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A coaching change should allow for immediate eligibility imo. Probably a scholarship change (loses scholarship) as well. If I'm reading that right, if an athlete transfers to a school then that school ends their program (like Saint Francis), they'd have to sit a year when transferring to a new school. NCAA still has to find ways to be a$$h0l3s, I guess.

He did a good job at PSU but it's not as though he was dominant there. 37-31 overall, 17-23 in the B1G, 1-1 in the NCAA tournament. A top finish of 9th in conference. Good numbers for PSU but not exactly awe inspiring.

Men off to a good start at the championship meet with by finishing 5th in the 200 medley relay and 4th in the the 800 free relay. In 5th place after day 1 with 60 points. https://swimswam.com/2023-division-i-mens-ncaa-championships-day-1-finals-live-recap/ The medley relay had some insane breast splits with the top 5 splits of all time happening this year. One of those fast splits was IU's Van Mathias going 22.53 for 4th all time. https://swimswam.com/2023-m-ncaas-leon-marchand-swims-22-27-50-breast-1-split-all-time/ IU is expected to score big in diving this year. https://swimswam.com/ncaa-mens-diving-preview-how-zones-scores-project-to-impact-the-team-race/ 1. Arizona St 68 2. NC State 66 3. California 62 4. Florida 60 5. Indiana 58 6. Texas 50 7. Louisville 42 8. Auburn 40 9. Stanford 38 10. Alabama 26 10. Tennessee 26 12. Virginia 22 13. Georgia 20 14. Notre Dame 10 15. Virginia Tech 8 15. Texas A&M 8 17. Missouri 6 18. Wisconsin 4 18. Michigan 4 20. Ohio St 2

They can still stay if the coach allows them to. The coaches aren't obligated to take a player who entered the portal back if the player changes their mind. I imagine that the number of players who stay after entering the portal is a small percentage.

This reminds me of how glad I am that Ethan Morton chose Purdue over IU.

Right. There's a lot of difference there but I was just pointing out that it isn't a sure thing like it would be if he had played in 2 fewer games. The NCAA can, and does, deny waivers. And just like with everything else the NCAA does, they do it inconsistently.

Since Johnson is over the 30% of games played threshold this season, it's not guaranteed he'll be granted a waiver. He ended up playing in 11 of 35 games (I don't know if all of the postseason games count or not) which is 31.6%. Regular season only it's 11 of 31 (35.4%) or if the 1st game of the B1G tournament counted since they are guaranteed to play at least one there, then 11 of 32 for 34.3%. This lady just got denied. She did play 2 more games and her team played 3 less games (32) so it's not exactly the same but it does show that the NCAA doesn't rubber stamp this waiver. https://cyclonefanatic.com/2023/03/ncaa-denies-stephanie-soares-waiver-to-return-for-extra-year/ Hopefully, we hear soon one way or another of their decision. IU probably filed as soon as they could, which was after Selection Sunday.

A PER under 11 isn't very good. That's like Rob Phinisee level of efficiency.

How about the long version?

Arkansas seems to contact every player that enters the portal. Them and Nebraska. I think they have someone whose job is to just contact portal players as soon as their names show up.

Same

Twitter poll. The Naismith fan vote doesn't show them. On that note, I checked again and TJD now has ~3% point lead at 31.7% to Wilson's 28.8%. Edey dropped to under 28%. It would be great if the actual votes are close to the twitter ones.

I just voted and TJD is catching up a bit. TJD 28.5%. Edey 28.9%, and Wilson 29.7%.

Unless you're Purdue.

The women lost to Miami too. I'm more disappointed in that outcome than the men's. They had a great season.

B1G getting called out for another pathetic tournament showing. https://www.outkick.com/michigan-state-big-ten-ncaa-tournament-college-football-playoff-stat/ https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/big-ten-conference-roasted-for-performance-in-basketball-football-postseasons https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/sports-world-reacts-to-the-embarrassing-big-ten-news

His offer list isn't very impressive for his ranking (47 in the 247 composite). Did he explode after committing or something?

That's true but I doubt most of the development is in games. Most of it happens in the offseason. Playing experience helps but I don't think it's the driving force for development. Knight was good at developing players. Crean was also good although he thought he was better than he actually was so he'd bring in lots of longshots to try to develop which hurt the team. Miller was not just terrible at it but under him players seemed more likely to regress than to improve. I can't remember if Davis was good at it and Sampson wasn't here very long but he's good at it. So IU hasn't had good coaching along with good development since the Knight years. In the 2 seasons under Woodson, we have seen incremental improvement of some players. Some having really developed at all and there hasn't been a huge leap in improvement by any 1 player yet.

Van Gundy's reaction is great.

I think you and others are confusing what all NIL entails. It comes in many forms. It's not just a collective fund set up by boosters or whoever that people donate into which is then used to pay the players. There certainly are those. There are also the Hoosier Hysterics event which people pay to attend and the money is distributed to the players. Those above are zero sum so the more given to any individual player means less for the others. The money all gets paid out so it will go to the players no matter what. I think we can all agree on that. However, individual companies can choose to sponsor the players in return for endorsements. There are a lot more factors in this but what it comes down to is that just that money is not guaranteed to go to players no matter what. Let's say Player A gets an endorsement deal for Company X. Player A then graduates, transfers, quits basketball, or whatever but isn't part of the team anymore. Company X decides to not renew the deal with Player A but that doesn't mean they'll turn around and give the money to Player B. They might but they might also decide it doesn't make sense. An example of this is that Leal works in real estate. He probably gets paid for advertising for them as well. It just makes sense. If he leaves the team, would it make sense to pay another player with no other connections to real estate to endorse them? Maybe, maybe not. It certainly isn't guaranteed that they would. Players could also set up their own basketball camps, write a book about about basketball, makes social media pages that get sponsorships dependent on the number of followers they have, sell their own merchandise, etc, etc. These are things that if they aren't doing then the money certainly wouldn't just shift to another player on the team. So just because Leal is making NIL money it doesn't mean he's taking money other players would've gotten if he wasn't at IU.

Archie Miller doing Archie Miller things. https://www.golocalprov.com/sports/Mass-Exodus-URI-Basketball-Players-Are-Fleeing-Archie-Millers-Program

Yep, the bench was awful the last half of the season. Little to no production off the bench was the norm.

Which aspects of the play did they say were the biggest problems?