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People who aren't Star Wars fans also hate Star Wars, but not as much as Star Wars fans do.

No one hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans.

Don't like that. I'm happy for him, but he's a solid recruiter in the state.

It seems like it costs slightly more to buy a new player than retain a current one. Also, after a few years, you find some guys to keep around that work in your program and system, and can push the ones that don't out the door.

The guys we got were wanted by all the other teams with the big budgets, too. We weren't competing against Ball St. for these guys. Recruiting rankings mean a whole lot less once the ball is tossed in the air, even less so after the first year.

A power conference starter is about a million bucks in this market. All-conference team type players for 2-4m. Devries and Wilkerson are both in the 2m+ range as I understand. That's almost half the budget, and normal for teams with the 10-12m total budgets. We probably paid 4 more guys starter money, and could be more since we were building an entire roster from scratch, sometimes paying a premium. That's another 4 million we'll say. So now, we're into 8-9 mil range already. Add in NIL for 4 more bench guys at 500k, and we are now in the 10-11 range. The math maths. Am I wrong? Other teams are having issues, too, and some of them with us. Kentucky didn't have the money to match for Wilkerson as just one example.

Doubt it. We're experts here.

He's also a proven anchor in the middle offensively preventing drives and cuts by taking up space by himself and with his defender while Bailey is a threat from outside with his shooting and passing which forces his defender to leave the lane.

Who could we have spent that on to get two players? The big boy P5s wanted Bailey just like we did.

Same price range as who? Miller and Fed are asking for as much money as Bailey got and Bailey is ranked about 100 spots higher than either of those guys. There's a reason Bailey was signed almost immediately and coveted by many other schools while Miller and Fed are still waiting. Maybe Bailey struggles to guard traditional lumbering Big 10 5's (looking around I'm not seeing much to be concerned about) but they have to guard him too.

Do you have any idea how much they spent and on who or are you just projecting?

They were kind of in a free fall prior to the OG injury though losing something like 5 of their 7 games against power conference schools before he got hurt.

So people shouldn't be allowed to make over a million dollars because not everyone can? You are allowed to be a fan of those poor mid-majors who aren't getting paid millions (or being watched by millions.) No one is stopping you but yourself.

Why should they have to live that way when people want to give them millions of dollars?

You can lay back and enjoy whatever it is you think is happening to you, the rest of us won't be off the deep end taking it so personally while enjoying college basketball.