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I’m old enough to remember when IU was the talk of CBB and the portal. Got us to the second day of the BTT. I want commits, too. But I also want DeVries to put together a team he wants and let’s see what he can do.

If I’m understanding things correctly, we can’t get players at IU regardless of the money and we aren’t spending the money we have. On April 2. I get the PTSD of sucking as a program for so long, but holy hell…..some people need a snickers bar.

People can be solid posters and have bad takes. Or, they can be crappy posters like me with occasional good takes. It’s just weird that people think this is a bad pick up. If DeVries has a bad year next year, we aren’t going to be saying, if he just didn’t sign that Enright kid, we’d be elite.

Have you applied for a position with IU? With your scouting and film watching acumen, could use you. They are cleaning house so now is the time.

If that happens, then he won’t get much playing time. People think we are going to run 13 players out there with equal playing time? Yeah, your watching videos and stats is much better than what DeVries sees in this kid.

In what worked is this awful? If your answer is, he is the only PG we end up with, that stills doesn’t mean this is awful. It would be the lack of another PG that would be awful. Which is highly unlikely. Sorry, thinking getting Enright has a chance of being awful is silly.

Awesome. Not worried about whether he is going to be a starter. I’m sure DeVries knows how he plays. Welcome to IU, Conor.

Agree with this. Given how DeVries has explained what he wants from players, it would be a shock for any to return. Especially given they would almost for sure take a pay cut.

I don’t think the fact that none may come back means the meetings didn’t go well. Other than Goode, I hope none come back. And if you mean not well from the players’ perspective, I don’t really care.

What? The dude is undefeated at IU. He’s killed it in his….10 days as coach.

Well, the good news is, Vegas had UNC favored over Ole Miss, so hammered that. Thanks people who think they could win a quad 1 game.

Agree with this. Get the best staff possible. If that means any of those guys, great.

I’ll let DeVries determine who is going to be on his staff. I’m sure he understands the history. Not going to lose sleep over this.

Agree with this. I do remember the incident. I also no longer care about it. Get the best coaches possible.

Except for the people who were saying it was DeVries a week ago. But sure, make up Whatever narrative you want so you can ***** and complain. Some people are only happy when they are mad.

I know it’s easy to say but he seems to really mean it when he is out to build a team and not a roster. His comment about not taking some players with red flags because of what it might due to the locker room is big. Again, I know it’s words. But he has repeated that several times so it’s deep seated, IMO.

Not sure why I would start that thread. I like the hire. I don’t think people make fun of IU fans because they are fickle. They make fun of some fans because they are delusional.

My wife said, he looks good with that stubble. I said, why do you tell me to shave all the time? And she said, because he looks good with it. So, my wife approves.

Well, yeah. It’s a safe bet that any school won’t likely be adding banners. It’s hard to do. And we wonder why people make fun of IU fans.

So, in the CSB category, I feel a lot better about this hire. A guy in my neighborhood went to WV (was a walk-on back in the 80s there) and called me when he heard the news. He was pissed. He described just how bad they were last year (I get it. I can look at the record) and was feeling down after having Huggins so long. He was ecstatic about DeVries, and he didn’t disappoint. Exceeded all expectations by a lot. When I told him a good number of IU fans (including me) wanted a more homerun hire, he (lovingly) told me GFY because you have a guy who is going to be great at IU. Also, I love that McDermott called him a grinder. That may seem like weird praise but exactly how I want our coach described. So let’s hit the portal and recruiting hard and win some MFing games.

Silly. UK is 14th in NET this year. If you think that’s bad, that’s a you problem.

DeVries may work out. I think the initial reaction by some, including me, is: that’s the best IU could do with a top salary and NIL? I don’t think it will matter as long as he wins but it’s not like he has a strong track record in a power conference. In the end, it’s more of a realization that maybe it’s true that top coaches just don’t want to coach at IU. So we take the best of the middle of the pack and hope they break out. And he may. I’ll support him 100%.

Don’t mind DeVries but can’t help the feeling that he was way down on the list. In the end, winning matters. And years from now, we may look back at this and say, damn straight. But, was looking forward to a big wink hire.

My takeaway from this is if it’s not a current coach, it’s Wright. If it is, it’s Pearl. Pretty sure I have that right from all the posts and tweets…..

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