JimmerNoe

Just read it as well, very nicely written and needed for the board as a whole to read

I have received a DM from an esteemed member of our group that it is my duty, and only I have this power, to redirect you fools back to the crisis that is our lack of portal star power. I have it on good authority that Flory’s DG girlfriend is transferring to Auburn Kappa Delta after some big NIL offers. Think this points him directly down south to Auburn to play for the shirtless orange man. thank you for the bat signal, @Certified Sunshine Pumper

I think a lot of this will depend on how the portal develops over the next few weeks. There is no guarantee of who will or won’t be in the portal later. Last year there were quite a few guys who got in the portal late, and when you are still sitting on a pile of money that might be a good place to be. However this year a friend and I were just saying that the portal feels different. The big rev share balloon that schools are getting might make it easier to bump up existing NIL contracts and keep the really good kids that would normally seek greener pastures. time will tell but I do think this will be the first time in a long time we have a great likelihood of overperforming the parts we assemble.

One thing that i find interesting is that we haven’t heard a different name yet. I think that bodes well for Murphy. If we had heard he was staying in Alabama or even if there was a risk we weren’t going to get him, you would think there’d be some alternate names floating around.

I did not realize what Flory’s stats looked like for the games KJ Adams was hurt. Get him a summer in the gym and he might be the most important piece of the puzzle. I think he’s maybe one that I would overpay for just based on his ceiling. If we are going to shoot a lot of threes and try to play faster, having a high flying, dunking, shot blocking big is so key to capitalize on the perimeter gravity.

If we somehow add Dix we would have to be top 2-3 and then people would need to start complaining that we still have too many open bench spots and Devries isn’t talking to enough players to fill them. I would expect us to take another 2 high school guys or so, which still leaves like 7-8 more slots to fill from the portal. Insanity.

I have to say, I would be more excited for Conwell, but having dynamic perimeter players who can shoot the p*ss out of the ball is probably my favorite thing about modern basketball and I can’t wait to have it again.

I would like to take this moment to acknowledge that if this was another dude in the same rank range as Tucker we would all be going nuts that we just got a top 10ish portal dude. So let’s act accordingly!!! let’s go! Excited to see some crazy in-motion threes being launched from this guy. Tired of our only good looks being 10 set shots for the last few years and he should fix that.

This is an important list for all of us to keep in mind. I have a feeling if we had Louisville or UK’s transfer classes last year we would all be very underwhelmed and skeptical.

I know it’s not important for us to know what’s going on behind the scenes, and apparently Adams is already working in official capacity more or less, but I totally agree. Seeing plenty of other schools immediately announce even just one or two staff is frustrating. I don’t get the benefit of announcing them all at once, and to me it seems more like we are waiting out some precious portal time trying to get our one or two specific coaches on board. Feels like we are running behind on all aspects right now from our outside perspective.

I think he would be an early frontrunner for my favorite player on next years team if we got him. It has been too long since we’ve had an awesome perimeter player. (I know Tucker can do it too but he’s not a traditional guard)

Do we know if this is realistic? I think he would be number 2 or 3 on my overall wishlist but I know he had zero interest in our system last year. Is he an Indiana guy that would want to come to IU or is he just as likely to take a bag elsewhere?

I think this is very reasonable with all aspects of modern basketball considered. The only gripes I could see about jobs being overall better or above IU would be Arizona and Villanova. Arizona - incredible culture of winning, sustained success, lower pressure externally Villanova - less pressure, more recent success and national relevance, easier conference to navigate than SEC or B10 Otherwise, I think you would be hard pressed to win an argument about Duke, UNC, Kentucky, or Kansas.

I think @Stuhoo probably deserves some flowers about his little Richard propaganda during our coaching search. Big 10 coach of the year, MWC coach of the year, hired by New Blood program with two recent national championships, bringing AA guard with him for immediate year one success. Not saying I would’ve been thrilled with the hire, but that’s quite a haul.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_K2B-dIS9y0&pp=ygUPaG9vc2llciBjb25uZWN0 First interview with Coach is up! Let’s get pumped for what he can do here!

I hope he leaves, shaves his beard, and averages 8 points somewhere.

i don’t think we need to worry too much about not getting a star point guard because we take Enright. I think if last year taught us anything, the weight of the bag we are throwing around is absolutely going to get us a few star players. I trust this staff is going to build pieces that fit. I feel fully confident we will probably grab 5-6 players of Enright caliber. i also feel very confident we will have Tucker and 2-3 additional “stars” from the portal. We are going to have one of the best rosters money can buy. How it’s put together and how it’s coached will be the variables because we’ve seen that grabbing three “stars” from the portal doesn’t mean anything.

I think you’re right and I think it’s wild that people want him gone or blame shooting struggles on Cliff. By all accounts he is incredibly well liked by the players and I don’t buy one bit that someone with a history as a trainer for professional athletes is somehow sabotaging our shooting. It’s asinine. Perpetuated by people who have never been in a college gym or lifted at the rate that a high level athlete does. bet anything someone responds with “hes a football trainer”. Yeah you don’t get to the NFL without knowing your stuff. He’s not doing NFL workouts with our guys, promise.

How much more do you like this hire compared to Ben McCollum. I know you previously said he is not a dude lol

Can someone tell me more about what he runs offensively and defensively? @Uspshoosier? I saw the packline video and that makes me a little scared.

Interesting.

Also want to say I appreciate all of our folks who share what they are hearing. I would love to hear more about what you guys heard if you ever feel like sharing it, but it made for a fun ride nonetheless! Cheers to portal season! Anyone who has anything negative to say to our plugged in posters, please keep it to yourself and scream into a pillow if you’re disappointed so the rest of us don’t have to hear it.

Im sure I’ll come around on it eventually once I get to watch some analysis. Just a decent hire to me. I know that big home runs are rare but I definitely didn’t get super excited like you’d hope to be when you hear the name.

If we go with Devries we better get to know who Goodman’s “mystery candidate” was

I would think that if Thamel is saying he’s “not a candidate at Iowa”, that would lean more towards an extension? Because if Thamel knows he’s not going to Iowa because he’s going to IU, wouldn’t he just break “Devries to IU”?