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We hope to be eating crow by 2021, as of now that doesn’t look to be the case as we are projected to miss the tourney this coming season and possibly the season after depending on departures. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

For those involved they obviously care. But to the average fan and probably the majority of IU fans, they likely only watch it if they see a highlight on Twitter or FB. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Sounds like it cost more than $20 lol. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

It’ll be interesting to see how they bounce back. Hunter, Guy and Jerome all leaving. Guy and Jerome was arguably the best backcourt in the nation. Jack Salt graduated. Clark, Key and Diakite all return and will likely be their top 3 players. Offensively isn’t a big deal for them because the offense is so slow that having big time scorers like Hunter, Guy and Jerome aren’t needed, but those 3 were the reason they were so good. This will be Bennett’s first at a “reload” as they’ll still be a Top 25 team pretty easily because of their defense. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

We all are. But when those sports suck, do we care? No. How many go watch the games? Not a lot. Are the tickets $5 and sit where you want? That alone tells you something of those. I’ve been to a lot of girls game over the last 5 years. The NIT run was awesome. But regular season game they were lucky to get a couple thousand there. I still want to go to a baseball game and soccer match. But Glass’ and basically every single AD’s job at a P5 school comes down to basketball and/or football depending on the situations. If men’s basketball becomes an annual Top 15 team again and the football team is only winning 3 games a year and the rest of the sports take a dive, Glass is keeping his job. It’s great when those sports are doing good, but people don’t bat an eye when they are bad. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

So can we find someone to create that for us combining those two and making a website for it? That’d be helpful. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I will use a composite before I ever use just 247, just Rivals or just ESPN. ESPN has their agenda on players and teams. I see a lot of fans switch back and forth with whichever ranking system has their commits ranked the highest or their class ranked the highest. The composite seems the most fair. It would be nice to which ranking systems they use but I imagine those 3 are definitely in there. Now if someone wants to create a composite using only those 3, then be my guest. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

That’s why I always use the 247 composite. By far the best ranking to use since it uses so many different systems. As of now Indiana is 2nd in the Big Ten behind only Wisconsin. But there are also like 100 uncommitted kids out of the Top 150. And like half or so of the Top 100. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Seeing improvement will be tricky this season because of the line moving backwards. If guys stick at the % then I’d consider that to be improvement just because of the increase in difficulty. There also be a lot more space. But it was also the same in the NIT and the offense was still pretty rough. And for the people who think losing Romeo is a good thing, it certainly didn’t help in the NIT. A more motion driven offense is always ideal and I think Indiana fans are very fond of the motion offense for a couple reasons. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

You say do you a favor but red flags can be seen after two years. People like you are happy with just having Indiana kids committing and that is enough, even with minimal success. Miller is doing an okay job recruiting. Nothing that should be too shocking so far. It’s where he has put his emphasis. He’s gotten Romeo and TJD. He had no clue how to use Romeo so that really hurt outside of of his injury. He should be better with TJD with how his offense has worked the last two seasons. Leal is the likely Mr. Basketball but he shouldn’t be expected to do a ton his freshman season. You say Archie is one of the hottest young coaches in CBB, but after two seasons that is no longer the case. When he was at Dayton maybe. But there are two big red flags that will always keep Archie down. 1. His inability to coach an offense goes back to Dayton. His offensive philosophy is atrocious and his ability to even have it running correctly hasn’t happened outside of maybe 5 or so games. The Marquette game was probably the best offensive showing IU has had under Archie and it went downhill real quick afterwards. 2. His substitution decisions. They really didn’t make sense and last year they were almost insane. The most memorable for me was during the Nebraska game(which I attended) when at the end of the half he decided to put McRoberts and Fitzner on the floor. Indiana had actually worked it’s way back into the game and what happened on that very last play? The last play that literally every person I could hear say “that’s the worst substitution I’ve ever seen.” McRoberts got blown by and Fitzner was to slow to help and Nebraska was able to end the half with a dunk and momentum. Can Miller Fox those problems? Absolutely. He’s still pretty young. Is it likely? Not really after this many years of his coaching career. But I am hoping like crazy that I’m proven wrong. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

That’s what I’m worried about with my kids. I was luckily born and raised an IU fan. My parents didn’t go to school but my dad just so happened to start watching when he was 5 or 6 when Knight was hired because his dad started watching IU at that time. My son is only 11 months old right now(and have another on the way) but how good will IU be when he can start remembering or when he can decide who his favorite team is? I can really only remember watching games in 2002 and on with how young I was. That just so happened to be the Final Four run. My kids may not have that to witness as fans. And I can’t have a couple U.K. fans or something running around here. Football I won’t be too worried about but basketball is a whole different story. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I think if he can fix his offense, he will be fine. But that’s been the biggest problem the last two year. Obviously shooters will help, but his offense is still based off of the pick and roll mainly. And in the last two years I have witnessed the laziest pick and rolls I’ve ever seen. It would be nice to see more ball and player movement. The shooting woes are likely to continue with the 3pt line moving back so TJD and Davis probably won’t have a lot of room and same for Smith slashing. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

That’s not really saying much and it is was apparent come selection Sunday that NET didn’t mean as much as people thought. Indiana was still really really bad last season. If you watched games and thought “this is getting better” then you’re blind. They lost 12 of 13 for a reason. Literally the only reason they were even remotely near tourney talk is because the NET is built to push P5 teams ahead of everyone else. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

The best time to fire Crean was 2011. Stevens had just went to his 2nd title game. Zeller was already committed. Indiana just had a disappointing season even with the low expectations it had. Then was the time to pull the trigger. You pull in Stevens, no one is leaving. Zeller was staying for two years. Yogi was still coming in because of Zeller. Indiana would have been on a much better trajectory. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

How is basketball drastically getting better? The past 2 seasons under Archie have been pathetic and he’s shown he can’t coach an offense. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter saying McRobbie needs to be packing his bags along with Glass. So people know who is responsible. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

If Penix plays 35-28 IU wins If Penix doesn’t play 24-17 UConn wins Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

You’re still not answering the question. Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas are all basketball first schools. If they went through the same 7 of 11 missed seasons as IU has, do you think they are keeping around their AD just because the swimming and golf have good teams? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Kansas is bad now but they’ve been good. Indiana is arguably the worst football program in college football history. But it’s kind of a beautiful thing in a way. But I will say that Indiana was onto something under Wilson and hella confused under Allen. Wilson was at least giving us an offense to at least watch and we knew the defense would suck. Under Allen it’s been confusion on offense and continued bad play on defense. So I personally think Indiana needs to bring someone in who can sell tickets and hit that 6 win mark. Because if you can consistently hit that 6 win mark, you’re going to win 7 or 8 every now and then. Look at a team like Oklahoma State or Texas Tech. They aren’t national championship contenders but they have been crazy fun to watch. Oklahoma State has a good coach and they have an identity. So #1 would be setting a legitimate identity not crappy ELE or whatever it is. High flying offense that’s as fast as can possibly be and a defense that’s just there with some lucky breaks at times or a smash mouth offense that takes up as much clock as possible and a stingy defense. #2 would be a sort of rebranding. As in new uniforms and helmets. And I’m talking like awesome uniforms and not the basic stuff we have been getting. Sweet helmets that actually look great which we haven’t gotten. The adding of a color like black or gray as accents or even main uniform colors. #3 is creating an almost overloading of social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and whatever else there is. You should be able to find highlight video after highlight video of Indiana football on YouTube(same for basketball). For players and the team. That’s something that Indiana themselves should be doing as well as fans capable of doing it. Because it is tough. But Indiana has to start with an actual vision and Allen doesn’t have that. Wilson at least had a vision and it started to work. So we will see if anything really ever happens like that. I’m crossing my fingers. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

It’s going to take a lot of time to build anything here. But at the same time you can spot when a coach isn’t good enough. Allen isn’t good enough. This team has regressed on defense and in discipline. But if someone wants to build IU and actually does it and leaves for Michigan or USC or something, we should be grateful they brought us that success. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Which would be a great thing because that means he had at least 1 season of success. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

If it wasn’t blood clots then I’m not sure what it could have been. But I’m not a doctor. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

Can we sandwiches not live in harmony? Lol. Be judged by the flavor and not by the contents of the sandwich. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

For some it is only about recruiting. And by that I mean, you only have to recruit Indiana kids and you can go 15-15 every year. I’ve had people on Twitter tell me that graduating kids and getting those 4 year kids is more important than winning. The next freshmen class coming in isn’t going to be setting the world on fire to begin with. It’ll likely take each of them at least a year to get going considering their talent level. But it is a weird mindset from so many fans that things are automatically better and that IU will start competing at the national level in the Top 10 because some Indiana kids are committing. The 2020 class was weak in Indiana as is. Leal is the likely Mr. Basketball and is ranked 99th in the 247Sports composite. That doesn’t mean he won’t be a good college player, Hulls was ranked 139th so. But Indiana wasn’t good just because it got Hulls. That team became what it was because of a Top 10 recruit and Indiana Mr. Basketball named Cody Zeller. Many think rankings don’t matter, but the majority of the time, they are correct. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

People only think it is getting better because Indiana kids are committing. The wins don’t seem to matter as long as it’s Indiana kids playing. It’s an odd concept. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app