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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”?

One comforting thought about Devries: if we are indeed down the list and in a scramble to grab him now that his season is over, I feel supremely confident that if we want him, we will get him over WVU and Iowa. And he’s a great “last resort” who would have us winning sooner rather than later. The alternative is that Scott has someone better already and we are in great shape. Either of these outcomes would be a fantastic place to be sitting in any coaching search, at any time, bar none. So to summarize, we’re sitting pretty.

I have a very strong inclination that Goodman knows something. He is the person who is pushing a “mystery candidate” and he has been very coy about discussing the Indiana job on his shows. I think he is aware there is something bigger going on but is not going to break it until it’s time.

I’m parked with lunch in hand and nothing to do but refresh for 40 minutes. Give me something people!

From late last night. I don’t think it’s Devries.

Well, I think the insinuation here would be that the person in question is not currently coaching and would be free to sign on his own timeline.

Also this account typically is very good about clarifying how many sources and the quality of those sources. They say this one is “unimpeachable”. If this person has heard it is contracted already, that would make me very excited.

The tweet from Coaching Changes (who are super plugged in and usually have stuff early) says that they have heard it is contracted. Meaning it’s already signed and done and the daughter stuff is not an issue if it’s Brad.

As much as I don’t love Dakich I realllly liked that McCollum interview man. That guy sounds like he just gets it from a program building standpoint and his X’s and O’s have been discussed plenty. I think we would be pretty good year 1 and then mostly upward trajectory from there as he installed his culture.

I agree that this is bad form by Rabjohns but it is going to be awkward when Tucker almost certainly goes in the portal within the week lol

I think we do everything we can to get McCollum. The floor has to be a good basketball coach. If he is not able to recruit at a super high level that would be an anomaly at IU, especially with a monster payroll. Even if he can’t…I’m ready to play hard, smart basketball and I think that will produce what we are hoping for over the last few years. Looking around college basketball, it’s really not that hard to win 20 freaking games a year.

It would be really surprising if Dolson wasn’t able to take the temperature on someone like Brownell and made that hire. I mean there is literally no one out there touting him as a good coach, no one looking at him for other jobs, and anytime his name is mentioned anywhere, it’s met with disgust. Would be incredibly tone deaf.

The psy-op worked on me. Because of the Brownell threat I am now thrilled about this possibility.

No shade, just seems a bit misleading and doesn’t inspire confidence that anything happened if there are still a bunch of names floating around. If there’s a crowd outside the Vatican and white smoke billows out but then they don’t actually know who it is, there’d probably be some confusion from the masses.

You sent a gif this morning with white smoke, which is generally accepted to be an indication that the pope has been chosen. so it would just seem a little backwards to say that you’re hearing other names now?

Wait just a minute what happened to the white smoke lol

How sooner? Do I need another bourbon tonight or shall I wait until post church lunch tomorrow afternoon?