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Has to be Conerway right?

Looks like he's trying to add some retainable, potential 26-27' starters. Tough needle to thread. Both of those guys would be valuable rotation pieces.

Yes, I was pitching this guy for a week.

Sisley can defend the paint and hit the glass Hardee at the 5. Maybe Enright as well.

The pg and center positions post covid year are going to be at a premium. The best fit for us right now would be Duke Brennan, and a back-up. If you've seen Bailey and looked into the metrics with him you know he's not a big ten center. He's a nifty offensive player. He's smart and can facilitate your offense in a way that you don't necessarily need a true pg when he's out there. He takes a couple of threes a game, more to set up his drive game where he gets to the line a lot. He can't guard a fence post, opponent shot 60% on him last year, and he'll get beat up on the glass. 1.4 offreb/game. He's a unique skillet. I'd love Brzovic. But that's very unlikely. Brennan would be great.

It's the program Josh Schertz built before going to ISU.

The other fanbases are throwing these numbers out there assuming from last year, plus inflation, we're buying away players they want. Conwell and McNeely were 1.5m dollar guys and I'll wager Wilkerson is in that neighborhood.

Jaron Pierre went to SMU. I was a bigger fan of him than Wilkerson.

I think this year the valuations are probably pretty close. That tells me the three portal guards for Louisville that I would've killed for were probably roughly 1.5m each. Which is on par with what On3 had them at. We need every bit of that 10-12m.

Conerway is tough. I would be more disappointed missing on him than Wilkerson. I watched Mack this year a few times and it seemed like the step up from the Ivy was too much.

Bailey, DeVries, Enright, Conerway, Brennan, Goode, Ward, Overton, Lindsay, Sisley, Oporum would be a helluva team to root for. It's not unreasonable. Maybe add two more hs kids. We are in contact with Nyk and Acaden Lewis. Brennan and Conerway may be the two most physical players at their position in the portal. I know Brennan is.

You are correct on offense imo. Defensively he's a liability at the 5. Look at his defensive metrics defending around the bucket. He's our Alex Condon. We need a Chinyelu to go with him. Then the JUCO big off the bench with 3 years of eligibility is pretty exciting.

There's a few things that could work to our advantage right now. I'm not saying they will and certainly aren't suggesting this is a part of a grand scheme but there's going to be another rush of quality players hit the portal. The teams out there loading up right now will have defections when they feel recruited over. Then there's the guys that go to the combine and are told they aren't ready. By then we'll have 9 or 10 players and DD can better explain a role and how a player of that caliber could be a game changer. We might still have access to a large chunk of NIL.

My initial thoughts were more Jobe, but then you look at the schools inquiring and the remaing years of eligibility and it's an interesting player.

That was always my go to instead of saying I partied too hard.

I have an opinion of the hire and subsequent actions of the coach. The current staffing situation because of those actions as well. As well as an opinion of the AD and Presidents process to getting here and all things IU Mens hoops. It's just my opinions. Knowledgeable and seasoned opinions but still jmo. We settle in and wait. It's going to be ok, maybe a little better than ok and that's probably it.

Fans look at the portal and have a rough idea what the coach is looking for. It's natural as fans to wonder what the heck is going on.

Langston Reynolds was one of my favorites headed to Minnesota.

Not to add to the negativity, but this was not what I was hoping for when Woody agreed to step down in February. I'm old, this needed to be a sense of urgency hire.

This is a nice way of saying it. If I may add? I have to believe the wtf factor got dialed up when we now have two former CTC assistants. It's not a great look.

Real quick,,,, How many of you would bone Rachel Dratch?

We have two CTC assistants and some MVC guys on staff, that should cheer you up.

The Conwell one sucked because there was some early noise about the time we thought Murphy and Moikobu were going to be the big boys in the recruiting room. But Adam's got him on campus. We do what we always do and get our hopes up and Conwell commits to Louisville 24 hours later, like he stopped off in Bloomington to pi55 on his way there and we end up without a staff. Dix was the biggest bag chaser of all. Sick mom and he visits a few schools to secure a closing price wtf? I'm not sure DD should get too much rope for the staff thing. That's pretty important when you take a job.

We're a mess, he's stumbled out of the gate with the staffing. He didn't want to be sitting their working phones with Drew and Nick Norton. I think he believed he had an all-star staff locked up and they used him for a pay raise. Chester Fraiser with him last year was a big deal. Kenny will catch up. We need bodies. Then there will be some dudes late in the cycle that are difference makers, maybe backing out of the draft, and we can blow 5m on two of them. To hell with Wilkerson there are plenty of shooters out there.

Staff means everything. He had an assistant head coach that had connections and brought players when he started at WVU. He had Tucker and Yesufu. Same trick here with Tucker and Enright. These other schools have had an advantage, Kenny will help, but we still need another guy on the phones.