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KoB2011

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  1. The X thing cannot be true. Like I just cannot fathom that. I don't care if the Pope grants him a 7th year he better not be at IU next year. Holy cow.
  2. You would need 10:1 odds on us making the tournament and you think that's an argument for keeping the coach?!?
  3. Pearl got hired in March of 2014, couldn't recruit for 5 more months. So that 2015 roster is hard to put on him. Because he couldn't recruit until a month before signing day, kinda hard to expect him to land many freshman that would be able to play in 2016. So it stands to reason the first time he'd have any semblance of talent would be Year 3, in 2017....
  4. Let's just assume this is true for a moment.... It underscores the problem with the entire experiment in the first place. We hired an unsuccessful, life-long NBA coach that had no clue about the college game because one of his buddies is President of the BoT, who also has no relevant college basketball experience.
  5. Why do you think IU couldn't pull in more impactful players? Is it something wrong with IU or something wrong with how they were pitched? Or did we just not cast a wide enough net? Something else?
  6. Caleb Love got floated and was apparently ours to lose, then somehow the two butted heads on something and he isn't here. If it had anything to do with play style, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Caleb Love was right about now liking what he heard.
  7. Just to put a little context on what Pearl took over at Auburn.... In the 10 seasons prior to Auburn hiring Pearl, Auburn had two winning seasons. They were 23 games below .500 in those 10 seasons. They had been top 100 in KenPom twice in those 10 seasons, with their best season being 59 (we were 44 in Tom Crean's last season for a reference point) Bruce Pearl has had that program top 11 at some point in 6 of the past 7 seasons. He took them to a Final Four and probably should have won a title that year if not for two 1975 level bad breaks. This is on top of what he did at UT, Milwaukee, and USI. He isn't my top choice, but there is absolutely zero question he would at a minimum match Crean's level of success with more consistency.
  8. I still think it would be hard, but not impossible with Dusty May.
  9. Yes, check Crean's first three years. What Pearl took over at Auburn was just as bad as that.
  10. It would be very hard to poach a coach from OSU.
  11. Exactly! And this roster is far from devoid of talent. A few tweaks to the roster, a few tweaks to the style of play, and this team is squarely in the talk for a decent seed. This staff completed failed.
  12. We are at 1.66 and the average is 1.83. But we also have more talent than the average....
  13. Most IU students weren't born the last time we went to one....
  14. YouTube TV does this I'm pretty sure.
  15. Purdue is going to finish top ten for the third straight year, has made 9 straight tournaments, will finish top 15 for the 7th time in 9 years (Bob Knight never had more than 5 top 15 in 9 years, won their 4th conference title in 8 years, and will have back to back NPOY. They currently have a program as good as any in the country, and we have one of the worst in the Big Ten in that same stretch. We should probably stop with the smack talk until we get our house in order. EDIT: and despite the two first round exits, Purdue has made the S16 or better in four of the last six tournaments.
  16. Twice. In the Big Ten regular season championship and in the Big Ten Tournament. I would gladly trade our two regular season games for those two things, and anyone who gives two craps about being a good program would too.
  17. Depends. Are old Indiana admins making the decision? Because we would be that dumb.
  18. I mean, I guess we can argue about what is terrible, but we are still going to likely finish below .500 in a bad Big Ten and finish in all the metrics as one of the worst teams at IU in 50+ seasons. So terrible for IU at a minimum.
  19. Missed the last four minutes because I had a tee time with my daughter, but great second half! Maybe this team can enter the BTT on a 4 game win streak and raise some hell for the top seeds. Would love to see all these guys finish out the Year strong.
  20. Maybe this team can make a lot of us eat our words. Win this, win the next two, win the BTT.... The talent is there and has been all along.
  21. Malik has 7 of our last 11 fouls as a team 🤣
  22. I wonder if there are more than 5 people who aren't a fan of these two teams watching? This is rough.
  23. KenPom has Maryland by 9 and gives us a 23% chance to win.
  24. Can Benson get his old teammate Quinn some access at Purdue? Asking for a friend.
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