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I guess I am just getting a little curmudgeonly about all this. The NIL world kind of sucks.

We can, Just saying that maybe a million to million and a half should be enough for the whole program. Caitlin Clark's salary is $78k for the Fever. Granted she is banking from endorsements but still....and maybe that is what Garzon is asking for, it just seems like at a certain point this is a big ask from fans to kick these kids the money we do. Thankfully (if we accept all this) revenue share is coming along as the University should be the ones kicking in for this. The fans get double charged.

I guess I am kind of saying this is all unsustainable. It sucks it has come to this, the women's game is already top heavy as it is. I just don't see how they can continue to milk the fans to support 3 sports to the tune of millions each, every year. The WNBA league minimum is $62k....

I don't know where they expect all this money to come from....

It wasn't that so there are maybe 3 incidents? Geez.

What was the rumor? (Sorry think I am in the dark on this one). Nevermind, saw Stuhoo's offer up above.

We just need a coach. This program has tried to get by on BS "flash" without substance for the better part of twenty years and that hasn't helped. 18-15, 25-5, 21-10, 19-10, 22-11, 3 NCAA appearances and 1 Sweet 16. That was Wade's first 5 years at a P5. LSU was 10-21 the year before he got there. People fall in love with names. With Beard, all Dolson has to do is go to Pat Knight and say, "Hey what about this guy?" We aren't the only school that sniffed that and saud "No Thanks" and he had 2 really good years in P5 and every other season was between 18 an 22 wins. It isn't like he is winning 25+ games a year and that whole thing with his girlfriend is a MASSIVE red flag. Anybody complaining before the ball has been tipped in the first game is just a professional pessimist.

Aww dammit. Should have read further ahead. Great minds though. All those beers in the Villas must have done us both some good.

A seat next to Wells on the bench.

It is like the anti-Woodson approach....thank the Lord.

Water under the bridge. He isn't here and is likely to never be associated with Indiana University so at this point who cares? My team is on the floor...

I forgot the Euro we had committed too. I think having some continuity with a fresh coaching perspective wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. I don't think you want to bring in a ton of Freshmen and have to rely on them. Frankly I take Rice over the guard he has committed. I know what I can get with Rice and he has 2 years of Power 5 basketball under his belt. He was a decent Freshman, I would like to see what he could do with a coach who has both feet in the job again.

It is the latter.

So Devries has had success with guards, wasn't there rumor that Nijel Pack would like to come back to Indiana (state of)? Maybe put some feelers out to him if he still has eligibility. We need a PG too. He'll have to see if he feels he can work with Rice and Carlyle. Could he bring back Goode, Rice, Carlyle, add Tucker Devries and Nijel Pack along with Sisley and then hit the portal for some more bigs? I know some people want to blow everything up but I think there are maybe some pieces on the team to work with. Rice and Carlyle were pretty good defenders and they weren't awful offensively at their last stops, maybe a new coach helps them. Goode has been an Indiana kid since he was a child, I think that connection helped out. There are some other dudes on the team that we could maybe work with too. I think the goal in year one would be to reach or eclipse the 22 win plateau and make the tournament. You can build from there.

Well I mean the only hire in-between those was Can't Get Over the Humpty Dumpty....and that was a head scratching Hail Mary of a hire if there ever was one. And I am not a Goodman fan. On another note, I don't think this fanbase is as "delusional" as the sports press likes to paint it. Woodson was being a lazy @$$ in this job. People around the state do watch this program and everyone knew Grampa didn't want to do any work outside the season and a couple weeks around portal time...and most of that work was just dragging a bag of money through the room and seeing who grabbed hold of it. And he antagonize the fans to boot. Archie did a crap job. He missed the tournament at least 3 out of 4 years and was on the bubble in the COVID season that got canceled. There aren't many programs or fanbases that have the support of an Indiana (or anything close to it) that wouldn't have had the same reaction. We get a bad rap because our AD has made bad hires. Period. On a related note after watching the linked video up above, **** Tyler Hansbrough. He doesn't like Indiana because the Pacers wasted a pick on his sorry @$$ and he sucked an entire bag of D while he was here. And UNC is already not happy with their craptastic coach too. So glass houses you powder blue ******.