Darian DeVries - New IUBB Head Coach

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1 minute ago, Chris007 said:

I’m four years older than you so I would agree the 87 team and those early 90’s teams are my favorites.

Samesies. I was born in 82 so I was too young to really have a good grasp on the '87 team but I was fully invested from '91 on. Greg Graham, Calbert and Damon will always be me childhood heroes.

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Just now, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

I'd say Small was his best player... his 2nd and 3rd best. 

Ok that’s fair

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35 minutes ago, OliviaPope40 said:

I'm showing my age here but can someone explain to me number 6. 

Shalooby’s is an inside joke that originated on Twitter back in the fall during football season. National CFB media folks were tweeting about wanting to visit Bloomington for a football game and asked for recommendations. A longtime Bloomington/IU twitter personality asked AI what it would recommend and it gave some of the classic recs, but it hallucinated and recommended a (fake) restaurant called Shalooby’s, known for its wet sandwiches. And it just devolved into a meme from there. There’s now a Shalooby’s Twitter account and Upland Brewing even made a limited time Shalooby’s lager in partnership with Hoosier Hills Food Bank.

The whole thing’s ridiculous but hysterically funny. And has even had tangible real-world effects lmao

https://btownmoose.com/2024/10/24/shaloobys/

https://uplandbeer.com/beers/shaloobys/

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29 minutes ago, OliviaPope40 said:

I'm showing my age here but can someone explain to me number 6. 

Local restaurant Shalooby’s attracts IU football fans from across the country to enjoy a post-game meal.

But this “beloved” eatery does not exist. It’s an internet hoax.

IU adjunct Jeff LaFave is the person behind the joke. He saw Shalooby’s in an article filled with AI-generated images and false Bloomington factoids. Soon, he posted on his X account, BTown Moose.

“I started daydreaming about it, made a photoshop of it in the old Cafe Pizzeria building,” LaFave said. “Just for a one off joke I didn’t think would go very far.”

But far did it go. LaFave’s creation went viral in a matter of hours. Fellow X users reposted the photoshopped image and dubbed it as the best place to get a soggy sandwich.

IU fans wrote “Shalooby’s” across the windshields of their cars. They also wrote it on signs that could be seen on Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff show, which attracted a huge crowd outside Memorial Stadium last week before the IU-Nebraska game.

Shalooby’s even has its own website that LaFave had no part in making.

“It just kind of made me feel like I was trapped in a Twilight Zone episode,” LaFave said. “I told a joke so good everyone else wanted to tell it, and it was out of my hands.”

LaFave enjoys watching the joke take a life of its own and hopes that maybe it will one day become a reality.

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22 minutes ago, Hoosier DaDa said:

He was living on fumes from his playing days to win over the fan base. 

Many people wanted an “indiana guy” because he would “get it,” but you don’t have to be from Indiana/have went to Indiana to be a Hoosier. From everything I’ve seen/heard thus far I think we got ourselves one this time. 

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7 minutes ago, mamasa said:

 

Home of the $5 Kevin Wilson-Rita. 

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1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Seeing a handful of tweets about DDV making his rounds at the major Bloomington establishments yesterday. Love it. Being a genuine man of the people will serve him well. It earned Crean a LOT of leash.

Did Ballo take him to Upstairs?   :)

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Glad to hear DDV is out and about. Pope has made a point to do this and it has paid dividends for him with UK fans.

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Just kind of talking out loud. If you were to ask me who the better coach Is between McCollum and DeVries, I’d probably say short term DeVries for his recruiting and power 5 experience. Long term I think McCollum . I believe he will be a top 10 coach in college basketball someday. I was never crazy of his slow style offense, but after watching them last night, I wonder if that’s something he will alter as he gets better talent.  DeVries had a good record, but no runs in the tournament like my man crush Dusty May. I’m optimistic but wonder how these three guys look 5 years down the road.

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48 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I heard he went up and down Kirkwood. But yes was in Upstairs during the afternoon games 

This part of coaching, even being a little humble, I would excel at.  Week one, I could hit a few places every day, get some great food, drink great company.  I would kill this part of being the coach.  The rest, well, maybe better to have someone else 

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54 minutes ago, Chris007 said:

I’m four years older than you so I would agree the 87 team and those early 90’s teams are my favorites.

I'm just so happy to learn I'm older than both of you.... 

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7 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

This part of coaching, even being a little humble, I would excel at.  Week one, I could hit a few places every day, get some great food, drink great company.  I would kill this part of being the coach.  The rest, well, maybe better to have someone else 

Me too and I practice this part often. Going to get more practice this afternoon. If any hasn’t been to Upstairs lately it’s a sports bar dream 

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44 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

Just kind of talking out loud. If you were to ask me who the better coach Is between McCollum and DeVries, I’d probably say short term DeVries for his recruiting and power 5 experience. Long term I think McCollum . I believe he will be a top 10 coach in college basketball someday. I was never crazy of his slow style offense, but after watching them last night, I wonder if that’s something he will alter as he gets better talent.  DeVries had a good record, but no runs in the tournament like my man crush Dusty May. I’m optimistic but wonder how these three guys look 5 years down the road.

I was at first really impressed with Drake last night until I couldn't figure out why Missouri kept pressuring so far out from the basket  which just enabled their passing and cutting. It was what Drake was doing as much as what Missouri was doing. All Drake had to do was read where help side came from and pass there then wait for a cutter after terrible defensive rotations 24 feet from the basket guarding non shooters. It's not that I wasn't impressed by Drake as much as I was baffled at the coaching decisions of Missouri. Missouri was long and athletic compared to Drake. Why chase? Guard the 3 point line but also kind of pack it and make Drake's guy beat them 1:1. Missouri dominated offensively in the second half, but they just could stop Drake from getting layups. Stay packed in, help from the corners and make them hit contested shots from the corners with length and speed running out at them. IDK maybe it's just me.

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5 minutes ago, PartyintheVillas said:

I was at first really impressed with Drake last night until I couldn't figure out why Missouri kept pressuring so far out from the basket  which just enabled their passing and cutting. It was what Drake was doing as much as what Missouri was doing. All Drake had to do was read where help side came from and pass there then wait for a cutter after terrible defensive rotations 24 feet from the basket guarding non shooters. It's not that I wasn't impressed by Drake as much as I was baffled at the coaching decisions of Missouri. Missouri was long and athletic compared to Drake. Why chase? Guard the 3 point line but also kind of pack it and make Drake's guy beat them 1:1. Missouri dominated offensively in the second half, but they just could stop Drake from getting layups. Stay packed in, help from the corners and make them hit contested shots from the corners with length and speed running out at them. IDK maybe it's just me.

This times a thousand. I was baffled by the pressure by Missouri, nearly out to half court. 

I was not impressed by the "adjustments" made by Gates. I mean, what did he adjust on D? Just back off of Drake. What would've been hard about that? Why guard them all the way out to half court?

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1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

Me too and I practice this part often. Going to get more practice this afternoon. If any hasn’t been to Upstairs lately it’s a sports bar dream 

was there during the season, was a nice atmosphere!

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https://www.wvnews.com/devries-and-his-family-adjusting-to-west-virginia/article_2f824124-923d-11ef-a5d1-c36c13013813.html

Here is an article from Thanksgiving time about CDD and his family adjusting to Morgantown.  I expect something like this in a few months about his life in Bloomington.  It says that he lived in a hotel for 3 months till they sold their house and got their new one, so they might be doing the same now.  And it looks like their daughter will be a sophomore and plays volleyball and basketball.  Seems like a down to Earth guy.

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17 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

McCollum basically turned over that entire roster -- had only a couple leftovers from DeVries. He's the real deal. 

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2 hours ago, 68Hoosier said:

I can remember some of Knights teams taking some *** whooping's back in the day.  It seemed like some of them where on purpose at times to let them know if they don't listen and do what they want this is the outcome.  Teaching moment so to speak.

 

Not sure that is what this is but sometimes a good whooping opens your eyes to make you better.

 

1994, Minnesota shellacked us by 50. Knight just sat there and let it happen.

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LOL AI keep the Shalooby's dream alive.

Below is a question I asked just moments ago: