ThatGuy

On 10/2/2021 at 3:37 PM, IU/Butler/Notre Dame said:

I wasn’t there certainly but they’ve always been forthcoming with me in the past and it was described to me as a combination of two issues :  1. He got down there and truly didn’t like being away from home 2. They did a media session with him and made a video and posted it and of course he had quite a bit of hype ( deserved or not ) coming in and the two kids who were returning having one freshman conference player of the year and the fifth year senior didn’t seem to be fans.  Nothing negative was said about those kids but the impression I took was he was definitely not made to feel welcome.   I think he felt like with those two things combined he had people that liked him at ball state and it was right in his back door and certainly wasn’t worse than a lateral move in competition.

 

there is a poster here who knows josh smith from Monrovia well he would have good input because I’m only getting one side of the story 

Completely caught the team and coaches off guard. That’s pretty much all I’ll say about it. He went out to eat with several players and all had a great time. The next morning the coach let them know he left the team. The team doesn’t have any hard feelings. 

On 4/2/2021 at 2:00 PM, ThatGuy said:

1) Furst

2) Kaufman 

3) Barnhizer

4) Brown

5) ?

It ended up being Furst, Kaufman, Brown, and Barnhizer. 

4 hours ago, IU/Butler/Notre Dame said:

Who you guys have top 5 for mr basketball ?

1) Furst

2) Kaufman 

3) Barnhizer

4) Brown

5) ?

4 minutes ago, tdhoosier said:

Exactly. Say all you want about the silence coming from Boston, but there is no way IU wouldn’t try to be shutting all these rumors down if there wasn’t any truth to them. It’d just be setting the fan base up for disappointment. 

IU wants all the publicity it can get while the tournament is going on and the program is not a part of it. This is the exact time you want rumors flying. Also, if it’s not announced today or tomorrow, I’d guess it’s very unlikely to happen. You want to take advantage of all these eyes on college basketball this weekend.