go iu bb

It's actually that the NCAA held on too hard to the "amateur" model and chose to fight everything instead of trying to adjust that did this. They decided to go to court over and over and started to lose. They argued that the athletes were just students who just happened to play sports. The courts decided that if that was the case, then the NCAA couldn't restrict the rights that every other student has, such as making money and transferring as much as they want. The NCAA got themselves neutered. That doesn't change that Woodson isn't a very good college coach and should be replaced, hopefully after next season since the team will likely play as less than the sum of its parts just like every team under Woodson so far.

https://www.wyomingnews.com/is-jeff-linder-still-the-guy-for-the-university-of-wyoming/article_10b29d64-c450-11ed-a977-fb55dfddacf3.html That article from a year ago touches on #2 but it sounds like speculation on social media due to 3 players transferring midseason and 3 more right after the season ended. Not surprising with a bad team, which that was. Unless things have changed since then, it doesn't sound like the fans will miss him.

That's what happens when you have no HS recruits and have to build a roster from the transfer portal.

I'll preface this by saying that while getting an OV is great, I don't think he'll end up at IU. However, just imagine if he did commit to IU. The boost that would immediately give to IU in recruiting (HS and portal) would be huge.

The throw probably would've been more accurate if they had put someone behind him to elbow in the face before the throw.

IU gets another nice commitment to an already strong class. https://swimswam.com/botr-ranked-recruit-noah-cakir-commits-to-indiana-for-2025/

I had just seen that article. It does confirm that he won't be coming back to IU. In fact, he won't be training in the US. I hope everything is ok with the guy. It's all so strange.

Players are sometimes pushed into the portal, they don't always go in because of greed. I'd say any players who can't find a new team because no one thinks they're good enough would likely fall into that group.

Better than an open scholarship.

I'm not sure I'd use the word "only" in that context. That's over 25%. Players from the B1G shouldn't have trouble finding new places to play but it looks like a quarter of them are. Some of them might just being selective and taking their time to decide but I doubt all of that 25% are. Some of them probably aren't getting traction from schools that they think they should be able to play for. This goes in line with the B1G not being very good last year.

IU is a decent school but I also wonder why someone smart enough to graduate college at 15 would go there over a more prestigious school. I'd think they'd both be able to get into other schools as well as have them paid for if they're that intelligent. Edit: and @Class of '66 Old Fart's link answers that.

Wow, Barr and Matheny are really team players and took lesser scholarships to bring in McDonald. https://swimswam.com/josh-matheny-and-luke-barr-of-indiana-enter-transfer-portal-but-have-no-intention-to-transfer/ I also missed this and see it only as a passing mention here: IU landed transfer Brian Benzing who finished 2nd in the 100 breast at the NCAAs. https://swimswam.com/indiana-returns-tomer-frankel-jassen-yep-and-gavin-wight-for-5th-years/

This might be more football but I imagine it would affect basketball as well. Looks like big changes will probably continue coming in college sports, though many of these have already been predicted. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-big-ten-developing-plan-to-share-revenue-with-players-in-potential-landmark-change-to-college-athletics/ https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40053021/college-sports-leaders-deep-talks-settle-nil-antitrust-case-vs-ncaa

Maybe Woodson will have the team playing as well as (or better than) the sum of its parts for the 1st time since he's been here. Probably not.

The NBA players probably have something in their contracts that keep them from playing in things like this.

That's why I'm still not very excited about next season despite having a lot more talent: I just didn't believe Woodson is a very good coach, I don't think he learned, and I think he's too stubborn to change the type of lineups he'll put on the floor and how the offense is run. I guess we'll see when the season starts but I won't be surprised if this team underperforms its talent level.

Miroslaw will represent Germany at the Olympics. I saw that he is the first IU to swim for them. It looks like he'll be swimming the 200m free and be on the 4x100 free and 4x200 free relays. Since they're only sending 1 swimmer in the 100m free, I'm guessing Miroslaw hasn't hit the Olympic qualifying time in that event. The only guy they're sending in that event broke Miroslaw's German record earlier this year.

It figures that IU's bridge would be Galloping Gertie.

Yes. The rule is that they need to play in less than 1/3 of the team's games and the games played in must be in the 1st half of the season.

I think this is one that the NCAA can actually win. Typically when they've lost, it's been because they were trying to restrict students who happened to be athletes (which is and has been the NCAA's view for a long time) from having the same rights as students who aren't athletes. Basically, by not wanting to make athletes employees, the NCAA and the schools created this situation. However, I don't think another year of eligibility because of not playing falls into that category. I guess it would really depend on how the NCAA worded it when they gave players another year of eligibility.

That's a huge pick up. He scored 46 individual points at the NCAAs. He's also a backstroker/IMer which will help fill Burns' role on relays. Also, his 200 IM time would be a school record.

They did and they did. They lost. That is why there are unlimited transfers with immediate eligibility. The NCAA's/schools' long time argument that the athletes are students first and definitely NOT employees in any fashion is really biting them in the @$$. When they then try to restrict the "student" athletes from doing things other students are allowed to do, they lose. It's that simple.

So you're saying even just matching the results from 2 years ago would be an underachievement. Got it. B1G championship, top 3 seed, and a S16 should be the expectation since this roster dwarfs the one that did that.

It also matters when the games are played. They must be in the first 1/2 of the year to receive another year. That's the factor here. He won't be granted medical redshirt. They really should change it to be like football.

Yeah, he's been all over the place. IIRC, he moved around in HS a lot too. Get the "one foot out the door" vibe from him. I'm not upset that Miller missed on him.