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Between this and the transfer eligibility stuff, the B1G and SEC should break away from the NCAA immediately. Bring the Big 12 and ACC. Invite the Big East and midmajors for the basketball tourney. NCAA is just intent on screwing everything up and grabbing every last red cent until the inevitable happens anyways. Crapping on the basketball tourney should be the final straw.

Better than a masshole

Good call. **Now back to your previously scheduled Wang talk**

Hate to see this guy as a colts division rival but happy for him

Ballard is an idiot. Pain being a colts fan. If my clients didn’t love the tix so much I would’ve ditched them years ago.

Aiden is that guy with average measurables but an insane football IQ. Honestly he might be my favorite player of the CIG ERA (but I was an old LB many moons ago). I can see him going 6th round and being a starter for 8 years, or special teams at least. Kind of has a Zack Thomas or Dat Ngyuen feel.

This is where the amnesia is killing me…lol. From the moment it was announced Woody was moving on there was tons of chatter on this board about not playing 2 bigs, playing a bunch of perimeters who can jack 3’s and play “modern basketball” (presumably small ball). And people were happy that Devries’ style was just that. It’s only relevant in this thread as so much as we can try and guess at any players that might be added next. This roster still needs one more big (quality to be determined) and is a little short on shooting. My guess is if Devries has his way It will be a cheap developmental big and maybe a proven shooter if we can snag one. Why? Because he likes to play small ball and will likely want to split time with Yigi and Sherrel on the floor. He built his first rosters at both WVU and IU as 4-out small ball rosters. That last statement would have elicited nearly unanimous agreement at this time last year. But maybe he’s really committed to putting a 5 with Sherrel on the floor at all times in which case they have to add a 5 who is proven they can play 10-15mpg. As far as I can tell he’s never built a roster like that, but he obviously has help building the roster this year.

Yea, if he were 5’11 he’s easily a day 1 pick. Wish the Colts would’ve kept their first and just drafted ponds this year

This is just wrong. I’m not speculating, I went back and read through the thread. You can too. This isn’t “gotchya” either because I have some takes like that in there as well. The funny thing is we started off hot last year landing Tucker, enright, Gonerway, Bailey and Wilkerson almost right away. Nobody said anything about assistants holding us back. Then a lull set in and people—rightfully so—worried about Bailey being the starting 5 and who we would get to help down low and off the bench. Leo Curtis and Thiam were some names thrown around. It wasn’t assistants who slowed Devries down, it was a couple of misses and failing to supplement the core guys he initially brought in.

Now far be it for me to tell the geniuses at cow pasture state up in West Lansing what to do, but couldn’t they solve their little quandary by paying a couple of their current guys a little more? I think maybe Izzo has entered his crotchety old man phase like Knight did.

Effort and basketball IQ, I think. But I join you in the “he drove me nuts” camp.

Lol…C’mon. Trusts definitely a little revisionist history. Go back to last years time in the portal thread and read through the comments. “Devries has a plan!” “Getting proven production guys fron MM…just like Cig!” “Love getting MM guys who want to prove they belong instead of P5 guys chasing money!” “These guys are perfect for Devries system!” Here’s everyone’s favorite HS coach with a pretty glowing report of Conerway: We’re all just fans here so no big deal. But people were absolutely excited about last years roster and thought it fit Devries “system.”

Heck, through PSU I still wasn’t convinced OL wouldn’t be a liability down the stretch. Then by the Rose Bowl they win “player” of the game. Cig or the Oline coach deserves a ton of credit for bringing those guys along all season. Also, Cooper to the Jets…bleh. Was that the Colts pick they used?

They’re cheap, but most front offices seem to be structured like MLM scheme where any financial benefit seems to drop off drastically after the top guy or two. It definitely could be a pay raise for him. Outside of the top few jobs, I think so the money has historically been on the sideline.

With the way the team is built, he’d better be comfortable running different stuff than last year. I think for all the issues last year, Xs and Os versatility won’t be a problem this season. Everyone says CDD is a great Xs and Os guy. We might just be a defensive juggernaut with a a slightly above average-ish offense—although one that can get crunch time buckets thanks to guys like Burton. I’d love another 3 and D type guy, but you have to think the staff has scouted Lyndsey and Harris to be our primary spot up shooters with Burton and Sherrell adding enough from the arc to satisfy what CDD wants to do. The 3 freshman sit out there as potential X factors too.

I’d be shocked if we’re not shaking this bush pretty hard. It may amount to nothing, but there a probably a couple good Euros out there who are on the fence about making the jump to America or not.

I can’t see it happening. But bringing Wilkerson and Alexis back would shore up a couple of our question marks in the best way possible. Just bringing Alexis back would be huge.

It was reported before they took their visit that Shelstead and Bidunga were likely a combo deal. Our staff seemed to focus in on Burton rather early. Given that they clearly had other high profile big options I don’t blame them for bailing on the Shel/Flory combo. Usually a combo deal like that is getting one guy paid more than he deserves thanks to the agent. Also Burton has an extra year of eligibility.

I think most “GM’s” in college work like a glorified scout for the head coach and probably helps advise on the pool of money. Just a guess, but I think Carr operates on a more co-equal plane. I feel like you might be there too if you think Dolson would try and retain Carr if Devries left. That’s more or less how it works in the NBA. It’s a close working relationship where each have distinct roles but they kind of overlap. We can find situations in the NBA where the GM rules supreme and ones where the coach does. But in general they operate kind of as co-equals where NBA GMs aren’t making big signings without consulting the coach (and sometimes the star player) and coaches aren’t getting pissed and just benching highly sought after players (with influential agents) without consulting the front office. My impression is most of these college GMs are a direct report to the coach. Dusty May could fire his GM tomorrow and the AD wouldn’t have any involvement besides the paperwork. My impression is Devries couldn’t do that to Carr without express approval of Dolson. FWIW, I didn’t question why it took so long, but the timing of hire. If they were going to hire someone from the NBA it would seem the summer after the Finals would’ve been the logical time vs in the middle of the college and NBA season. The latter makes me think they didn’t get it done this summer, but as the season went south they had to do something to pry Carr away. I join you and everyone else in being happy it got done. I have posted before that I think this will be the trend of the future. There might be a couple highly successful HCs who feel they can keep dominion over both operations but at the pro level very few are successful at both.

Ya think? Leave a job where you basically have lifetime job security for one where your “boss,” and thus you, could be fired in 2-3 years. I’m sure it took some convincing. More money, I’d bet my life on. I’d also guess a defined role was part of the negotiation too. So when the season is going south and everyone, including the head coach and AD, are blasting roster construction for those troubles, do you think that strengthened or weakened Ryan Carr’s negotiating position? People can believe what they want, but I’d be pretty surprised if Carrs role doesn’t come with more authority and autonomy than most other college basketball GM’s.

Sure. By why wouldn’t it have been done in the summer after the season concluded, instead of going into the year without a GM and Carr going back to the Pacers as a senior personnel guy when they’re angling for a top 3 pick in the draft? And doesn’t Dolson’s relationship with Carr predate Devries’ ?

I’d pay $10 bucks to borrow the CIA’s mind reader machine and see the real org chart in Dolson’s head. Lol

Former fan favorite transfers again

If we would have kept Woody another year, Donovans wife could’ve had that horse farm in Bloomington she’s always wanted! Also, UNC has to be a little salty, I would guess.

No you don’t. We’re already playing two seven footers surrounded by some unproven shooting. Your best bet will be to stagger some minutes with Sherrell playing 5-10 min a night at the 5. Playing a substandard 5 man 10mpg so you can always play two bigs just comes at the expense of our wing players where we are much deeper. We’ll just drive our efficiency, especially offensively, off a cliff trying to do that. If we get an Alexis-type, then great. I wouldn’t expect it with this next pickup though.