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  2. Iowa Post Game Thread

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    1. The fact that Fran was not t’d up for trying to fight our bench is an embarrassment.

    2. I think our defense officially is not very good.

    3. If Race is out for a significant amount of time, we need to adjust expectations. If we came into the year without X and Race, we would not have been big ten contenders.

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  10. High School Hoops

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    2 hours ago, kyhoosier29 said:

    Why not have an in-season class tournament that spans the regular season and then have the single class state tournament at the end? 

    Or you could just take the winners of each class tournament and have them play for an all-class championship. 4A champ vs 1A champ, 3A champ vs 2A champ, then winners of that play each other for overall champ. Won’t happen, but seems to be a decent middle ground.

  11. IUBB 22/‘23

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    9 minutes ago, go_iu_bb said:

    Assuming I'm understanding those stats correctly:

    Better: Off and Def eFG%, Off and Def Reb%, Def FTR.

    Worse: Off and Def TO%, Off FTR.

    Defensive TO% is almost the same but slightly lower in 2022. Offensive TO% is way up while Offensive FTR is way down. While they're doing lots of things better, they're turning the ball over a lot more while getting to the line a lot less. Not a good combination.

    The Def Reb % said in a better way is the opponents offensive rebound %, so that is actually worse. So we went from a net positive in turnover margin and rebound margin last year (though they were both relatively small positives) to negative in both. Again, just 6 games, and we’ve had a couple stinkers in there that skew the numbers a bit. But I still found it interesting.

  12. IUBB 22/‘23

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    Just now, btownqb said:

    I think you have incomplete information, for now. I don't think you can take all those games last season vs. the only 6 we've had this year and compare, yet. Certain games this year are skewing that too much, imo. 

    Right, not really saying you can make any conclusions yet when comparing to a full season. Was just messing around on bart torvik's site and those numbers stood out because of how different they were, despite our team being similar. Could definitely change quite a bit as we play the meat of our schedule.

    I'm just too impatient to wait this long between games haha.

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  14. IUBB 22/‘23

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    I was looking back at IU's 6 games against top 100 opponents thus far, and wanted to see how we compared statistically vs last year. Last year, it felt like a lot of games simply came down to IU's ability to make shots, where this year we have seemed to shoot the ball better, but have struggled in other areas. Looking at the 4 factors - Effective field goal %, Turnover %, rebounding %, and free throw rate, here's how we compare so far this year vs last against top 100 opponents:

    2021:

    Off EFG% vs Def EFG%: 47.8% | 49.7%

    Off TO% vs Def TO%: 16.2% | 17.2%

    Off Reb% vs Def Reb%: 26.4% | 26.1%

    Off FTR vs Def FTR: 32.1% | 34.4%

    2022:

    Off EFG% vs Def EFG%: 50.0% | 48.8%

    Off TO% vs Def TO%: 19.1% | 17.0%

    Off Reb% vs Def Reb%: 28.0% | 32.1%

    Off FTR vs Def FTR: 26.5% | 30.8%

    It's only 6 games, so don't want to draw any conclusions, but so far IU has improved on the weakness from last year (EFG%), but have regressed in the other areas. Also when you look at our three losses, we got dominated on the boards in two of them (Rutgers and Arizona) and dominated in the turnover battle in the other (Kansas). Will be interesting to see if this changes going forward.

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  15. NCAAF/National Scene

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    40 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said:

    But a majority of the bowl games this year have been gun slinging, must see, thrillers.   

    But i totally agree about sitting out, as does the famous Nick Saban lol.  I think these NIL payers need to put a no sit out clause.  

    I could be wrong, but I thought NIL deals could not have any sort of playing time or performance stipulations.

  19. Kansas Post Game

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    Just now, Danomatic said:

    I was fortunate enough to be coached by two HOF coaches in my high school playing days Indiana and one in Florida. 
     

    I’ll never forget what my baseball coach said, and it’s stuck with me over the years as a coach. “If you boys can show up every single day sporting the 3 E’s, you’ll never lose, in practice or on the ball field. ENERGY, EFFORT AND ENTHUSIASM.” 
     

    When I was young, I kind of blew it off. Once I became an adult, it hit me. It’s easy for the young fellas to get up for a big home game, but they have to harness that energy, bring the effort and be enthusiastic about it on the road as well. That’s what it takes, and that’s what we’ve been lacking for many years now. Hopefully Woody can bring this to fruition. 

    Definitely agree with this. But if we aren’t able to get up against top 10 teams and come out ready to play, we’ve got big problems. I can understand sluggish play against bad teams or after a big win - and it’s still not acceptable in those instances.

  20. Kansas Post Game

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    I’m officially worried about our defense, and the team as a whole. In our 4 big non-conference games, our defense has been either bad or very bad. The only game it looked good was against UNC, and they were in a tailspin. Without a good defense, this team doesn’t have an identity, which is a problem.

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  21. NIL, the AD, and where does the line get drawn (Hoosier Hysterics)

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    Just now, NotIThatLives said:

    We already discussed this.  Across the entire athletic department, if there are 300 fully scholly athletes, that's only 15 mil out of the at the very least 100 million that is coming in with a budget of only 55 mil dollars.  You want bureaucrats and academic elites to have the other 50 million?  I'm sure if you asked Trayce, would you pay your own in state tuition for your fair share of the revenue?  And the answer would be hell yes by about 5 million dollars.  

    The two articles below talking about revenue and profit clearly outline the issue to me. Green Bay makes roughly $580M in revenue and $80M in profit, or around a 10% profit margin. Ohio State makes around $132M in revenue and $75M in profit, or around a 55% profit margin. Vastly different revenues, but very similar profits.

    Article about Green Bay Packers financials: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-nfl-revenue-stat-shows-why-billionaires-buy-sports-teams-191055562.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB9St3y7KtO8yLEh4HYqSK3H3aSOgGiweu30ZUHo78W73-10cDyOUmQDvBNJlCyN3zkdg8IKVUXt4SBsi1r70KdVM_0twu-zpc0i15M_fpd_iVMaPiaIOfTyWrV9oTCZZkO5UDUx2PCnI4e69dLIvQUBX84ZGkI5CKF_iXJv7uA9

    Article about college football financials: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2019/09/12/college-football-most-valuable-clemson-texas-am/?sh=804a795a2e7e

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  22. NIL, the AD, and where does the line get drawn (Hoosier Hysterics)

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    4 minutes ago, btownqb said:

    20K is such a crazy low number. 

    But.. that's fine. Make them employees, give them health insurance... put them on a contract. Make it incentive based, hell idc.... but if they don't meet those expectations or they are arrested or whatever... they are told to take a hike. 

    Doesn't that already happen? Players get kicked off for legal issues all the time and back in the Tom Crean days, "Creaning" was a common phrase of players being over-recruited and pushed to transfer. Heck, even this last year we had more players committed for this year than we had scholarships available before several of IU's lower end players on the team transferred out.

  23. NIL, the AD, and where does the line get drawn (Hoosier Hysterics)

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    29 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

    The rest of that money is spent on the athletes too though.  It pays for the lovely practice facilities they use, the employees (tutors, food services, etc.) that dote over them.  The equipment they train on that must be regularly updated.  The buildings and fields they play on.  I think McRobbie used money to build one academic building but the majority of athletic money at every school goes right back to the athletes either directly or indirectly.

    Agreed, schools still indirectly spend a lot of money on athletes, but that's because it's still extremely profitable to do so and the existing rules prevent them from paying players directly, or they absolutely would pay them. There's a reason a lot of the top college football programs have nicer facilities than the NFL. It's because they make a ton of money and don't have to pay the players who are generating that revenue, so over the top facilities are how schools gain a competitive advantage vs other schools.

    I just can't see how this doesn't end up with schools directly paying players now that the TV deals alone are bringing in $100M per school per year.

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