Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[Hoosier DaDa 2,423]

13 hours ago, cleeter said:

Doesn’t matter if you have all the best and fresh ingredients there is, if you don’t know what in the hell to do with them, it’s going to be a crap show.

Aka, doesn’t matter if woody has the best players, if he doesn’t coach them, then we still end up with crap on the court.


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I like your photo shop skills.  Woody is looking good.

[Trish 11,551]

Here's KC's shot chart. Not liking the around the basket numbers.. I suppose the 3 could be worse!

 

EDIT: I'm sure Woodson loves his mid-range shot attempts. (The worst shot in basketball)

[IUCrazy2 2,384]

25 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Of course. But the reactions to Woodson playing golf at coaching convention were comical. 

I'm going to let that die here though, not the place as it has been requested. 

That was me.  The optics of it blow along with their burner boy Tyme talking **** all over Twitter.  You can check my history, I have said we will get players and that the things happening right now are the least important things.  We win the offseason like every year around here.  Every year. 

"Yes!  We landed Romeo, watch out Purdue *******!!11"

"We got TJD, the wins are going to start rolling in now!"

"Huge get landing Lander, just the PG we have been needing."

"Add JHS and Reneau to this experience group of guys and we are going to be making noise"  (This was the closest to coming true but was still like a double digit loss team that got spanked in the tournament's second round by Miami."

"Wow, we landed Kel-El Ware...if he shows out and getting X back with Cupps and the others, we are going to have a tournament team.  Wish we would have got another guard though..."

These guys look like upgrades.  Great, I am happy we are landing players.  Can you true fans tell me what kind of expectations I am allowed to have next year then?

[realTomCrean 1,529]

IU needs Hickman. Come home Connor

[Bowhunter 2,693]

I don’t think Conwell will come either. Hoping now for Hickman or Evansville forward, or both.

[68Hoosier 540]

Do the visits actually start today or tomorrow?

[jbeaman9 1,021]

How many spots do we still have? 4? If Carlyle and Rice end up committing like the crystal balls predict. 

Portal C - drops to 3

Still have room to add 3 more guys..

Newton, Cupps, Leal are scholarships 11, 12, and 13 regardless who shows up.

[AH1971 1,465]

7 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

That was me.  The optics of it blow along with their burner boy Tyme talking **** all over Twitter.  You can check my history, I have said we will get players and that the things happening right now are the least important things.  We win the offseason like every year around here.  Every year. 

"Yes!  We landed Romeo, watch out Purdue *******!!11"

"We got TJD, the wins are going to start rolling in now!"

"Huge get landing Lander, just the PG we have been needing."

"Add JHS and Reneau to this experience group of guys and we are going to be making noise"  (This was the closest to coming true but was still like a double digit loss team that got spanked in the tournament's second round by Miami."

"Wow, we landed Kel-El Ware...if he shows out and getting X back with Cupps and the others, we are going to have a tournament team.  Wish we would have got another guard though..."

These guys look like upgrades.  Great, I am happy we are landing players.  Can you true fans tell me what kind of expectations I am allowed to have next year then?

Yes you did start the whole charade equating Woodson golfing to not doing his job, it's not like we don't have 4 prospects visiting this weekend literally the day after the dead period ends, but I'm pretty sure @Golfman25 is the one who said multiple times that landing 3 top 50 transfers is next to an impossible feat as it has only been done once....or something along those lines. 

As far as your expectations go, they are yours. I won't tell you otherwise. My expectation is to always make the tournament and compete for a B10 title. 

[Trish 11,551]

Here's Rice's shot chart. Let me know if anyone wants anything else. I have some time this morning. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,644]

2 minutes ago, jbeaman9 said:

How many spots do we still have? 4? If Carlyle and Rice end up committing like the crystal balls predict. 

Portal C - drops to 3

Still have room to add 3 more guys..

Newton, Cupps, Leal are scholarships 11, 12, and 13 regardless who shows up.

I'm truly hoping Jakai is fully rehabbed and he'll be in the regular rotation.  He can be a very special player.

[Hoosier DaDa 2,423]

2 hours ago, AKHoosier said:

He definitely raises our floor in a major way, which is exciting.

However, if we don't land any shooters then I don't know how many more wins we'll have than this past season.

Is he an upgrade over Ware? I don't really think he is.

We are going to miss Ware so much.  It's really sad our one year with him wasn't better.

[AH1971 1,465]

1 minute ago, Trish said:

Here's Rice's shot chart. Let me know if anyone wants anything else. I have some time this morning. 

Now do Galloway, Xavier Johnson, and Gabe Cupps. 

[Trish 11,551]

2 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Now do Galloway, Xavier Johnson, and Gabe Cupps. 

 

[AH1971 1,465]

3 minutes ago, Trish said:

 

So a vast upgrade at PG considering Rice was a first year player and Johnson was playing his 6th year of collegiate ball.

Thank you. 

[68Hoosier 540]

8 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

I'm truly hoping Jakai is fully rehabbed and he'll be in the regular rotation.  He can be a very special player.

Same, I hope he comes in and lights it up.  It's got to be hard to have to set out your entire first year.

[Trish 11,551]

1 minute ago, AH1971 said:

So a vast upgrade at PG considering Rice was a first year player and Johnson was playing his 6th year of collegiate ball.

Thank you. 

Johnson fell off a cliff and was injured most of the year, but I'd agree he's ideally better than Johnson. 

[68Hoosier 540]

Just now, Trish said:

Johnson fell off a cliff and was injured most of the year, but I'd agree he's ideally better than Johnson. 

It feels like XJ was hurt his entire time at IU.

[AH1971 1,465]

Just now, 68Hoosier said:

It feels like XJ was hurt his entire time at IU.

He had an elite 7-8 game stretch his first year and then was terribly inconsistent/unavailable outside that. Can't have that out of your PG. 

[68Hoosier 540]

18 minutes ago, 68Hoosier said:

Do the visits actually start today or tomorrow?

Major transfer portal recruiting weekend begins today in Bloomington - Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis

 

Just got this off ITH for those wanting to know.

[Golfman25 5,334]

2 hours ago, AH1971 said:

I was told by a certain poster, maybe @Golfman25 that it was next to impossible to land 3 top 50 players from the portal (as it had only been done once) and that "Mediocre Mike" had no chance "BEcaUsE hE waS goLfInG" (during the dead period). Seems like there's a 95% chance we get at least two top 15 guards (Rice #14 and Carlyle #10) and we seem to be in a good spot to land the overall #1 player in Ballo.

Who would have thought that a coach playing golf at 8am on a Sunday morning the night after the F4 could flip the script so fast? 

That's exactly right.  Not many teams pull it off.  We'll see though.  So far none of these guys are actually "committed."