AZ Hoosier

This might help, Coach Pope... Run for the Border

Do you know the family? If not, how can you possibly know what they want...

I hear that Purdue is always looking for new fans...

If the coach has built a relationship with the player via in-home visits, texts, calls, recruiting... I can see it making some sense...

Gotta love Little Ricky...

Well, we did too last year... let's get us a team, pay what we have to, and fire this mother up!

Mullins ain't happening this year... maybe in the future, but not this year.

Rabby's trying to find significance/justification for his own existence...

Not nearly as fortunate as we are...

This. Getting into an emotional bidding war is a bad place to be... He's gone, move on...

Yeah, they went to the tournament with teams who had chemistry and coaches who had clues... then they came to catch bags from Woodson... THAT's how that turned out.

I don't have the stats to answer this, but how many of the sophomores and juniors in the portals are staying after one year? I have seen some of these kids jumping from school to school 2 or 3 times... so while NIL helps you build a competitive team quickly, it also keeps the carousel spinning... unfortunately, that's also true of HS recruits...

Or... maybe there are other factors... like wanting to be close to home for family... Yeah, IU has been dysfunctional for 10 years or more, but the changing of the guard (Buckner/Woodson out, Dolson/DeVries in) will help that. Maybe reputation plays a role, but given the new direction and the desire to hire a "real" college coach is also a factor. Crean was streaky and at times, odd, Archie had the personality of a bag to doorknobs, Woodson was lazy and arrogant... all of that is gone... I don't think it's going to be as hard of a sell as some think it will be... DeVries has a plan, and we need to let him work that plan. He will win some and lose some, but we're gonna be ok. Coach DD has done it twice, he will do it again.

It's going to be a bumpy ride... but we will get there... I trust Coach DeVries... he's rebuilt programs at Drake and W Virginia... so he knows what he's doing here...

For the first 39 years of the tournament, there was no seeding. Seeding wasn't introduced until the 1978 tournament, which was the last tournament that was limited to 32 teams. For this tournament, teams with automatic bids and at-large teams were seeded separately. In the 1979 tournament, teams were seeded 1-10 in each regional bracket, and the 1979 tournament was the only one to feature 40 teams. In 1980 the tournament was expanded to 48 teams, and teams were seeded 1-12 in each geographic bracket. This continued until 1985 when the tournament was expanded to 64 teams, and eliminated byes for the top seeded teams. In 2008, for the first time in tournament history, all four #1 seeds (UNC, Kansas, Memphix and UCLA) reached the Final Four. This year, all four #1 seeds (Auburn, Florida, Duke and Houston) reached the Final Four for only the second time in tournament history.