Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[jermhoosierfan]

I look at the Portal Opening kinda like NFL free agency.  Some of the big names come off first with the big bucks, but a few days after the opening is where teams get the majority of the players that can make up the team.  This year, we need all but 2 players which takes a lot of time, but I expect next year to just a third of the team to a half the team is needed.  A lot depends on the freshmen coming in and how many seniors that the team will have.  We just need 3 more for the starting 5 if Goode gets his extra year (which would be awesome), and the rest is the bench or fighting for one of those starting spots.  There are more than 2k players in the portal, and it takes time for a new staff to sift through all of that.  I am not worried.  Now if we get to May, and we only have 4 or 5 players, I might give a side eye.  We actually have a coach needing to set up his "base" to build everything on, and I believe he will get who he needs. I have patience with him.

[Soulsnipes]

Give me 2 weeks to see what we get out of it after all the due diligence is done. I gotta give him time to build what he see's. In the end, I have ultimate faith that he will put a winning team together, especially when the whole staff is together.

[Hoosierfan2017]

Just now, IUGRAD06 said:

Saw a post on another site that Louisville for example didn’t fill their roster until middle to end of April last year.  They had a total rebuild like us.  It’s hard but people just need to relax a little.  

Just because one team did it and it worked out for them doesn’t mean it’ll also work out for us too. I’m trying to stay patient but from the outside looking in it doesn’t look like we’re firing on all cylinders right now. 

[Juwan Moye]

The lack of patience from some “adults” is impressive. It’s still very early in the “offseason”, so early in fact the season hasn’t even concluded.

[IUGRAD06]

Just now, Juwan Moye said:

The lack of patience from some “adults” is impressive. It’s still very early in the “offseason”, so early in fact the season hasn’t even concluded.

My wife tells me I have no patience.  I just need to direct her to an IU message board and go, “see I am patient as ****.”

[str8baller]

9 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

Since they did not work out and since the new staff does not seem to want them here I am not sure that is a good example. 

Ok. How about Kaleb Banks going to Louisiana? Did he work out good enough for you?  Or Love to Arizona? 
 

It’s largely irrelevant whether they worked out anyways, when taking the ability to recruit someone somewhere. 

[Soulsnipes]

1 minute ago, Juwan Moye said:

The lack of patience from some “adults” is impressive. It’s still very early in the “offseason”, so early in fact the season hasn’t even concluded.

Yeah if its end of April its one thing, plenty of time. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

1 minute ago, Juwan Moye said:

The lack of patience from some “adults” is impressive. It’s still very early in the “offseason”, so early in fact the season hasn’t even concluded.

Using “adults” because some posters are expressing concerns with the early results is childish in and of itself. I don’t see anyone claiming that the sky is falling but it’s 100% reasonable to have concerns with how DD’s first few weeks have unfolded. 

[Rico]

Maybe, just maybe Dix thinks going to Creighton gives him the best chance of winning a title?  I liked being on championship teams growing up.  Wait a minute, I never was on a championship team...

[Scotty R]

I remember a few years ago that Kansas St didn't have anyone on its roster until late May and they went to the he elite 8 that year.

[IUGRAD06]

9 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Just because one team did it and it worked out for them doesn’t mean it’ll also work out for us too. I’m trying to stay patient but from the outside looking in it doesn’t look like we’re firing on all cylinders right now. 

You may think there ain’t a plan but most likely there is right?  Freaking over it now shows what?  Numerous instances of teams signing fast and high ranked kids and not doing well.  There are numerous instances of depending on the portal and not depending on the portal with working and not working.  It’s a crap shoot.  Worrying about it today is a 100% worthless.  You could be happy and have the #1 class and barely make it in the tourney or the #2 class and not make it in the tourney or the #3 class and have your worst team in the last 20 years or the #6 class and miss the tourney because your two best players get hurt or #8 team in the portal rankings and finish dead last in the big ten.  You know?

[rayl456]

27 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Really need some positive momentum because it feels like we’re meandering aimlessly right now - three players on the team, no GM, staff isn’t complete, we’re being outbid, his WVU guys (other than his son) don’t seem like they want to follow him. With all the talk about how great our NIL is, we aren’t making any noise at all. It’s still earlier and ultimately we won’t know how we did until the season gets here, but I’ve been pretty underwhelmed by DD’s first few weeks. 

Who said IU’s NIL was great?  Tony the Tiger?

[Juwan Moye]

14 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Using “adults” because some posters are expressing concerns with the early results is childish in and of itself. I don’t see anyone claiming that the sky is falling but it’s 100% reasonable to have concerns with how DD’s first few weeks have unfolded. 

No, it’s not really reasonable but feel how you feel.

[Uspshoosier]

36 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Woodson pulled two guys off the west coast and a kid out of Arizona.  
 

Can’t be that hard if Woody can do it. I get the family reasons with Dix but there shouldn’t be any excuses for other kids. 

You are right when you don’t have a long term recruiting plan for the program you are running it’s isn’t hard.  Didn’t woody just over pay for a bunch of mercenaries that were only here for money and didn’t really produce  results they posters on here wanted?   DeVries seems to me like he actually has a long term plan and isn’t just going to throw out money because he has it.    All those guys committed to IU in Mid April.  Still got loads of time  

[Deserthoozier]

23 hours ago, str8baller said:

Jesus…what’s going on down there? 
 

They (Louisville) are a serious bball program that is willing to do whatever it takes to win…now! Past, current and future transgressions are simply a calculated cost of doing business. 
 

Just WIN baby and no one talks about the prostitutes, bags of money, bribery, other sex scandals and all the rest. They know this, so go all in.  6 month reboot and they on! Also, they’ve got the reboot process down to a science since they’ve had to execute so many times.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

26 minutes ago, realTomCrean said:

https://x.com/gatorsszn/status/1907876464495624510?s=46&t=KBMjZuJJTG50JspPvw-4aA

 

Would love to have a Walter Clayton.

[Hoosierfan2017]

5 minutes ago, Juwan Moye said:

No, it’s not really reasonable but feel how you feel.

And if IU has the year that WVU just had then no one will be happy this time next year. 

[Gnet550]

I get the frustration of missing on some of these names, but like other have said sometimes being patient isn't a bad thing.  You see it all the time in pro sports free agency where some "big" names sign right out of the gate, but it ends up being a team who signed 3 or 4 "lesser" names that have more success....not to mention Coach hasn't been in the position for even, what, 2 weeks yet.  I think everything will be fine, and just lets postpone so much judgement and disdain until at least the middle of April, late April...we will get players

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

1 minute ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

And if IU has the year that WVU just had then no one will be happy this time next year. 

Depends on the health of the roster. If we are missing two of our best players like WVU last year, I don't think fans will be mad at it.

[DSUMMITT]

22 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Just because one team did it and it worked out for them doesn’t mean it’ll also work out for us too. I’m trying to stay patient but from the outside looking in it doesn’t look like we’re firing on all cylinders right now. 

But it wasn't just one team - Michigan didn't have it's core together till Apr 20+, we didn't have our best portal gets to 20+, UK, WVU last year, etc... It's actually seems to be the norm more then the exception that teams finish or get most hits around Apr 20 (at least rebuilds).

I wish it was done - I do - but man I've seen us fudge up the portal since it opened (imho) so I'm being patient and seeing what comes of it.