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He should start, not Carlyle.

25+

He is an anchor.

Taking the coaching out of it, I would say that he is probably a streaky shooter and that if put into the right type of system that there is something to work with there. He isn't a drop dead shooter but he is someone that other teams should have to guard. If they sag off of him to stop the drive, he has shown ability to make teams pay for that. If he can shoot around 35% (with volume) that should be good enough. Now I know that completely overlooks the elephant in the room....I just don't want to buy into the narrative that this isn't a good roster. It is. There is no excuse for the staff not to excel with the roster they built. There is talent. They can't complain about the new faces because this is how they want to build their roster. We should expect a Top 20 team all year at worst.

I think your opinion of the pieces would be higher if you had more respect for the head guy's ability to use them properly. This is a good roster.

https://x.com/reversejackfan2/status/1849461235307159704 A tweet quoting Rabjohns bringing some heat in the response to Ant Wright. Hurley didn't take the warm months off to go golfing and our retiree did. I don't understand the loyalty some people have to this dude.

I think if there wasn't like 3 weeks to digest the information that there likely would have been a little more angst. We have known for a few weeks this was coming so the announcement was kind of anticlimactic.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/10/23/indiana-basketball-star-braylon-mullins-commits-to-uconn-danny-hurley-recruiting-greenfield-central/75789862007/?tbref=hp Walsh has to feel like a pitcher who takes a 2 run no hitter into the bottom of the ninth with only 1 out to go and then hands it over to the closer who goes on to lose 3-2. Fudging Woody man.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2024/10/23/indiana-basketball-star-braylon-mullins-commits-to-uconn-danny-hurley-recruiting-greenfield-central/75789862007/?tbref=hp

We have known this for a few weeks, the Twitter crowd has just started to find out. Early returns suggest that Woodson is going to have a bad social media day.... He better pray that the Bahamas go well.

I will take that as, "Yes, everything you said in that post was accurate," and move on.

He gets it right like 5 minutes before they announce. Whoopee. And this isn't some full throated defense of Rabjohns, just saying all of it is wild @$$ guesses until someone on the staff feeds them the commitment info. Getting that info a day before someone announces is just thunder stealing. They all do it, like Rabjohns did to Yogi. You just don't like Rabjohns because he brought out the long knives on Woodson.

All of those recruiting sites are hacks. All of them. They put in the same guesses that any of us could do and then change their guess at the last minute to match where they hear the kid is going. Rabjohns is no more of a hack than the Trilly Donovan that everyone slobbers all over. None of those recruiting sites are worth what they charge.

Any recruiting site is going to have **** content these days if IU is their topic because almost all of our recruiting begins and ends in a 2 month window in the spring.

Nah, I wouldn't ever take back a local kid that chose somewhere else and then wanted to come back because the grass wasn't greener over there. If you were local and actively being recruited by our program and chose somewhere else, best luck in life to you.

We should win this year, so I should at least have that going for me.

So Pikiell should be 16 on that list. Dogging his shitty job in comparison to Woodson's shitty job isn't doing Woodson any favors. And whatever resources Rutgers has in men's basketball, we have more. There are less than a handful of teams that can claim more than we have. Woodson has to win big this year. You can't come out and be an arrogant ******* with a record barely above .500 and with a program that isn't designed to "improve" and keep churning out double digit loss seasons. I flat out don't like him right now. I think that after his stunts to end the year last year that I'm not the only one. I think that "Tyme" joker on Twitter speaks for the staff and he is a ******* *******. They suck at recruiting HS. They did a good job of running Benjamins through the portal and picked up some good players. The only thing I have left for this dude is wins. The minute things look off this year, I am pulling the torch and pitchfork out. Woody burned up what little goodwill he had with me last year. You got the team now you arrogant, lazy @$$ hat. Prove you can win doing things completely different than everyone else oh NBA genius. And if he can't, well, he showed with Dane Fife that I don't have to give a flying **** what his IU legacy is when he gets shown the door. And after he is gone we can piss on his ashes with innuendo about what a turd he is. I like Indiana and that is the ONLY reason I am hoping we win. Woodson can get ****ed.

Nor does he have time. A coach his age has to already have it.

Thank you. I think that is reasonable based on what we think this roster should be.

Define succeed.

No

Getting cold outside. Just poking the embers here....

I am telling you guys, I would completely get out of the whole HS recruit thing while Woodson is here. He isn't good at it and he has a cheat code in the portal so it doesn't feel as life or death to him (IMO). Despite everything we have seen to this point, we have to hope the old dude finally figures something out this year. With the team he has he should do really well. And I don't mean 23-11. He is going to have to show something besides his payroll. Losing these Indiana kids to f%#^@ UConn when they grew up Indiana fans and have all sorts of Indiana fans in their family and are being offered a ton of money is a bad look. (If it happens) And people can spare me recent history. I think it takes a whole lot for IU families to look away from the school.

https://x.com/Tyme1299218/status/1844407171511091475 He doesn't seem so confident today.

They are getting shredded in the comments under that....