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go_iu_bb

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  1. With how long IU had been recruiting him, I'm sure his parents know Woodson.
  2. No, I think he doesn't pay NIL to college players.
  3. Look at how much the salaries have increased. They've far outpaced inflation. ~25 years ago Michael Jordan earned about ~$30M per year, a record at the time. Now the merely decent players are approaching that number. Very good but not great are earning far more. I expect salaries to increase over time but they ballooned. I think you'd find similar in the NFL and MLB.
  4. McNeely could easily be gone after 1 year so even if we land both the chances are they wouldn't play together.
  5. Queen is a very good player but he likely wouldn't be at good as a freshman as TJD was during Woodson's time at IU were TJD had 2 years of experience. JD wasn't surrounded by players like McNeely and others that the staff is trying to bring in. So the situation of having to play through the center position doesn't make as much sense as it did with TJD's teams. That was the point I was trying to make that I didn't phrase well. Back to McNeely, I think he is the key to landing a great class. The first domino. I think IU's chances at players like Queen and Fland greatly improve if they can play with him.
  6. Queen isn't an All-American in college like TJD was under Woodson. TJD also didn't have 4 good shooters around him so the offense made sense to start with him. Woodson can still have an inside player as long as he has 4 players than can extend the floor to have the offense he wants and he's trying to recruit those types. Queen already shows signs of being a really good passer, which helps.
  7. They're the best then. The rest of the time they're idiots who have no idea what they're talking about. It's amazing.
  8. They'll probably be involved in the recruiting but most likely they're there to watch Trayce's brother.
  9. The conferences really care about having accurate names.
  10. This is a good point. A slower pace gives teams with less talent a chance to pull off an upset. That is one of the things that make NCAA ball, and the tournament in particular, popular. It might be ugly and/or boring to watch most times, but everyone loves an upset (except for the team/fans getting upset lol).
  11. With Northwestern and Georgetown playing you just know you're going to get some good basketball.
  12. There's the key difference in all things different in play between college and the NBA, including passing. Only the best players make the NBA and are vying for spots on 30 teams. So even the washouts were very good college players. With 15 roster spots per team, that's only 450 players total. They also get paid to hone their basketball skills and get as much time to work on that as possible. The NCAA has over 350 schools which each get 13 scholarship spots plus walk-ons. That means the talent is so diluted that the speed and skills needed to make a 24 second shot clock work just isn't there. Even the 30 second clock is pushing it. They also don't have as much time to work on their skills between school and NCAA limited coaching time.
  13. Almost all of the Miller players who transferred out moved down in competition. That's a sign of bad player evaluation. Or maybe his coaching just made them worse. Of the Langford, Hunter, Anderson, Phinisee, and Forester class, the only one who wasn't a bust was Langford. You can make excuses for Hunter and Phinisee but neither performed to the level of expectations. Even after transferring, Hunter played better but not as good as expected and I would still consider a bust. TJD and Franklin. Good class. Neither were busts. Lander, Geronimo, Leal, and Galloway class: Lander was definitely a bust as you admit. Leal and Geronimo haven't improved which goes to poor evaluation. I don't know if I'd consider them busts as they didn't have high expectations but because of that I'm not convinced they should've been recruited in the first place. Especially to a team already lacking in talent. Duncomb was also a bust. That's a pretty poor showing for the players he did land. But I also look at players he missed. Two I can think of off the top of my head that Miller supposedly wanted badly were Matt Cross and Ethan Morton. Matt Cross hasn't done jack at the D1 level and has transferred multiple times. Ethan Morton has not impressed while at Purdue. I know there are other bad players he wanted and missed on but I'm not going to bother going to look. Every year I seem to see multiple players Miller missed on transferring and usually moving down.
  14. Player evaluation is part of recruiting and Miller was not very good at that. He recruited a lot of busts - both players he landed and those he missed on.
  15. Yeah, if they waste time now it just means that the offense you see after they stop wasting time is the offense you'd see with a 24 second shot clock. It would just be without the initial time wasting. Or if they still wasted time, the offense would be even worse.
  16. Recruiting is a numbers game. You get enough visits from recruits and make enough top x lists and you'll start landing some. The number of highly ranked recruits that are visiting IU and including them in their top lists has greatly increased. This greatly increases the chance of IU landing some of them.
  17. This has been a long recruitment already so I doubt he suddenly becomes impulsive and commits before making all the visits. Especially considering the last visit is to his home state school which has been recruiting him for a long time and shown him love. I really like IU's chances but just don't see him deciding before Texas visit.
  18. @IUFLA covered most of these so I won't covering most of them that he did. The May 11th deadline is if they want to be immediately eligible next season (excluding grad transfers) but they can actually enter at any time. The deadline doesn't apply to committing, just entering. No NCAA deadline for committing but before a school's semester/quarter starts would make sense.
  19. Beard didn't suspend him for that? Why am I not shocked? Seems like the type of person Sampson would have no problem with.
  20. They really seem to reach out to practically every player that enters the portal and it's been like that for the past few years. Nebraska is another team that seems to show up as having been in contact by every portal player.
  21. I don't think it normally matters much but, in this case, being Lebron's son I believe has helped his ranking. No way he's a burger boy if he wasn't Lebron's son.
  22. I think he's transferred 7 more times since then and is on school #23.
  23. The difference between 1 and 2 is greater than that between 2 and 14. Ridiculous. No way they foul that much less than every other team in the B1G.
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