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str8baller

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  1. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    = “complain “ but not in the king’s English :)
  2. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    Watching posters crash out 2mos into year one is wild. It’d be almost excusable if we didn’t watch a midmajor football coach with a bunch midmajor guys get to a 12th place finish (or better). The funny thing is, if we suck next year how’s that any different than the last 25 years? Just relax and see what the new coach sucks we’ll know in a couple years and we can sit back and ***** for 3 years until he’s fired. IU basketball at its finest. No need to get a head start on the misery tho.
  3. str8baller

    NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

    I’ll wait to pass judgement on CDD’s approach. I have to say that I’ve been pretty consistent in thinking the GM role is a valuable one. You really see it taking off in football where there are 5-10x the number of players. With that said, that may be why he hired non bench staff first. They might be filling the same purpose without the title.
  4. str8baller

    College Bball Thread

    There’s nothing the NCAA can’t screw up, so I have no faith they can navigate this successfully. But, there should be several arguments to maintaining some semblance of the current system: 1) He’s not barred from earning NIL. If he wants to make money off his likeness he’s certainly allowed to. For example, Cody Zeller can come back and make money off of being Cody Zeller former IU player even though he doesn’t have eligibility. 2) So long as the programs are tied to the universities, which have typically been 4 yr degree earning institutions, there is some justification for limiting eligibility to 4 yrs. It’s not a capricious limit to favor the schools but instead allow other student athletes to matriculate through the system. 3) I don’t know much about anti trust law, but I’m failing to see the anti trust issue as he’s allowed to play for compensation in any number of organizations not named the NCAA. And in the event they lose on anti trust grounds they can seek an exception from Congress. The NCAA is so dumb it drives me crazy. Everyone could see they were going to lose the Obannon challenge from day 1. They had ample opportunity to get in front of this and put something sensible in place. Their obstinacy and idiocy along with horrible public relations have put them in a position to be completely dissolved if this goes south.
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    NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

    I’m not even sure the experts that weigh in on this stuff have an idea of the totality of it. It’d be cool if the NCAA made a reporting requirement so we could monitor it and compare.
  6. Yep, he had issues with perimeter players both offensively and defensively. Otoh, he did allow our bigs to flourish. TJD, Ware, Teneau and even Ballo were at least good under him. Now we have posters freaking out because we don’t have bigs. Gotta love IU basketball!
  7. Several Archie players transferred out and had success elsewhere. But yea…I wrote at the beginning of transfer season that I understand why CDD cleared out the roster entirely but some posters are going to be surprised when they see these guys go to other schools and play well. Mbako was an obvious one. Rice could be another one.
  8. str8baller

    2025-2026 IU Roster

    I think this is closer to the truth. Just your garden variety bureaucracy that’s accountable to no one. What’s the NCAA’s incentive to hurry? Because some message board fans might get mad?
  9. str8baller

    Peacock Subscription Sale

    I honestly haven’t found it to be much different than any of the other ones. The one I always have issues with is espn. And sometimes tbs/tnt at tourney time. I kind of liked NBCs presentation of cbb this last year.
  10. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    Painfully, that analogy works in more ways than one.
  11. str8baller

    2025-2026 IU Roster

    NCAA is so scared of going into court and getting obliterated they’re acquiescing to anything…lol.
  12. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    They never were going to have one this year. Cheaper to keep your own players. Big players don’t move much. Ware was a malcontent at Oregon. Ballo was a roster hopper. Guys like Storr and Love were labeled malcontents and/or roster hoppers. Those were some of the highest ranked guys. A big NIL covers up some mistakes in roster building but you still have to somewhat build it from the round up. Even from the beginning everyone universally has said looking at the new teams last year the range of expectations is like 10 seed to 4/5ish seed, at best. So I’m not sure where the top 10 roster expectations are coming from all of a sudden.
  13. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    Makes sense. Why pay end of the bench guys? In the NBA they’re league minimum types. Top 2-3 players really matter and is where the bulk of the money will settle if the pros are any indication.
  14. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    We couldn’t have been too low in NIL. We never even came close to losing a player like a bunch of teams. We got the top ranked center in successive years. In 23 people here were pumped about Walker and even Sparks being a backup. Woody stunk at building a roster, but he didn’t seem to have trouble landing the guys he wanted. With that said…last year is the first year that I really felt like the whole NIL was truly a mad scramble free agency type market. So it’s really hard to compare. There could be a hundred reasons the team is built the way it is, but I doubt lack of funds—compared to our peers—is one of them. It was just a couple weeks ago everyone was crowing about outbidding UK and the commits were rolling in.
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    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    I mean…Duke is probably the most successful basketball program in modern times and they have a wealthy alumni base. I’d fully expect them to be top 5 if not #1 in basketball NIL spend. How many times have we went head to head with Duke for a guy and won out, historically? It’d be weird for IU to be top 10 last year and not this year. Funds don’t seem to be an issue for the football team either. CDD spent the money how he spent it. Gotta assume the guy has a plan.
  16. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    So no Leo Curtis, huh? At least we’ll get to see him in the conference.
  17. str8baller

    2025-2026 IUBB Season Expectations

    Pretty much this. I think some people have confused Woodys problem with getting blown out in about every big noncon game with the notion that good teams never really get blown out. The latter isn’t necessarily true. Florida only lost 4 times last year but one was a 20 blowout at Tennessee. It happens from time to time, sometimes even to very good teams.
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    2025-2026 IUBB Season Expectations

    A few days back I asked how people thought we’d play and got a variety of responses. While the roster may not have a seamless and obvious fit 1-5 it does seem to be deep and possibly quite versatile. I’m intrigued because at the very least I think we learn a lot about CDD in year 1.
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    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    A couple things likely drive that without knowing much about Torvik s exact formula. 1) Leal started about half the games last year, played 20mpg and has really good advanced metrics on defense and for things like WS. 2) The teams ranked 20-40 are probably all grouped really close together. In other words, you might jump ten spots but statistically you still all group together as teams that will all finish at about the same place
  20. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    Technically ‘16 was within the last ten seasons. But yea…that's a pathetic stretch.
  21. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    Could be. Or it could be his asking price. Or maybe the kid can do the math on two upperclassmen 5’s signed in front of him and doesn’t see the minutes he wants. Seems like a logical recruit but if he’s looking for backup type mins next year, IU is likely not offering that.
  22. str8baller

    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    Yea, I don’t get the dissatisfaction with playing time next year for Goode in particular. Also by most accounts we should’ve snuck into the tourney last year. Arguably if Woody stuck with the small ball lineup after Teneau that started Goode and played Leal more, we would’ve have. They are obviously both rotation players in the conference, and Goode in particular has proven he can be a rotation guy on a good team. Everybody has kind of set the bar for success at making the tourney next year. That is in no way unachievable if two proven B1G level rotation players come back. Ideally, the guys we brought in are better options but not guaranteed.
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    Transfer Portal w IU Interest

    This is crazy to me.
  24. str8baller

    IU Basketball News and Notes

    That’s what I was wondering. Was it approved but not generally used or something? I had HS and college sports physicals and never had anything like that. But I did have two different versions of the hernia check thing. Some doctors wanted me to “turn my head and cough.” Others just examined the abdominal wall or whatever you call it. So I’m sure there are different approved ways of checking the same thing. I don’t know the facts in this case nor the medical procedures, but if everything they did was above board then some people are owed some apologies.
  25. str8baller

    NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

    I see that Arizona Tommy snagged him another Euro. Senaglese native 7fter who is only 17 but been playing Euro ball. That guy loves scouting the Euros.
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