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I didn’t compare their resumes. Only the fact that this board loved both as plug and play starters. And to get there you had to do a little extrapolation: “he’ll benefit from the scheme,” “everyone takes a jump in shooting from the frosh to soph yr”, etc… The same is true of Harris. It’s perfectly rational to like his fit next year. I certainly trust the scout of Carr and a full staff more than Woody or Devries and last year’s staff at the time. I sort of doubt they prioritize a guy this early if they don’t think he’s getting at least 6th man minutes.

Maybe. We did a lot of extrapolating last year and Woodys last year on guards who had average-ish shooting stats and said things like “wait until the looks he gets with Reneau down low” or “he shot it great his soph year.” Etc…. I mean this board was in love with Myles Rice. And probably 90% of those were sold on Conerway. And we all thought Tuckers stats would translate over. So I’d say a mix of both. Which is where we’re currently at with the Burton addition, imo.

The idea of getting bad euros to redshirt is just a comically dumb strategy, if for nothing else they can always sit in Europe play very little and try and develop on somebody elses dime. They have no family or ties here to keep them loyal even if you do develop them. I’m not sure what was going on there, but I’m glad Carr was brought in to straighten a few things out. Already our strategy seems improved.

If we land Burton that is 3 interesting guards. We’d have the potential to be a good 3 point shooting team but nobody that’s approached anything like the volume we were used to last year. Even Harris’s per40 numbers would’ve put him behind Dorn in attempts. Lots of potential with a steep learning curve for that (possible) backcourt.

Obviously not on a top of the league/FF type team. For us? I’d assume so.

Nice to get some guys with 2+yrs of eligibility

That’d so you can throw a good offer and sign them immediately though, correct? Like Lville did

I can’t tell the difference between satire and reality anymore.

If the money is the same it’ll be hard to beat Izzo for a big. He’s done well with them historically and in a lot of different roles.

Nine seems like fiction. Say they gave Flory everything he wanted at $5mil. You’re telling me they spent 4 on Shelstad. That seems like about double what everyone else says the market is.

Illinois is really just gonna run a Euro pro team every year, huh?

Flop is what we did. I do think they underperformed, though. I haveno idea how you finish 6th in the ACC with that roster. The only flaw I see with Kelseys portal strategy is that he basically gets 1-yr guys every time forcing him to start over the next year. So far he’s 3 for 3 in landing good portal classes, though.

I said the other day I thought you could fill out that duo with value-based jump shooters and be a S16 contender. They’ll half to dig deep into their pockets if they want to get a dynamic wing and bench to go with it so they can try and challenge the UM’s, Duke’s and AZ’s off the world. I’m curious how Kelsey sold Flory as to how he’s going to use him. No more 5-out? Back to the basket sets?

Stay tuned. If IU doesn’t get a commit today and I have to watch McIllroy win another green jacket I’m going to turn grumpy.

Gotta think today is the day. Probably early afternoon as guys meet with the staff before they leave.

Big drop off between Graves and Bidunga and everyone else according to these guys. Also, it’s nice to see someone have Burton in the top 10.

I’m skeptical guys are taking a 25% discount to avoid us. I think it’s more a factor of not having any homegrown recruits who are easier to retain that stretches our budget. We have playing time and money to offer. There’s no reason a coach can’t sell that. Plenty of other coaches have. At $14mil we should have plenty to outbid for the guys we really want if it comes down to it. But who really knows?

That’s all anyone has to offer besides the connection with a coach. Virginia won a title 6 yrs ago and they’re not getting discounts. Who’s lining up to play at Purdue or MSU on a discount? Not even Houston, UK or Kansas seem to get them. Guys routinely passing up money to play for a specific program…Michigan and Duke? Maybe. A couple other programs…Maybe. But mostly it’s recruiting and money. Or so it seems to me.

Not surprising if the staff feels good about Burton. I think the fit with both of those guys gets dicey for a CDD squad that wants to launch 3’s.

Does anyone remember when we started landing non-Tucker portal commits last year?

While I would never talk to any of these kids (and that’s what they are to me) and that’s a big reason I no longer even care about recruiting. I think the line between some random moron on twitter and Jeff Goodman is a lot thinner than we’d all like to believe. In fact the line between that guy and Rablohns probably doesn’t even exist.

I wouldn’t necessarily say either will be better than Wilkerson was. Maybe…

If you can come back and make a million and maintain the same draft status, then sure. The problem is the longer you stay the more they pick you apart. And Mullins isn’t an NBA athlete, so I’d probably go if I were him if I’m getting top 20 money. I really like McNeely but if he can’t get out of the G league his faults would’ve got picked apart the longer he stayed in college and he might not have been drafted at all had he stayed 3-4 yrs.

The courts will read in specific exemptions to anti-trust (as they have for sports leagues in the past) or there will be legislation. What you’re arguing is that the NCAA can’t enforce any limits on eligibility whatsoever, which I do not believe will stand. This is a political issue as much as a legal one at this point.

One guy signed elsewhere. No need to go crazy…just yet.