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We are at our best with Dorn and Wilkerson sharing the floor IMO

Odd call on Conerway. Like insane

Nice start

I thought about making a similar post a few days ago. And they just lost to Will Wade's 9-4 NC State team by 14. Wade and Beard were thought by many to be the "sure thing" hires... DDV has a better record so far. McCollum has the best record of the 4 so far and he was looked at quite skeptically. I am definitely down on the team's ceiling at this point in the year, but we could still make the tournament and that would be a successful year 1. Need to upgrade the roster in year 2. Coach K had a losing record at Duke 2 out of his first 3 seasons. Took Hurley 5 years to win a title at UConn. This is why I don't judge coaches too harshly until their third season. More often than not it takes some time to get things rolling. Just where the program is. The DDV hire was never going to change that overnight. Neither would have Wade or Beard.

The same Ed Cooley who allegedly left Providence because his cheating on his spouse was becoming too much of an open secret around town? Lol... yeah that tracks

Us 28 Them 14

Nova Wisconsin is a 3 point game with 2 mins and change left

Mobile experience is much improved

Abdullah Ahmed may be doing the same sort of thing at BYU where he joins the team mid season at the semester break. He was the C choosing between BYU and Houston when Diane was committing. BYU is already a very good team/roster and now they go to the G league to fill a big hole mid season. Sort of begs the question... in the current landscape, do you even want to start the season with all 13 spots filled? Or better to go in with 11 or 12 and pick up some amateur pros at the midway point.

IMO we will eventually end up getting the B10, SEC, and couple handfuls of other big programs breaking off forming their own semi pro league backed by VC/PE. Get a collective bargaining agreement in place with the players. Maybe the teams will start off leasing the facilities at the schools and affiliation will loosen over time. A "transfer" window (free agency) and relegation like with professional soccer.

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Us 102 Them 64

Free agency is basically here

He should have tried winning more games if he wanted to be Heisman. Clearly the best man won this year.

Sure, but those guys are the outliers, not the rule IMO. We will see if DDV is worth his salt enough to get results on a normal timeline. I'd think since we had the benefit of hiring him relatively early in the carousel, he should've been on better footing to get the staff he wanted in place and that would've meant better positioning for the portal. We will see how he does in Y2. IMO we just have to be okay with a coach living and learning on the job, as long as he shows improvement year to year.

Apparently Pavia posted a picture from the ceremony on his IG story and wrote "F-all the voters" lmao... get bent d-bag

Scouting evaluation misses happen. Even to the best of coaches. It took Hurley four years to get UConn to 20 wins and in the fifth year he won a title. You can say that was pre-NIL and pre-portal or whatever and I will say what's that honestly matter? Expecting overnight results is silly and not realistic. Games like last night suck and make for a long season, just where the program is right now. Hopefully we see improvement year to year. You don't need haters with a fanbase like Indiana's lol

No argument there

If only DDV and the staff thought of that, lol. Much easier said than done. Not sure that's feasible anymore with NIL market rates.

I'd bet Arizona, UConn or Michigan against the field this year.

Sounds very similar to Pat Kraft at PSU nearly bungling his search to the point of the BOT getting involved (according to rumors anyway) and possibly getting very lucky with Matt Campbell waiting for his season to be over / not wanting to wait around for Michigan to potentially open. Pat Kraft, another incompetent administrator who happens to be a product of the IU system. Something is deeply broken in the athletic department / university administration. Cig is almost certainly a lightning in a bottle hire like Knight was. Hopefully we retain Haines to build on that when the time comes.

Meh, I am fine with Dolson based on the Cig hire and incredible success. IUBB can continue languishing away as far as I'm concerned. No different than it's been for decades. Just pour 100% of the AD's resources into football. We can follow football recruiting more closely than basketball moving forward. That will make the IU fan experience more fun for me anyway. Just like football used to be an afterthought / any success is gravy, now basketball is that. Odd times.