Bustout

You’re probably right. I feel like in some sports - say college FB - a coach may be headed somewhere- but they’ll allow him to coach a bowl game with his former team.

I would think Brad would want to get here sooner than later - probably by April. Or at least somehow announce it and get an assistant in to run the recruiting for now.

Wella wella wella welcome back! Never thought Dolson would have the Skillz to pay the Billz! But wow!! I thought Archie was getting another year. As ugly as it was. But only way Dolson makes this move, given the financials, is if he had a big dawg ready to go ... Stevens or Beard basically. And there’s way too much smoke around Stevens now. Unreal. I actually liked Arch. Recruiting hurt him in the end. He’ll bounce back and learn from his mistakes - especially when he gets to a big time job again. But the thought of Lord Stevens here. Wow.

No. That pause jacked them.

In a normal year, would he be a weekday starter or weekday reliever?

Has Reese Sharp played? I don’t think he played last year either. Dude got drafted - I’m surprised he hasn’t even found an inning (unless I’m missing something from this weekend).

Iowa and Butler winning today have to help IU, right? If IU can get two of next 3 - will be interesting.

If MSU loses ... This could go one of two ways for IU ... MSU finally came back to earth with a lot of games in a handful of days and IU has a chance vs them ... or MSU takes this loss out on IU and beats Hoosiers by 20+. MSU also had two Michigan games after IU - so hopefully they are looking past the Hoosiers

I can’t stand Illannoy, but you absolutely hate to see this for them and Ayo. Brutal break. Hopefully he’s OK and 100% tourney time (unless IU plays them Round 2 of B1G tourney).

I’m not second guessing any of this staffs decisions, but the schools IU is going up against for Gunn and this kid are a bit underwhelming. That means little, but just an observation. Maybe Archie and crew and spot these underrated kids like OurMaan Franklin and develop them into studs.

And had 85 chances to win. They are better than IU, but not a F4 type team like some have hyped. S16 at best, unless they get a 13 seed Cinderella or something to get to E8.

My personal opinion is no way

Agree, but Curbelo and Miller look like solid freshman. He’ll hit the JUCO market. And also, he adjusted his defensive style. I hate Illannoy, but don’t think he’s completely terrible. The way to beat ILL is basically stop Ayo from driving to his right. It’s so much easier said than done, but that’s the key. Force him to pass and let everyone else shoot. And Kofi is simply a good college player because he’s massive. That’s it. He’s average talent IMO.

The fraud B1G will try to protect Mich and keep them as a one seed if they have any say in it. Sort of like O$U in football - they’ll work with Mich to see what they want to do. Mich will dictate and not the other way around.

They’ve since hired Kenya though. Does that give you any hope? He’s brought in Stewart thus far.

Yeah. Just getting my hopes up for an obvious fall.

Some speculation that Wojo’s seat is en fuego. If he is fired, I wonder if Dawson would consider leaving. He’s phenomenal.

He’ll be 65% by the time he graduates here!

Agree. They’ll probably push the B1G tourney as a way for teams to get extra games and not make up the Covid/Weather cancellations.

Hopefully this layoff pays off tomorrow.

One game every two weeks is getting old!

Even if it was some discipline issue or something, if Cross wants to come here, I’m guessing Archie will give him a spot. Archie needs talent and seems IU’s culture is pretty tight-knit, so good be a good place for the kid ... unless it’s a Dan Dakich drug/pimp issue.

Probably shoots too well for this squad.

Is expanding the field this year out of the question? From a COVID perspective and logistical perspective, definitely not ideal. But the committee will have their work cut out for them looking at number of games played. Would they take a .500 team from the B1G that played 16-18 conference games or a 13-9 team from a much lesser conference that lost 4 games due to Covid (just example numbers)? probably still obviously come down to who you beat and didn’t (quad wins/losses). Without any conference tourneys, no bid stealers. IF IU can somehow get to .500ish in conference and finish there, the win vs Iowa will look phenomenal.

I never thought about it that way, but good point about moving up games opposed to just keeping as is and cramming at the end. Otherwise the last couple weeks are going to be a mess.