clarificationcat said:

When Gonzaga became an established program, they didn’t continue to pursue the scrappy kids. They recruited better and better players.

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IGNORE2 said:

I think we stop chasing shiny things and stick with underrated guys open to learning, defending and playing team ball.

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IGNORE2 said:

Cuz why not!?!?

PG - Leach 25
SG - Berry 35
W - BB 35
PF - Mart 30
C - MN 25

G - Mullins - 10
W - Smith - 13
C - Hunger - 13

X - Fitz - 4
X - Barkley - 5
X - Clayton - 5

RS - the frosh

And the plus:
- BB gets a triple double
- Mart & BB have more double doubles than games they don’t
- Hunger hits the 3 at legit clip and increases his driving
- Mart hits the 3 as a real threat and learns a skyhook from the right hand, Hummel loses his mind
- we see some twin tower play (about 2 mpg worth) - it’s doesn’t work and we banter around here whether to keep trying or eliminate it
- Ty breaks some records, MN breaks some glass
- one of the frosh force their way onto the floor for the right reasons
- pwb, ppd and sd attend an away game with me by plane, we record our discussions and it seeds the next great podcast - we call it Four Grapes in a Can
- I get fired as the marketing arm for Four Grapes and the podcast gets a new name
- our first guest is gcg - turns out he also only speaks one word responses
- we dance again and make the sweet 16

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No Chores said:

Nice job - you beat me to it!

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Purple Pile Driver said:

I don’t get all of this Sully love. Was anyone really comfortable going into the season with him as the starter? He hasn’t won the job in his 3 years despite multiple opportunities. There is no such thing as a “presumed starter”. He is either the starter or he isn’t. Braun didn’t guarantee him the job, he elected to leave. He looked great in one way and looked awful in another. You don’t get guarantees with that. Just because you are in the program longer than anyone else at the position doesn’t mean you ascend to the throne. Just because you are a good kid doesn’t put you on the field!

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clarificationcat said:

He committed when it looked like Collins was going to get fired. There were rumors his brother was going to transfer to NU if he didn’t go the NBA, so hopefully there is some connection.

He is pretty one dimensional at this point (granted, a really important dimension). I would be surprised if he is drafted. But he would a great replacement for Langborg and it would give him a chance to develop his ballhandling.

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NUCat320 said:

Woodson is always competing with IU fan expectations. It is a program with a cloud above it — like Nebraska in football, IU hasn’t recognized that nobody cares about them anymore.

Woodson has done a not-bad job. But IU has had a lot of top recruits over the year and has made no national impact for 20 years.

I think IU fans make it tougher, as I indicated in my comment that a Carlyle 2-for-9 night in November is going to be rough on him. Because IU fans make things rough.

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Deeringfish said:

So this is an early offer. He has two years left in HS. What is the deal if he commits and gets hurt in HS? Is his scholarship guaranteed? IF so, that would be quite and incentive for an academic local kid.

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Darren72 said:

I have no idea if NU wants him or if he is considering NU. But I’m fairly sure that NIL has nothing to do with it. He wasn’t going to be on the three deep at OSU. We’re not talking about a superstar.

Let’s get out of our heads that everything comes down to NIL and that Northwestern is always gonna be behind. That’s just not always the issue.

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clarificationcat said:

He committed when it looked like Collins was going to get fired. There were rumors his brother was going to transfer to NU if he didn’t go the NBA, so hopefully there is some connection.

He is pretty one dimensional at this point (granted, a really important dimension). I would be surprised if he is drafted. But he would a great replacement for Langborg and it would give him a chance to develop his ballhandling.

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DaCat said:

Did you watch them throw this Spring?

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Vassar69 said:

I know context matters, but in his three years at IU, Woodson has exactly the same conference record as Collins does over the last three years at NW, which is undoubtedly the best stretch of basketball that a coach has had at Northwestern (at least in a modern era). And to be fair to Woodson, he’s trying to build up after the coach before him was fired, so there is inherently a disadvantage to that, vs where he could be in Year 5+ where he’s had time to get more established.

I don’t think Woodson was the best candidate available, but to act like he can’t win based on his short sample size so far is silly. I suspect that they’ll be a solid team this year and a tourney team, which would make his 3rd in 4 seasons. Not sure they can compete for a conference title, but at the same time I don’t think there are any clear favorites either.

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