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Agree. There’s nothing funny about it after about third grade.

I like Davis but honestly Ryan Conwell is the perfect fit for us as a starting two guard.

I honestly want 3. We will see. Carlyle or Rice as a downhill lead guard with wiggle. Not great shooters, not yet anyway, but they are dynamic in a way we have lacked. They are also younger so we aren’t just adding one year guys. Hickman as a shooter and savvy guy. Perkins as a combo guard. Love his toughness. Galloway as a sixth man. With our versatility he could honestly swap in for a lot of guys because other guys can move around. Humrichrous is someone who interests me big time as a 6’9 shooter. Cupps to redshirt and enjoy five years of that crazy NIL he’s tapping into. I think he can develop. But he needs time. Bring in more talented, proven guys a la Cignetti. If you perform there will be minutes. It doesn’t matter who else is here .. if you play well, you will get good minutes. That could be a massively improved team.

Agree. Talking heads are maddening. We get and share more info here. Pat has a great show but omg it’s way too long and hard to find the segments you care about so I don’t usually bother unless my YouTube feed spoon feeds me a short segment. But he’s very talented and comes across incredibly well IMO

I’m assuming Middleton did that on purpose. eligiNILity

I stayed at the Seelbach in Louisville with a college gf many years ago. Loved it at the time. I took my family there last year and unfortunately the Hilton had taken it over and kind of wrecked its charm. Corporate charlatans.

I sure hope we are taking two ball handling guards. If you only bring in one and he gets hurt, it’s 2024 again. Surely they learned from that. Let’s say Perkins is one. He could even easily play with Walker at times. We have seven spots. Let’s wait and see because this is so obvious that it’s hard to believe they wouldn’t get that.

Fair enough but I am not sure I have ever seen a Purdue fan accept the five banners. Usually some excuse. When you see this board compliment the hell out of Painter on a regular basis or give a sober assessment of the lousy season IU just had, ask yourself if Purdue fans would do that because I’ve never seen evidence of it except for a super minority.

When IU is up and Purdue is down, IU gets almost no credit from Purdue fans. Purdue gets very defensive, makes excuses, and creates conspiracy theories. The way this board is a love best for Painter would never ever happen in a million years at your end. Purdue can’t even handle the five banners. Even when Purdue is good, as an example, when Edey runs over somebody who is stationary, or bear hugs with both arms and isn’t called, Purdue fans laughably defend the situation even when there’s video evidence. It’s dysfunctional. Just own it like IU fans do. “Yeah Edey gets away with those calls. Deal with it. He’s huge and refs don’t have any idea how to deal with him.” The difference is IU fans have self esteem. I’ve enjoyed three titles. Even if I never see another, I have got 3.

Bad coach, good coach, either way, let’s build the roster and program for more than one year and get us on track. Let’s fix 2025 recruiting and get competitive. It does no good to tank. We are in an embarrassing state right with very little sitting here today for the future especially looking out to 2025-2026. Let’s hope they recruit their asses off, whether it’s about money or whatever for this year and beyond. Hopefully we all agree with that. Get the roster normalized and build a roster for college basketball.

I love that kid. I would put him on my all time 13 man team. You’ve got a few years on me but I was in early elementary school in 1975 and that’s the first team I remember. That gives me, what, 49 years??? I wish I could have seen some of the guys you saw in the preceding years. But in 49 years, I’m finding a spot for TJD on my 13 man roster. I’m taking about my favorites. Some combination of good and attitude leading them to be on my list. The way he stood up for the program and led was admirable in a way that a lot of guys never had to do.

I think every team in the league will regret that considering where he went.

Matt Painter is an admirable guy who plays a helluva style of basketball and runs an outstanding system for COLLEGE basketball. Sadly we once took Todd Leary over Painter as a player. The difference between IU and PU is that we are far more realistic in our assessments. PU fans typically have a huge chip on their shoulders and live in an alternate reality. The amount of post hoc rationalizations that come out of them is astounding, whereas IU fans will give a far more realistic assessment whether it hurts to say or not. When IU is good and Purdue isn’t, the amount of total BS that comes out of that place is loathsome.

I’m sensing a selfie in the works between games!

Uh oh I missed the edict

Great news. He was the most critical guy IMO

No sorry. I should have said “if we get him”. Was just thinking ahead. Sorry for the confusion.

Humrichous has as good of a shooting stroke as you will ever see. Looks like we have a far better handle on scouting the portal than we did last year. It will be very important how we use him. He’s highly skilled but not a plus athlete.

Good fit, I think.

She may be running for the hills 😂

Are you talking about Zeke Mayo? I see that he grew up in Lawrence so that would be logical.

I’m not above that.

I agree that there are plenty of good players but we need the right combination of players. We don’t need one thing, we need complements. For example, I think we need 4 guys between the 1, 2, 3 positions. In that group, I would like 4 guys who have an answer defensively. I would like two to be legit ball handlers (then I’m redshirting Cupps). Two need to be excellent shooters. Someone may be an outstanding player but not the perfect fit for our situation right now. I think that shooting and our offensive structure are critical. We can’t just watch Miller Kopp stand in the corner passively. We can’t have the ball go into Reneau and then never come out. It’s not appealing or winning basketball. We’ve seen that. The most critical thing I’m rooting for is fixing the long term personnel. Next year was heavily gutted and beyond that was basically nil. If Woody can get the roster normalized for the future, that will be a huge win for all of us. I have been pounding the table for Ryan Conwell High motor, tough kid. Shot well and not a slow setup Good size and rebounds like an animal for his position. A lot of people disagree with me, but these really good mid major players have proven that they acquit themselves very nicely at this level. It’s proven constantly. I’m not a snob about a guy at a school like ISU. I think they would have finished 3rd or 4th in the B1G and they absolutely got hosed by the committee. just my two cents.

This is great news. Third straight year we pulled a five star in the spring.

I used to live there and the amount of growth there has been amazing.