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Just my two cents.....Ngw and I had a very contentious start but that ended awhile back.  Ultimately there are two paths:  move on or keep rehashing the past.  Bringing up months old items, just as USPS said, isn't going to advance any conversation and likely will only make people less likely to read what you do post going forward.

[Uspshoosier 45,227]

2 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

Honestly, I would expect some logic to be used and honest debate. Instead I get - this has to be an act. This must be Woody or his agent. 

I regularly now add things like “in my opinion” - “I have been wrong before” - to make sure I am not coming off as having every answer. But those same posters are 100% contradicting what they said 11 months ago. Complete 180 on “we all knew” - know, you didn’t.  Now you for sure do and this guy must be nuts to disagree and won’t hear anything else. 

who the heck cares if it was a bad take? We ALL have them. My point is the assurdness right now is crazy to me.  It is hypocritical as hell

Maybe this isn’t the board for you.   Maybe there are other IU boards out there with posters that post what you are looking for.   This place isn’t for everyone 

[Hovadipo 55,203]

2 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

Heck @Hovadipo is the worst one. The guy has replied to me with nothing but attacks and smart @$$ comments. Not a single reply that hasn’t been one of those two in a year. But do as I say, not as I do. 

If you had an ounce of self-awareness I probably wouldn’t be so hard on you, but your insufferable “some fans that don’t agree with me” schtick wore thin on me a good, long while ago. 

[Hovadipo 55,203]

2 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

My schtick - tell me more. The irony 

It’s not ironic because my schtick is being the dry smart@$$. I own it. It’s my brand. 

If you just outright admitted that you thought you were smarter than every person you disagree with, I wouldn’t have to call it a schtick. I’d just call it what you are. 

[Uspshoosier 45,227]

9 hours ago, Ngw7183 said:

Have left off and on for awhile. Debate many times on just sticking to Twitter where there is less attacks than here.

see my other reply -that is my issue. Do as I say, not as I do. Ok for him to be that way but not me. 

Worrying about what others post as an emoji on a free message board is a tough way to go on a message board.    I’m guessing most posters give 2 craps what other people think of their posts I know I don’t.  I post my thoughts and move on if people agree cool if not that’s fine also.  I know what kind of platform I’m posting on I know this isn’t some high school debate team where a long thought out  discussion or debate is going to happen.   Looking for that here isnt going happen especially when the team in question is playing line they are. 

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Figured we had an early and unexpected entry into the portal with all the sudden activity in this thread. 

[Demo 19,669]

Saw this thread bumped and thought, wow, someone else paying attention to transfers already. Definitely appears to have gone another way. 
Anyhoo, this one will be an interesting one to follow. Has apparently been 1 of the best players in the Sun Belt as a Frosh, but whatever got him bounced was a real issue. Will be curious to see who talks themselves into a kid with 3 years of eligibility. 

[go iu bb 5,563]

1 hour ago, Ngw7183 said:

In all the arguing about this staff, this roster, how sure everyone is that we need to move on, how sure everyone is we can’t trust this staff, how EVERYONE knew we needed more guards, etc etc.

I decided to go back and read from March on in this thread last night. 

I have been wrong plenty of times. Get that out of the way first. But some of you are so sure of yourselves, yet if you read back on some of these takes you all had here, WOW. I didn’t quote all them but seriously, it is a VERY interesting read.

Few highlights - and many of these are from posters that love to show their knowledge. Many of these takes had tons of likes and agreements. 

- we are LOADED at guard - in fact, PG is so loaded with Cupps we shouldn’t even be wasting scholarships on it.

- X, Trey and Cupps is 3 PGs - you can’t even get another veteran PG if you tried (hmmm, funny that is considered crazy now as the reason we didn’t)

- Cupps will be better than Yogi freshman year

- we are stacked at guard and need post players. We are loosing so much scoring Woody has to focus on the post. We are fine at guard. 

- Sparks is enough. Very talented D1 starter who will get his 20 mpg and we should not look for more. (This was prior to Ware and posters saying we should be done)

- lots and lots of players called out going into portal that are blowing it up this year that a chorus of posters dismissed as not good enough for IU or Big Ten.

- Cupps is better than Bradon Smith and isn’t even close. 

- Gunn and Banks are very intriguing as starters for us next year. With those guys, X, Trey, Malik, add Cupps we are one wing in player away from a top 25 team. Lots of agreement on that front. That was prior to MM or Ware.

There were a few takes that worried about double post, etc but if I was to grade it. This board got a D on seeing the gaps. how players were graded and roster construction needs.

The general feeling outside of a very select few was out guard situation was loaded. Zero need for more and we had plenty of returning talent. The hope and consensus was Malik can and should play the 5 (if Malik played the 5 this year we get murdered more than we have)

who knows what will happen with the staff and roster but maybe, just maybe we can all be a little more humble vs being so damn sure we know better. 

P.S. - if I was to pick a winner after reading back over all of this speculation on roster building, projecting of players etc @Loaded Chicken Sandwich was the most spot on. Some of you had takes you may want to delete haha - don’t be too happy LCS - you loved you some Banks and Gunn. 

News flash - off season hype and s#!t talking about rivals happens every year.

What also happens every year is that individual players tend to not conform to preseason expectations for good or for bad. As does the team as a whole. People change their minds based on the actual results on the floor. Unfortunately for IU, the team results have underperformed expectations because so have many players. This has been going on for a while.

[RaceToTheTop 25,021]

13 minutes ago, Demo said:

Saw this thread bumped and thought, wow, someone else paying attention to transfers already. Definitely appears to have gone another way. 
Anyhoo, this one will be an interesting one to follow. Has apparently been 1 of the best players in the Sun Belt as a Frosh, but whatever got him bounced was a real issue. Will be curious to see who talks themselves into a kid with 3 years of eligibility. 

He had several offers from P5 teams (Georgia Tech, Arizona State, Boston College, DePaul)...signed at Old Dominion and ended up getting kicked off for "conduct unbecoming a Monarch" in late January.  Haven't found anywhere what the infraction was.

[go iu bb 5,563]

16 minutes ago, Demo said:

Saw this thread bumped and thought, wow, someone else paying attention to transfers already. Definitely appears to have gone another way. 
Anyhoo, this one will be an interesting one to follow. Has apparently been 1 of the best players in the Sun Belt as a Frosh, but whatever got him bounced was a real issue. Will be curious to see who talks themselves into a kid with 3 years of eligibility. 

It must've been pretty serious to kick someone with those stats. 

[RaceToTheTop 25,021]

3 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

It must've been pretty serious to kick someone with those stats. 

Well, they are 6-20.  Jeff Jones coaches there (coached at Virginia at one point) and in his ten years there this is by far his worst team.  If the kid's a headache, he probably feels they can lose with or without him.

[Uspshoosier 45,227]

2 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Well, they are 6-20.  Jeff Jones coaches there (coached at Virginia at one point) and in his ten years there this is by far his worst team.  If the kid's a headache, he probably feels they can lose with or without him.

He had a heart attack in December in Hawaii at the Rainbow classic. He stepped away for the year to recover 

[sirhoosierlot 2,672]

50 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

It’s not ironic because my schtick is being the dry smart@$$. I own it. It’s my brand. 

If you just outright admitted that you thought you were smarter than every person you disagree with, I wouldn’t have to call it a schtick. I’d just call it what you are. 

 

54 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

My schtick - tell me more. The irony 

These guys are having a schtick measuring contest smh 

[go iu bb 5,563]

1 minute ago, sirhoosierlot said:

 

These guys are having a schtick measuring contest smh 

Aaaaand... we have a winner!

[rcbowla 7,035]

In all the arguing about this staff, this roster, how sure everyone is that we need to move on, how sure everyone is we can’t trust this staff, how EVERYONE knew we needed more guards, etc etc.
I decided to go back and read from March on in this thread last night. 
I have been wrong plenty of times. Get that out of the way first. But some of you are so sure of yourselves, yet if you read back on some of these takes you all had here, WOW. I didn’t quote all them but seriously, it is a VERY interesting read.
Few highlights - and many of these are from posters that love to show their knowledge. Many of these takes had tons of likes and agreements. 
- we are LOADED at guard - in fact, PG is so loaded with Cupps we shouldn’t even be wasting scholarships on it.
- X, Trey and Cupps is 3 PGs - you can’t even get another veteran PG if you tried (hmmm, funny that is considered crazy now as the reason we didn’t)
- Cupps will be better than Yogi freshman year
- we are stacked at guard and need post players. We are loosing so much scoring Woody has to focus on the post. We are fine at guard. 
- Sparks is enough. Very talented D1 starter who will get his 20 mpg and we should not look for more. (This was prior to Ware and posters saying we should be done)
- lots and lots of players called out going into portal that are blowing it up this year that a chorus of posters dismissed as not good enough for IU or Big Ten.
- Cupps is better than Bradon Smith and isn’t even close. 
- Gunn and Banks are very intriguing as starters for us next year. With those guys, X, Trey, Malik, add Cupps we are one wing in player away from a top 25 team. Lots of agreement on that front. That was prior to MM or Ware.
There were a few takes that worried about double post, etc but if I was to grade it. This board got a D on seeing the gaps. how players were graded and roster construction needs.
The general feeling outside of a very select few was out guard situation was loaded. Zero need for more and we had plenty of returning talent. The hope and consensus was Malik can and should play the 5 (if Malik played the 5 this year we get murdered more than we have)
who knows what will happen with the staff and roster but maybe, just maybe we can all be a little more humble vs being so damn sure we know better. 
P.S. - if I was to pick a winner after reading back over all of this speculation on roster building, projecting of players etc [mention=8827]Loaded Chicken Sandwich[/mention] was the most spot on. Some of you had takes you may want to delete haha - don’t be too happy LCS - you loved you some Banks and Gunn. 

So you're insulting this entire board and expecting people to say you're right? Also, none of those takes were the majority. Then backhand compliments to LCS? Dude, I've had enough of your pedantic narrative. I don't know why this upset me, but it did. If you're smarter than everyone here, then this isn't the place for you. I haven't read anything past this post, but I'll bet you get slaughtered for this horrible take/post. Holy crap.

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6 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

Dude, I've had enough of your pedantic narrative.

I don’t know what this means but I’m done with it too! 

[Hovadipo 55,203]

15 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

Ironically- the schtick that @Hovadipo is talking about was me taking advice on how to better get along with some of the people here in DMs. To hell with it, you are right, I will own it going forward.  Makes sense.

Seek better advice if that advice was to go back through 12 months of a 540 page thread to see how many posters you could annoy.

 

[str8baller 5,072]

24 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

I am pointing out that most all of us were way off on the roster needs but now we have many stating daily we KNOW this can’t be fixed, Woody can’t change, we have to move on now.

To point out the juxtaposition of the 2 narratives should cause rational thought to come into play.

Man…going back through this thread I was pretty right on. I’m going to keep posting confidently. It’s the rational thing to do. 

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[RaceToTheTop 25,021]

Dantwan Grimes (Baylor) entered the transfer portal on January 10th.  Came to Baylor this year from a JUCO and although minutes were limited, played pretty well when he got in.  100 minutes over 12 games, averaged 4.7 points and was 18 of 30 from the floor and 8 of 12 from three.  Announced he is transferring to Southeast Louisiana.

Top 150 2023 prospect has left Memphis and will be entering the portal.  Only played 6 minutes total at Memphis.