Brass Cannon Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 How do you go from a top 10 to a decision in less than a week? lillurk, go iu bb, 94Bulldog and 1 other 4 Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 How do you go from a top 10 to a decision in less than a week? This recruitment needs a 30 for 30 episode to find all the Tom Foolery.Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app lillurk, Stuhoo, taco corp and 1 other 4 Quote
MemphisHoosier Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said: Yes, indeed. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app In years past I may have been a bit perturbed about missing top in-state talent, see Furst, Kaufman, Guy, etc., but with Woody and staff on-board I know we will be fine. Separately, I have always wondered why the Kansas's, UNC's, Duke's, etc. of the world never really got involved in Booker's recruitment - odd for a guy who is trending to be a McDonalds AA. lillurk and pumpfake 2 Quote
Popular Post MikeRoberts Posted July 30, 2022 Popular Post Posted July 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, MemphisHoosier said: In years past I may have been a bit perturbed about missing top in-state talent, see Furst, Kaufman, Guy, etc., but with Woody and staff on-board I know we will be fine. Separately, I have always wondered why the Kansas's, UNC's, Duke's, etc. of the world never really got involved in Booker's recruitment - odd for a guy who is trending to be a McDonalds AA. Because he isn’t a lock to be great. He has all the tools but still hasn’t put it all together yet. he will no doubt be good but Duke, KU etc don’t need to gamble on “upside” they can go after other top 20 players that have already put it together and are more of a sure fire thing. I would have been excited for him to come to IU but hoping we get someone else that we are equally or more excited about taco corp, MikeRoberts, lillurk and 6 others 9 Quote
Demo Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 Best of luck to the young man when he’s not playing IU. We’ll see if Izzo can find the kid’s on switch. Stromboli, lillurk and Class of '66 Old Fart 3 Quote
Hovadipo Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 That’s a shame. Anyway,,,,, Hoosierfanyuh, lillurk, go iu bb and 1 other 4 Quote
Stuhoo Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 No knock on Booker; but what he loves about MSU’s style of play? “Michigan State’s playing style, I can really see myself fitting into it. They let their bigs rock out, handle the ball and shoot. They don’t limit them to certain things and they just let them play off their strengths… They won’t limit me.“ Have you ever seen a big guy commit and say: “I LOOOVE Leaping Penguin University’s playing style, I can really see myself fitting into it. They tell their bigs to rock out by getting their collective ***** down to the low block so that they can hip check someone in the nuts. Never gonna have to handle the ball and shoot. They will damn sure limit me to certain things and they just let me play off my strengths. My strengths are most certainly NOT shooting, dribbling the ball, creating for myself and creating for my teammates. They will limit me. I fully understand why.” ALASKA HOOSIER 1 Quote
Class of '66 Old Fart Posted July 30, 2022 Author Posted July 30, 2022 Wish him well but this wasn’t any crippling recruiting loss for our program. lillurk, J34, Crimson and Cream and 4 others 7 Quote
Brass Cannon Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 Wish him well but something was off about this. Reminded me a lot of landers recruitment. To go from a Top 10 list to a decision in a week just makes me think that teams we dropping out of the recruitment. And the fact that none of the top players were involved makes me really skeptical. As a person I wish him well. But I despise MSU so I hope nothing good for his basketball career going forward. Hopefully we get the guys that Woodson is wanting. Although getting one soon would feel better WayneFleekHoosier, pumpfake, go iu bb and 1 other 4 Quote
Trish Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 Dane Fife’s Last Gift to Indiana WayneFleekHoosier 1 Quote
ebridges24 Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 Kinda doubt we'll ever se how good he can be as a college player CSP and hoosierbgh 2 Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 To me that’s clearly a shot at Indiana. Whatever happened here, there seems to be some bad blood. Whatever, I guess. 2023 recruiting doesn’t have me too impressed for Indiana but Booker probably wasn’t the fit we were looking for, I guess. To me, Booker played a back seat role at his HS to win. He flourished with the ball in his hands in AAU. Maybe his HS will need him more this year and he’ll be unstoppable. Probably will be. Always a bummer missing this type of talent but something was off. Dane Fife was a double agent? Lol. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners Quote
WayneFleekHoosier Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 Dane Fife’s Last Gift to Indiana Woof. Odd to say the least. Double agent Fife to the rescue. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app lillurk 1 Quote
cthomas Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said: Woof. Odd to say the least. Double agent Fife to the rescue. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app Fife and IU didn't part on the best of terms, so I kind of expected that kind of reaction from him. I don't know why it didn't work here for Fife, other than the allegations I saw on the internet, but I clearly didn't and it didn't pretty quick. I never really got the feeling that we were in a great position with Booker and wasn't thinking he would be part of this class. I hope he finds the success he wants, as I do for all kids, and he gets to live his dream. I have great faith in CMW and staff and believe we will be just fine. pumpfake, MemphisHoosier and HoosierHoopster 3 Quote
Popular Post Uspshoosier Posted July 30, 2022 Popular Post Posted July 30, 2022 Wasn’t hard to follow where this recruitment was going. Bread crumbs where there from the beginning. Clearly woody was hesitant from the start. Interviews early on talked about his relationship with the head coaches but when mentioning IU he mentioned the assistant coaches. Some people questioned early on if IU would push hard and that would come down to the head coaches involvement. They were right. Just follow where the coaches go first during the recruiting periods. Multiple other recruits where higher on the priority list and it showed. Give credit to Sparty for sticking with him through the good and bad( 0 points against Tech). Ton of talent but also ton of unanswered questions moving forward. Wish him the best moving forward. This is one of those situations where the fan bases will probably view this as a bigger loss then the programs that actually recruited him. I’m glad this recruitment is over Stuhoo, CSP, MemphisHoosier and 16 others 17 2 Quote
Popular Post Stuhoo Posted July 30, 2022 Popular Post Posted July 30, 2022 Glad that Booker committed relatively early. Saves us time, attention and effort that can now be directed toward others. BGleas, Maedhros, Redcamaro and 16 others 19 Quote
Hoosierfan2017 Posted July 31, 2022 Posted July 31, 2022 5 hours ago, Trish said: Dane Fife’s Last Gift to Indiana Such a tool. I never understood why people liked him so much. Very glad Woody fired him. cthomas, MemphisHoosier and pumpfake 3 Quote
lillurk Posted July 31, 2022 Posted July 31, 2022 Just remembering Ben Carter playing 22 minutes and Jaren Jackson 15, perhaps relevant to this decision https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2018/03/syracuse_basketballs_masterful_game_plan_leads_to_improbable_upset_over_michigan.html https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401025873 WayneFleekHoosier and ebridges24 2 Quote
JerryYeagley23 Posted July 31, 2022 Posted July 31, 2022 I had it at 5% chance with him realistically a few months back, and that was only because crazy things happen. But this wasn’t a fit from the beginning. Surprised he even had us in his top ten. pumpfake, MemphisHoosier and hoosierfan6157 3 Quote
lillurk Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 The “happy trails” section at the end of this roundup is interesting: https://mgoblog.com/content/hoops-recruiting-centers-attention-4 Class of '66 Old Fart, rayl456, craigyv88 and 2 others 5 Quote
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