So it looks like they will get three guards. Harris averaged 3 points a game so I probably would not expect too much from him. They need bigs in the worst way though.
hard to fault a top 40 kid out of high school who played behind the soon to be rookie of the year kon kneuppel in '24 and guys like dame sarr and caleb foster this year.
i'm very excited about harris. very good shooter in high school but if you watch the second highlight...he can get up.
I like your attitude! Harris is on the team and as a Hoosier, I'll pull for him to be successful. There was a reason why he was a highly ranked player coming out of high school. Who knows? Perhaps the genius of Ryan Carr will unearth some diamonds in the portal mine. At this stage of the process, Indiana is not going to get John Blackwell and Robert Wright to play in the backcourt.
Yeah, it is nuts in some ways. I understand it in the 'if you have it and that's what you want to spend it on...' view. Maybe they like hobnobbing with Cignetti or DeVries. But man, the numbers are so large, wouldn't you rather have your name associated with a new and improved academic or science projects, or even facilities for athletics sure, but just paying salaries is wild.
Yeah, it is nuts in some ways. I understand it in the 'if you have it and that's what you want to spend it on...' view. Maybe they like hobnobbing with Cignetti or DeVries. But man, the numbers are so large, wouldn't you rather have your name associated with a new and improved academic or science projects, or even facilities for athletics sure, but just paying salaries is wild.
As much as I love sports yes at least I would want it on something significant that actually contributes to society like money for the library or science wing. Paying a guy a ton of money to dribble a basketball adds nothing to society it just maybe gets you access to the program and fulfills your own ego of possibly having a winning program.
Yeah, it is nuts in some ways. I understand it in the 'if you have it and that's what you want to spend it on...' view. Maybe they like hobnobbing with Cignetti or DeVries. But man, the numbers are so large, wouldn't you rather have your name associated with a new and improved academic or science projects, or even facilities for athletics sure, but just paying salaries is wild.
As much as I love sports yes at least I would want it on something significant that actually contributes to society like money for the library or science wing. Paying a guy a ton of money to dribble a basketball adds nothing to society it just maybe gets you access to the program and fulfills your own ego of possibly having a winning program.
The $4 million to buy a basketball player for one year could sure help many needy students pay their tuition.
Yeah, it is nuts in some ways. I understand it in the 'if you have it and that's what you want to spend it on...' view. Maybe they like hobnobbing with Cignetti or DeVries. But man, the numbers are so large, wouldn't you rather have your name associated with a new and improved academic or science projects, or even facilities for athletics sure, but just paying salaries is wild.
As much as I love sports yes at least I would want it on something significant that actually contributes to society like money for the library or science wing. Paying a guy a ton of money to dribble a basketball adds nothing to society it just maybe gets you access to the program and fulfills your own ego of possibly having a winning program.
The $4 million to buy a basketball player for one year could sure help many needy students pay their tuition.
We I had brought up why in the world is a 4 million dollar basketball player also getting free tuition especially given they probably do not even go to class. It did not go over very well but its clear the whole mission and point of college is now out the window its not at all about education with these guys it just paying them to dribble a bbal and maybe take an online test. But I highly doubt they ever see the inside of a classroom.
Those over the years that always said players needed to be paid I do not think ever thought it would be 4 million a year or even close to that. Some of these guys are going to make more than their coaches so I can see why guys like Jay Wright wanted out.
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@cavanagh You could be right on Mustaf... but this past season, against NCAA tournament teams, and/or bubble teams (11 games)... he averaged around 13 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists a game. That would have been slightly higher if you expound that to add ACC teams that had .500 or better records, as he had some big games against teams like Virginia Tech. He's proven he can be solid against good teams.
Now, GT was awful. So someone had to be one of the guys that put up numbers, so we'll see if those types of performances would translate to an IU team, that hopefully will be competitive in the B10. But he has the size, and physicality to do it... and unlike some of our guys from last year, he has already done it against the type of competition he'll face at IU next year. Hopefully, we get a couple legit elite guys, so we won't expect or need him to put up those same numbers he did at GT. But I have to think him already doing it, increases the likelihood that he'll be more of a consistent contributor than guys like Miles, Dorn, Sisley, etc... were. Which will be very helpful.
Of the two signees, I am also more excited about Harris, though. His unknown potential is more intriguing.
Andrej Acimovic has entered the transfer portal. Not even remotely a big loss as they can almost certainly upgrade, even if they just grab another cheap Euro lottery ticket. But...that's one more spot to fill and IU is now down to Trent Sisley as the only returning player and they have seven spots to fill (six once Burton becomes publicly official).
Yeah, it is nuts in some ways. I understand it in the 'if you have it and that's what you want to spend it on...' view. Maybe they like hobnobbing with Cignetti or DeVries. But man, the numbers are so large, wouldn't you rather have your name associated with a new and improved academic or science projects, or even facilities for athletics sure, but just paying salaries is wild.
As much as I love sports yes at least I would want it on something significant that actually contributes to society like money for the library or science wing. Paying a guy a ton of money to dribble a basketball adds nothing to society it just maybe gets you access to the program and fulfills your own ego of possibly having a winning program.
The $4 million to buy a basketball player for one year could sure help many needy students pay their tuition.
We I had brought up why in the world is a 4 million dollar basketball player also getting free tuition especially given they probably do not even go to class. It did not go over very well but its clear the whole mission and point of college is now out the window its not at all about education with these guys it just paying them to dribble a bbal and maybe take an online test. But I highly doubt they ever see the inside of a classroom.
Those over the years that always said players needed to be paid I do not think ever thought it would be 4 million a year or even close to that. Some of these guys are going to make more than their coaches so I can see why guys like Jay Wright wanted out.
Years ago, Knight used to get pissed off with the Big 10 scheduling those late 9:00 pm games because his players were required to go to early morning classes the next day. A big time basketball player of the present time can get accepted into virtually any university with little problem. A rare occurrence if you can find a college athlete selecting a school because of academics.
Basically looks like the players of today are simply contractual employees. (comments from a guy that likes sports)
Yeah, it is nuts in some ways. I understand it in the 'if you have it and that's what you want to spend it on...' view. Maybe they like hobnobbing with Cignetti or DeVries. But man, the numbers are so large, wouldn't you rather have your name associated with a new and improved academic or science projects, or even facilities for athletics sure, but just paying salaries is wild.
As much as I love sports yes at least I would want it on something significant that actually contributes to society like money for the library or science wing. Paying a guy a ton of money to dribble a basketball adds nothing to society it just maybe gets you access to the program and fulfills your own ego of possibly having a winning program.
The $4 million to buy a basketball player for one year could sure help many needy students pay their tuition.
We I had brought up why in the world is a 4 million dollar basketball player also getting free tuition especially given they probably do not even go to class. It did not go over very well but its clear the whole mission and point of college is now out the window its not at all about education with these guys it just paying them to dribble a bbal and maybe take an online test. But I highly doubt they ever see the inside of a classroom.
Those over the years that always said players needed to be paid I do not think ever thought it would be 4 million a year or even close to that. Some of these guys are going to make more than their coaches so I can see why guys like Jay Wright wanted out.
Years ago, Knight used to get pissed off with the Big 10 scheduling those late 9:00 pm games because his players were required to go to early morning classes the next day. A big time basketball player of the present time can get accepted into virtually any university with little problem. A rare occurrence if you can find a college athlete selecting a school because of academics.
Basically looks like the players of today are simply contractual employees. (comments from a guy that likes sports)
Yeah I have always chuckled at Duke who can get any player they recruit into the school yet the acceptance rate is 4.7. Man all these top ten bbal players must score 1500 on their SAT's. LOL!
Duke University’s overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2030 (entering fall 2026) is 4.7%, a record low driven by over 61,000 applications.
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