Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[iu eyedoc 4,500]

  On 4/15/2025 at 6:57 PM, IndyHoosier1997 said:

 

Rabby reporting his sources say Wilkerson is now  leaning IU but things are fluid and could change.

[Hoosier DaDa 3,770]

Have we won the offseason yet? Only 7 more needed ( I think?) 

[Pagoda 4,725]

  On 4/15/2025 at 7:54 PM, Home Jersey said:

Anybody still concerned about DDV as a recruiter? Don’t care if we offered more money, convincing a player like Wilkerson to be the fifth player on a brand new team instead of joining an established S16 team / coach is impressive. 

I like that Lamar has been in the Arkansas/TX region his whole life and CDD managed to pull him to Bloomington.  I know we paid him, but there was no prior connection to IU here, CDD had to create that.

[Hoosierfan1901 8,311]

  On 4/15/2025 at 7:59 PM, Hoosier DaDa said:

Have we won the offseason yet? Only 7 more needed ( I think?) 

More like 8 or 9, since they expanded the scholarship limit to 15

[JustWinBaby 2,007]

The freakouts on Rupp Rafters are hilarious. Shock, denial, bargaining, pointing fingers at their insiders for getting this so wrong, and character assassination of Wilkerson ("he clearly is just in it for the money," "obviously he just wants to be THE guy and doesn't care about being on a winning team")

Maybe, just maybe, it was a bad choice taking the kid to Keeneland to get the stench of horse **** stuck so far up his nose he could smell it all the way back home to Arkansas.

[Brass Cannon 25,452]

Hot diggity daffodil 

[iubb 4,833]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:01 PM, JustWinBaby said:

The freakouts on Rupp Rafters are hilarious. Shock, denial, bargaining, pointing fingers at their insiders for getting this so wrong, and character assassination of Wilkerson ("he clearly is just in it for the money," "obviously he just wants to be THE guy and doesn't care about being on a winning team")

Maybe, just maybe, it was a bad choice taking the kid to Keeneland to get the stench of horse **** stuck so far up his nose he could smell it all the way back home to Arkansas.

https://kentucky.forums.rivals.com/threads/wilkerson-to-indiana.432174/page-3

 

Inject it into me veins 

 

 

[tyappleg 8,204]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:01 PM, JustWinBaby said:

The freakouts on Rupp Rafters are hilarious. Shock, denial, bargaining, pointing fingers at their insiders for getting this so wrong, and character assassination of Wilkerson ("he clearly is just in it for the money," "obviously he just wants to be THE guy and doesn't care about being on a winning team")

Maybe, just maybe, it was a bad choice taking the kid to Keeneland to get the stench of horse **** stuck so far up his nose he could smell it all the way back home to Arkansas.

Pope looked like a ******* goober with that Varsity jacket and sunglasses.  That would strike me as super phony if I was a recruit, personally. 

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 834]

  On 4/15/2025 at 7:54 PM, Home Jersey said:

Anybody still concerned about DDV as a recruiter? Don’t care if we offered more money, convincing a player like Wilkerson to be the fifth player on a brand new team instead of joining an established S16 team / coach is impressive. 

Exactly and he didn’t convince him over zoom he flew out to see him. When’s the last time IU had a coach who was the face of the team and directly at the forefront of recruiting a player he wants??? 

[Scotty R 3,758]

I guess patience  is a great virtue to have

[SlamaJamaSisley 3,618]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:06 PM, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

Exactly and he didn’t convince him over zoom he flew out to see him. When’s the last time IU had a coach who was the face of the team and directly at the forefront of recruiting a player he wants??? 

Didn’t Woodson make a last minute trip to see Boogy?   I could be mistaken.  I’m not a Woodson guy so just checking if my memory still holds up mainly.  

[Home Jersey 16,274]

  On 4/15/2025 at 5:13 PM, DChoosier said:

I caught some flack yesterday for saying it appeared Wilkerson preferred UK but if the above numbers are true it sure seems that way.
 If we are indeed offering an extra 500k-900k  more than UK, and he prefers IU, you would think it would take him 2 seconds to commit to us.
If he was torn 50/50 between the two schools, and we offered an extra 500-900k, maybe it would take him 3 seconds to decide.

We will see but in any case it looks like we have a lot of irons in the fire right now and I think we will end up with a decent/good team with a much better brand of offense.

EDIT: all of this is a guessing game but a very positive scenario would be that Livingston really wants to win and is delaying to see if it looks like we are going to land other talented guys. As always…who knows 

 

Like you said, who knows if the numbers are true. Didn’t mean for my post to come off as giving you flak yesterday I just genuinely didnt get the same impression from reading “tea leaves” … happy we have multiple irons in the fire and excited to find out who is next. I do just find it funny how after you posted this, it didn’t exactly take him 3 seconds, but within the hour? Haha… guess it was a pretty straightforward decision for him after all :) Pumped for the DDV era.

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 834]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:07 PM, Scotty R said:

I guess patience  is a great virtue to have

Only about 7 of us had the patience!!! It feels good for you and I huh Scotty!!!!!

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 834]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:07 PM, SlamaJamaSisley said:

Didn’t Woodson make a last minute trip to see Boogy?   I could be mistaken.  

Woodson was our head coach? 

[Hoosier DaDa 3,770]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:07 PM, SlamaJamaSisley said:

Didn’t Woodson make a last minute trip to see Boogy?   I could be mistaken.  

How did that work out? It was only last minute because he procrastinated so long to go and see him at all.

[SlamaJamaSisley 3,618]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:09 PM, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

Woodson was our head coach? 

Well he held the title anyway.  

[Class of '66 Old Fart 90,952]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:09 PM, Hoosier DaDa said:

How did that work out? It was only last minute because he procrastinated so long to go and see him at all.

C'mon give the man a break.  He had to work the visit around a tee time.

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild 834]

  On 4/15/2025 at 8:09 PM, SlamaJamaSisley said:

Well he held the title anyway.  

He probably would do better as IU’s golf coach! At least we know he would lead by example and always be there!

[94Bulldog 748]

  On 4/15/2025 at 7:57 PM, Soulsnipes said:

Over/Under on how many more we get this week - My guess is 2

Over.  I say 3 more by Saturday. 

[Hoosierfanyuh 6,999]

  On 4/15/2025 at 7:42 PM, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Jasai Miles has really fun tape. Any word on him? Know he’s visiting today.

Bumping because I saw someone last night had a connection to N Florida on here