Roster Management

[Kepner 1,261]

For the record...Jordan had offers from Duke, Purdue, Stanford, Belmont, IU, and too many mid majors to count.


In the gym

According to rivals , espn, and 247 sports, he only had offers from Indiana and Purdue. But he had interest from Duke, Butler, Wake Forest, and Stanford.

[Basketball4iU 2,006]

According to rivals , espn, and 247 sports, he only had offers from Indiana and Purdue. But he had interest from Duke, Butler, Wake Forest, and Stanford.

Straight from Jordan's mouth today this is what he said, can't get any closer to the source than that.


In the gym

[JSHoosier 20,480]

I wasn't trying to say that April and Priller are the same type of player as all the players that I listed. I'm just saying that we have had players before that weren't super highly recruited and I think there should be an option to bring in a few unknowns every now and then. Not a big deal.
By the way, as I've learned from people around here..just because a school has interest in a player, doesn't mean jack. (i.e. Duke's "high interest" in Hulls). If we want to count interest as something then April had serious interest from Marquette and Arizona State. Priller had serious interest from Miami, Texas Tech, and Arkansas. Not big ten schools, but competitive D1 schools

It's still not really an apples to apples comparison.  Hulls was Indiana Mr. Basketball and recruiting sites at least knew who he was, that's a completely 180 from the "who?" reaction when Priller committed.  It's true that rankings don't mean much, there are highly rated players that don't pan out and lower rated players that pan out well, but there is certainly a degree of accuracy; when a player is completely unranked in May of his senior year there's most likely a reason.

 

While I can't speak of Hulls having an offer from Duke as another poster said, I know there was enough interest that there was a visit set up.  He called Coach K and cancelled his visit after he decided to commit here.

[GloryDays 5,928]

It's still not really an apples to apples comparison.  Hulls was Indiana Mr. Basketball and recruiting sites at least knew who he was, that's a completely 180 from the "who?" reaction when Priller committed.  It's true that rankings don't mean much, there are highly rated players that don't pan out and lower rated players that pan out well, but there is certainly a degree of accuracy; when a player is completely unranked in May of his senior year there's most likely a reason.

 

While I can't speak of Hulls having an offer from Duke as another poster said, I know there was enough interest that there was a visit set up.  He called Coach K and cancelled his visit after he decided to commit here.

   I agree JS.

Hulls was Mr basketball in a hoops crazy state. Priller was an unknown from Texas.There's no comparison.

I still hope like crazy the kid can play.

[LazOffTheBench 3,638]

Lord have mercy. Let the season begin.

[hoosierpap 14,300]

The topic of roster management in general, and more specifically, the oversign is such a large one that I cannot possibly write a single post about it without it becoming too long for anyone's liking. So I'll start small and welcome people picking at it.

 

I have no real moral issue with the oversign like some do. I really couldn't care less that a kid is given an opportunity to play at the highest level of collegiate basketball and doesn't prove themselves over someone in a class behind them. If they were valuable enough, the coach would not "recruit over" them. Kid's are fickle (I can provide a list of 2014 transfers if you'd like)  and Crean hasn't booted anyone. Maybe a tighter leash with two I can think of, but again, we're back to the kid having an opportunity. 

 

The problem (in my mind :D) is that it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what recruits, and moreso their coaches, think. It isn't helping within the state and I know that first hand.

 

The real issue - and oversigning appears to be a part of it - is overall roster instability. I'm ready to get into the nuances of roster instability if anyone wants to, but it really is as simple as this...Under CTC IU brings in freshmen in need of development (3*, 4*) and cycles out developing 3*'s and 4*'s (sophmores/juniors). Now think about that and tell me how that could possibly lead to success. 

[323SGrant 1,176]

That doesn't seem like a formula for success to me. Hopefully CTC can get more stability in the program and turn this thing around.

[rebelhoosier848891 9,588]

Hoosierpap---Now that's something we can agree on---it's  my biggest gripe that we tend not to develop the 3 and 4 stars we get but they move on and we just keep getting new ---inexperienced ones.  A vicious cycle that has to stop for more success to occur!