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Tyme is NGW who announced his retirement from here fyi.

If Woodson goes after a Ware type big in the portal you can pretty much bank on Galloway being the 2 guard, along with Mgbako at the 3 and Reneau at the 4.

Reneau shot nearly 70% at the rim this year. That’s elite (Edey 73%). He could be a 20 ppg scorer with 4 perimeter oriented players around him. He struggles against digs and doubles, Woodson invites that playing a 2nd big and with guards who can’t space the floor. I know we’d give up the coveted “rim protection” but he would thrive against single coverage in the paint.

I think he’s a lot better driver with a scorer’s first mentality. I don’t hate the idea of Perkins and think he can be a plus two way player here, but I don’t really love the idea of Perkins and Galloway as your 1 and 2 guards.

No problem with opinions. I give more than my share here. Big difference in an opinion and passing off something as fact, however. Ok that's my lecture for today.

Of course. But I just think the number of kids who "dream of wearing the candy stripes" (your words not mine) doesn't jive with reality.

I'm just sharing my personal experiences. I've been close to 100 AAU events and 200+ high school basketball games that 3 of my sons have played in over the last 7-8 years and the nostalgia for Indiana basketball just doesn't exist with the younger crowd like it did when we were growing up, assuming you're 40-50 years old. And why would it? None of these kids have ever seen Indiana more than just a middle tier B10 basketball school.

It's definitely believable, especially in central Indiana. The amount of rooting interest for Indiana between the casual 10-17 year old is the lowest I've ever seen. My youngest son who is now sophomore at IU played on a pretty darn good 4A basketball team a few years back and the lack of interest in Indiana amongst his friends and teammates was staggering. I don't ever recall my son watching an IU game unless it was with me...it's not something he would go out of his way to do. I think that parallel's a lot of kids sentiments across the state.

Agreed

Conwell, Larry, and Swope were a better backcourt than many of the ACC teams I watched this year. Those 3 paired with a rim protector and an athletic 4 in Schertz system could make for a nice year 1 team. Avila while not a 30 mpg guy in P5 could still be very effective off the bench.

If Schertz does indeed take the Louisville job, tough seeing those ISU kids doing anything but following him. I was hoping he'd take the SLU job because it's not P5. Louisville being P5 + NIL makes me think guys like Swope, Larry, Conwell, Avilia, etc all follow him.

Is Small actually in the portal?

I especially agree with your bolded part. He's too tone deaf to cook up something that elaborate.

Message boards typically make for the greatest game of telephone. But that being said, there is still a lot of good stuff that gets shared here from some really reliable posters.

I guess it’s how you view it. If you believe he deliberately lied to reporters Friday to mask some elaborate plan he had cooked up where Galloway and Leal took shots at the fanbase then sure. Or…just perhaps Leal and Galloway were undecided when that question was asked and a decision was made Saturday that they’d use their Covid year and would announce it at senior day instead of giving traditional senior day speeches. But I’m not a huge conspiracy guy so take that for what it’s worth. I’m a traditional guy myself but I’m old enough now to understand that this generation does its own thing.

I mean there’s some plausibility in that scenario. Do I think Woodson sat down with Galloway and Leal before senior day, talked contract figures while devising a way to troll the fan base during speeches as some have alluded too….absolutely not.

I think that would be the incorrect assumption. But I’m guessing as well.

If you’re asking if I think Woodson went to Cindy Simon-Skjodt and told her to write a check in the amount of X dollars to Anthony Leal and X dollars in the amount to Trey Galloway….well absolutely not.

So he wasn’t actually lying when he was asked and said he didn’t know if they were going through senior day or not lol? So much for that elaborate plan you thought up an hour ago…

Really? You know this? Woodson is now the one allocating NIL amounts to players? Sounds like you’re just making this up as you go. Look, I’m as disappointed as the next guy when it comes to the trajectory of the program and understand he’s not the guy long term. But he’s the coach next year whether we like it. Throwing out wild and unverified claims while outright disparaging him with half-truths isn’t going to solve things however. Wish there was a little more decorum.

That’s ok, I enjoy a good conspiracy as much as the next guy. Carry on.

Or that he should be out recruiting ;)

Again, you’re giving Woodson way too much credit. He’s way too tone deaf to actually calculate or coordinate something like that. I believe one of two things happened: 1) Woodson was coy with reporters not wanting to steal Leal or Galloway’s thunder knowing they still had a year of eligibility left 2) We’re in an era where college kids do college things, sadly meaning making spectacles of nonsensical events…like college athletes making elaborate announcements that they’re returning to school. Either way, I don’t think it’s that deep.

If you want to believe Woodson used Leal and Galloway as pawns in some elaborate “gotcha” moment to piss off the fan base at the conclusion of a shitty season, more power to you, that’s your prerogative. I think you’re giving him way too much credit.

Is announcing on their senior night that they were returning to school for their Covid year some deep state conspiracy lol?