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40 minutes ago, FKIM01 said:

We'll see, muchacho.

Ha, I'm going to start using the word "muchacho" more often.  I haven't heard it in years.

41 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

Only the big boys are going to survive with the NIL. We probably won’t be able to keep up with a Kentucky, Duke, or maybe even Kansas, but parity in College basketball will be gone.

It won't be just money.  A school that offers money, fame and a hot lifestyle will have huge advantages.

Miami and UCLA come to mind.   

What's to stop a school from having the top 5 recruits on campus at the same time and offering them $1 million each to be the next famous Fab Five?  Or $2 million each?  Surrounded by sun, girls, and movie stars.  I'm amazed this hasn't been done already.

I predict it will.

Schools like Minnesota may as well shut down their programs.  It snows 14 months a year up there.

12 minutes ago, ledies22 said:

i believe it was roughly 35 minutes after entering the portal he was a Purdue lock, no? 😂

"Lock of the Week."  When Homer Simpson bet on football.

I'm shamelessly bumping my own thread in response to some rumors about Nijel Pack being offered $250,000 to $500,000 NIL money.  That's a LOT.

If this is only half true, staying in college with NIL is a smart choice for many players, vs overseas or the G-league.

4 hours ago, IUFLA said:

House rules were 11 PM curfew. It's 11:05 and her date is speeding to get her home. She told him, "don't be stupid and get a speeding ticket on top of it. We were sunk at 11:01.”

I dated a girl with the same time curfew.  I got her home by 10:40.  Not even a close call.  We, uh, talked for a while, and she went in at 11:05.  Got grounded.

Her to dad:  But I was home!

Dad:  No, you were in the driveway.  Home is when you come through the door.

1 minute ago, GaloisGroupe said:

Are you saying that the Pully-Lausanne and Geneva players make $300 per month OR that players based in Iceland make $300 per month. 

$300 is basically one meal for 4 in a decent restaurant in Switzerland. 

Good catch!  I goofed up the logos.  Iceland players average $300 per month.

The logos are Swiss. 

One interview says "Swedish league salaries will range anywhere from $500 a month (“For a guy who wants to prove he can play, most times while coming back from an injury,”), to a high of about $200,000 for a premier player.

While doing the first post, I found a lot of conflicting information in multiple links.  I tried to keep it short.

Hope this isn't too political.

19 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

Some dude from Fordham

I'd love it if, in his first press conference, he had "some dude from Fordham" in front of him instead of his name.

Players in Iceland average $300 per month salary.

These games sound fun.  The Foxes guard shot 43% from three for the season.

21 minutes ago, Stlboiler23 said:

If he played on a Purdue team like Carsen did, he easily averages 20+. Just had a lot of mouths to feed this year.

Ivey is going to be drafted high because of his potential especially with his elite athleticism. He improved his shooting a good amount from last year which moved him up the draft boards even further.

Good points.  I don't see 17 points a game as elite.  But most draft experts agree with you, not me. 

Ty Ty Washington Jr is at #6 in the lottery.  He averaged 12 points and shot 35% from three.

I do see some articles saying this is a weak draft, but only time will tell.  

It's all above my pay grade.  I'm just trying to add to the discussion.  We'll know more in three years.  

CBS mock draft two days ago.  There are other mocks with different predictions.

This one has Ivey at #4 with these tepid numbers: 17 ppg, 36% 3-point shooting.  So-so for college, but for a #4 draft pick?

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2022-nba-mock-draft-dukes-paolo-banchero-moves-up-and-iowas-keegan-murray-jumps-into-top-five/

Eventually, this will all be a simple salary negotiation between lawyers.

5 hours ago, dwtaylor1055 said:

McNeil from WV visiting this weekend according to Jon Rothstein.

The Daily Hoosier said he's visiting, too.  Interesting.  Anyone have info on how we got a visit, when just a few days ago we supposedly weren't in his final six?

From April 11:

A update on this page from our hard-working member @The Daily Hoosier

Scroll down the page to "IU AND BIG TEN RECRUITING NEWS" and you'll see Booker's name for an article link. 

I could have posted the final link directly, but I found it only because of The Daily Hoosier, so I wanted to give him the credit (and the clicks, since advertising views help him).

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/the-daily-hoosier-report-the-latest-in-iu-news-and-recruiting-notes-4-18/

2 hours ago, IUFLA said:

Former #1 rated recruit Emoni Bates in the portal...

I didn't know he's so young, still only 18 years old.  Sounds like handlers have been whispering "NBA" to him, saying college was a rest stop on the way to riches.

From Yahoo Sports:

"Bates was long considered to be one of the best NBA prospects in recent history, but after a disappointing season with Memphis, that has been in doubt, with some draft experts unsure if he’d even be a first round pick after questions have arisen around his athleticism and decision-making ability."

Not joking, if you Google image search "2023 Bradley Dunlap" one of the top results is this:

I gotta say, the guy looks a little rough.  But maybe that's what IU needs.  A shooter who will walk on to the court with a black eye and a cig hanging from his mouth.

24 minutes ago, rico said:

Can't read the article?

Here's the full article, from a British war historian:

Sometimes history is closer than it seems. Russian soldiers who have been wounded, captured or lost friends and colleagues in Ukraine have learned that very painful lesson over the last six weeks.

The losses that the Russian Army has suffered have been extreme, not just by the standards of post-Cold War warfare, but by all 19th and 20th century standards. Indeed the Russian war experience so far is perhaps more reminiscent of the mud and gore of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 than any subsequent military engagement.

By my calculation, based on a variety of public information, the Russians have lost approximately 30% of the forces that they have sent into Ukraine. This is a truly colossal figure, higher, in fact, than almost any engagement in modern military history from the US Civil War through to the two world wars.

The US Civil War, often seen as the first war of the industrial era, witnessed massive attritional and battle losses on all sides. But even Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who suffered the most casualties, lost closer to 20% of his army than 30%.

Jumping to the Second World War, Russian losses are already outpacing German losses at the famously bloody Battle of Kursk. This series of battles, perhaps the greatest armour engagements in human history, saw the Germans suffer major losses in their war against Stalin’s Soviet Union. Indeed, after Kursk, the Germans never went on a major offensive again on the Eastern Front. In the six weeks of the campaign, which took in the opening offensive of the Germans (known as Operation Citadel), and stretched through Soviet counterattacks after Citadel’s failure, the Germans lost somewhere between 160,000 and 200,000 of the more than 900,000 soldiers they committed. This loss rate (between 17-22%) was almost unprecedented at the time, but again, it pales in comparison to estimated Russian losses today.

Now let’s look at the Battle of the Somme. The engagement is usually talked about mostly in terms of its exceedingly bloody first day, on which almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed. After this, though British losses were considerable, they slowed down significantly as the British army learned and adjusted.

Knowing exact casualties across the entire battle is not easy, and can spark passionate debates today. However, based on the figures we have, we can roughly estimate that around 1.05 million troops were killed from all sides out of around 3.5 million committed to the area between late June and late September, approximately 30%.

Crucially, however, these losses took place over 12 weeks, and the conflict in Russia began just seven weeks ago.

What does this huge Russian loss rate mean for the next stage of the war? First Russian forces across the board are suffering. The Russian Air Force still can’t gain air supremacy over the areas of battle, and the Russian Navy, which this week lost its flagship cruiser Moskva, has shown itself wanting. There are signs that morale is low: among the units pulled back from Kyiv there are stories of soldiers refusing to return to combat. Meanwhile, back in Russia, major steps are being taken to drum up new soldiers to fill the ranks.

In military terms, the Russian Army that invaded Ukraine six weeks ago might have one more big effort in it — but based on historical evidence, it seems likely that that would be it. In other words, the Battle of the Donbas, if that is what we are to witness, may be Russia’s last throw of the dice with this army.

After that, Putin will need an entirely new army if he is going to continue this war.

6 hours ago, btownqb said:

I can tell you right now, schools have no interest in teaching any of this. Competition is not seen as a "good" thing

This used to be required reading.  A simple story about the value of work.  How an individual's choices make a difference in what a person gets out of life.  We read it aloud in class, as well as at home.

Is this even allowed in schools now?  I'm sure it offends someone.

28 minutes ago, FKIM01 said:

Why on earth would you make the assumption that a team will be no better by bringing back the same players with another year of development/experience?

My guess is some people are skeptical of assumed improvement because the graphic below shows Coach Archie Miller's record after 4 years of development/experience (compared to Woodson's one year). 

We've been through this before.  "Coach Knight knows what he's doing" (he admits he slacked off in the final years and went fishing.)  Then "Help is on the Way" from Mike Davis.  Then "Trust Coach Crean."  Then "Trust Coach Miller."  All promises about the future that never happened. 

I hope we're better next year.  Maybe we'll be a LOT better.  But I'll believe it when I see it on the floor, and that doesn't include padding a schedule with easy wins just to tilt the record.  I want a good nationally ranked team again that is relevant at the end of the year.

Edit:  Coach Woodson did indeed improve upon this graphic this past season. 

43 minutes ago, HoosierFaithful said:

I am always a fan of the 10,000 foot/500 year horizon view.

I hope IU has a good basketball team within the next 500 years.  People keep saying we need to be patient.