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I think this is true, but Race is also going to be a sixth year senior, was honorable mention all conference, and has gotten steadily better almost every year. Hard to imagine a scenario where someone passes him.

Not sure I'd go that far 🤣 I think it's the rationale though.

Well 85 full scholarships for football tilts the scholarship count quite a bit in favor of the men, so I assume most women's sport have more than the male counterpart.

Title IX?

I think that would be cool!

We've had some pretty elite shooters since Hulls.

Has his name been floated in the media as a candidate at MSU? I can't find anything on google.

I don't think it's that Fife forgot the X's and O's, I think it's that he really screwed up in a way he hadn't before. It's interesting that Izzo didn't snatch him up right away when Stephens left, yeah?

There's not much to agree to disagree on, you're just wrong. Barnes has over 750 career wins, has made a Final Four, has made 26 NCAA Tournaments, coached the best player on the planet, has coached Wooden Award winners, NBA champions. It is ridiculously lopsided in Barnes favor. History may favor Purdue but right now it's pretty even. I doubt Pack cares what happened when Gene Keady was coaching as much as he does that Barnes can call up KD. He may have went to KSU because it was his best offer, but if he is taking his best offer it isn't Purdue. Who could have stayed in state before and chose not to. But if he is truly motivated by getting as many shots as he wants instead of winning and getting to the league, then I hope Purdue does land a kid like that. I just don't think he is motivated that way.

This. Fife has had zero credibly reported interest for jobs, including from Lewis, Stephens, and Matta. That should be enough for everyone to conclude it was absolutely the right thing for the program to let him go and be enough for everyone be upset with Fife, not Indiana, for how things worked out. Dane Fife for all we may feel good about him for a player, hurt this program in his one year as a coach. He was a negative asset.

I think you're pretty off here. Barnes > Painter Purdue and UT are pretty on par. He may not care about close to home, he did leave for Kansas once and he is mostly looking at things far from home. Do we even know the Weber thing happened? If it did, do we think he cares? He is leaving a situation he got as many shots as he wanted. He seems motivated by other things.

Such as? UT has a better campus, better female population, better coach. I'm sure you can point to some things for Purdue, but man, the quality of life things and ability to achieve his goals things seem to lean to UT.

We don't exactly have a ton of open roster spots or holes.

Just one example, but Johnny Davis went from 34.2 to 34.9 MPG.

I don't know if I'm supposed to laugh at the shot at @IU Scott or like this because you're making an obviously correct point.

And to be fair, no team does that every game all season for 40 games. You know this. But sure, with a championship on the line and no tomorrow to worry about, you can do things like that.

The averages for minutes that season where pretty in line with what we're saying, and the game that they had obvious fatigue that you're talking about is an outlier.

Both teams scored significantly less in the second half and both teams played their starters a ton. It's pretty clear that fatigue played a factor in that game.

I think an 8 man rotation is ideal, I'm just not big on only 7 minutes from the bench. I'm sure you remember the Northwestern game this year and how gassed guys were. Just because something worked doesn't mean it was the best way to do it, it just means it worked.

I want as many minutes at maximum productivity from those guys, and there's no way you're getting that without rests.

That Nova team had some studs 1-3, wow!

You don't understand, those guys in the 80s were just built different. They could optimize their output with no rest....

I see where you're coming from - I don't agree on the value of Hield but think we are pretty close on Turner. I think taking on $47M of Russ is pretty tough to net what is likely a pick closer to 10 than 2 (or could even fall into the early teens). But maybe Cleveland wins their play in game so we get that pick, the NYK pick is a top 10, and we can package Russ for something? I actually like the guys in the 5-10 range more than most in this draft, so if we ended up with like 4 and 9 I'd be pretty happy. Then something in the late teens could be gravy.

I would pass in Beilein because of his age and I think his comments would be used against him recruiting, but the guy didn’t just forget how to coach. He’s really good. I always laugh at the corporate loyalty some people expect; it’s a job. People need to do what is best for them.

10000% Especially a guy like Leal who grew up a Hoosier, is by all accounts a good student, kid, and teammate, and when he does get to play he plays his butt off. I obviously hope Leal can contribute more as he gets older, but if he never scores another point for IU I'll take a kid like that on the team every single year.