the floor (Kopp at 35%). Geronimo could be an absolute X factor on Defense. How many 1-7; 2-9; 3-11 type games (while giving up double figures on defense every night out) does Woodson need to see before he gives someone/anyone else a shot?

8 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

It's too bad it took CTA this long to realize what was inevitable. If memory serves, there was speculation here that one of the reasons McCullough left for South Bend was Hiller's ineptitude and Allen's reluctance to address it.  

Granted, he may have gone to Notre Dame regardless, but still ... 

It’s not a secret McCullough left because of Hiller and his run game coordinator role. Deland didn’t leave the KC Chiefs because he wanted a “lateral” gig at a place like Notre Dame. He came to IU because his family liked Bloomington, CTA offered him an opportunity to be AHC (putting him in a position to get to HC position in the future) and coach his kids. I said this when it happened, and I’ll say it again. This was a massive mistake by CTA and is likely to eventually cost him his job unless he can find a way to redeem himself. Dolson has to be fuming and I’d bet anything, without his buyout, CTA would be sent packing in the off-season. 

Tom Allen never earned this job to begin with. Literally, it was “we can’t lose the guy who finally made IU’s defense respectable”. That’s all he did. He’s a defensive coordinator and he’ll never be anything other than that. Doesn’t make him a bad guy but now, nothing is working under his watch and Hiller being the last man standing embarrassing at best, criminal at worst…how many kids have to get hurt? Careers derailed? Penix is a test case in how awful Tom Allen is to the IU program. When Desan leaves and we have no QB next year, no RB next year, no WR next year and the entire defense graduates….then what?

Gotta rebound and take care of the ball the beat UConn. Love the effort, but the ladies are gonna fall short today. Heck of a season. I wonder what this program could be if the best players in the state stayed home and actually made a name for themselves and this university 

9 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I agree. I think the truth is that you need both, though. Zeller/oladipo were smart players but also exceptional athletes. Same for Cheaney/henderson, isiah/turner, etc… It’s frustrating we’ve went about a decade without putting together such a roster. 

I completely agree. I’m not saying stop at fundamentals…I’m saying start there. I’m not interested in 6’8 kids who have no basketball IQ or 6’5 guards who can’t shoot or dribble. Kids who can’t/won’t defend or communicate on the court. Ideally you get a few with both…Zeller, Oladipo, Watford, Vonleh, etc. but you’re not going to find 12 guys who are both…the rest need to be fundamentally sound. 

Just now, str8baller said:

Bro…there isn’t an offense in the world that works with our shooters.  
 

We could run Knights 3-2 motion to perfection but we don’t have one guy to knock down those shots. Even in the lean years we had a bailey, evans, guyton type player. We have no one remotely close to that.  
 

We need a talent upgrade. Maybe woody gets outclassed on the sidelines then, but you have to have a scorer or two. 

We need to recruit kids who have the fundamentals first and continue to coach & emphasize their importance. Shoot. Pass. Dribble. Defend. Effort.  Everything else needs to come next. 

Let’s try not to sh*t all over the kids on the team. Trash the staff all you want but be constructive when criticizing individual players, please. 

10 minutes ago, HoosierX said:

Kopp played 21 minutes, Thompson 20, and Galloway 12.

We just played the best we played all year with Stewart mainly on the bench in the BTT, and tonight he plays 37 minutes. He offers damn near nothing on offense at this point, and is a below average defender most nights.

Bates is the only kid who could (or at least should) have taken some of his minutes and honestly, I don’t think Woody trusts him yet. In a big, win or go home, game…I’m good with PStew getting the minutes he got with how he was playing. He may not of helped much on offense but he didn’t hurt us on that end either. 

3 hours ago, Trish said:

TJD is a lock for getting drafted. Very weak draft, there’s a chance he could sneak in late 1st. But he’s going second round more than likely. 
 

They’ll send him to the G League and let him develop. He has potential. 

I don’t agree he’s a lock to get drafted but at best, he’s a mid 2nd rounder unless he can somehow work on his jumper and impress scouts with it at the combine. He’s undersized for an NBA 4 who can’t shoot so weak draft or not, he needs work. Can we seriously not get him an NIL that’s 5x what a G League contract would be? If Woody can convince him he’ll help him develop that jumper and the boosters get him a healthy NIL deal, I think it actually makes sense for him to come back. Lotta if’s though. 

7 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Until he’s on Polish soil nothing is certain 

He didn’t get out. Tweeted 40 minutes after saying the air raid sirens were going off and he can’t leave. Scary stuff. 
 

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/indiana-basketball-player-stuck-ukraine-russian-invasion-terrified

6 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Sincerely sorry to whoever mentioned this if someone already did, but Parker Stewart being mysteriously benched TWICE in about a month and a half? Tough look, my guy. 

In fairness, he did get 8 minutes in the last one. Hard to judge a kid when Woody keeps all transgressions in house. Agree it’s a tough look though. 

4 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Come on Chris, we've been on this merry-go-round for more than a couple of rotations. There are reasons we've been the program we've been for the past few decades.

Lol, you said we had no chance for 20 wins after the first game of the season. If you’re not going to root for IU, why are you here? Go find a team you can actually cheer on. Your incessant negativity coupled with the absolute lack of credible perspective is incredibly annoying. Basketball aint for you bud. 

13 hours ago, yogisballin said:

IU scored 13 points in the last 15:32 of the game.


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Woody still hasn’t adjusted to the college game. He’s used to pros who can recover during an off night and turn things around so the message to his nba teams stayed the same…”if at first you don’t succeed; try and try again”.

In the college game you have know when to pivot when someone doesn’t have it that night, or doesn’t have the matchup advantage. I can live with losing when the guys give max green beans and the coaches are switching things up to exploit what the opposition is giving you but it is frustrating to watch a team only do one thing without any regard for how successful it is or isn’t. 

8 hours ago, OGIUAndy said:

If all of this true, then basically you're saying is CTA is not doing a good job. If he's literally losing coaches over the OL coach, that's a very bad look and he'll be hard press to keep a good OC. That being said, this isn't much different than every program. Most of these teams have some coach's son etc. on staff and you can't tell me they are the best coaches available. Football is the king of sports coaching nepotism. So I buy this is an issue, I don't buy Hiller being the main cause of the failures of the offense, especially this past season. 

I’m not sure anyone is arguing Hiller was the “main cause”, rather he was the obvious weakest link. I think injuries were the main cause but did the ineptitude of the OL contribute to that? Likely. Can a struggling offense rally behind backup QBs RBs and WRs when the OL can’t protect them/create holes for them? Not a chance.  
When Sheridan and Warren get thown under the bus while Hiller is protected at all costs (despite other coaches raising concerns) it shows CTA doesn’t value their opinion nor has what it takes to make difficult but necessary adjustments for the greater good of the program. 

3 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

You might be on to something about Hart. I think the only RB he recruited that turned out was Scott. But I will say to be fair with all the other recruits, I don't think Barry Sanders himself would have been any good with they way the front 5 has been. An offense can't do poop without a front 5. It's the lifeblood.  The heart and soul. The meat and potatoes. The... oh man, look at me rambling. 

As for Hart’s recruits, I look at where they end up and how they did at lesser destinations and that tells me all I need to know about his eye for talent and ability to develop RBs. I never understood why he got as much credit as he did. As for Stevie Scott, I think there were family ties to Hart if IRC and the fact the IU was the only school who recruited him to be an RB…his other offers were on defense. So he certainly gets some credit there with an assist to Allen for his efforts. 

11 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

Well if we remember James tried to quit once before and we talked him out of it. Baldwin had a bad fumble early in the season, got benched, and never showed up to another practice. Supposedly his dad chewed out the staff for benching his son. 

And he’s now at juggernaut UMASS and James is at Purdue. Most of the guys Hart brought in didn’t end up being power 5 talent and color me shocked if once James doesn’t get carries at Purdue (despite having no legitimate RBs on the roster) he leaves again and ends up at Ball St or the equivalent. 

1 hour ago, IU Scott said:

We just see these so called insiders come on here during coaching searches or recruiting.  They come on here like they have inside info and most of the time they are wrong.  The problem is coming on here saying things like it is about keeping Hiller and no one has a clue if this what happened.  They come across Le it is a fact and no way they actually do.  If anyone who works in tbe athletic office is leaking things then that is the problem.

This isn’t Sam Story making up headlines like “Donovan to IU, done deal”. Just because you don’t like what you see doesn’t mean people don’t know what they’re taking about or have a valid opinion. I presume your vitriol is at Chris??? I’ve never seen him post the same type of nonsense like the entitled “insiders” on HSN used to nor threaten to leave if anyone challenged them. Maybe chill a bit. Calling for athletic department employees (no idea who you’re even referring to there) to be fired is childish. 

4 hours ago, maharkn said:

Might just want to play with his brothers and I don't think there is any chance of all of them playing together at ND. Dad might have told him he would have a better chance of standing out at IU and to stay

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I agree. I think this is different from the aspect that IU doesn’t play ND like they would OSU. I would much rather play with with my brothers than for my dad so I totally get why they would want to stick together. It’d be hard on mom too trying to see everyone’s games if DMJ didn’t get a spot at ND. Not that it matters, university employees’ kids get free/greatly reduced tuition anyway so he could walk on. We’ll see…just don’t want to get my hopes up 

1 minute ago, Hovadipo said:

File this under: "Holy f'ing shoot".

Caaaaaareful…he put out a congrats to his dad when he got the IU gig but said he was 100% for OSU regardless…then “family over everything” was tweeted along with a flip to IU. Here’s to hoping he sticks with us though.