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My musical contribution (for myself) during this downturn in IU ball, turned back to my favorite guitarist, Hendrix. Worked through and now have The Wind Cries Mary down (I'm a guitarist, used to play in bands) melody and the lead, and both are just plain beautiful. Hendrix uses inversions in his chords as he works up the neck, he was so far ahead of his time, the GOAT. Wind Cries Mary:

From a daughter who grew up with her (almost literally) -- it's her story telling / the lyrics. She's beyond talented in her storytelling, the 'swifties' sing all her lyrics word for word throughout her concerts (my now 20 year old has been to 3 of her concerts, lol). I feel similarly, her music is mostly pop to me now (formerly a fair amount of country), but yeah, her songwriting - storytelling for her generation is genuinely special.

That sounds right, and it of course includes the extreme first 2 years of Crean after the sanctions starting out without scholarship players. It’s a discussion people reasonably disagree on, but to me 1) of course we’re a blueblood - an old one, 2) of course we’ve been up and down since CMD took over after RMK’s ouster, and Sampsongate, B1G championships sprinkled in among mediocre and terrible seasons, but 3) I couldn’t care less on the blueblood discussion - I just want IU to get back on track to a perennial contender in conference (while somehow those cheeseheads up north revert back to the crap program they were) with regular NCAA runs. I mean, living in the Houston area watching Sampson dominate every year and having to work with UT alums always sounding off on UT basketball when the school and State really only care about football and baseball… mind numbing

I was just responding to your post that "He doesn't really have anything to sell the really good guards." He does -- but yes, to land the top guards you always have to beat out the comp. He did so with JHS, he/staff developed a good relationship with that program -- but have to carry that forward and recruit and land top flight guards.

Just saw this and posted similarly. JHS is strong selling point - how well the staff use that remains to be seen.

He just put JHS in the first round. Several here regularly posted early on that JHS wasn't ready and "clearly" wasn't on an NBA level. Then around the mid-way point or so and with X out he became one of our 2 primary options with TJD, scored on a high level, and was just as "clearly" an NBA draft pick. CMW can recruit on having helped develop JHS into a first rounder. Whether he does that and goes all in for guards / wings in the portal remains to be seen, but can't just ignore JHS.

Can she just coach the men's team?

Where I am as well. There's a lot to like about him, but he's unproven at this level - it would be taking a risk, there's really no way around recognizing that.

No way IU offers Beard.

Some kinda funny clarifications— yes it was an intern, but not sure it would’ve come crashing down from an ncaa rules standpoint— the “phonegate” calls that primarily made up the “major” infractions were no longer a violation of the rules the very next year - the ncaa’s case was silly - but it was bc Sampson had escaped when they were going after Okla, they wanted him. But academics and running a program without drugs everywhere? Yeah, that would’ve been a problem for IU. We lost guys whose families wanted nothing to do with the kind of program he was running - we never would’ve gotten Cody under Sampson. On the flip side, we were 24-4 when Sampson-gate broke, and plenty of strong players ready to come in. Look at what he’s done with UH, guy’s a fantastic bball mind and on-court coach. But he can run his program at UH in ways he can’t at IU, and in fairness from what I know (I’m in Houston) his program is cleaner now after his break from college ball. That’s all hindsight- maybe we would’ve been a program like MSU under Izzo (who I can’t stand), strong but playing in the mud and with players assaulting people etc. just wouldn’t work at IU. We need a guy who can run a pretty clean program but a “today” program, use the damn 3-point line, guards and wings, play in the “grey” if / when needed but with compliance assisting the program, not playing “gotcha” against the program — not dirty recruiting, but use the room in the rules. And we need a proven college coach.

Bringing in politics is lame, and simply false. Dakich is a complete turd of a man, and his “statements” on IU ball are driven by his little man ego and petty anger. Not “liberal?” Lame and really shouldn’t be something you post here.

IU 77 PSU 71

Really can’t say officiating was fair on these differences. Should be looked into

I’ve been really big on Bako from day 1, it took him time to find his rhythm and he’s still having low percentage shooting games but the kid can shoot within actual actions and sets, hope to see more of the type of team 3-point shooting we saw against Iowa (20 +), since we’re now seeing an IU team that surprisingly is defending the arc in conf play, and has had some recent games shooting better volume effectively from outside, I’m just going to remain hopeful that’s a sign of Woodson getting to better use and defense of the arc — and Bako can thrive.

I’m picturing LCS running around his house in a Leal jersey, dunking on a kid’s door hoop, while yelling Suck it Btown Banners!

My thinking is it's been more than just the bigs, we have ours but some other conferences have theirs too -- to me it's been more the style of play regardless of size - the conference has had many dynamic guard-driven teams. But we have Izzo ball - often overly physical with him whyning away ad nauseum to the refs in virtually every game, the absurdity that passes as basketball at Wisconsin, yes PU's relentless gargantuan big play, etc. Like I said to Usps, I've never understood the different officiating, but I don't see it as being just because we have a bunch of bigs in the conference, I see it more as our conference plays ball like 1970s - 80's NBA, smash mouth.

100%, I've never understood this.

No, this isn’t opinion you’re just wrong. It wasn’t that they were recruited so hard, they committed early bc they wanted to go to PU, if you had actually followed the recruiting then you’d know that. And Sean May’s situation was completely different- his dad told him not to go to IU bc he was pissed over the RMK firing. Come on this narrative on Moore etc is dead in the water

That’s the narrative trying to be pushed but it’s flat wrong. Moore was always pure PU, they’re all from the same region, PU country. why insist on pushing a BS narrative? To poke shots at IU / its administration? Know what you’re talking about lol

And geez playing at MD twice…

No, because they were all about PU. You obviously don’t know about their recruiting.

I very much remember their recruitment and how each were straight to PU from the get go.

Not sure on 10-15 (yet anyway) but yes, agreed on scheme discipline -- that's part of the floor understanding and steady play I'm thinking about.

That's a chunk of minutes. He wasn't scouted for this game, I'm interested to see what he can do in more regular minutes if/when teams expect to see him. Has to be a facilitator.