HoosierDom

I can't say I know the ins and outs of how an AD budget is organized, but I do know every time there is a buy-out or a huge contract offered to get a new guy, there are countless articles about booster money. I don't have the time to Google for a source, but they're not hard to find. I would assume that there is a more or less set budget that ADs can't deviate from easily, so if they need money to make a change (as they often do), they need to get it from boosters. The first result I found show that in 2017, before NIL, the average BIG school had over 25 million in athletic department donations. That, presumably, isn't even including special fundraising to move to a new big name guy. https://dbknews.com/2018/07/07/maryland-athletic-department-revenue-big-ten-tv-contract-payout-ticket-sales-donations/ That's the money that will go to kids. Individual schools need obviously have to figure out how that get's divided up between the school and the kids, but I would guess a school that wants to be successful would send as much as possible to the players. That money has been there for years and I can't imagine it drying up. I would guess it will grow now that there is a more direct result on the court (ie. a player comes rather than merely a coach who often doesn't get the job done). If you don't think a school can direct donors to give that money to some collective rather than the athletic department itself, I don't know what to tell you.

Why do people always question the sustainability of NIL, but not coach salaries? If I recall, we had something like 70 million lined up for Stevens to be our coach. Why would the people who were going to provide those funds not cough up money for players? Even if NIL doesn't grow the pool of money (I think it probably does grow it, but that's just a guess), there will still be enough to pay a kid 2 million a year.

Man, that really seems like the perfect definition of a glorified pep rally. Do you honestly think it's a big day for Woody? He's excited for the half-assed scrimmage? The 10,000th dunk contest he's seen? The Gucci Mane concert? Even if he's a fan, a grown man is excited for a 10 minute show? The players are probably excited, they're still new to hype like that, but I promise you it's not a big day for Woody. Maybe Boogie is a fan, maybe Boogie is excited for a glorified pep rally - he's probably never been to one before - so maybe he wants to commit and go. I definitely think that could be the case. But, if Boogie decided on Kentucky last week, he never once tried to time his announcement around our pep rally. It he didn't pick us, our event is no where on his radar. I'm sure Kentucky has a similar event, and Alabama, too, does he have to time his announcement so as not to interfere with those?

I'm not buying that logic. It's a glorified pep-rally, it's not some IU holy day. If he's picking Kentucky, he probably forgot it's even happening.

Help me understand what this guy does. He makes fancy graphics when a guy commits? Does someone pay him for that? Do the players pay for those? If I'm Boogie, assuming I don't want to pay him, why would I tell him in advance where I'm going?

He got beat, though. If he didn't grab him, that's a sack.

Really looked like both receivers were open, so he tried to throw it in the middle.

Why are these deserving of their own thread? Seems better suited to a post in the NIL thread - one that will go largely ignored, I might add. The one time I listened to his show, I gave him 10 minutes and he had less actual basketball content than most one paragraph posts on here.

Trey and X have shown they can hit open shots when TJD creates those shots. That's a very valuable skill, but it is not the same skill that a guy like Love (not saying we should get him) has, where he gets his own shot. You can't just scale that up and have Trey and X jack 150+ 3's a year and expect the percentages to stay the same. Maybe they improve this off-season and get there, but thus far, they have not shown the ability to get themselves that many looks. Hopefully, with MM and our front court, they won't have to.

Painter has earned the benefit of the doubt, but I have a hard time seeing how that team even makes it to the 7-8 range without Edey. He covers for so many of their faults all over the floor. Without him, I think a lot of warts are going to show through. edit: I see now that you are saying in conference. I guess that's similar, but with a down year in the conference, that seems reasonable. I thought you were pegging them as a 7-8 seed, which I think is optimistic without Edey.

Sure looked like an offensive foul on that first replay of a turnover and run-out they just showed. Miami only has 8 free throws. One of those is from a T and the C's are lucky they don't have more of those.

I missed the first 6-7 minutes of the game, but in what I have seen, I don't think it has been unfair.

Did I miss something? That was the most blatant lane violation I have ever seen that wasn't called.

Would we be getting freshman year Love or senior year Love? I get why the NBA wants JHS and not Love, and this points, at least somewhat, to that, but I don't think this tells the story of what we would get next year.

Compare Love's numbers, particularly his percentages and number of shots taken, to JHS. There are a lot of similarities. JHS shot more 2's and hit them at a lower clip. The only glaring difference is that Love shot roughly 4 more 3's per game and hit them at a slightly lower rate. There true shooting percentages (accounts for the fact that 3's are worth more) are almost identical. Just looking at the numbers, it seems like Love should shoot fewer 3's, but his numbers aren't those of some crazy out of control shooter. He's basically JHS who takes 2 steps back instead of shooting so many mid-ranged shots.

I read that more as he doesn't want to go back, not that he wouldn't be welcome. Adding him seems to raise our ceiling, but maybe also lowers our floor.

I was incredibly impressed by his tape. I hope we're going after him.

I would have thought a pg equivalent of Walker would have been a top priority, but, as far as I can tell, we have reached out to no pgs. I have to assume that means coach trusts Cupps to be able to contribute from day one.

Didn't Kansas make a late push on Galloway?

I'm not disputing that. What I'm saying is that any kid ranked that highly, even the one that comes to mind as an epic bust, is going to be our starting 3 next year.

Bates, despite injuries, averaged 10 ppg as a freshman. If we could get a time machine to bring us freshman year Emoni Bates, he would be the starting 3 on this roster.

Seems a lot like McNeeley, who has always struck me as playing a lot like Carmelo. Hope coach sells them both by showing all the things he did for Carmelo and who better do develop Carmelo Jr.?

12% from deep gets you labeled a stretch big?

I've never heard of this one, but those look like the highlights of a guy who scores 20 a game. Looks like he pretty much did the second half of the season.

Sure, if he had his best game every single night, that's hard to pass up. But, looking at X's games vs Xavier and UNC - I might still take that X over JHS. Those were some efficient games. With very good D.