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Unfortunate, but true

You could be right, but it's not foolish to think he also may be saying what he said, that's it's exploratory, while IU has no coach in place and that remains an unknown. If IU lands a big fish coach and/or he feels comfortable with the new coach, he could stay. That's not foolish or naive, it's the situation.

The move is "exploratory" He may or may not be gone. You're right though, he'll definitely have good teams 'recruiting' him.

I'm personally good with playing in the grey area but within the rules, with the compliance dept. working TOGETHER with the basketball program, to assist it, in working within the rules (and not playing a gotcha role, as a limiter). Work within the rules, maintain the integrity of IU basketball, while pushing the envelope where there is grey. No, I'm not at all on board with violating the rules just because other programs (UNC, KU, UK, Syracuse, AZ, etc. etc.) do. Win, but win right, but also go full bore with compliance dept. assistance.

Another great one. RIP

Here's to hoping we can watch the men play with the same level of expectation, again, soon. Berger is flat out fantastic, and this team is so well coached. Refreshing.

Story from USA Today yesterday. Smith takes a not so subtle jab at CAM lol. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/tourney/2021/03/21/arkansas-eric-musselman-should-be-new-indiana-mens-basketball-coach/4793839001/ Musselman is "a coach that allows you the freedom, who allows you to play basketball," he added. "The main thing, honestly, is just confidence. I think the way we prepare and we practice allows all of us as individuals to have confidence." Kind of wondering why Musselman isn't getting a little more pub here.

Kendrick has a history of trying to make it seem like he’s connected. He’s had hits and big misses, he’s just another Twitter guy

He needed to go because of the type of players he brought in, the drug culture, the failed classes. But what IU self - reported, the phone gate stuff, wasn’t even against NCAA rules the very next season. That was BS, the NCAA was after him after he ran out of Okla to avoid sanctions, but the charges were just stupid. At Houston, no one is going to self report, and the academics for the players don’t matter much to UofH. He’s fine here in Houston, he’s an excellent coach, no one will run him out

That’s what she said

Right, very well could be a coach currently in the tourney. If so there won’t be any leaks it’ll just have to play out. And hey the longer it goes and some of the coaches we think are possibles are still in the tourney the better

College ball is about the landing the right coach AND with the right recruiting. We are in a way UCLA right now. Storied program, fading significance. But as recently as under Crean we had the nation's longest #1 ranking, B1G championships in what was still then as now one of the toughest conferences, SW16s, we just couldn't get over the hump in March and Crean couldn't build roster stability for consistent conf success, and usually couldn't coach solid D so he wore out his welcome at IU -- but we were very much relevant again under Crean. We can clearly be relevant nationally again with the right coach. We all know if we had somehow landed the unicorn of Brad S we would've been immediately relevant and a national power again soon. We all know IU has a great recruiting base in IN and the Midwest. We know we have facilities and culture. But you can't do squat with any of that without the HC and staff being top flight in coaching and recruiting and at IU it has to be clean, has to fit the culture of Indiana basketball -- a lot of programs don't have that limitation - and it is a limitation, not saying at all that it's wrong, very much a believer in the clean program that IU has established over decades, but the UNC's, Kansas's, Syracuses, Kensucky's etc. built themselves up to the top on ignoring or falsifying academics, recruiting ineligible players, paying players and families, creating false academic records, etc., and to compete against that clean means you really have to land an outstanding winning coach that excels consistently in both on court strategy and recruiting. Falls into the no kidding category, but merits recognizing when comparing us to other programs, it's just not all apples to apples.

Never look at Porsches before buying a Chevy ... lol

Lol losing to Oral Roberts, dying here. Had them losing in second round but damn lol

Hey DWB. I don’t think it’s just you, and imo it’s a good question. So the cop out answer is, first, it depends - depends on who we get. It is a cop out but also I think right. It takes a certain type of coach and the right fit to get the most out of an existing roster. Think we’ll need a strong transfer or 2 but worth remembering we haven’t seen Parker Stewart play yet, and I would absolutely bet on Lander having a much stronger season with this one behind him, a full summer of conditioning and on age and body being an actual college kid, he’ll be stronger, bigger and experienced. He’s an exceptional talent, number one ranked point guard n his class — he’ll no longer be hamstrung by his age. All those guys, and Hunter, will play bigger roles - how much they / the team needs to be turned around remains to be seen

The problem had a lot to do with CAM devaluing the outside game. We clearly had guys who could hit shots. But we shot at the bottom of the conference from outside the arc because CAM devalued outside shooting. In a way he’s a throwback coach and it killed us especially when Brunk went down at the start of the season leaving our front court uber thin and over-played.

If someone starts posting flight watching in Bloomington I'm out, lol

With you here. There was a lot of back chatter surrounding the whole Hanner situation, and the threat to deport a player is just so ridiculously outside any thread of decency in "recruiting" that it's just not something you say well, recruiting is tough. There's been back chatter on dirty recruiting tactics surrounding Drew for some time. I just don't see the U going there, and there's enough smoke there that I'd personally not want any part of the risk.

@BGleas is a member here now, and moderating over at HSN (that site crashed and has been down for an extended period). He used to work for the C's and has a lot of good insights. If he posts on this it's worth giving his thoughts the benefit of the doubt. My understanding is the C's don't do that kind of press release, but I'll defer to Gleas if he posts --

Wish CAM the best. He's a classy guy through and through, and a strong coach, but the style of play coupled with the timing just didn't work out. Here's to his landing at a school with a good fit and success down the road.

Just get it right this time. No wifs. Identify the candidate who will take IU back and offer the moon. Stop settling. Just get it right, it’s been 20 years

I am clearly not in this to win any predictions let alone the league :P Glass half full (ok maybe quarter full) -- it's hard to beat any team 3 times, and IU's back is to the wall. Going with a final hope of seeing some semblance of offense again IU 67 Rutgers 65

Honestly I've struggled with this. CAM has clearly failed this season (at least at this point and looking most likely to end the season, but it aint' quite over yet). The recruiting has been strong until this season. Lander was the #1 ranked PG in his class but was also clearly young and not quite ready coming in, especially defensively which kept him off the floor under CAM (he would've played significantly more under Crean). In fairness, and without the idea it's making excuses - it really isn't - losing Brunk at the outset was a major, major loss. Brunk isn't the best player on the team, he was playing either single digit minutes for the most part or less minutes as Race's time grew to end the season, but he was and is both a key big with great energy and hustle, and a floor leader - and we've really missed his on court leadership along with his size and hustle. So we're short on bigs (pun intendedP). How would we have done this season with Brunk? Think it's clear we would've been better and probably comfortably in the tourney right now. And then we lose Franklin in the closing stretch? Just peachy. Yes, injuries happen and how the coach and team responds is important, but man we lack some key depth still (which is also on CAM, in fairness), but you can't just ignore the losses of Brunk and now Franklin and think apples to apples. We're really thin right now in the best conference in the country, of course we're to lose. Sucks. On the other hand, I've had problems / concerns with CAM's way of limiting the perimeter game from the get go, we haven't been able to spread the floor not because we don't have guys who can shoot but because he devalues the outside game in a 'meta' of college basketball that demands the outside game. It's like a throw back approach and one that has bitten us in the @$$ when we lose Brunk, so back to that, CAM put us in the position of likely losing if something were to happen to a key big because he built the team around an old school front line approach without valuing the perimeter game, and that's entirely on him. So end of the day, he has dug his own proverbial grave.

Geez. I for one hope (expect) him to play. Wear a face mask, that’s standard. Need Race

Really nice guy and a long-time poster. RIP Snowling