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On 3/15/2023 at 6:45 PM, IU Scott said:

He should make his commitment on April 1st and announce it, then a few minutes later say April Fools

Similar to Cliff Alexander picking up the Illinois hat first 😀

Hard to gauge because we will never know.  I’d argue that if we had X and Race all year (we did when the goals were set) that we would have achieved them.  X would have alleviated a lot of the perimeter D issues we have seen and would have offered another ball handler, 3 pt shooter and all around scorer.  That being said the tournament is all about matchups and I still think given the right draw we can go Sweet 16 or Elite 8

2 minutes ago, BobSaccamanno said:

The refs made up their mind that they aren’t going to call anything further on Dickinson. They don’t want him coming out 

Galloway fouls out on what should have been Dickenson’s fourth. Dickinson then proceeds to foul on the following 4 possessions.  Sheesh

4 hours ago, IowaHoosierFan said:

Almost Guaranteed we will be a first or second round Kentucky matchup.  The NCAA cannot help themselves.  Either we will take in the teeth or Kentucky will get bumped up but we will be in the same bracket

Hope they use that same logic and Houston is the 1 seed in our region. They don’t scare me at all and I’d love to punk Sampson in the tournament 

Looks like Sio is moving on from IU as a grad transfer

21 minutes ago, KoB2011 said:

Third penalty on a kick return for us, haven't seen a replay on any but Colts are normally pretty clean in that area....

Would have been cool if the ref that keeps seeing those saw the very clear blow to Ryan's head...

And that blatant false start on the guard 

43 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

Question 

If somehow UM lost is Purdue go to the Rose Bowl automatically or can the Big ten find away for UM or OSU to go

As we saw in 2020 they will just change the rule so OSU can go.

21 minutes ago, DC2345 said:

Tom Allen should probably start looking around if he hasn’t already. If he could get another job that would probably be the best for both parties but unfortunately that’s probably not going to happen.

Are you thinking IU might actually move on or just that Allen can’t fix this in the upcoming seasons?

10 minutes ago, DC2345 said:

This program isn’t worth paying attention to right now. The only momentum the program has is headed in a downward spiral and it’s going to likely get much worse. The transfer portal is likely to get very interesting and not in a positive way for the program. 

 Is it the assumption that players transferring would all be due to NIL (aside from the obvious deal with McCullough and his dad)?

4 minutes ago, D-BONE said:

Yep. One narrative will be if only Williams hadn't gone down. While tragic, it doesn't change how underwhelming the last 2 seasons have been.

That narrative should be thrown out the window because they didn’t see fit to play him most of the year

3 hours ago, IU Scott said:

Fir people in the know about parking in Bloomington. My son just bought tickets for tomorrow's game but we can't find parking passes. So is there places within a descent walking distance we can park and not pay an arm and a leg

Earlier in the season we parked south of the stadium by the tennis center for free.  I’d imagine that playing Michigan might make this a little more complicated but if you are going early it could be an option

28 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

I go back and forth on the parent blame game. Head Coach at IU calls your to be senior in high school son and says I want you to enroll early....they are probably mind blown as well. I get your point but people are people. To get access to that stage that early....most would do the same.

Wouldn’t be so bad if he could have redshirted his freshman season so he could observe from the older guys and ease in the transition

I’d say the closest to the group of death is the Mexico, Argentina group but nothing like we have seen (or been in) before.  Overall I like our odds to beat Iran, and draw with either England or the other three countries. 4 points if we have a decent goal differential will get us through 

5 hours ago, DC2345 said:

Kentucky just offered 

How much?

It’s especially bad when Bardo is not towing the company line

7 minutes ago, Boiler Sam said:

I mean, you guys get the favorable whistle in Bloomington… you have to admit that. 

Used to. Hasn’t been happening lately.

27 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

For 30 years all the games there big ten teams probably complained how much favor we got from the refs. When I have watched these old games and was watching them with an unbias eye I realized how many calls we got especially in AH.

That very well could be but my guess would be it hasn’t been that way since the Knight years. Would that be a fair assumption?  Hasn’t been that way for at least the last 20 years

I’d take it to the absurd level that we need to email the IU administration to consider leaving the B1G.  For whatever reason there are schools that are favored in Football and basketball and get a little extra “help”. We will be very hard pressed to ever recruit enough talent to overcome that. We need a spot where officials aren’t known personalities.  It was obvious before the game when Big Time Bo was announced as calling our game we were screwed

Looks like the conference schedule next season is about to be changed.  We should have details today.  

But Deebo is hurt.  Not watching just able to follow so I have no idea the extent

Not so fast……

1 hour ago, DC2345 said:

Visits will be taking place the first week in January 

Any word yet on who will be visiting?

2 hours ago, IUJoe said:

The playoff should be expanded to include every conference champion.  Then Ball State would definitely have something to play for.

They do that in the lower divisions and it works really well.  It won’t happen in the near future but would be ironic if it went that route with Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC.  Seeing Texas Tech or Oklahoma St make the playoff while getting beat up by Alabama every year would be killer for their fans.

5 hours ago, btownqb said:

The thing about this whole discussion... when it's said "no one cares about these games" ... its an inaccurate statement. Sometimes by a lot. 

ESPN puts these games on their "marquee" channel, it's not like they're always on the deuce or whatever. 

The games yesterday, there was NOTHING on TV that compared to the viewership those two games garnered. 

Hell-- football is so popular they put the FCS playoffs on ESPN lol 

It is really nice to have games on during the day.  It’s also fun to have a chance to see teams play that usually don’t get a spotlight. Being a featured game on ESPN is a highlight for the players at small schools that the bowl games provide.  At the end of the day can there really be too much football?

Doesn’t move the needle for me.  I’ll still watch but if we are going away from our region I would rather play a game in a good recruiting area