College Bball Thread

[HoosierCoop 3,886]

On 10/1/2024 at 4:04 PM, HoosierHoopster said:

No way. 
And I’m picturing him w/o the overgrowth beard — little kid face lol :)

What's with the face murkin?

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Am I the only who thinks Painter looks not that good? 

[TheWatShot 13,647]

39 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/TheHoopHerald/status/1841504494313521559/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1841504494313521559&currentTweetUser=TheHoopHerald

Am I the only who thinks Painter looks not that good? 

In what way? The link is telling me the page doesn't exist. 

[tyappleg 2,964]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/TheHoopHerald/status/1841504494313521559/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1841504494313521559&currentTweetUser=TheHoopHerald

Am I the only who thinks Painter looks not that good? 

Hair is longer seems more gray than usual.  Maybe just didn't get a good night's sleep. Lol. 

[IUHoosierJoe 1,086]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

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Am I the only who thinks Painter looks not that good? 

I can’t see this, but I saw a picture of him a few days ago and thought the same thing.

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48 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

In what way? The link is telling me the page doesn't exist. 

 

13 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

I can’t see this, but I saw a picture of him a few days ago and thought the same thing.

He looks  bloated and red in a high blood pressure-ish sort of way and he’s pretty much totally gray which I’d never really noticed being that obvious before. Maybe he’d just had a really nice porterhouse and a couple of scotches the night before.

[Stuhoo 79,687]

4 minutes ago, Demo said:

 

He looks  bloated and red in a high blood pressure-ish sort of way and he’s pretty much totally gray which I’d never really noticed being that obvious before. Maybe he’d just had a really nice porterhouse and a couple of scotches the night before.

Looks more like he had a really nice scotch and a couple of porterhouses.

[Uspshoosier 45,032]

https://x.com/cbbonfox/status/1842279962327277757?s=46
 

[Uspshoosier 45,032]

Just now, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/cbbonfox/status/1842279962327277757?s=46
 

 

[str8baller 5,043]

53 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/cbbonfox/status/1842279962327277757?s=46
 

The football realignment has created some damn fine basketball conferences.

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Interesting. Not like we didn’t already know it, but Purdue’s bench is really young.

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https://x.com/B1GMBBall/status/1842545455705530750
 

Unbelievable. Never seen anything like it. Carr is a freakshow.

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Rhode Island fans wondering the same thing we did, when exactly is Miller Time?

[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,930]

NCAA has officially shortened the portal window to 30 days commencing after the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament.

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17 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

NCAA has officially shortened the portal window to 30 days commencing after the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament.

So final 4 teams and players on final 4 teams only have 2 weeks? 

[str8baller 5,043]

42 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

NCAA has officially shortened the portal window to 30 days commencing after the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament.

 

23 minutes ago, Demo said:

So final 4 teams and players on final 4 teams only have 2 weeks? 

That's a peculiar situation that would induce teams teams to be working the portal while they are potentially still playing, but it sounds like something the NCAA would do. 

[Scotty R 2,127]

43 minutes ago, str8baller said:

 

That's a peculiar situation that would induce teams teams to be working the portal while they are potentially still playing, but it sounds like something the NCAA would do. 

Two years ago Hurley said during the final four he had to deal with the portal 

[go iu bb 5,511]

National Letter of Intent is being removed. It was basically worthless anyways since recruits are pretty much always released from it if they change their minds. There have been rare times when a coach/school wouldn't release a recruit from their NLI but they would get shredded in the court of public opinion each time and back eventually back release him so all they did was hurt themselves.

Without this formal step of signing and then requesting a release, I wonder if other sports recruitment will become more like football where a "commitment" is more a sign of the current leader rather than an actual commitment.

This is a swimming article but I'm pretty sure this applies to all sports:

https://swimswam.com/ncaa-removing-national-letter-of-intent-nli-program/

Speaking of swimming, IU has very good teams pretty much every year and this year the men have a legit chance at winning the national championship.

[TheWatShot 13,647]

On 10/7/2024 at 2:39 PM, Demo said:

 

Rhode Island fans wondering the same thing we did, when exactly is Miller Time?

I wonder if Rhode Island will pull the plug after this season, or if they still have the outdated belief that you have to give a coach 4 years to prove he's no good. 

 

But this is also his third season, which means it should be the year the players finally grasp how to play the pack-line defense (tic). So maybe they'll be mediocre instead of awful. 

[IUHoosierJoe 1,086]

33 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

I wonder if Rhode Island will pull the plug after this season, or if they still have the outdated belief that you have to give a coach 4 years to prove he's no good. 

 

But this is also his third season, which means it should be the year the players finally grasp how to play the pack-line defense (tic). So maybe they'll be mediocre instead of awful. 

Dayton appears to be doing just fine without him.