Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[Golfman25]

50 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

This season has been the least interested I have been in college basketball and things like this will start pushing farther away from it. With the product on the court already being worse than it use to be and now the portal and NIL are making it undesirable to watch. It probably will get to a point where I will watch IU and maybe the big ten and not much else. It is like that in the NBA for me where I will watch a Pacers game but can't remember the last time I watched a whole NBA game that didn't include the Pacers.  If I wanted to watch professional basketball then I would watch the NBA

Right.  No issue with the players being able to earn a few dollars.  But make a 4-year commitment, and love the school as much as the money.  Otherwise go to University of Indiana.  :)

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Reed Bailey is a target. Might be visiting today or has recent visited. It’s foggy. Stretch 4/5 from Davidson.


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[Hoosierfanyuh]

5 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Reed Bailey is a target. Might be visiting today or has recent visited. It’s foggy. Stretch 4/5 from Davidson.


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Can’t visit today, maybe a zoom?

[tyappleg]

6 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Reed Bailey is a target. Might be visiting today or has recent visited. It’s foggy. Stretch 4/5 from Davidson.


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2025 Indiana Basketball

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Can’t visit today, maybe a zoom?

Not sure but contact is ongoing.


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

2025 Indiana Basketball

No kidding. I’ve got thoughts. But I don’t really want to start into it. I’m Ready for the assistant coaches to be named.


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[DChoosier]

44 minutes ago, cthomas said:

Remember when we called them STUDENT-athletes?

I’m guessing the only thing a lot of the student-athletes need to learn is the name of the person doing their online classes.

Who can blame the “student athletes” when they have huge bags thrown at them, playing D1 sports is now a 12 month 40+  hour a week job, they are now (in basketballs case) often playing Friday or Monday games instead of weekend games that pull them out of class, going on 4-5 day west coast road trips, being academically eligible is a quaint relic from the past,  etc etc etc.

[Hoosierfanyuh]

12 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

No kidding. I’ve got thoughts. But I don’t really want to start into it. I’m Ready for the assistant coaches to be named.


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Let’s not start this smh

[DChoosier]

Lots of discussion in regards to the type of player we should recruit. Not surprisingly it looks  like there are multiple ways to get to the promised land (FF)

Just read an article about how the final four roster building was done.

One thing that stood out is that there were four different ways to make it to the FF this year.

1) 5 star dependent - DUKE - Chase the stars by landing top 25 high school recruits. Among the 4 FF teams there are a total of 7 players that are on the team they originally signed with, out of HS, as top 25 guys. ALL SEVEN of those top 25 hs players are on Duke. 
In spite of that Duke does have three portal guys, within their rotation, that see some minutes (especially Sion James). Going forward I think Dukes model will require a minimum of 20+ million a year in NIL.

2)  mid major portal dependent - FLORIDA - Since his time at Florida (2022) Goldin has not signed a single 4 or 5 star hs recruit.  5/6 of his main rotational guys are from the portal and none of the 5 transferred from a power conference.

3)  hybrid approach (I’m a fan) - Houston - KS only signed one portal guy last off-season (Uzan 44.5% from the 3 and 4.4 assists per) but Uzan and a portal signee from 2 years ago, Cryer, are huge parts of his success. Beyond that he has developed multi-year recruits into rotational players that out of high school were ranked 31, 69, 115, 144, 225.

We already know this but KS is a great coach.  On a side note players are also recognizing KS as his incoming class is ranked 2nd in the country including landing three of the top 25 guys in the country (the #1 rated PF, 4th rated 2G and 3rd rated PG). It will be interesting to see what he does with, and how he manages, that huge “on paper” talent upgrade.

4) highly portal dependent - Auburn- kind of similar to Florida but unlike Florida Auburn has landed some 4 stars and portal guys that are from power conferences. Auburn has 6 players averaging 9 or more points and 5/6 are portal guys. It is a positive for Pearl that this is the second year at Auburn for three of his five portal guys. I think that proven multi-year portal guys, if you can keep them, are great.

[JF87]

Can someone please repost the link to Tony Adragna's IU portal tracker if you have it handy?  

[Hoosierfanyuh]

3 minutes ago, JF87 said:

Can someone please repost the link to Tony Adragna's IU portal tracker if you have it handy?  

https://x.com/coachadragna/status/1904540604555509796?s=46

[HoosierHoopster]

19 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Lots of discussion in regards to the type of player we should recruit. Not surprisingly it looks  like there are multiple ways to get to the promised land (FF)

Just read an article about how the final four roster building was done.

One thing that stood out is that there were four different ways to make it to the FF this year.

1) 5 star dependent - DUKE - Chase the stars by landing top 25 high school recruits. Among the 4 FF teams there are a total of 7 players that are on the team they originally signed with, out of HS, as top 25 guys. ALL SEVEN of those top 25 hs players are on Duke. 
In spite of that Duke does have three portal guys, within their rotation, that see some minutes (especially Sion James). Going forward I think Dukes model will require a minimum of 20+ million a year in NIL.

2)  mid major portal dependent - FLORIDA - Since his time at Florida (2022) Goldin has not signed a single 4 or 5 star hs recruit.  5/6 of his main rotational guys are from the portal and none of the 5 transferred from a power conference.

3)  hybrid approach (I’m a fan) - Houston - KS only signed one portal guy last off-season (Uzan 44.5% from the 3 and 4.4 assists per) but Uzan and a portal signee from 2 years ago, Cryer, are huge parts of his success. Beyond that he has developed multi-year recruits into rotational players that out of high school were ranked 31, 69, 115, 144, 225.

We already know this but KS is a great coach.  On a side note players are also recognizing KS as his incoming class is ranked 2nd in the country including landing three of the top 25 guys in the country (the #1 rated PF, 4th rated 2G and 3rd rated PG). It will be interesting to see what he does with, and how he manages, that huge “on paper” talent upgrade.

4) highly portal dependent - Auburn- kind of similar to Florida but unlike Florida Auburn has landed some 4 stars and portal guys that are from power conferences. Auburn has 6 players averaging 9 or more points and 5/6 are portal guys. It is a positive for Pearl that this is the second year at Auburn for three of his five portal guys. I think that proven multi-year portal guys, if you can keep them, are great.

Hybrid for me— and Sampson is the winningest active D1 coach without a NC (which he maybe gets this year). Outstanding bball mind and on-floor x’s and o’s coach

[DChoosier]

5 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Hybrid for me— and Sampson is the winningest active D1 coach without a NC (which he maybe gets this year). Outstanding bball mind and on-floor x’s and o’s coach

Agreed… that’s why I wrote  “I’m a fan” in the first sentence of the Houston section.

What he has done at Houston is EXTREMELY impressive.

[12345Brad]

8 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Hybrid for me— and Sampson is the winningest active D1 coach without a NC (which he maybe gets this year). Outstanding bball mind and on-floor x’s and o’s coach

The hybrid and developing young kids is great - just becoming so much harder to keep kids if they don’t see the floor until their junior year.   Hopefully that’s the long-term model for IU. 

[GP711]

:)

[Hoosierfanyuh]

Sounds like Trilly just made a Reed Bailey prediction for IU

[coonhounds]

:)

Good news?

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[GP711]

4 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Sounds like Trilly just made a Reed Bailey prediction for IU

Yes not trying to take credit for his prediction Bailey news was all him:)

[RaceToTheTop]

4 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Sounds like Trilly just made a Reed Bailey prediction for IU

The Scott Dolson Burner X account had tweeted earlier about 'liking R&B'

[DChoosier]

From 247 which has him ranked 35th out of all the portal guys:

 

35. F Reed Bailey

Transferring from: Davidson

The scout: Reed Bailey is a bit of a tricky evaluation. He was the second-leading scorer in the A-10 and took his game to another level by leaning on his drives and nifty finishes around the rim. He's a smart cutter and is nearly ambidextrous in the paint. Bailey is a competent low-volume shooter –– which he will need to tap into to maximize his value at the high-major ranks –– but he cannot be the back-line anchor defensively. There's very little true rim protection. Opponents shot over 60% at the rim against Davidson when Bailey was on the floor.