GaloisGroupe

If it is TJD leaving, RTZ needs to work on his red and white dots and googly eye usage 🤣!

The dots (🔴 ⚪) and the googly eyes (👀) usually means someone committing. I the money - maybe NIL deal bringing TJD back?

+1 We lost a lot of close games in the first half of the season because we did not have an offense in place. Also, our depth should be sufficient to survive the next NW incident (if it should happen).

I think the "Creaning" was adding random low-level recruits at the end of the cycle only to push them out the next year or two.

BUT if: NIL at School A - Cost of not having scholarship at School A > NIL at School B Then it would make financial sense to go to School A anyway. Although the money is not explicitly tied to a school... it kind of is.

Is this what they look like now?

To be honest, with the extra COVID year AND with NIL causing more players to return to college, there has to be a serious scholarship crunch for the next couple of years. Players that would have scholarships easily under normal circumstances are going to have to find alternatives. Honestly, they should have increased the number of scholarships to 14 until COVID year crunch is over.

My take: If JG does not really improve his game, he is not a starter on an elite team. If he does improve his game - namely handles - he can play heavy minutes at the three. Most of why we all want JG on the court next year is we assume that he is already working on his game and will make an equal or greater jump in skillset this offseason.

Has possible Bryce Hopkins to Providence been discussed? I read it on Rupp Rafters... It seems like Providence's name is coming up a lot lately in recruiting.

Depends on if TJD is coming back or not.

That would be awesome if he is - but I would have to see it to believe it. EG was unstoppable.

Which school?

Don't underestimate us. I think a lot of us could get fired that fast!

Shoot, I already printed them out...

Who is left from Archie's administration? I know of Kenya Hunter - but he was mostly "imposed" on CAM in that last year Walsh - who has a long history with the Miller family ???

Unfortunately, Mike DeCourcy knows our team well... Objectively, we still have something to show in order be ranked. Unless there is an unexpected roster blow-up, I do expect us to float in and out of the ranking next year.

Figures... the one group that probably put some real thought into it did not pick us. To be honest, ESPN probably threw us in there just so they would get clicks from all of the IU fans.

I think the FSU is a typo, because it later says this: "He’s originally from South Florida, and Miami was one of his finalists when he committed the first time." FSU is not south Florida.

Let's host UNC in the ACC Big 10 challenge and play at Nova for the Gavitt games

This could work both ways. If I am a lower mid-major coach I am selling this idea to low 70ish ranked recruits: You can go to UNC/UK/KU/IU and sit for three years or you can come to Ball State and develop. If you are good enough and want to shift to UNC/UK/KU/IU in a couple of years, I will help you find the right situation. That is, make about doing right by the kid.

+1 ... Coach Hubert Davis (CHD) really wanted the job CHD is qualified to be the head coach at an elite program Has the support of the outgoing hall of fame coach The previous coach will not tell recruits to boycott the school The administration at UNC is not actively sabotaging the basketball program This was planned exchange... Superficially, there is the similarity of assistant replacing hall of fame coach. BUT all the peripherals favor Hubert's situation. CMD was only promoted so that we could field a team... I hate Duke, so I hope Scheyer is terrible as a coach.

+1 I also liked Duke before '92 FF - I remember rooting for them against UNLV the previous year. Same story - they went from one my favorite non-IU teams to my least favorite team in one night. And it was really TV Ted's fault, not Duke's... after that I hated them. It also did not help that ESPN became the Duke propaganda network a few years later. That made me hate Duke even more AND made me go from loving ESPN to hating ESPN.

As long as it is not Youniversity of Indiana - that would be rubbish!

Now that K is gone and the Scheyer era is here, is Duke about to slide from the top tier?

Just read this - or any - IU board for confirmation.