College Bball Thread

[str8baller 4,845]

23 hours ago, Scotty R said:

I don't see one individual coach mak s it any harder for IU to win. Also that is a losers mentality hoping others fail so you can win. Why not get better and beat them.

 

Hardwood83 needs to get his game face on if Indiana is going to ever make it back to the top

[Scotty R 1,942]

30 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Hardwood83 needs to get his game face on if Indiana is going to ever make it back to the top

In 2002 Mije Davis had to beat coach K and Rick Majerus and Kelvin Sampson to get to the he championship game. Can't be afraid to go against the best

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,160]

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[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,924]

Has yet to be officially announced.

https://www.insidethehall.com/2024/06/19/report-ncaa-to-change-rules-for-scrimmages-and-exhibitions/

[eddy4iu 536]

6 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Has yet to be officially announced.

https://www.insidethehall.com/2024/06/19/report-ncaa-to-change-rules-for-scrimmages-and-exhibitions/

Interesting. I wonder why the off campus stipulation?  

[Hoosierfanyuh 1,899]

There been rumors about us and TN having an exhibition game.

[MemphisHoosier 1,941]

35 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

There been rumors about us and TN having an exhibition game.

Hysterics tipped it during their last pod with Rabby

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How did Painter miss this guy?

[Class of '66 Old Fart 81,924]

Todd's son

[Stuhoo 76,725]

On 6/10/2024 at 1:41 PM, Stuhoo said:

 

 

On 6/10/2024 at 2:31 PM, Stuhoo said:

 

'Scuse me while I self-bump:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40393973/sources-lakers-hiring-jj-redick-4-year-deal-coach

[HoosierHoopster 6,295]

3 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

 

 

'Scuse me while I self-bump:

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40393973/sources-lakers-hiring-jj-redick-4-year-deal-coach

Redick = untested second choice step down for the Lakers. He’s a “we’ll see” option among the what is it now 5 or 6 recent failed Lakers coaches with LeBron….

Windhorst said it best: “high risk, high reward.” Zero coaching experience 

[DChoosier 7,149]

1 hour ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Redick = untested second choice step down for the Lakers. He’s a “we’ll see” option among the what is it now 5 or 6 recent failed Lakers coaches with LeBron….

Windhorst said it best: “high risk, high reward.” Zero coaching experience 

Four really bad words for Redick:

”LeBron is my boss”

Four really good words for Redick:

”Four year guaranteed contract”

He is getting paid no matter what.

[Demo 18,153]

https://x.com/kenpomeroy/status/1803887790750601691
 

Pomeroy’s a smart guy, but this is a REALLY bad take. The increased D-1 teams doesn’t consist of schools that are getting at large bids.Rewarding more marginal power conference teams, which is all you’d be doing, doesn’t make the Tournament any better at all.

[Scotty R 1,942]

36 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/kenpomeroy/status/1803887790750601691
 

Pomeroy’s a smart guy, but this is a REALLY bad take. The increased D-1 teams doesn’t consist of schools that are getting at large bids.Rewarding more marginal power conference teams, which is all you’d be doing, doesn’t make the Tournament any better at all.

. If they expand the tournament all you will be doing is adding more mediocre power conference teams.

[Hardwood83 4,576]

14 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

. If they expand the tournament all you will be doing is adding more mediocre power conference teams.

It's stupid, like most of the direction of college sports in the last several years. This is just adding more 'content' to pad the run time. Like those annoying youtube videos where they spend 10mins telling you what they are gonna say, take 30 secs to say it, then spend another 10mins telling you what they just said. Empty filler that damages the product. The point is no longer to crown the best team, or any semblance of that, the point is to provide as much TV time as possible in mid-March. 

[AZ Hoosier 6,129]

It's stupid, like most of the direction of college sports in the last several years. This is just adding more 'content' to pad the run time. Like those annoying youtube videos where they spend 10mins telling you what they are gonna say, take 30 secs to say it, then spend another 10mins telling you what they just said. Empty filler that damages the product. The point is no longer to crown the best team, or any semblance of that, the point is to provide as much TV time as possible in mid-March. 

More teams = more games = more $$$

Always follow the money.

I would argue that we should limit the dance to conference tournament winners. That would effectively make the conference tourneys ”play-in” tournaments, and make them more important to the schools and conferences. And just maybe it would stop or slow the insane movement towards the super conference model.

[Maedhros 621]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/kenpomeroy/status/1803887790750601691
 

Pomeroy’s a smart guy, but this is a REALLY bad take. The increased D-1 teams doesn’t consist of schools that are getting at large bids.Rewarding more marginal power conference teams, which is all you’d be doing, doesn’t make the Tournament any better at all.

For this rebuttal, you'd have to assume the only change to D1 over the past 40 years has been backfilling teams at the bottom. It's more likely that the same dynamics growing the number of schools capable of taking on a D1 schedule are also working on the schools competing for tournament bids. It's hard to measure, because sports is a zero-sum game, but I'd contend there are more schools of Tournament-quality than ever before. It's why we can have the debate about including power conference schools vs mid majors. There's talent everywhere now. A Final Four team can come from the Horizon, or from a power conference AQ that wouldn't have been in the field otherwise.

How we pick teams is a different conversation. Frankly, there are ways to do it which don't involve a committee at all, as John Gasaway has long argued. But you're not going to harm the NCAA Tournament by adding Indiana St, even if it means adding Oklahoma, Seton Hall, and St Johns from power conferences.

[Scotty R 1,942]

56 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

More teams = more games = more $$$

Always follow the money.

I would argue that we should limit the dance to conference tournament winners. That would effectively make the conference tourneys ”play-in” tournaments, and make them more important to the schools and conferences. And just maybe it would stop or slow the insane movement towards the super conference model.

I was watching CBS college basketball podcast and Norlander said the tournament won't make more money until the TV contracts are to be renewed in 2032. He was totally against the tournament expanding which most college basketball people are according to him. He even said there are plenty in the NCAA that is against expansion 

[Scotty R 1,942]

49 minutes ago, Maedhros said:

For this rebuttal, you'd have to assume the only change to D1 over the past 40 years has been backfilling teams at the bottom. It's more likely that the same dynamics growing the number of schools capable of taking on a D1 schedule are also working on the schools competing for tournament bids. It's hard to measure, because sports is a zero-sum game, but I'd contend there are more schools of Tournament-quality than ever before. It's why we can have the debate about including power conference schools vs mid majors. There's talent everywhere now. A Final Four team can come from the Horizon, or from a power conference AQ that wouldn't have been in the field otherwise.

How we pick teams is a different conversation. Frankly, there are ways to do it which don't involve a committee at all, as John Gasaway has long argued. But you're not going to harm the NCAA Tournament by adding Indiana St, even if it means adding Oklahoma, Seton Hall, and St Johns from power conferences.

Adding those teams wouldn't have made the tournament better either. Just look at UVA where they didn't belong in the tournament but made it. You should have put in ISU in instead if them and everything would have been fine. Norlander on CBS podcast last night also said that with the elimination of the Pac 12 there are going to be more at large bids available now. It eliminates another automatic bid plus the at large bids the Pacers 12 use to get