IndyResident16

He's going to be great. He'll learn a lot playing behind Xavier this year. That wasn't a need for this years team however.

IU needed more than one piece in the portal dude. We had 5 open scholarships and 3, maybe 4 starting spots up for grabs. We landed a kid with high upside with motor issues to fill one spot. Where's the perimeter scoring? Perimeter defense? Athleticism? Shooting? Scoring? Where they at?

Kel'el Ware hasn't proved a damn thing at this level. Ton of upside but recruiting rankings mean jack at this stage of the game. There's a reason why he was in the portal in the first place. Staff didn't add a single incoming freshman who can be counted on to significantly contribute next year on the heels of losing 4 starters. It's not amusing by any means.

We've been stuck in the same gear for nearly 20 years.

Shouldn't have to do that. If you can't sell IU to basketball recruits you might need to find another job.

And that's why I'm being critical of the staff lol. It's the staff's job to make these relationships work. The staff missed on 4-5 guys last Fall/Winter on what should have been at minimum a 3 man class. The staff just turned over 61 ppg. We haven't landed a single perimeter/scoring threat in the portal after identifying several guys. You can blame the players all you want but at the end of the day it's the staffs job to land the players that they've identified as fits. I don't know any other way to put it.

I haven't said a word about Caleb Love or Jamison Battle or Dalton Knecht or Nick Timberlake or any of the other guys IU reached out too, because in reality I KNOW you aren't going to land every single recruit. But when you identify and make someone a priority like the IU staff had done with Ledlum, you need to land him. Period. If you want to keep shrugging off every single recruiting target that chooses elsewhere, more power to you, you do you, but don't act surprised when IU struggles next year because the players that the staff had identified and honed in on are playing elsewhere.

You replied directly to me. Recruiting wins are directly tied with successful seasons and recruiting misses can almost certainly be correlated with losing teams. If you're consistently identifying talent and not landing them, that's a problem.

Have you seen me turn on the coaching staff once in this thread? Fans start turning on the coaching staff when said coaching staff start to miss important recruits and their results start to suffer. You're terrible at this by the way. You haven't changed a lick from your old Rivals days.

Someone who gets it. The momentum within this program the last 12 months, especially in recruiting, has been very meh. Reneau was a nice pick up but IU whiffed on several high priority targets this last year. Two of them committed to Maryland and Coen Carr who the staff inexplicably stopped recruiting after seeming like a strong lean went to Michigan State so I don't want to hear any bull about the B10 being a barricade. Bottom line, the staff knew going into this last year it would be losing a ton of pieces. When all said and done, Indiana needs to replace 61 ppg from last year. They've added a backup piece in Sparks and a player in Ware with huge upside but one that isn't anywhere close to proven. Next years team needs proven commodities. It needed a Ledlum. It needed a Timberlake. It needed a whole bunch of juice. I have no doubt that IU will eventually fill the 3 remaining scholarships, but at what cost? Times running out to really bolster for next year and IU simply cannot afford another "rebuilding" year.

It's a message board dude.

Why do you always do this? It's the ONE recruit the staff put the most time, effort, and energy into recruiting.

I’m not acting like that at all but thanks for your input.

The NFL draft is irrelevant to Chris Ledlum. Going all-in on a player and not getting him is a miss anyway you want to slice it. Not landing Chris Ledlum hurts IU more than it helps. Not sure what’s so hard to understand about that?

IU should be looking to upgrade both wing positions. I love Galloway as a player but he is extremely limited offensively.

If you’re fine shrugging off an obvious swing and miss by the staff, then more power to you. But don’t tell me how to act. This was clearly a player that the staff wanted and one that could significantly help next years team.

Ledlum’s OV was announced two weeks in advance..

I’m straight asking, who is currently schedule to take a visit? Was it a secret when Sparks, Ware, and Ledlum showed up over night?

He’s a bully ball wing. Think Dylan Harper. His success off the bounce is attributed to his size and strength.

Who in the portal has IU targeted or made head way with in the way the staff had with Ledlum? For a program that supposedly is a big player in the NIL market and has a staff with a ton of NBA connections, kids aren’t lining up to play for IU like you think they would.

We need to get past the idea of position labels. Ledlum has the versatility to play inside out. Ledlum is more proven than any single player on IU’s roster next year, hell he just committed to a team with a better roster than IU. He’s not afraid of competition, clearly.

Who in the portal is scheduled to visit? We’re supposedly recruiting Cormac Ryan. Guess what, he’s in Chapel Hill today. Dalton Knecht? Just announced he’s stopping his recruitment. Think he commits without a visit?

He’s a tweener that would have played a ton of minutes. I have serious reservations about both Reneau and Ware playing 30 mpg next year, let alone on the court together. Would have been long stretches with Ledlum paired with Reneau/Ware.

IU doesn’t have a single player who averaged double figures last year returning. He absolutely fills a position of need; scoring. Our off-guard/wings for next year are Galloway, Gunn, Banks, and Newton who was hurt most of his senior year. We have 3 open scholarships. You could have recruited Ledlum and still taken 2 sharpshooters from the portal. IU needs bucket getters in the worst way possible.

That’s not at all what he was implying. But he was in Knoxville just last weekend and the entire UT staff was in his living room a few days later.