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I think most were rightly skeptical last year because of who was coaching. I’d argue that roster construction last year was at least good enough for solidly in the tourney. But Woody… I’m not exactly sure how you build for future success outside of high school recruiting. Any young portal guys you bring in ought to be players. I’m not worried about the roster at all. It really shouldn’t be that hard to win now and still keep an eye on the future. UM, UK, and Lville provide a nice illustration of that.

I haven’t followed the saga. Why would Williard want out of there so bad but two other gainfully employed coaches want to go there? I guess I can see Beard, but it seems like a nearly lateral move for someone like Buzz.

They have to. They’re in West Texas a second rate football conference. How that translates into basketball spending, we’ll see. SMU could bury IU in basketball spending but they’re not going to. We’re gonna find out in the next couple years. Think of how the basketball salaries are doubling. Then go look at Ohio states $20mil football roster last year and double that. Basketball is going to start getting squeezed places, especially non SEC and BIG schools. Maybe TT is the exception.

Purdue had to scrounge to get ~$2mil last year, iirc, for edey. With B1G revenue share they should be able to get competitive with Braden if they want. But like you say…he’s 22 with few pro prospects stateside. Would you pass up an extra $1mil to stay in W Lafayette? I wouldn’t in my professional life. That’s real money. I say 50/50 , because maybe he does give them a discount. Or maybe Purdue throws most of their money at him. Who else do they really have to pay?

You can search the thread. I have confidence in you. He’ll be exiting TT. Just a matter of where and when.

UM winning the title would be good for the conference. Also May is an alum and seems like a good dude, so I could root for it. I don’t think they’re good enough though. I don’t think MSU shoots well enough either. The B1G is pretty much what we thought: deep but light at the top

Same. I said 3-4mil last week and heard back from a PU guy that is pretty connected that the number now is closer to 5. I find that hard to believe but what do I know… I think it’s 50/50 he’s outta W Laffytown.

No such thing as a long rebuild today. We’ll know a lot in the next year or two. If we crap out then get depressed because we’ll have a couple years of misery. But as far as next year we should compete.

Interesting that we all assumed Mcasland was going to Texas. But now that’s off the table, and it seems Texas had no interest in waiting. So if he’s interested in moving on from Texas Tech, it would’ve seemed there was a small opportunity there. I’m guessing IU didn’t reach out at all. This isn’t an anti coach Double D post. Just an interesting development with Miller moving on to UT.

The end of the Duke game was illustrative of that. Arizona wasn’t intentionally fouling but they were going so aggressive that they fouled about every possession to end the game. Didn’t matter to Duke because they hit about 9/10 FT’s at the end and Arizona never got close despite hitting a couple 3’s.

Kind of like when a running team gets down in football and it’s hard to come back. When Alabama is rolling it’s impossible to stay with them and it forces their opponents out of their game trying to keep up. I agree with you that on a possession by possession basis their D isn’t great.

Atta’ boy calipari. Get the worst shot imaginable to end the game.

Nate Oats paid off this official. Mostly kidding but…. This is beyond horrible. These guys should never work another tournament game again.

Cool. Another 10min stoppage because of a little slap fight under the basket. Grind a high octane game to a halt to watch 3 zebras play high priest. …and then don’t even get the call right. Ban replay!

I mean…I don’t think much of him as a coach but if there’s ever anyone who could talk some donors out of dough and transfers into a new locker room, he’d be at the top of the list.

Yea…NBA GMs have to deal with their byzantine salary cap. College ones will have to renegotiate everything every year. Deal with recruiting and transfers. With so many moving pieces in football I can see it being the sport most likely to adopt its pro football counterparts role—and it seems Luck has—whereas basketball stays coach dominated.

He was really good there. In a world where Sean Miller went back to Xavier it’s not crazy.

Only a small probability that anything happens to basketball postseason landscape, but they’re really discounting the fact there’s 2 major conferences and everyone else. Also, I think in the current landscape I’d rather have Dukes alumni base instead of UNCs or Kansas’s. Villanova ahead of IU, Texas, and even MSU, Lville, etc… seems crazy to me. For similar reasons I couldn’t have Gonzaga that high either. Looking at this list, I don’t know how any reasonable person could have IU worse than 6. If we could see NIL and rev share commitments we might be able to make a case for #2 (or maybe 1). LFG!!!

If you’ve ever seen WVU and Pitt fans go back and forth, you’ll know they’re a special breed of….uh, special.

I desperately want this to be true.

As Josh pointed out, it was Parcells. But the same era and same sentiment. Those guys eventually got surpassed by teams with competent GM/Coach arrangements where the GM was left to do his job more independently. The question is, will college sports follow that path. I could actually see it in football. You get a couple GMs who build monster rosters within their budget every year, and some university may hand them a certain amount of independent control and tell the coach to just coach. I think basketball will likely remain as it is now. Coach is in charge.

I think that’s a special situation. Luck wouldn’t take that job to be bossed around by some low level P5 coach. He’s probably more like the “AD specifically for football “ there. And quite frankly Stanford doesn’t care care enough to acquiesce to some athletic coach anyhow. I think in college from a business perspective, the football and basketball coach are basically like the CEO/President of their own little 20 - 100mil dollar business. The GM is going to be like the CFO. Head assistant COO. So on and so forth. In pro sports it’s a little different unless the coach has reached a certain status. Guys like Andy Reid, Bill Belichek, Popovich, Phil Jackson would have essentially been more powerful than their GMs, but that’s a rare arrangement.

Caps would only hurt IU.

Middle of the season my friend who is tied into PU NIL (probably gives low six figures if I had to guess) was sweating out him getting 2+ mil offers next year. It’s probably only gone up since then. I hate to say it, but he’d be a perfect fit for what we need.

I can’t sign off on that statement. He’s solid. But he’s not even the best player on his own team. I’m not trying to disparage the guy, but if someone like him is our best guard on the team I think we don’t meet expectations for next year. Which was the gist of my post.