Schmedly_Whiplash said:

Their other 7'er (Aldama) has a really nice stroke as well. It's crazy.

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purduedavie said:

They got a Final 4 out of it, I don’t think players can do mid year transfers and play the next semester can they? Wonder if he could transfer and finish up playing second semester next season?

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qazplm said:

Heck he was fine with it when he left George Mason for a better deal and location.

Either move on and get with the new paradigm or leave but don't whine about it because kids get to do what you've gotten to do.

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ChoiceBeef said:

He was fine with NIL when it helped him but now that his team sucks this year and sucked last year, it is a problem. He sounded like an out of touch baby during his press conference.

Glad to see him gone, same with Coach K….

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pboiler18 said:

Coach K, Laranaga, Jay Wright. Tony Bennett. Some big names pushed out by the NIL shenanigans. Better step in fast before all the good ones take off and you’re left with snake oil salesmen only.

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KentuckyBoiler said:

They jumped too far from going from 4 teams, which was too small, to 12 teams, which is showing to be too much. They should have moved from 4 to 8 teams and seen the results.

Unlike basketball, where you can have a 2 to 3 make a big difference, the big bloods in football have a full team of difference makers. There is a Grand Canyon of talent difference between the top 5 to 6 teams and everyone else in football. Indiana could play Notre Dame another 9 times this year and still not win a single game, if they won then it would be an upset. When it came down to talent this year, it was men against boys out there in the Indiana/ND game.

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Riveting said:

So you will be happy with 3 wins after the usual 3 pre-btn cupcakes?

I doubt that, katjm23.

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Riveting said:

So you will be happy with 3 wins after the usual 3 pre-btn cupcakes?

I doubt that, katjm23.

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Katscratch said:

Contrary to what some at IU have recently stated, Indiana is not a prime state for high school football. And with ND, UM, and Ohio State on the doorstep, it is that much harder to keep the top local kids at either Purdue or IU.

So it's gonna be really difficult to sustain.

The "proven-successful portal gets from smaller schools" strategy may be the best path to fairly consistent respectability. A consistent top 25 program? That's a tall order without talented high school kids, and that level of high school recruiting has not happened yet; may not ever happen. If it did that would be really impressive, but any IU (or Purdue) football fan that wouldn't be damn happy with 6 to 9 wins per year, from any method is fooling themselves.

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