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Before this season, I thought they had a decent shot to make the tournament next year (approximately 16-20 wins). As CCP said Pritchard and Williams have been better than expected; but, to me, that's trumped by the unexpected improvement within the conference. I'm thinking more like 14-18 wins next year. I would, however, be very surprised if IU isn't in the tournament in 2010-11. They'll have three four-star players (all sophomores), up to eight three-star players (five juniors) and whatever freshmen Crean is able to bring in with the Class of 2010 (which will be a very small class, if a class at all). That's a likely tournament team.
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That's what she said. He he. And, for what it's worth, despite our political arguments, I was not referring to you.
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he was never given the chance to adjust Read your PM's. My PMs haven't worked for a while I guess I'll just have to share what I have to say to you with everyone. This is a discussion board, not an argument board. If you can't find a better way of DISCUSSING baseball, you will not be long for this place. Everything has to be a huge argument with you, and it really needs to stop. You've been warned enough times already to tone it down. I'm not sure how many more times you will get. Haha, what?? Some on the board are unnecessarily belligerent.
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They're inconsistent without Lighty. Evan Turner is a stud. BJ Mullens (#1 recruit in '08 class) has not done much of anything. Lauderdale is the big man to worry about. Tis is probably gonna get abused on the boards again. Illinois: 71 OSU: 58 ETA: Forget what I said about Mullens, he's got double digits in each of his last 4 games. The number 1 recruit from '08 was either Monroe or Jennings depending on which service you like. BJ Mullens was not that highly reguarded. http://indiana.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=1617 That ranking no longer exists in our system. We are sorry for the inconvenience. awesome. I'm not sure what happened there; the new link is functional.
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They're inconsistent without Lighty. Evan Turner is a stud. BJ Mullens (#1 recruit in '08 class) has not done much of anything. Lauderdale is the big man to worry about. Tis is probably gonna get abused on the boards again. Illinois: 71 OSU: 58 ETA: Forget what I said about Mullens, he's got double digits in each of his last 4 games. The number 1 recruit from '08 was either Monroe or Jennings depending on which service you like. BJ Mullens was not that highly reguarded. http://indiana.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=1617
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Thanks again to the ACC/Big Ten Challenge folks for matching the least experienced team in the country up with the now top-ranked Wake Forest squad. Brilliant.
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Go Edge.
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5 conference championship games in 8 years, WHAT A BUM. hopefully they fire his ass and hire all those better coaches that are available. Gruden and Shannahan? are they better? i don't know. i guess they won a super bowl so they must be. Shannahan is for sure, I think. That said, Reid is a good coach. I really can't believe it's even an argument.
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you can hardly blame them. gallery looked like a can't miss pro-bowl left tackle. Yeah, I didn't hate the Gallary pick by any means and thought it was a decent pick, but I would have preferred Fitzgerald. I was way wrong on Gallery. I thought he was a near lock to be a Pro Bowl level left tackle.
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I would have to completely agree. Trading Marquis and DeRosa made the team worse, but, if part of a master-plan to land Peavy, likely worth it. I'm still dubious Peavy happens; hope I'm wrong.
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I'm going to have to disagree with Pomeroy. I think Iowa and Northwestern are/were much more likely wins for IU. Northwestern's style may actually hurt them against this IU team (well, at least I'm hoping). Still think Illinois is the second best Big Ten team at this point.
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By the way, can Ted Valentine just go away? How does he still have a job officiating college games? I'm not claiming he did anything bad against Purdue last night, just that he's a horrible official in general. You don't want to get IU fans started on Ted Valentine. Don't think Bobby should have gotten tossed for checking to see if his player was dead under the basket, eh? I will always remember that as perhaps the worst call ever in college basketball history. And I'm an Illinois fan. That was merely the culmination. The nadir was the 1992 Final Four game against Duke.
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By the way, can Ted Valentine just go away? How does he still have a job officiating college games? I'm not claiming he did anything bad against Purdue last night, just that he's a horrible official in general. You don't want to get IU fans started on Ted Valentine.
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I'll take it! They'll most likely beat Iowa at home, I don't know who else they'll get though. i think their home games against northwestern, iowa, penn state and maybe illinois/ohio st are not automatic losses. they won't win a road game and they won't beat a team like purdue or michigan st. realistically i can't see them winning more than 4 games, and 1-2 is more likely. Illinois is probably the second best team in the conference right now. IU won't beat them.
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I'll take it!
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Jim Caldwell was really impressive in today's press conference.
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I'm not sure there's such a thing as an easy week in the Big Ten...well, except for Illinois last week (v. Indiana + bye). Illinois this week: v. Michigan @ Michigan State Fortunately, by the first week of February, they'll have already played their road games at Purdue, Michigan, MSU, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Schedule breaks extra rough this year, as their two missing games are @Iowa and vs. Northwestern. The only easy weeks in the Big Ten are the ones that involve Indiana, probably Iowa and maybe Northwestern. Luckily Michigan had IU and Iowa last week. Our easy week is gone. Should be a good game between Illinois and Michigan this week. I can't see UM sweeping Illinois unless they get just on fire from beyond the arc. Yes, I would classify trailing 44-24 in the second half as "easy" too. lol, I'm not saying we didn't have an issue with Indiana, but in terms of the teams we played it was supposed to be an easy week. On that I agree.
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I'm not sure there's such a thing as an easy week in the Big Ten...well, except for Illinois last week (v. Indiana + bye). Illinois this week: v. Michigan @ Michigan State Fortunately, by the first week of February, they'll have already played their road games at Purdue, Michigan, MSU, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Schedule breaks extra rough this year, as their two missing games are @Iowa and vs. Northwestern. The only easy weeks in the Big Ten are the ones that involve Indiana, probably Iowa and maybe Northwestern. Luckily Michigan had IU and Iowa last week. Our easy week is gone. Should be a good game between Illinois and Michigan this week. I can't see UM sweeping Illinois unless they get just on fire from beyond the arc. Yes, I would classify trailing 44-24 in the second half as "easy" too.
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His "major contributors, significant contributors, role players, limited roles" categories are going to either need a larger sample to be accurate or some fine-tuning. Yeah, I was hoping there'd be an explanation on the main page explaining those, but there was none. He doesn't really measure individual defense, so those rankings seem to be offensive based only with in the very least a large slant towards scoring. The titles are more just fun to see so you can make fun of Chris Kramer being ranked "nearly invisible" The new information is really interesting and exciting. However, it definitely needs some fine-tuning, I think. Any player ranking system that has Malik Story and Verdell Jones III ahead of Nick Williams based on this season has some flaws. ETA: That probably won't sound egregious for non-IU fans, I know. I'm assuming there are better examples nation-wide; but, from a micro perspective, Williams has clearly been superior.
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Sad day for Colt fans I guess - though not entirely unexpected. Is it pretty certain that Caldwell will take over for him? Or will they still look around a bit? It's definitely sad, but I've expected him to retire the past two seasons. I think it's pretty much set in stone that Caldwell takes over. With his 26-63 collegiate record and some of the available names, I'm dubious if that's the correct decision. Continuity is important, though.
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Manning has only played two.
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Depends. Do you think he's good on offense? Therein lies your answer. He's the same player defensively.
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Prichard is their best player. Dumes is an out of control guard, he's not much of a loss on his own, but if he can't come back today, their already shallow depth is gonna be a real problem. Bruce won't run up the score. He has no beef with Crean. Dumes is not a good player. If I were starting a championship caliber team, he'd probably be the 5th or 6th player on IU I'd pick (Pritchard, Williams, Story, Roth would be my top 4). But Dumes is hugely important to this IU team. He's the guy IU turns to when in shot clock jams. He's the only person who can get Roth open by breaking down the defense on the pick and roll play they like to run. He shoots low percentage shots, but he hits enough of them to often be better than any other type of offense IU can run. This team needs him badly. The first half was about 1/4 Illinois playing well (good 3 point shooting), 1/4 Indiana playing poorly (Dumes being out, missing several 2 footers), and 1/2 Illinois just being a whole lot better than IU. Correct. I don't like Dumes, but he's integral to this particular IU team. It's unfortunate how much he's relied on and hopefully it won't be so next year. Losing him hurts though. Illinois moves the ball very well.
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It's a fair point. However, there's got to be multiple teams that would look at Dunn, with all the strikeouts, low average and no playoff appearances, and prefer a guy like Fielder who is pre-free agency, has 30 points in average and 30-60 fewer strikeouts. It would be a fair point if he didn't incorrectly use the phrase "begs the questions."
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Southwest Missouri State; but otherwise, yes.