str8baller

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.

Carlyle can defend. If I squint real hard I can see a role for him if Coach DD can’t bring back some IQ to his offensive game. Rice is coach’s biggest call. I think back to the Tennessee scrimmage and can envision the upside of him slicing up defenses. Here’s the actual problem: We need real verifiable talent on the perimeter. We need depth too thanks to Woodys refusal to recruit. But on the perimeter we need all-conf/pro type talent. So keeping Rice/Carlyle, adding the DePaul kid, Powell? , Goode?, ….pretty soon you have a rotation without any of the aforementioned talent besides Tucker D. With our salary pool, you have to wonder if that’s enough. I guess Michigan and Dusty were able to get it done without out that type of guard talent but they had two of the best bigs in the conference and I think they finally crap out here in the S16.

Galloway is gone and so is Cupps. We’re gonna need backup guards.

Pulling ISU was a good draw for him and obviously UNC. Both of those were my bigger bets of the weekend. In any event, nobody really questioned whether the guy can coach.

Tbf, the coach before Medved averaged 9 wins per year and was still trending downward. Medveds sole season actually constituted a turnaround and the Devries took it from there. Pretty good chance both can coach.

That’s fine, but one of the defining qualities of those teams is continuity. Think of all the big men that red shirted and developed for a couple years under Ryan. It’s actually tougher to do that today. Ask Tony Bennett. Ironically, it’s easier to do that at a place like IU that can pay to keep players around 4 years. Iowa is gonna develop guys for 2 or 3 years and risk seeing them run off right when the team should be peaking. Alternatively you can hope to have the eye for talent like Greg Gard, who has done a nice job of filling in holes with MM guys who pop like Klesmitt and Tonje even though they don’t have the most money.

Until they can allow for multi year agreements i think that is the new reality. The benefits of which should mostly flow up to programs like IU.

All things you’d expect out of a big ten backup forced to start as a true freshman. He should go. DD needs a top 10 roster. But I was just addressing your claim he couldn’t shoot. Not really true, minus his horrid sideways fade off the dribble

He shot 36% from 3 as a freshman. Probably close to 40 on spot ups. No offense, but you don’t put up those splits if your assessment of his mechanics is correct. He can’t shoot of the dribble but there’s nothing wrong with his shot on a catch and shoot.

Ole Miss melting down like Beard on a 3 day bender

He’s an emotionally stunted dork. That’s the downside. But if Coach Double D needs him, then that’s entirely his call. Nothing said or done can’t be overcome if he is an excellent assistant who leads to winning on the floor.