Orme was one the players IU had been considering and TJ wrote about him earlier on this topic thread.
Sources: Belmont transfer Sam Orme is committing to Nebraska, giving the Cornhuskers one of the most coveted shooters in the portal. Orme, a 6-9 redshirt sophomore, averaged 12.7 points per game this year for Belmont, connecting on 39.7-percent of his 3-pointers. pic.twitter.com/xdnsaBL2ee
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DeVries specifically said one of the reasons he took the IU job was because he would have the resources to win. That was clearly not true. There is no point in getting a new coach if they won’t have the resources to succeed.
Money is huge but so is winning. Dusty won 27 games his first year that made getting his portal class much easier I am guessing. If you have have to sell is money be prepared to outbid.
It sounds like IU did not really even contact Sam Orme. Obviously, you hope there's a plan at forward and that doesn't come back to bite you. Orme is not great but he's a quality player.
The first official visit for IU will be...Jaeden Mustaf from Georgia Tech. I believe Jeff Rabjohns of peegs.com reported this first. Athletic wing that has two years left. I'll have more on Mustaf tomorrow morning. I like him more than most as a role player. He really came on towards the end of the season and I think there is a skillset that can be developed. I'm probably a little biased because I saw him put up 28 on Clemson in his final game at GT. That team was so horrendously coached by Damon Stoudamire that I don't worry too much about the offensive inefficiency due to a lot of long two attempts translating to IU. He'll take more threes in Darian DeVries' system and we'll find out if his near 40% from three mark be somewhere around 33-35% with more volume OR if he drops down to something like 28-32%. He's a decent positional rebounder with the physical tools to be a good defender and he has a really good free throw rate (meaning, he does a nice job getting to the line).
So, we now know that Markus Burton is visiting from Sunday to Tuesday, Darren Harris will be at IU on Sunday and Jaeden Mustaf will be there on Friday. Business is starting to pick up and dominoes will begin to fall (for better or worse).
Huh? Dominoes might be on the table, but none have fallen yet ... unless I missed IU landing a Portal guy.Dominoes are starting to fall
Those are all some very interesting names. 247Sports lists some 26 offers for Mustaf coming out of high school including IU. He looks to be a talented player that received poor coaching during his initial two years. The trajectory should be up for him.It sounds like IU did not really even contact Sam Orme. Obviously, you hope there's a plan at forward and that doesn't come back to bite you. Orme is not great but he's a quality player.
The first official visit for IU will be...Jaeden Mustaf from Georgia Tech. I believe Jeff Rabjohns of peegs.com reported this first. Athletic wing that has two years left. I'll have more on Mustaf tomorrow morning. I like him more than most as a role player. He really came on towards the end of the season and I think there is a skillset that can be developed. I'm probably a little biased because I saw him put up 28 on Clemson in his final game at GT. That team was so horrendously coached by Damon Stoudamire that I don't worry too much about the offensive inefficiency due to a lot of long two attempts translating to IU. He'll take more threes in Darian DeVries' system and we'll find out if his near 40% from three mark be somewhere around 33-35% with more volume OR if he drops down to something like 28-32%. He's a decent positional rebounder with the physical tools to be a good defender and he has a really good free throw rate (meaning, he does a nice job getting to the line).
So, we now know that Markus Burton is visiting from Sunday to Tuesday, Darren Harris will be at IU on Sunday and Jaeden Mustaf will be there on Friday. Business is starting to pick up and dominoes will begin to fall (for better or worse).
The rumor mill is at its high point during all this portal activity. Some who are supposedly "in the know" post all kinds of inside information. I appreciate your more sensible approach of sharing player possibilities for IU, providing personal assessments on players, and simply sharing the facts.
He's not talking about IU specifically. He's saying that rather than just people entering the portal, people are now making decisions on where they are going.Huh? Dominoes might be on the table, but none have fallen yet ... unless I missed IU landing a Portal guy.Dominoes are starting to fall
DeVries specifically said one of the reasons he took the IU job was because he would have the resources to win. That was clearly not true. There is no point in getting a new coach if they won’t have the resources to succeed.
Money is huge but so is winning. Dusty won 27 games his first year that made getting his portal class much easier I am guessing. If you have have to sell is money be prepared to outbid.
We aren't beating out Mich for any recruits. Now or in the future. Thats just how things are. We wont hire anybody that will change that, either.
Seems like Michigan State would be a great fit for Aiden Sherrill. Spartans are loaded with experience in the backcourt and with wings. Lost their 2 bigs through graduation and Sherrill could be the missing piece of a very good team. (Reality is you’ve got to do plenty of searching to find where Sherrill is not a good fit.)
@mushroomgod My affection for who? Ace Glass or Darren Harris? You wrote "Darren Glass"?
If you mean Darren Harris, I don't have affection for him. I wrote a month ago that I thought he was likely to portal and that IU had a connection and he'd be an option. I was right. There are reasons to like Harris (high school pedigree, was at least a small part of the rotation on a really good team, shot well from three when given consistent minutes). I would have others higher on my "wish list" but I think Harris could be part of a decent group of guards at IU if they landed him.
@gros-louis Exactly, thank you. Maybe I didn't word that appropriately? Yes, the dominoes would be Estrella picking Michigan/Orme picking Nebraska/visits starting to get lined up. Not everything directly involves IU but the market shrinking and actual prices getting set (not just speculated prices on social media) are dominoes that will dictate what happens with IU's class.
mustaf is another "distressed asset" type just like darren harris. they're not the same, obviously, as mustaf played a ton but for a terrible team and the metrics didn't like him much.
regardless of his offense at georgia tech, his defense is the best tool right now and i think he can guard 1-3 and even the 4 if he was forced to from watching him. this is a 6'5, 210, thickly built slasher who's best attribute is his athleticism and getting to the line. if you pair him with markus burton, you have two guys who can get in the lane for kick outs to shooters.
bit of a tangent but that, to me, is exactly what devries had with javon small at wvu that he didn't have last year. at wvu, devries had the slashers and not the shooters. at iu, he had the shooters but not the slashers.
devries' offense is predicated on that type of movement of the defense. last year he could only scheme so much because of how unathletic his facilitators were (or how much conerway seemed to not really care). that was on him and the staff.
all that to say that i would very much like to add mustaf and harris and both have two years left.
i think my ideal roster would be to over pay for 3 stars and then try to slither into the distressed assets who you think can make a jump. i get the angst overall and iu still has to land players but i think that's how ryan carr is going to evaluate kids like harris and mustaf. can you get a good player a bit cheaper based on how they performed at their previous stop.
i don't think iu has much of a chance with juke harris or aidan sherrell. i do think i would overpay for jalan haralson. i also think if i'm going to pay for 20%+ of my budget for a big, i'm good with them not getting jp estrella. he's a good player but i think he benefited from playing next to an elite rim protector in felix okpara more than is let on. for 3-3.5m, i'm good giving that to an actual rim protector.
@iureactionary Very good points. I nerd out on roster construction and lineup possibilities and Jaeden Mustaf creates a bit of an interesting potential conundrum with Jalen Haralson. Haralson does a lot of things very well (actually, if you compare the numbers and profiles of Mustaf to Haralson...they aren't far off from each other. Haralson is one inch bigger and I think has more room to make a jump in production but Mustaf is currently better in a lot of categories, food for thought) but he's not currently a willing or capable outside shooter. Mustaf is going to be, at best, an average outside shooter with increased volume from what he shot at GT. Burton is above average but he's a scorer more than a pure shooter. Add in the 4 and 5 and it's unlikely either of those guys would be pure shooters either (unless it's Olsen and he can't do anything else you'd like). The bottom line, would DeVries be willing to have a lineup that featured no pure knockdown shooters? Not just would he but SHOULD he pay $3.5+ for Haralson in that scenario? I honestly don't know if that's a great idea.
Now, I'd pay Haralson and figure out what to do around him but I can understand the construction concern there. I actually like Stefan Vaaks next to Burton and Mustaf more than Haralson as a "big ticket" guy but there has been ZERO information on Vaaks. I'm with ya and not thinking about Juke Harris or Aiden Sherrell at all. If IU doesn't pursue and land Fru...I don't know what the plan is at center or power forward. Either they have a plan they can execute OR we're probably staring down the barrel of another frustrating season.
Two "big guy" names I'd consider (saw these elsewhere, can't remember where so I am sorry that I can't give them credit): Luke Wilson from App State is a name I mentioned early on but haven't heard anything on him since, Miles Rubin of Loyola. Neither of them are great but they don't suck.
Neither of them are great but they don't suck.
I feel like this pretty much sums up our fate for the next few years...
DeVries specifically said one of the reasons he took the IU job was because he would have the resources to win. That was clearly not true. There is no point in getting a new coach if they won’t have the resources to succeed.
Money is huge but so is winning. Dusty won 27 games his first year that made getting his portal class much easier I am guessing. If you have have to sell is money be prepared to outbid.
We aren't beating out Mich for any recruits. Now or in the future. Thats just how things are. We wont hire anybody that will change that, either.
No Michigan is going to get who they want for the most part unless they lose out to a Duke or Kansas. Like you said it just is what it is. I see people dreaming about Aiden Sherrell but that would require beating all the big boys and likely outbidding every one of them. I think the odds on him are pretty low imo.
that makes sense. i don't think mustaf is a 39% shooter on nearly 2 attempts he was last year, but even if he's 35%, i like his slashing and defensive ability enough that i find him intriguing.
maybe they throw 4.5m at sherrell, get burton at 3m and then get harris, mustaf, brumbaugh, olsen and a back up big to go with sisley and the freshman? sprinkle in rod clark's nephew as the back up pg?
not sure, just thinking out loud.