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The other woman is Dan Hurley.

It’s like you don’t know us at all.

I may be misremembering but I feel like this was a thing under Ollie but don’t think that has carried over under Hurley

It’s nice that they gave Neptune a puncher’s chance by scheduling the dregs of the B12 for them.

The battle of coaches that embarrassed UK.

If there is a desire for an organization to de-risk, someone will step in and create a business looking to take on that risk. Gotta assume if we’re doing it, a lot of big programs are and it’s probably a decent business.

‘Twas a joke

Not feeling great. Let’s be honest, he’s the most Creighton player imaginable.

I want to send that to friends but they’re not nearly big enough UConn/NCAA Bball nerds to get it.

Fully agreed, he’s got the potential to do it. He’s shown as much but he needs to improve his consistency. That was kind of the point of my posts.

Having an opinion about areas they need to improve =\= smear. Just FYI.

I see what camp you’re in with this one.

I mean there was a solid stretch of the season where that was absolutely the correct assessment. He was getting worked over on defense and was getting shut down offensively. He definitely picked up his game quite a bit the last stretch of the season, though there are still absolutely valid...

Truly don’t understand how anyone can be confident of this at this point. It’s certainly possible, but there are definitely some posters that massively overstate Samson’s ability and consistency so far in his career.

It’s a great option with a good homemade mayo (picked it up from French grandmother where that’s the default). Malt vinegar also a great option. I’m also not a huge ketchup person though and think that is a wildly overrated and boring condiment.

Ehh, hard to really project out since we don’t know what they’ll do in the portal. I know they’ve been connected to Maliq Brown. If they can bring in some vet guards, they could look pretty good going into next season. If they end up relying on a mostly freshman backcourt, is not going to end well.

Did you see him shoot this year?

Best of luck to him. Certainly excited to see what he can do with real PT.

Will always have incredibly fond memories of Northeestern, Illinois, and Purdue fans talking a big game before watching [insert best guard/wing] completely shut down.

Who argues that? There’s a difference between not being able to improve their draft stock and not being worth the risk to come back. The guys you mentioned were either not going to be drafted or would have been drafted later in the second round before this year. A guy like Karaban could...

Except the case is quite literally not closed in that.

I assume you weren’t a fan of Ryan Boatright in that case. Is this some sort of “in my day, a man’s word meant something” take?

Wow, that’s a move. Not only do you not follow your coach, but you go to the hated in-state rival. He may be my new favorite transfer.

Would expect him to come back but this was fully expected and the right move.

Because he’d get to jack up A LOT of threes.

Hard to overstate the defensive IQ piece. I don’t know that he’s going to be able to add that much weight or strength, but his post defense as is just isn’t workable as a starting center. His fundamentals break down way too often where his arms come down or wrap up his guy with a completely...

Not sustainable in what way?

The kind of money we’re talking about is a rounding error on Walmart’s P&L.

Agree with that, my point was more that it wouldn’t make much sense for an NIL collective/university to expose themself to this very common situation of a player decommiting, and then having them walk off with a chunk of their NIL funds.

Very possibly wrong, but my assumption is these are structured such that the players aren’t actually getting paid until they’re on campus. Too much likelihood of this happening or abuse.

Back to back championships has finally allowed me to laugh at that instead of crying.

It was Caitlin Clark. Whether you appreciate it or not, she was the number one storyline in college basketball over the past few years as a whole by a wide margin. She was not in the championship game last year (and had not broken the scoring record), so of course there will be a huge bump...

Not sure if it’s my favorite but I look back really fondly on Clingan’s absolutely demoralizing block of Guerrier 10 points in to he 30-0 run. To have a big get a running start and get absolutely shut down like that, I thought just broke Illinois’ will. Also the end of the shot clock Cam...

Huh? You know that the ratings estimates come from a third party (Nielsen), right? What incentive would they have to fudge the numbers and risk the credibility of their entire business? I watched and know plenty of folks that watched.