HoosierFaithful

JHS the only one? Eric Gordon…

If anyone would like to be pre-emptively banned for the next 36 hours or something so you can actually be productive, PM inbox is open.

Everyone be sure to get off Scott's lawn

3 hours ago, IU Scott said:

More to do with it being less popular and losing a lot of viewers of the game. I assume they will still play but it will be more in the line of college baseball. College baseball is more of a niche sport where a lot of people don't really pay attention than it.  I know it seems it is becoming more popular but it still isn't what college basketball and football has been.

Implying that NIL / et al (I think what you're saying) will make CBB turn into college baseball is so laughable that I almost want to check if your head is okay, my friend.

Just sit back and enjoy the chase, because nobody knows anything.

1 hour ago, BGleas said:

Going to do my best to be super clear here. I love our "insiders" that post here, BTB's and other forums. I think they're good people, great members of these communities, I enjoy what they share, and I hope they always continue to share and post. This isn't a knock on them whatsoever. 

With that said, I think 90-95% of the "insider" information is BS, and I'm including the twitter people, reporters, etc.. I believe our insiders have connections and I believe they hear things from those connections and they share it. Again, I have no issue with the "insiders" themselves, this isn't about them.

But, I've been on the inside at the NBA level. Maybe not apples-to-apples, but pretty darn close. The people that the "insiders" are connected to don't know much. They're sharing what they think they know to seem important. Anyone that actually knows what is really going on isn't running around sharing it.

Part of my job in the NBA was to monitor blog sites, media, etc. I would literally sit at my desk with co-workers LOL'ing at the stuff on those sites being passed around as "insider information" and talked about like it was real and accurate. It was almost always not even remotely close. 

I was in PR, so not in basketball operations, but as close as you can get without being in that department. I'd write the press releases when we made a trade, so again super early in the chain of people finding out about our transactions, and they were almost always out of the blue. I attended all of the draft workouts and sat in the teams war room, yet almost never knew who we were going to draft until the GM told us. The trades we announced were almost (keyword, because of course some times things do get out) never things that were being rumored in the media, blogs, etc.

I mean, Mike Woodson and the coaching staff aren't leaking information on each step of the recruitments like a lot of people seem to think. They're not leaking info on recruiting visits to Jeff Rabjohns like some seem to think.

The vast majority of info that comes out is the telephone game with one-sided info originated from people that really don't know anything. 

 

^^ this - my point is that let's all accept that, at the most, any of our insiders (bar the rare occurrence where it's an actual family relationship or something) are at best reading tea leaves and we'll all be a lot happier.  

Insiders - post your stuff, put your neck out there, but don't be upset if someone questions you.  Why do you care what a poster thinks?

Everyone else - don't bite the hand that feeds you!! This is a MESSAGE BOARD.  There are very few requirements to post here.  This is a fact that everyone should be grateful for, because if not, nobody would be able to post.  

Keep it light and casual folks, don't shoot the messenger, but also don't get mad if you get shot at when you post inside info that is... wrong.

8 hours ago, Lurker said:

Can we please stay on topic?  There is Dakich thread somewhere if you want to rant about DD.

You’re right but sometimes I feel like every thread deserves its chance to crap on DD.  Doing a bad thing is a good thing sometimes 

Great resurrection.  Great thread.  I find myself in a craft cocktail bar once or twice a week either on the road or just with friends.  Just spent 10 days in Australia and THEY take their cocktails seriously, holy cow.  Had a gin and fruit (some kind of berry? Can’t remember) with a vanilla foam and… 

Going to go through and try some of the recipes from here!

Where does walker project in our rotation? 

Everyone stop debating the poster and start debating the point. If you can’t do that, just don’t post.

45 minutes ago, Indykev said:

Post all the conspiracy crap all you want, idc. Its still pointless until he de-commits.

Then just stop posting here? Nobody is forcing you. 

Hell, I think the one thing everyone can agree on at this point is that we're at war with China.

36 minutes ago, Naturalhoosier said:

Anyone ever have Raising Canes?  One just opened yesterday near me. Think we’ll be giving it a shot in the next week. 

Came here to post that this is the winner but I see you beat me to it 

Temporarily locking this thread.

I love football.  Watch almost all day every Sunday, will normally stop if I'm flipping through channels and see it, etc.

Yet if I were to have kids, I'd never allow them to play.  There is no way to make a violent game safe - point blank.

3 hours ago, Initial79 said:

Since we are all just throwing opinions 

- while I can understand wanting it to be how it was, it was never fair for the schools to take in millions, coaches getting millions and for the athlete to just “be happy with your scholarship”  if the coaches were making normal salaries and that money was going back to the school as a way to keep education down for all, maybe. But not when they did what they did and just run up endowments and pay $5 million a year for coaches while also raising education costs through the roof. 

- the ncaa can’t do half the things people suggest or they will lose the last leg they have. The schools know it too. They can’t put a “salary cap, stop transfers, stop the go fund me’s, etc.” as soon as they do, they are right back in court and it will end with the athletes as employees. Then you have unions, laws that protect employee and employee all coming into play, etc. 
 

- this won’t be the end of college sports. The schools would lose way too much money from both the sports themselves, campus life, enrollment and more. 
 

the NCAA (which is just representing the schools so it is them) screwed up their chance to have it different. No going back now. You don’t have to like it but reality. 
 

what everyone needs to do is ask themselves if they believe in capitalism and free markets. If you do, this will be handled by that. If you don’t, well…. Good luck finding a solution because that is ultimately what should bring this into a system that works but will take some time to get there. 

Bingo, someone hang this post up somewhere so we can just repost it in every thread for the next 12 months. 

3 hours ago, NotIThatLives said:

Keep up the hood work ladies and gentlemen.   Only 100 more pages to hit 200.  

Moses Abraham says hello 

Sorry to those impacted and anyone who is feeling grief because of this.  It hurts to keep posting the same thing, except this time, it feels real.

25 minutes ago, bluegrassIU said:

@HoosierFaithful , quit being a primma donna and asking for special treatment. 

A moderator on a message board whining about having to read the board? 🤔😝

warning point issued

Can someone quote me and give me a tl;dr update from the past 3 days?  God this thread moves quickly

32 minutes ago, Reacher said:

Not sure what you mean by this. I thought educators are generally pretty well regarded. There are always going to be a few bad apples but that is the exception rather than the rule. 

If you think the common thinking of teachers right now is as "well regarded," I would have to politely disagree.  In addition to not paying teachers enough, and wanting to watch over and litigate every word they say in the classroom, we now want to sign them up as a militia? 

I sense I am getting too invested in this topic, so I am going to take my own advice and back off.  We all agree something needs to be done here.  I believe firmly everything needs to be on the table, even things that make me queasy, like SRO's and their profound negative impact on students (some more than others).  What else can we do to lessen this horrific trend?

40 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said:

I was a combat infantryman and my buddy across the hall did search and seizure for coast guard.  Every building I taught in over 9.5 years, 5 different buildings, 3 different corporations all had multiple veterans besides myself.   No one would ask Nancy the librarian afraid of the sun to conceal carry.  I even had the idea of a biometric safe instead of personal carry.  

But I get it, you will likely be against it no matter what.  No middle ground.  Shoot me your ideas and we will see.  

You've already gotten a pretty bleeding heart liberal to agree to make schools like fortresses, I'm not sure how you can say I'm the one with no middle ground here.