GaloisGroupe

This may speed some things up...

I think mentioning Brooks by name is more grey than off-white. Something generic like "Help me find some players..." should be sufficiently off-white

No - May completely transformed under Williams. He went from a really good player to a completely dominant player. If Davis was able to help players like that he would still be here.

Do you know the "order of offer"? I mean, is it we offer Turner & Fife and if one turns us down we move to Lewis or is it Lewis & Fife and turn to turner... we call simultaneously and the first 2 to accept...

X1000

I think this WAS this was the #1 or #2 choice. Given how complicated hiring both Matta AND Woodson and to keep it quiet and announce it simultaneously, this has been in the works for awhile... Personally, I find it really exciting - good coaches can coach. I don't care if he has not coached in college. Just imagine what he will do with TJD if he comes back one more year...

Someone nervous!?!

Because he knows how to coach. Recruiting stuff will come with winning.

I definitely had Woodson at the top my list - I really feel his coaching record was not remotely correctly interpreted...

caris levert is supposed to be back this weekend

No doubt, but if you have to play UI, or MSU, Wisc... heck even UMCP or RU the next game it is a tough turnaround... Look out our performance after "good wins" if we could follow those up with games against horrible teams (and not tough match-ups) we probably would have a very good record. We have plenty of quality wins... just a few too many mediocre losses following them.

Maybe, but maybe they also do not lose to MSU if they were playing for the regular season title. From a strategic point of view, that game was borderline meaningless with the rules as they had already clinched first place. There is not as much motivation to try and be the top #1 seed because all the games are played in Indiana anyway.

Illinois fans are assuming the we would have taken them down... If they were rescheduling "strategically", don't you think they would have found a way to reschedule the NW, IU, or PSU game instead of an MSU game?

he did do a pretty solid coaching job

looks like rutgers.. . ugh

Leary is hilarious - I can only assume he is joking about this. Given the video the he produced, I took the announcement timing in the opposite way. I mean the announcement is clearly buried then. I assume only diehard IU fans were paying attention.

Which means the rest of the team shot poorly!

Did you mean 18?

I understand what we are doing this year now... it is just not cool to be ranked.

I vaguely remember Greg hitting 20+ foul shots in a game one time.

I thought Gary Harris kind of wanted to come here, but something weird with recruiting in state at the time for IU. My knowledge is just from an earlier variant of this board... someone might be better to comment on the recruitment.

Texas is huge - they will have a lot people good at almost anything...

They have not beaten a team with a pulse yet...

This may be a win for Oladipo - lots of shots available in Houston now!

According to here: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30706097/sources-houston-rockets-trade-james-harden-brooklyn-nets These are the Rockets picks: Houston also receives Brooklyn's three unprotected first-round draft picks -- 2022, 2024 and 2026 -- in the deal, plus pick swaps in 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2027, according to sources. The Rockets also get Cleveland's 2022 first-round pick, via the Milwaukee Bucks. I don't think that Pacers got picks. So it is 4 picks and 4 swaps... not quite 8 picks!