2026-27 Roster/Portal/how to fix the roster?

[Home Jersey]

9 minutes ago, Asha’man said:

Iowa will be back to being .500 again next year with held the budget at best than the top conference teams have. 

And where will Indiana be? Tough to say right now.

Threads easily get derailed when people say it's "ridiculous" that people "ignore" the "coaching failures" of a team that just went to the elite 8 while we were at home and they spent half as much as us lol.

Hopefully we can surpass .500 in the Big Ten next year and DDV shows he is well on his way to succeeding like Dusty. He will have to do some of what McCollum has done first.

Perfectly content to leave it at that and let the thread get back to its original purpose. Looking forward to having something substantive to talk about once we start signing guys. 

[Uspshoosier]

1 hour ago, Home Jersey said:

It's not a false regular season comparison... they finished with a better record and McCollum has a better D1 career winning percentage

8 years of data compared to 2 years of data for D1 winning percentage? 

[Home Jersey]

19 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

8 years of data compared to 2 years of data for D1 winning percentage? 

Yep. DDV's past two seasons in P5 his winning percentage is .578. McCollum's one year of P5 is .649.

We will see how it shakes out over the course of their careers 

[newcastle12]

Just for the record, St Louis is going to spend 12 million on a roster next year.  So unless we are going to spend big boy money, we aren't getting that much better.  So maybe some of Woody's friends can quit crying and write some checks again.  

[WayneFleekHoosier]

1 hour ago, newcastle12 said:

Just for the record, St Louis is going to spend 12 million on a roster next year.  So unless we are going to spend big boy money, we aren't getting that much better.  So maybe some of Woody's friends can quit crying and write some checks again.  

My thoughts as well.  The spending across the sport has gone wild. Takes a big number to get a competitive advantage.  

[Golfman25]

8 hours ago, Asha’man said:

Agreed. But this idea we need to bash on our coach and prop up a guy who finished .500 in conference but went on a run in the tournament is a joke. Get behind out team or get off the bus. You can get back on once we have a roster and but I’m tired of hearing about Iowa. Nobody wants to be Iowa. The goal is to be what Michigan is. Talk about Dusty May but not Bo Ryan 2.0. 

I hear you.  But if we can’t “be” Iowa, we have zero chance being Michigan.  
 

We wasted a freaking year “figuring it out.”   

[str8baller]

7 hours ago, newcastle12 said:

Just for the record, St Louis is going to spend 12 million on a roster next year.  So unless we are going to spend big boy money, we aren't getting that much better.  So maybe some of Woody's friends can quit crying and write some checks again.  

That’s wild. They have a Walmart heir cutting them checks or something?

[Hovadipo]

14 minutes ago, str8baller said:

That’s wild. They have a Walmart heir cutting them checks or something?

https://www.slu.edu/business/about/about-richard-chaifetz.php
 

Pretty much entirely this guy. He’s part of the group that just bought the Trail Blazers too. He also has stakes in Alpine F1 and the SF Giants. 

[Stuhoo]

8 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

My thoughts as well.  The spending across the sport has gone wild. Takes a big number to get a competitive advantage.  

True, but eventually water will find its level IMO.

The sport is popular, but not popular enough for the ridiculously wealthy to write annual eight figure checks. And the scale will never be supported with thousand dollar boosters. Sure; there will be annual outliers like BYU last year, but eventually if those BYU mega-boosters don't get enough satisfaction from their donations they will relatively move on.

[HoosierHoopster]

Would be really interested to know how much $ IU has/spends and how in NIL this year. Need more transparency in NIL (and rules but that’s another topic). 
Those of you who know (I don’t) - sites or people with credible data who track or compare college bball program NIL money and spending?

[Unexpectedflash]

1 minute ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Would be really interested to know how much $ IU has/spends and how in NIL this year. Need more transparency in NIL (and rules but that’s another topic). 
Those of you who know (I don’t) - sites or people with credible data who track or compare college bball program NIL money and spending?

Unfortunately none of the NIL deals are public so it’s hard to know. There was a tweet out during the sweet 16 that Duke had the highest roster left at 12 million and then the next few were 10 million. I assume we’re in the top 15 but it wouldn’t shock me if 5-15 are all right next to each other 

[BA47591]

Keep elevating staff talent. We're only as talented the connections we have to talent. I think our recruiting classes will get better. The incoming class need time to mature physically.  

Gurcak(sp) Fru and Bonke and maybe the Hammond kid from Santa Clara is where my interest is currently at. I really like the young pg from Colorado but I really liked Rice when we got him, I see some similarities.  

We have multiple big Euros in the final four, there has to be something right about it.

[str8baller]

13 hours ago, BA47591 said:

We have multiple big Euros in the final four, there has to be something right about it.

Euros have been ahead of us developing bigs for at least a generation. Most of the best ones are fully pro in a good league by 19, though.