Turns out Caitlin Clark and former Hawkeye Connor McCaffrey are dating. Ok, makes decent sense I suppose.

But then...anyone know what McCaffrey is doing for a living now?

Well he's on the coaching staff of...wait for it...the Indiana Pacers.

Adding to that...his brother Patrick transferred. Strange off the bat that he would leave a team his father coaches. But where did he transfer to? Wait for it...Yeah...Butler.

Purdue head coach Ryan Walters reveals the Boilermakers’ Spring Game format, which includes health being of the “utmost importance”

It is a busy weekend with home softball, baseball, and the Grand Prix this weekend:

"Biggest Transfer Need for College Basketball’s Top 10 Programs"​

He only has 1 Big Ten team, listed as a "Top 10" program. And no, its not MSU and all the work Izzo has done over the years and multiple FF's.🤔

Why doesn't this article mention Will Berg and his potential?

The Media Research Center has found evidence that Google has used its algorithm 41 times since 2008 to manipulate web search results favoring it's favorite Left leaning candidates.

I don't think this is new info to the informed. But it's research study that shows the truth. Not sure why anyone would be ok as targets of manipulation.....but I don't see the younger users protesting about it or going to other web browser products in droves. They seem to be happy manipulated sheep.


For those that prefer NO election interference, like many claim here, perhaps other search engines like Duck, Duck Go should be looked into??

NT

Probably the most bizarre of his numerous fabrications and delusions as he continues his mental decline.

Team down south #8, probably rise a bit with Ballo

Only 60% of American households pay federal income tax. If you're included, I salute you!

What's sad is that a lot people get excited about getting a HUGE refund, fully oblivious to the fact that they loaned the federal government a big chunk of money, for free.

What?

waiting for a liberal to explain that.

Berg
TKR
Catchings
Heide or Colvin
Smith

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...-mike-woodson-return-indiana-basketball-coach

Rejoice in the return of Sir NapsALot

Good illustration of our scholly situation. We need either someone to transfer or one of the incoming recruits to go prep school. The challenge if it's the latter is it fills us for 2025-26 as well unless there are subsequent transfers. That's not ideal as we are in on some good recruiting targets in that class as well.

Purdue has its first portal departure of the spring with Christian Womack.

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Starting a thread for all the happenings during the spring transfer portal window, which opened today.

FROM BOILER UPLOAD:
Doug Lee was at Purdue just two seasons, but he made a big impact.
The Washington, Ill., native began his career at Texas A&M, where he played his first two seasons before transferring to Purdue. He sat out the 1984-85 season and played the next two. Lee averaged 9.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists for the Boilermakers.
As a senior, the 6-5, 225-pound guard helped the Boilermakers win the Big Ten title and advance to the NCAA tourney for a second time with Lee on the roster.
Lee was the first pick of the Houston Rockets (35th overall) in the 1987 NBA draft. He played three seasons in the NBA, spending two seasons with the Nets and a season with Kings. Lee also played many seasons overseas and in the CBA.
Lee has been a successful businessman running a public company and with his wife for years in Las Vegas. They operate ProSource, a marketing and advertising company that supplies, distributes and manufactures logoed products, as well as owning Ashley Furniture distributorship in several states.
GoldandBlack.com caught up with the 55-year-old Lee.
GoldandBlack.com: How did you end up at Texas A&M coming out of high school?
Lee: They started recruiting me after my freshman year. Back in those days, that was kind of unheard of. So, they actually saw me play a game in the summer. I was from a small town, and I just really kind of got taken in by that. You’re young and you think it’s really cool, so I went there because of the early recruiting and it is a beautiful campus. I committed to them early. I had a good senior year and was MVP of the Illinois All-Star game, so everyone came after me at that point, but I stayed committed to Texas A&M.
GoldandBlack.com: How did you matriculate to Purdue?
Lee: I had a great experience at A&M in many ways. I was playing a lot at point guard as a freshman. I got hurt my sophomore year and they would not let me redshirt, as they wanted me back for the end of the season and it was not what was best for me, as I knew I needed at least a year of rehab to fully be back to 100 percent. That was a point of division for me, as I knew the staff was under a lot of pressure to win and it was actually one of my first lessons in how this was in some ways like business. At one point, I believe coach Keady spoke to Eddie Sutton at Arkansas, as they were friends. I also received a signed letter by Larry Bird, as Indiana State was interested, which I was very impressed by. I knew that I could be a huge scorer at a school like Indiana State or in the MVC like I was in high school, but my oldest brother Benjie--who lived in Lafayette at the time--challenged me to go meet with Coach Keady. I had a lot of schools courting me. but Coach Keady said I wouldn’t play 1 or 2 guard, as he had just recruited Troy Lewis and Everette Stephens as guards. So, I would have to play a swing guard/small forward position. I was like: ‘Really?’ But Coach laid it all out for me. He told me the things I needed to hear in my life. Coach Keady made no promises at a time that a lot of schools were. Coach Keady said to me: 'Look, I make no promises. We run a clean program, you have to earn what you get.' I felt like: Who is he to say this when others were all over me? But in a way, it attracted more the challenge. Maybe he planned that.
GoldandBlack.com: What did Coach Keady mean to you?
Lee: At one point early in my time at Purdue, I overheard Coach Keady say 'Lee is one of the toughest kids I have coached.' He would have never said it to a player, but it meant the world to me. It validated that all of the hard work had paid off. Coach did everything the right way, and you want to be a part of the program. I think we can win a championship together. That just captured me. Learning how to be part of a team was maybe the biggest thing I learned at Purdue. Accepting a role. And excelling in it. Bruce Weber and Kevin Stallings were also great to learn from during the transfer year that I had to sit out. Thankful for those guys.
GoldandBlack.com: What was the highlight of your time at Purdue?
Lee: I think the highlight for me was becoming a non-scorer, because that was what I had done all my life up to that point. I scored everywhere I was at before Purdue/ After Purdue, I went overseas and was counted on to score 25-30 every night. I remember having games of 40-plus points regularly and having learned an overall game, it help me longevity-wise to be a well-balanced player. I set three-point records overseas and in the CBA. At Purdue, it was just a time for me where I had to learn to build unity as a leader and not focus on just scoring. At times, Coach Keady would look at me and I could tell that he needed me to step it up offensively. But believe me, we had no shortage of scorers with Troy Lewis, Todd Mitchell and Everette Stephens. I took pride in scoring when needed and becoming an all-around player. When the game was on the line, I always wanted the ball and my teammates, as well as coaching staff, always supported me.
So, the overall highlight for me is kind of different probably than what people think. It was the life lesson I learned of sacrificing a part of my game that came naturally, in order to be better overall for the team and everyone. I really embraced that role and something that to this day has helped me be a better leader and team member. My teammates and coaches overall were awesome and I love keeping in touch with many of them still today. Bruce and Megan Weber are very special to Becky and I, as we stay in close contact. I actually still admire Tim Fisher to this day, as he worked so hard everyday not knowing how much he would play. He was always ready.
The games I remember?
My junior year (In the 1986 NCAA tourney) against LSU, which went down as one of the best games to watch and is shown a lot on ESPN Classics over the years. We lost that first-round NCAA game and I thought that was a great team.
My senior year, it was when we played Reggie Lewis (Northeastern in NCAA first round).
All we heard about was Reggie Lewis … How it was gonna be the Reggie Lewis Show. People kept reminding me that people were saying that. Coach Keady and his staff just knew how to get the best out of people, you know. I remember walking onto that court and thinking, 'I am going to take over tonight and after having 29 and 13.' I learned later that scouts never knew I was a scorer like that. How ironic as that was, that was how I started my high school career. But I learned at Purdue to sacrifice for the better of the team, which ultimately has taught me more in life than any big game has. That really is what I think about when I think about Coach Keady. He wanted to make you into the best young man you could be.
GoldandBlack.com: You were a second-round pick of the Rockets in the 1987 NBA Draft. Talk about your pro career.
Lee: Many scouts said that not playing guard full-time at Purdue dropped me down in the draft, but I loved my time there. Look; I got to play in the NBA, Europe and the CBA. I could have signed a couple more times in the NBA in the midst of my career, but at that time, money overseas for top players was better than sitting on the bench in the NBA and I wanted to play.
Once you make It to the top level, you start to see so much politics. But I reminded myself time and time again that I was so fortunate to play a game for a good living. I realized quickly that the top 50 players in the NBA are so above other players. But the rest of us, while skilled, were constantly waiting for playing time.
I backed up Drazen Petrovic and Mitch Richmond and they never got hurt. Sounds bad to say that, but you were not getting in for any extended time unless that happened. I remembered having a great preseason one year and then not playing for 22 games during the regular season. So frustrating. Today, there are so many more players on rosters. But back then, it was very limited. In the end, we were blessed in so many ways, and Becky and I really enjoyed our time overseas.
I actually learned so much in sports, as it became such a big business and it helped me quickly adapt to the business world once finished.
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Lee spent two of his three seasons in the NBA with the Nets. He was a second-round pick of the Rockets in 1987.
GoldandBlack.com: What have you been doing then since you left basketball?
Lee: Everyone around basketball wanted me to coach in the NBA but I didn’t want that lifestyle anymore for my family as we just had our Kids. It’s a lot of hours. I was set up to go coach if that was what we wanted but we came to Las Vegas with a minor league team and ended up getting involved in church plants and never left. It was the last place we thought we would live but we really enjoy the melting pot of people here.
I started out in ownership of a products-oriented business and quickly became the President of the Public company that purchased us. I was able to make a lot of mistakes, learn from them and together with Becky in 2014 we formed our own company and now have great employees and something very special. Bruce and Megan Weber unexpectedly came to us early on and have shown incredible support for us and we are forever thankful for that. We now do business with a ton of colleges and it would be great to include Purdue in that someday. We also have ownership in a few more companies and have partnered with retired professional athletes, as it still remains like a small fraternity. I feel very privileged to be a part of that. We also have distribution in Hawaii where we spend nearly three months each year. I do consulting work, as well. I guess you could say like my sports career, we do a little bit of everything. I still love just being a part of successful teams. I love the challenge every single day. My relationships with players goes very deep and I keep in touch with people like Doug Altenberger (Illinois) almost on a daily basis.
GoldandBlack.com: How long have you been in Las Vegas?
Lee: We have been in Las Vegas going on just over 20 years. Having lived around the world, it is one of the last places that we thought we would move, but It is actually very beautiful. We love the churches here and people have been great to us. We keep in touch with family back in the Midwest and of course get updates about Purdue from Todd and Jessica Foster, as we remain very close to them. Believe it or not; we get great quality time with family and friends, as they always want to visit the West Coast. We have snow skiing only 40 minutes away, a few hours drive to the beach and waking up everyday to see the mountains is very special.
We have such peace and joy. The Lord became a big part of our lives early in my professional career. Faith in Christ has grown to be the most important thing to us and we are blessed to love what we do each day together.

After losing a pair of All-B1G talents at rush end, sophomore Will Heldt is quickly establishing himself as the leader of Purdue’s pass rush heading into 2024.

Luke Gaffney of Purdue is the B1G Freshman of the Week for the fourth time this season. He is currently batting .411 on the year, third in the Big Ten overall.

It's ironic that Rasheed Wallace of all people has the most common sense of anyone who's weighed in on Zach Edey in the draft.

“I’m running my whole thing through Edey dawg, number one. Lets just say hypothetically the Wizards, and he goes there, I’m building around him dawg,” Wallace said. “Wherever he goes is going to be a bad team, just like they’re doing with Wembanyama in San Antonio. San Antonio is f—n terrible but what happened? They drafted Wembanyama and he’s doing his thing but he’s still taking his pops on the chin though. It’s going to be the same thing with Edey.”

"But Edey I think should be number one pick, if any GM’s got sense, that’s the number one pick for sure.”

I see many programs rushing out to obtain a big man to help center their offense and defense. IU just hired Ballo (I mean offered him a great education to come to their school). But several other programs are looking to beef up at the 5. Zach not only paved the way for bigs across the sport, he continues to influence the game as he departs.

Hoping Purdue reloads and comes out shooting in the fall!!