Its Always Sunny at IU

Page has not updated his Instagram account with his IU visit photos as he has done for every other visit. Wondering if he's saving that for an Indiana commitment announcement soon?

They use consultants quite a bit in SEC football. Saban at Alabama has a bunch. And pro sports including the NBA uses consultants. Obviously in the business world consultants are used all the time. I was a business consultant once. No benefits, but a nice side gig.

This is true. My guess is that one of the Wisconsin big guys really take a jump next season.

Can I please have a not good coach who can win 2 Big Ten titles. Bring me the worst coach in America if he can win a pair of Big Ten Titles in the next 10 years. At the time I wasn't a big Crean fan, but right now I wish we would have kept him instead of hiring Archie.

There's still lots of hope this season. 10-10 gets IU into the Tournament which was the main goal for this season. Let's go. No time to quit. Get to 10-10.

There are multiple videos of a tour for 2024 player Anthony Gilkes. He's a player from IMG Academy. There are different tabs on this Instagram post with all of the videos.

It would have been better on the fanbase to have UW lead the entire way and win by 5 against Indiana. I've always been in the "just make the tournament" mindset because some of our players are average, including the point guard. IU is on track to do that as long as they don't lose to a bottom feeder and pick off a couple of quad 1 wins at home. Looks like we are on track for 8th in the Big Ten and that should get us in. And I think the NIL must be in place in some fashion. Scoop and JHS didn't commit to Indiana just to sell a few T-shirts. Just make the Dance and the program will improve with better players.

We are ahead of Michigan!!! This has Minny finishing ahead of Illinois, Mich and IU in the conference. Hmm.

Unfortunately teams that IU have struggled with are terrible - St Johns, Marshall and Syracuse.

Ha. Fair point. My sunny side says all of the teams in the middle of the pack in the Big Ten have the same problem. Maryland, Wisconsin etc cannot lose home games to Nebraska, Minnesota, Penn State or Rutgers. IU beats Nebraska, but it will be a grind.

Well said. And for me this team hasn't shown much. We have not looked good in games against bad teams. Nebraska is better than Marshall. We get down 14 to the Huskers and they will win. IU cannot lose any home games to the Big Ten bottom feeders or it's lights out for the season.

It's not that Rob decides not to show up. I think he tries hard every game. Look he was ranked 135th. Alot of those guys don't improve to be great players in the Big Ten. He simply didn't improve because he's not very talented. Great kid. Hard worker. Never any off the court issues with him. He's simply didn't develop. Every team has these players.

IU was at the forefront of compliance. That's it. We are so far behind other programs it's depressing. I'm not asking to be Duke or Kentucky. How about we keep up with Ohio State or Michigan? I cannot believe there's no replacement for TJD other than wishing for a miracle from the portal.

I didn't go but saw the 3-point event streamed on Twitter. Durr looked very comfortable and almost made the finals. Wonder how many 3s he will be allowed to attempt in an actual game.

Ranked 38th by CBS. Tourney team in Bracketology.

Michigan won the Big 10 with 38-percent last season. We needed just one more 3 against Belmont to hit that mark. I read that Tamar Bates didn't play because of a minor injury. All that said I'm not expecting IU to win the league. Just make the Tournament. Happy with the result today. Belmont is a solid team.

What is the player comp for Booker's skill set? Marcus Camby?

Interesting. Mark Cuban appears to be supportive of IU's NIL efforts. Should be fun.

With rumors flying of an imminent announcement all the IU fans checking for Clowney's commitment today broke Instagram.

What happened between this interaction and now? Between this an other insiders saying "it's always been Indiana" what happened? Is it as simple as a teenager just changed his mind?

No one who is really "in your corner" would push a player to go to Virginia Tech basketball over Alabama or Florida. Obviously I would like to see Clowney at IU, but I'm taking the Hoosiers out of this for this conclusion. Does someone with a straight face tell you that Virginia Tech is better than Nate Oats at Alabama? No one who is really interested in a kids enjoyment of college basketball would ever do that. On a side note I appreciate AP and Billingsley who have passed along what they are hearing no matter what the outcome is here.

I agree with all of this. My guess is the high school coach is likely the main influence and will probably send him to Virginia Tech. He would have never considered VT without that friendship between the two coaches. Let's hope those on this board who are picking IU are correct. We will see.

The Virginia Tech people have not gotten this message. Two different Hokie sites have insiders who appear somewhat confident they are going to get Clowney. 247 and TheKeyPlay. He's starting to add VT coaches to his social media (bottom of this thread). https://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2021/august/2/hokie-hoops-august-september-recruiting

Obviously a Louisville kid is going to have great NIL opportunities from his hometown school. Hopefully IU has the NIL game figured out for future recruiting battles.

The Virginia Tech insiders discuss Clowney today on this free 247 VT board. Interesting that Clowney does not follow Virginia Tech basketball on social media yet he follows quite a few IU players, coaches, recruits and the official IU basketball accounts on twitter and instagram. I guess we will find out soon if that means anything. https://247sports.com/college/virginia-tech/board/59428/Contents/basketball-recruiting-thread-171489903/?page=4