Transfer Portal w/IU Interest

[iu eyedoc]

11 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Without a doubt.  Cutting the margins as thin as possible and pushing the freshman into spots of need.  Those spots are to be earned.  
 

I get it.  Building rosters is expensive, especially when you turn over damn near every spot.  But we are literally aiming for practice players.  The number of guys out there that might push our freshman are innumerable.  It’s not the money.  It’s the staff choosing this path.   They basically want a roster of 10.  That’s fine if those 10 don’t have question marks or injury concerns. It’s insane otherwise.  Handcuffing ourselves.  

So you are positing that CDD and staff are choosing to reject superior players because they want a challenge? Is it that they are too lazy to recruit into May? Or maybe you think they don't want the drama of the fans pushing for an 11th,or 12th man to get some minutes? Perhaps they want to keep expectations low, could that be it? 

Thinking about these, they seem pretty far fetched, so if you would, please, educate me on what reason you believe this staff is choosing to only give remaining scholarships to "practice" players when they have so many great options begging  to make little money and sit at the end of the bench.

[Home Jersey]

2 minutes ago, iu eyedoc said:

So you are positing that CDD and staff are choosing to reject superior players because they want a challenge? Is it that they are too lazy to recruit into May? Or maybe you think they don't want the drama of the fans pushing for an 11th,or 12th man to get some minutes? Perhaps they want to keep expectations low, could that be it? 

Thinking about these, they seem pretty far fetched, so if you would, please, educate me on what reason you believe this staff is choosing to only give remaining scholarships to "practice" players when they have so many great options begging  to make little money and sit at the end of the bench.

Well Rabjohns reported weeks ago that the last three spots were basically going to just be practice players. We probably simply ran out of money and decided to roll with what we've got.

The PG we just signed was literally one of the 50 worst players in D1 last year, statistically. I saw some people compare this signing to Alec Millender at UConn but even that's not close to the same type of vet signing.

The same day we signed Sokolov, Arizona signed a guy from the same German league with better stats. End of the bench doesn't have to be world beaters but would be nice to take a lotto ticket. These guys are out there.

Seems based on Rabjohns reporting that we are comfortable with what we've got and / or don't have the cash to further upgrade. Only time will tell how effectively they've handled things.

[Stuhoo]

Ultimately the staff gets judged on how effectively they combine evaluation with roster construction and then player development.

• I am pretty comfortable with scheme.
• I have absolutely no reason to yet believe that we spent wisely and according to excellent player evaluations.
• So we may disappoint again, but it's entirely too soon tell.

[BA47591]

Maybe we are fine with what we have, but are prepared to take a swing if someone drops out of the draft.

[ronzo4IU]

1 hour ago, iu eyedoc said:

So you are positing that CDD and staff are choosing to reject superior players because they want a challenge? Is it that they are too lazy to recruit into May? Or maybe you think they don't want the drama of the fans pushing for an 11th,or 12th man to get some minutes? Perhaps they want to keep expectations low, could that be it? 

Thinking about these, they seem pretty far fetched, so if you would, please, educate me on what reason you believe this staff is choosing to only give remaining scholarships to "practice" players when they have so many great options begging  to make little money and sit at the end of the bench.

I think the idea here is about adding rotational players that can come in and not have a huge drop off especially for our post players so they can keep their legs under them unlike last year. 

As it stands, we have no back up plan for injuries or foul trouble and that is a concern.  Sokolov may be ok for a few min but I believe we need at least one more serviceable Big for necessary Big10 depth.  

Running out of money is the only thing that makes sense to me.

[AZ Hoosier]

32 minutes ago, ronzo4IU said:

I think the idea here is about adding rotational players that can come in and not have a huge drop off especially for our post players so they can keep their legs under them unlike last year. 

As it stands, we have no back up plan for injuries or foul trouble and that is a concern.  Sokolov may be ok for a few min but I believe we need at least one more serviceable Big for necessary Big10 depth.  

Running out of money is the only thing that makes sense to me.

Get Mark Cuban on the phone.

[AH1971]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

Ultimately the staff gets judged on how effectively they combine evaluation with roster construction and then player development.

• I am pretty comfortable with scheme.
• I have absolutely no reason to yet believe that we spent wisely and according to excellent player evaluations.
• So we may disappoint again, but it's entirely too soon tell.

If the core stay healthy, should be much better this year. But we're also an injury away from being worse than last year. 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

2 hours ago, iu eyedoc said:

So you are positing that CDD and staff are choosing to reject superior players because they want a challenge? Is it that they are too lazy to recruit into May? Or maybe you think they don't want the drama of the fans pushing for an 11th,or 12th man to get some minutes? Perhaps they want to keep expectations low, could that be it? 

Thinking about these, they seem pretty far fetched, so if you would, please, educate me on what reason you believe this staff is choosing to only give remaining scholarships to "practice" players when they have so many great options begging  to make little money and sit at the end of the bench.

I think it’s intentional.  I think it’s somewhat about money being low.  Maybe even mostly this. However I think they like a short rotation and they want the freshman to be involved.  Also an argument can be team chemistry with players getting what they are promised.  
 

Im not saying there isn’t benefits, but this strategy relies on freshmen being ready to contribute and the hope we don’t have 1-3 impact injuries.  The drop off is huge for us from starter to bench to practice guy.  
 

Not my preference, but this was clearly the plan. 

[Crazy about IU]

It’s pretty obvious we must not have much money left. But I do feel we have a much better team than last year. My biggest concern is At point guard. Burton goes down we are probably in a world of trouble. I would love to see a top eight rotation piece with the last scholarship. I feel at least one or two of the freshmen are going to have to be a solid piece for  this team to be really good. But I do feel we should be a top 20 team if we stay fairly healthy. My bet is we end the season no worse than a 5 seed. I was more concerned with last years team. We ended up on the bubble.