Banners - none of em. Pack whatever you want and hang a paint packing banner. Probably the only banner you will ever see.
We will keep hanging national title banners.
Ballo to Indiana
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We will keep hanging national title banners.
I’m assuming bannerlessboiler is an AI creation. No human being would waste time on this forum acting so childlike.
Purdue has never lost to Ball-0!
He’s on his 7th account in the last 3 days
Ballos stats are identical to ware who came on strong at the end of the season. Will ballos stats improve sharing the court with Mgbako and Renau and drawing attention down low due to lack of guards who can shoot? A team that averaged less than 5 3s replaces 0.6 per game with someone who has never hit one. And the two new guards hit 27% and 32% from 3.
Ballo = Ware (at best)
Rice = X (except worse from 3)
No depth in frontcourt (yet)
I’m not sure they are really much better.
Ballo is a better rebounder and worse in every other category. Can’t shoot more than 5ft, can’t hit 3s and def can’t hit FTs and can’t defend the PnR. He’s a bit better than Pharell Payne (only due to this being his fifth year)…although Payne put up better numbers than Ballo did as a soph.
Man both those guys came back only to be recruited over. Show loyalty to the school and they reward you by reducing your mins.
Haha it’s funny how terrified you are.
Galloway already communicated he was good with a bench role.
You know how I know you’re scared? I am once again owning your board. Everyone wants to reply to me! This is such an easy game with you guys.
What do you remember most fondly about the Championships? Did you attend in person or watch on TV? Which did you enjoy watching most? 1987, 1981? 1976? I went in 1976.
They might try and run the Purdue scheme of last year....big problem....no shooters.
IU fans acting like NIL equals wins. That bunch is just laughable.
Come on...this isn't serious. They don't have a NC coach still living. Hell, RMK left IU almost 25 years ago. There's a reason they wear clown plants.
Here we go again with the old banner argument.
Purdue people aren’t intelligent enough to know that they have zero in anyone’s existence. We could have 5 one hundred years ago and your bannerless drought still is longer. It’s infinite. As in never won one.
So the question is, who that has ever existed on earth remembers anything about any of Purdues titles.
Well that answer is no one because they are a worthless program and can’t win anything.
And for the 10th time today. You are owned.
News flash, you have to actually be able to get into the tournament before you'll have the chance to win it, LOL.
Tough to do with a 2nd tier B1G program.
5 titles. You have zero. So it’s funny trying to educate someone who has done something 5 times that you haven’t been able to accomplish once.
You take your approach to zero titles, if that works for you being a lifetime loser. I’ll keep taking my approach and hanging banners.
Get a banner before you talk to me bud.
Purdue has been ranked in the top 10 for like 3 years straight. Except for the beginning of the 2022 season for the first 2 week. Even then it was top 25. You wish IU had the recent success that Purdue has. I would rather have the recent success we have had than to have won a championship 40 years ago and be terrible like IU has been the past 10 years.
Yeah and that’s an absolute loser mentality. Screw it, I don’t want to win the big game.
Well your school isn’t capable, so thats just your fall back argument. And if you remember, IU advanced further last year. You know, when you bums lost to the worst team in the history of the tournament by a long shot. Not only lost but got absolutely manhandled and embarrassed.
Haha Purdue is so pathetic, now they don’t even care about winning a National title. That’s what you’re saying. Haha there ya go, if you can’t do it, act like you don’t want it. The old can’t beat them, join them scenario.
You would probably rather have 5 straight big ten titles than 1 natty and missing the tourney the other 4 years. And that makes you an absolute loser. If you’re not the last team standing at the end of it. You lost. We’ve been the last team standing 5 times.
Damn it’s almost too easy to own you.
You’re a Tennessee fan acting as an IU fan. IU fans aren’t even this salty and sad. Dead give away when you didn’t get the cupps joke.
How old are you? This reminds me of 5th grade arguments at lunch on whose team is better.
Purdue dominates IU. IU isn't even the 2nd best team in Indiana anymore. Until IU makes the tournament every year there is no need to listen to you. A rivalry would be nice again. Isn't gonna happen with Woodson there though.
"I still prefer the way Painter is doing it as a fan."
You can and many do. However, any power-5 can be an exception or outlier. Purdue is the exception of the rule. But, it will not last forever and is not sustainable, IMO. Purdue will eventually have to start spending to keep up with its competitors. The writing is on the wall.
I’m not convinced of this (yet). Paint has been able to recruit 3/4 star players who buy into his approach and take a fair and modest NIL and develop them into a solid team. We pick up role players from the portal, not superstars. But that’s enough. And I don’t see how that has changed. I doubt teams that really benefited from the transfer portal such as NC State and UConn paid a lot of NIL. Miami last year bought a natty but I also think coaching is critical to success in the tourney so as long as woodson is coach iu cannot buy a deep tournament run.
Rice is better than X, Ballo is tough inside, Ware is the better player though,
I agree with what you are saying....(currently). I just dont think our outlier approach (old fashioned way) is sustainable. We are in the infancy stages of NIL, and as time passes by, you must adjust or adapt to keep up with the competition.
Believe me, I hope I'm wrong. But I think if nothing changes (like a NIL salary cap), it will be harder and harder to compete.
With the incoming class it is clear Paint is doing something right and has shown we can get it done in regards to NIL.
Well, neither have you. But I like our chances better since .. you know.. we don't suck. But hey congrats on the new recruit, MAYBE you'll be good enough to make the NIT this year!
NIL has shown that there are 2 types of transfers. Ring chasers (see UCon) and money chasers (see Ballo).He would be a good pick-up for anyone, but we'll see how the poops do with him.
Ballo, top player in portal, commits to Indiana
Arizona transfer Oumar Ballo, the No. 1 player in the transfer portal, committed to Indiana Hoosiers on Tuesday, he told ESPN.www.espn.com
X struggled with injuries the past 2 years. He was probably better than Rice as a freshman but seemed to get worse every year after that. I just don’t see rice as much (if any) of an improvement. They struggled from the FT line and 3 and they replace 2 of their 3 best 3 point shooters with someone who has never shot one and someone who shoots 27% (and next transfer was at 32%). Might be better man-to-man but I don’t think swapping X with Rice makes their roster better except for the health part.
Honestly, I've heard this over and over for years and they continue to show zero accomplishments.
We are better in every way, coach players, and fans. Let them scrubs determine why they suck every year.
We are better in every way, coach players, and fans. Let them scrubs determine why they suck every year.
And even if they are competitive, they have to do this all over again next year. Ballo will be gone after using his Covid year, Galloway and Leal the same (not that they’re great pieces) and I bet Rice and whomever else they get transfer again after the seasons over. So then, they gotta go buy another team again.
To have key pieces of management running a program matters. Some have it and some don't.
To your point if it turns into a true free agency, in professional sports the highest bidder typically gets the players. I really hope it doesn’t turn out this way. And if it does let’s hope we have some wealthy alum who step up to help. $6m does not sound like a lot of money for basketball, I bet we were close to $5m this year.
Yeah, its what it is turning into. Slowly. "My team beat your team because we spent more money". I just cant wrap my mind around that when talking college sports.
Funny thing: When NIL turned college players into ring chasers and/or money chasers, do sports journalists still use the word "student athlete"? SHM.......
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