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37 minutes ago, Stlboiler23 said:

I could see Lucas at UL with their NIL warchest lol. 

I think he’s a lot like Rondale Moore. 
 

We really underutilized him imo. There were a lot more ways we could have used him on offense.

I’d love for him to come back, but his timing on entering the portal suggests he won’t.

9 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

I looked at Indiana State's resume and this is what I saw.

KenPom strength of schedule - 204 (IU is 76).  

Lost by 22 to Alabama (similar to IU's defeats against UConn and Auburn).

They do have some 30-40 point blowouts.  (IU doesn't).

I'm not saying their resume isnt strong.  Even KenPom has them 20 or so spots ahead of IU.

But, over 100 spots? The NET is seriously flawed.  

 

For whatever reason, it seems to be worse this year than last when it comes to illogical rankings. Honestly, it’s borderline unusable.
 

Whatever change they made by taking scoring margin out in fact made scoring margin much, much more important than seemingly anything else.

2 hours ago, bluegrassIU said:

My biggest concern is that they are very good and we are not.

This is the kind of in-depth, hard-hitting analysis that I come here for.

18 minutes ago, Muddy River said:

Highlights look good.  Is this enough to bring McCulley back?  I sure hope so.

From other threads, it sounds like he’s coming back; just waiting for it to be official.

Honestly, do you think it will be that bad all year? I don’t.

Again, which is why I’m not concerned about the metrics yet. Let’s get at least halfway through our conference schedule before we deem it a problem.

For everyone freaked out about our "metrics," this is an actual catastrophe for Northwestern.

At the end of the day, wins and losses are far more important.

It's really as simple as the following:

No more than 2 subs at once. 

Preferably 3 starters in at all times, but never fewer than 1 starting guard and 1 starting forward.

Unless in foul trouble, Ware only sits at the dead ball before the under 8 timeout in both halves, coming in on the next dead ball after the timeout.

I hate this idea of "load management."  It makes sense in non-competitive games, but these are 20 year-olds.  They can play a 30 game season without issue.  It's not the 82 game NBA season.

2 hours ago, Artesian_86 said:

Oh well….Stuff like this doesn’t move the needle one bit. When Coach Cignetti gets this thing turned around and hopefully get to a bowl next year, that sort of stuff will definitely trending up.

A bowl next year would be great, but let’s give CCC a few seasons to turn the ship around; it could get worse before it gets better.

54 minutes ago, Stlboiler23 said:

Tell me you don’t watch games without telling me you don’t watch games lol

 

So now you’re upset that people from other conferences notice this, too?

I still don't understand how Howard kept his job after hitting Gard, which was already his second offense after going after Turgeon.

1 minute ago, BGleas said:

Not sure if all of this is true. 

 

 

I’m SHOCKED that Howard would hit another coach!

The question is who else comes with? I would assume they need to keep it at an even number

I’ll say it again; we aren’t playing well, but if the officiating doesn’t change, there’s just no hope

How many games do we have on espn? This broadcast is hot garbage; announcers are just terrible.

Just now, NCHoosier32 said:

i don't blame this on the officials.  i blame it on the subbing and us falling apart.  also our lack of mental and physical toughness.  

I mean, it’s honestly both

Just now, IUFLA said:

We're just not matching their toughness...

If we don't start, it'll be a long afternoon 

I’d agree with you, but right now we’re not allowed to be tough

If the refs keep calling it this way, we cannot win

1 minute ago, BGleas said:

Refs have really inserted themselves the last 5+ minutes. 

What a surprise it’s when auburn started their run

This is getting tiring. They’re manhandling us and we can’t breathe on them

I think the announcers think they’re on a football field. 
 

special teams play, yards after contact?

What just happened?

Okay I get it, there’s going to be a big sec bias from the announcers in this one…

No announcers, it’s not the right call

Are the announcers blind? He wasn’t in the cylinder. Auburn player stepped into him

12 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

I read they moved it up to the 14th.

And they have already started filming Reacher part 3!

It’s going to be weekly though; the final episode won’t come out until Jan 19th apparently. I’m probably going to wait until then - I hate waiting a week and semi-forgetting smaller details of what previously happened