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10 hours ago, btownqb said:

Sure LSU has only won "one" title since whenever... but they did win one.

LSU won a title under both Les Miles & Ed Orgeron. Saban won the won before those two. 

The SEC is ridiculous. Just ridiculous. I was thinking about this the other day, just consider the coaches in the SEC West. 

Nick Saban - has won multiple national titles at two different programs
Jimbo Fisher - won a title at Florida St.
Ed Orgeron - won a title at LSU & remember he was a part of those USC championship teams
Mike Leach - considered one of the best football minds
Lane Kiffin - has coached USC, Tennessee & the Raiders before learning under Saban.
Bryan Harsin - new kid but did really well at Boise St.
Sam Pittman - building a lot of momentum down at Arkansas

and that's just the SEC West. 

7 minutes ago, dbmhoosier said:

Dolson just sucks.  My hunch about him was spot on.

We paid $10M and Utah and Marquette got better hires.  Tom Crean and Archie are laughing their a$$es off.

This x1000. If this turns out to be true the program is dead. Never would have guessed this in a million years. I guess wait and see, but this is simply jaw dropping. 

On 2/12/2021 at 8:16 AM, Billingsley99 said:

From what I see YES, he will either be a Hoosier or a Hoosier killer . 

Smith is special and that's an understatement. I think CAM makes a huge mistake if this guy isn't wearing candy stripes. I don't think CAM makes a huge mistake.

On 1/4/2021 at 5:32 PM, bluegrassIU said:

I love this picture of him. Looks like "whatever, I am not impressed".  😂

 

Hey guys! As I've said before I do a lot of sports psych and what makes a player a player more from a mental side of things. I can say from this picture Smith reminds me a lot of what I saw in Galloway in high school. I've seen Smith a few times his fresh/soph year up in Westfield and you can tell right away from a "look". Maybe even more so than Galloway in certain instances. I saw some of Smith as a freshman and his psychology jumps right out at you. The way he moves, facial expressions, team/coach interactions. 

It's hard to speculate what his complete upside is, but I'm confident (again, this is from an outside perspective as I haven't worked with Smith personally) that any issues Smith will have with basketball will not be mental. I'd be willing to bet quite a lot that his basketball IQ is off the charts and his mental toughness is even higher. I doubt there is a tougher kid in his class. That isn't to say there aren't kids as tough, but just that you wouldn't find any tougher.

I'm trying to think of a past player that has this look. Maybe Michael Lewis off the top of my head from a "toughness" perspective. Sorry I couldn't give any evidence of his height though