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Crean alienated many of the state's HS and AAU coaches. I think Dave was referring to that and not missing out on recruits because of a bad product on the floor.

I was just wondering the other day if they had made changes to the APR calculation at the same time as the transfer rule and how they'd need to address it if not. With the transfer rule now passed, transfers should be taken completely out of the equation. I actually don't like that that aspect was in the calculation in the first place - reward (or at least don't penalize) a school having their athletes making progress towards their degrees while at the school but don't penalize the schools if the student decides to go elsewhere to finish. Out of curiosity, is the APR the same for all sports? (That's a question for anyone who knows, not specifically you.) I would think that it is but I don't know. The non-revenue generating sports have had the free transfer rule for a few years now. I wonder how that has affected their APR. It's possible that they haven't seen nearly as many transfers as with basketball so the APR may have continued to be overlooked as something that needed changing because of the change in transfer rules.

It certainly wasn't a Purdue great or anyone else from the B1G. They would've given it an A or A+.

Grading the coaching hires from 2017. Spoiler: IU/Miller get a C (which seems generous to me) https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-coaching-changes-grading-the-best-and-worst-hires-from-2017-after-a-full-recruiting-cycle/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm

For Miller to have tried to add this many shooters this quickly would have meant admitting that he either didn't recruit good shooters (poor player evaluation) or that he wasn't able to coach and/or wasn't able to coach and develop the ones he had. I'm other words, he'd have had to admit fault as well as overcome his stubbornness, neither of which he seems good at doing. To be fair, he would've had to do it under different transfer rules so it might not have been as easy to add college experienced shooters as quickly. He did try to recruit some well ranked out of state shooters from HS. Miller just couldn't deal the deal on those. He did also recruit Stewart.

This doesn't surprise me in the least. Crean had a lot of transfers in his time at IU and I always felt that some of the players who didn't transfer or waited a while to transfer did so only because they didn't want to sit for a year. It looks like that might have actually been the case. I wonder if he's already burned bridges with the in-state coaches like he did with those in Indiana.

Right. A bunch of people here and on other boards seem fixated on that single aspect (shooting) of the players based on one part of what Woodson wants to do. I highly doubt he and his assistants view the players through such a 1-dimensional lens.

He's not eligible for a medical redshirt unless they've changed the rules on that. While it's true that he played only 9 games he's disqualified from a medical redshirt because of when he played those games. It has to be a season ending injury incurred in the 1st 1/2 of the season. He came back and played at the end of that season so it wasn't "season ending." So I stand by my statement of only 2 seasons of eligibility left.

No, 2 years of eligibility, not 3. He redshirted Miller's 1st year and then played 3 years. Since last season didn't count he's used 2 years of eligibility so has 2 left.

They don't have to come out dominant. I think (hope) that they'll play plenty of cupcakes in the non-conference play. I hope they don't do that every year but next season I think it could be very beneficial with a bunch of new players, new system, and a coach new to the college game.

Sounds like he could play a stretch 4 type position offensively but not defensively. EVALUATED 01/16/2020 Jerry MeyerDIRECTOR OF BASKETBALL SCOUTING PROJECTION Second Round COMPARISON Moses BrownPORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS Has NBA center size. Game is skill based and not athletically based. Has good footwork and touch in post. Can stretch defense to three-point line. Comfortable with the ball as a passer. Has good hands and rebounds his area. Not a big shot blocker. Positional defender inside. Needs to improve quickness to defend on perimeter.

TJD will almost certainly go pro. if he doesn't progress enough to do that for whatever reason, I think he would transfer. So there is Gunn's scholarship available without a transfer if they fill the last spot with a multi-year player.

It's called "managing expectations." For example, while I think he should average 50 ppg I will expect only 25 ppg.

Their advantage is that they already have a year of playing in college and they could have a big sophomore jump in improvement. Plus, this just makes the backcourt that much more talented during practice which should help everyone improve.

That seems like a pretty convoluted way to get the next Duke coach. I'm not buying it.

Right, but that is still far from "encouraged to leave" which is what I was responding to in the first place. To me encouraging him to leave means forcing him out. Honestly telling him what he can expect next season isn't encouraging him to leave. Encouraging him to leave says they didn't want him here at all. I just don't believe that they'd be unhappy if he had decided to stay in a reduced role. He's not taking a scholarship away from another player so they'd have basically had an ex-starter as a walk-on. They'd say no to that? He was probably told he'd play like 10mpg or less (which is what he was playing at the end of the '19-'20 season) and didn't like that. If that was the case and he decided that wasn't enough so he left, that's on him and not the coaching staff. If he was "encouraged to leave" they told him he would not play at all. I just doubt that happened.

Where are you getting that from? From Fife's interview it sounded like they wanted him to stay. He also wouldn't have counted against scholarship count so as far as the roster is concerned he'd have been like a walk-on desire having a scholarship. So forcing him out wouldn't make much sense.

You are correct, he takes 1 of their 13 allowed.

If the Woodson experiment fails it won't be because they weren't willing to spend money to hire people to help him succeed.

Basketball is not the only sport getting new assistant coaches, the swim team got a new assistant diving coach, as well. Looks like a great pick up. Eric Best spent 20 years as the head coach at MSU and was B1G diving coach of the year in 2006. https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2021/4/15/mens-swimming-and-diving-swimming-and-diving-announces-addition-of-eric-best.aspx

I thought going in to last season that while Phinisee's shooting percentage wasn't great, he did do well when he was able to setup and then catch the ball ready to shoot. This didn't happen very often his first 2 seasons but he was able to do that last season early on. That stopped happening, probably around the time conference season started. Part of it was just the offense falling apart as the season went on but it also seemed like he wasn't trying to find those kind of shots anymore. I hope in Woodson's offense he'll be able to do that because he's a much better spot up shooter than an off the dribble shooter.

Look at it this way: if a player can hit 95% of his 3s in practice, he should be capable of hitting a high percentage of them in a game. Not 95%, obviously, but 40%+ seems reasonable. If he was only hitting 40% of his attempts while wide open, unrushed, and without any pressure during practice it would be very unreasonable to expect 40% in a game. So it shows that he can shoot, he just needs to do that during games. His freshman year shooting percentage was pretty good so that shows he can hit during games. It went down his sophomore season but I think he had to create a lot of his own shots.

Well, yeah, you'll have that when you return most of a team that went 12-15.

Hmm, that name seems vaguely familiar. I forget who it is, though.

Considering the number of seniors with an extra year of eligibility transferring, I wouldn't be surprised if not every transfer finds a spot at a D1 school. I expect there will be lots of transfers in years to come but maybe not as many as this year which is kind of an anomaly with the extra year of eligibility given. The rule has now passed (or is even closer to doing so) and there is a cutoff. This year it is July 1 and and going forward it will be May 1. https://www.si.com/college/2021/04/14/ncaa-transfers-rule-change-football-basketball From the article: "The new rule would allow all athletes to move freely at least once, though it includes some stipulations. Athletes must submit to their school a notification of transfer by certain dates to be immediately eligible at their next location. Fall- and winter-sport athletes would have to notify their schools by May 1, and spring sport athletes would have until July 1. However, because of the timing of the Council’s decision, the fall and winter sports’ notification date will be pushed this summer to July 1—a quasi-deadline day in the college sports world similar to those in professional leagues."