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  1. I saw that. I thought they got hosed. Money talks and that’s not ok. It’s sport. If you don’t have fairness, you have nothing. The NCAA has zero integrity.
  2. Hopefully it’s to fine tune and confirm heavy scouting where the heavy lifting has been done. There’s no reason why you couldn’t have dossiers on high school kids and then follow through on them year after year when you’re in a portal era. You could easily have a full time admin guy (“gm”) with a staff of grad assistants who are dirt cheap but want to pay their dues to become a scout. You would be scouring every conference in the country for the few bubbling up who are worthy of discussion. Make your broad lists and whittle it down. If you’re identifying guys now off their basketball reference page it’s way too late. The competition would have mash ups ready on how the player would be used. This isn’t 1985 where the school owns the player.
  3. You missed teaching big men to go up straight instead of reaching with their hands and committing fouls.
  4. I agree that I’m not in favor of NET relative to head to head. Having said that, as a program it’s your obligation to play the rules as they are set up. Get your efficiencies way up. Learn your lesson.
  5. I’d have to look at their stats but alot of those guys really know how to play and we have not had enough of those guys. IMO
  6. No doubt. IU doesn’t run a well schooled system where you can take savvy guys who can come together like Hoiberg or Chris Collins or even Underwood does. That’s the opposite of IU. Throw it into the post and never see it again, no ball or player movement, etc etc. The hope is just fielding a team that’s respectable in terms of Ws and Ls even if the metrics are bad. My main hope, barring a miracle, would be for the program to build up enough talent that it’s easier for the next staff. It would be nice if we landed a core for the ‘25 class.
  7. Yeah the first thing I’m looking at is 3 PT and FT shooting and then you have to make sure they can defend. Some of these guys who can rebound from the wing would be nice.
  8. As teams drop out of the tourney, more winning players will become available.
  9. Not just that, unless they are a lifetime fan having it ingrained into them, you’d have to question the priorities of anyone choosing IU. These are the types of guys we’d roll in the past and now that’s us.
  10. I agree at certain positions but it will be heavily dependent on scouting. You don’t want Parker Stewart but you do want the right guys but the staff has to dig deep. Personally I would not compromise on defense. Presumably we already have very detailed analysis on anybody who was a possibility for the portal so that we wouldn’t need to scramble. With an excellent process we are set right now to be decisive on who we pursue hard and in the right order. We need everything but high end point guard is mandatory. No shot without that.
  11. Why didn’t IU look at Heidbreder when he hit the portal? Is it too late now that he’s at Clemson? Doesn’t he look like exactly what we need? If I’m right about any of this, add him to the list.
  12. If Meyer can defend at this level, he looks like he would be a very good get. I’m glad our staff is finally digging a little deeper in their scouting. 15 points a game on 40% from 3 as a freshman. I would want to be reassured on defense but if you bring in 3 guards and he is one of them, that could work. We need a high end point guard though.
  13. I don’t think it’s good enough. He came in promising big ten championships and competing for National championships. Those are his own words. So next year will be his fourth year to get to that level. That’s a fair period of time in the NIL era with his budgets. If he doesn’t get there, then he will have failed at his own expectation.
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