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Goode is a perfect 6-7 man for a second weekend + team in the tournament.

From what I hear about it, Ya had a pre-existing relationship with Carlyle which helped things move quickly. It wasn't like they chose one over the other (and there weren't only 2 options), but they got deeper in with Carlyle right away. It's also not like Carlyle hadn't produced at all as a freshman at Stanford. He was pretty good and and pretty good target for a sophomore jump. Like everyone else under the Mike Woodson program, improvement was few and far between.

I love Tom Crean. I don't want him as Indiana's basketball coach, no thank you, but I love his passion for the sport and coaching. I also think deep down he's a good guy. I want to add I think Tom Crean can be a really good basketball coach in the right places.

Fair is fair, sorry Mick.

The fact it is enforced differently across sports is going to hurt the NCAA's case big time.

I want to see Tom Crean somewhere in the NIL/Transfer Portal era.

Are the rules or the law what is important? I get where you're coming from, but the NCAA seems to have been acting illegally and largely unchallenged for a long, long time.

Donations for NIL are often just rounding errors from investments for the ultra wealthy. It's all just bragging rights and power to them. The money is largely insignificant to large donors. The ultra-wealthy's piece of the pie is growing fairly quickly historically in this country, so I can see NIL increasing steadily correlated to the wealth gap just as easy as it contracting due to losses. This is play money.

I have no idea if the dinner thing is true, it was originally posted by a team manager and reposted supposedly. However, the rest of the saga is true and has been handled about as unprofessionally as possible. I don't blame Willard for accepting the job right now. The NCAA calendar kind of forces it with the free ability to transfer only in a specified window during the NCAA tournament. However, there are much better ways to handle this.

I don't know if it's true but here's some more of the messy Maryland situation: Sweet 16 game day arrives for Maryland basketball and Kevin Willard with clouds rumbling overhead Kevin Willard didn't show up to dinner with his team, the night before the Sweet 16. All reports indicate he has accepted the Villanova job. (Had to repost de-identified, sorry) : r/CollegeBasketball According to Reddit Willard No-Showed a Dinner Last Night Everything you need to know about the weeklong Kevin Willard-Maryland basketball saga The fans have their pitchforks and torches out with an East Coast aggression.

I'm reading that Willard missed the team dinner last night, and that Maryland has instructed their AD search firm to also start a search for a new head basketball coach. Yes, Maryland plays their biggest game in a decade today.

A traditional professional GM has a lot more business to conduct during the season and little fundraising. I think we're all getting caught up in the title with our preconceived ideas of what a sports team GM is. It's less about title and more about the different role and responsibilities a college GM would have. Director of recruiting, general manager, director of basketball personnel, whatever. What is the role and responsibilities?

Why does their have to be caps? Is there a cap on revenue or something?

Some programs have more potential than others.

Big Ten athletic departments have as much and sometimes more.

I'm not being milked, are you? It is completely sustainable as long as people worth tens of millions to billions keep donating so their team can win. For some of these folks their NIL donations are rounding errors in accounting.

Wealthy Donors

The pettiness, vindictiveness, and entitlement of some fans astounds me.

There are plenty of things to dunk on MM for, but aren't most kids entering the draft really doing it for feedback? Do they still get something like 3 times to enter the draft?

I mean actual law legally, not if it's within the NCAA rules.

I wonder if that can be legally enforced.

And it's much more difficult to coach against Matt Painter, Dusty May, Tom Izzo, Mick Cronin, Dana Altman, Chris Collins, Greg Gard, Brad Underwood, and even Eric Musselman, Steve Pikiell, and Fred Hoiberg than it is to coach against the D2 coaches and Archie Miller's of the world in mid-majors.

Texas fired a guy after 3 seasons, who made the tournament every season, and made it to the elite 8 once. Yeah, Indiana is the program and fanbase with unrealistic expectations?

I have watched a few Drake games now, and I think Ben McCollum can coach the game. Also, I just don't know if he's this one of a kind coaching genius either. Missouri should have beat them and almost did playing the dumbest defense you could think of vs McCollum's offense. Texas Tech did fairly methodically. I understand there was a talent disparity, but also high level D2 players are not much different that mid-major all-conference guys. There are many reasons why guys end up in D2 but have D1 talent. He's a good coach, and I do expect him to win plenty of games at a power conference school with the right fit, but I also am not sold at all on him being the next great coach.

Since the jump to 15 scholarships take affect next season, I love the idea of getting some 3 star Indiana kids to come in at the end of the bench. Maybe some of those kids develop, but they will at least be bought in and care in most cases. We can't rely on that, still need to get high rated recruits from hs and the transfer portal, but after a couple seasons, it can probably give us at least 1 rotational player a year who just plays their @$$ off to wear Indiana on their jersey.