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Valuing each possession, being efficient and taking care of the ball is great. Being the slowest major-conference team in the country (and 340th of 347) are just annoying. When you have to do that because your short-handed or whatever I get it. Choosing to play that way is just odd. You can take care of the ball and value each possession without milking 29 seconds every time down the floor. You're an established program with the ability to grab talent. You can still do all of those things Bo wants to do while not being the most boring team on TV every year.

I would have loved Lickliter ball if we won at the level Wisconsin has. But yeah now I'm back to absolutely hating slow-paced basketball. If I were a Badger fan I would be more upset with knowing that the Sweet 16 was about the top end I could expect. It would be a lot of fun leading up to March, especially if you're a season ticket holder but are they ever going to get over that hump?

I don't disagree much. I need to know if the Mallett "off field" stuff is just a smear campaign or there's actually something there. If there's not, I think I would put him 2. I think I might put Locker ahead of Newton though statistically it doesn't mesh. I like Stanzi most of that second tier but I think 6-9 are pretty much interchangeable just varying upon what offense you run and what you want out of your QB.

I'm more impressed with being able to kill a 5 on 3 and then extended power play. Toews willed us back when we looked lethargic with that big 2nd period and protecting 88 after Kane took that hit. D was sloppy again and Boynton sucks but that's a good start to the stretch. We've gotta get Hossa into "eff you" mode here. He had a couple nice passes tonight that went for naught but I want to see him try to take over some shifts.

I'd take Devlin and Kaepernick over Stanzi. He and Dalton are pretty similar, but I like the upside of Kaepernick too much to pass him up for a guy with (as I perceive) a fairly low ceiling. Yeah I'm just talking personal preference and more from the Vikings perspective. Kapernick is basically a little better throwing Joe Webb with a little less athleticism. Devlin I'd need to see more of but I wasn't overly impressed with in the Eastern Washington game.

Mayock has Stanzi ranked 5th behind Gabbert, Locker, Newton and Mallett. I would definitely take him ahead of Kapernick, Devlin and Ponder. I would favor him over Dalton but I think they're pretty comparable.

Yeah, me either. I don't get the hype he's getting nationally. Guys must have short memories, because while is TD/INT ratio was pretty elite last year, he's one year removed from like a 20-pick season. What is this hype he's getting? Being a projected 3rd-5th round pick is hype? And do you really think that they have short memories OR that they are impressed with the improvement he made in that area? He has ideal size with good mobility, came from a pro style offense, a decent arm, good makeup and had great production his senior year. I'm not sure what else you expect from a second or third-tier QB in the draft. I guess I didn't even see him as that. I think those who are unwilling to consider than his INSANE improvement in TD/INT might be a fluke are overrating the [expletive] out of him. He also had pretty excellent receivers to throw to in a run-first offense. I hope he does well, but I think his reasonable projection lies pretty much dead center between '09 and '10 Well then I think you have an unrealistic expectation for the amount of projectable pro-style QB's are available each year. Look around college football. There aren't many guys who have the necessary tools and production, especially coming out of a pro-style offense. If you take the dead center middle between '09 and '10 you have a 60.5% passer who threw 21 TD's, 9 INT's who threw for 2,750 yards and averaged 8.35 yards per attempt. Matt Ryan was a 60% passer who averaged less than 7 yards per attempt, and had a 3:2 TD:INT ratio. Take Josh Freeman's middle ground and he's about a 60% passer who averaged 7.2 yards per attempt and 19 TD's to 10 INT's. Certainly he's not on that level and I'm not trying to compare him to them as a talent. But it gives you an idea of what kind of production most of the guys in non-gimmick offenses have coming out of college. If you don't think he's a middle round pick, you're either taking the Tyrod Taylor's of the world or only in favor of one QB being drafted per round. By the way Kapernick threw less than Stanzi and played in a greatly inferior conference. He's a 62% type guy, averaging less than 8 yards per attempt with 20 TD's and 7 INT's. If you don't think Stanzi is that good, that's fine but you probably shouldn't base your argument around stats.

Yeah, me either. I don't get the hype he's getting nationally. Guys must have short memories, because while is TD/INT ratio was pretty elite last year, he's one year removed from like a 20-pick season. What is this hype he's getting? Being a projected 3rd-5th round pick is hype? And do you really think that they have short memories OR that they are impressed with the improvement he made in that area? He has ideal size with good mobility, came from a pro style offense, a decent arm, good makeup and had great production his senior year. I'm not sure what else you expect from a second or third-tier QB in the draft.

Getting talent was never Lavin's issue. Ask Raisin. Oh I understand, that's just crazy though for one class. I don't know if I've ever seen something like that. Damn Texas is legit.

St. John's has 9 commits for next year. 5 of them are top 51 guys, the sixth is ranked 81 and another is a 4-star JUCO. Then the 3-star guy had offers from West Virginia, Marquette, ASU, Oklahoma State, Oregon, etc.

I still can't figure out why anyone would want to play for that psychopath. When you're winning big and your coach is a nutjob, they just do an impression for ESPN and everyone laughs about it. If you're losing and your coach is a nutjob, players leave, things crumble and recruits get scared away.

Yeah if Moreland is available and wants the job I have no idea why this is even a discussion between he and Otto. Although they might want to keep Otto as the fill-in guy so acting like it was an agonizing decision and he was the runner-up might behoove them.

The Vikings interviewed Locker last week and the story is that it went really well. The story is that they love him as a leader and think that mentally he has what it takes. Another story says that the Vikings and Dolphins were the two teams who showed the most interest in Kapernick and that he was led to believe one of those teams is considering him in the 2nd round.

Their defense has become awful.

Iowa scored 73 points in a 65 possession game and still lost by 14. Our perimeter defense is atrocious. Still, those chuckers were shooting the game of their lives. Vogrich and Smotrycz were 6-7 from 3 and Hardaway (29% this year) was 5-10. I really think they need a purging of the Lickliter holdovers or at least enough new guys to flush the loser mentality. They're front runners who are rarely in front. When anything goes wrong the old guys just have awful body language and throw in the towel. It's always the new guys that spark the run and keep playing.

Playing Michigan is so annoying. Iowa is actually playing better defense than they have in the Big Ten but then they hit a bomb 3 with the shot clock under four. 17 of their 30 shots are 3's, that qualifies as godless chuckers.

The end of that was just crazy. It was like Capel and Hoiberg (with help from Garrett) were trying to out-dumb each other. Garrett runs the clock down then gives it up but once OU denies him the ball a little bit, Anderson just holds it until Hoiberg finally calls a timeout. No problem, still have 6 seconds left. Then again when OU denies Garrett a bit, ISU inbounds it into the backcourt with him running away from the hoop so he catches it back at OU's 3 point line and takes like 4 dribbles just to get across half court. They double him so he freaks out and lets the clock run out. But wait, there's still .4 left. Capel draws up a home run play when there's like a .02% chance that you're going to score from 94 feet away with .4 seconds left. Of course the dude just airmails everyone and throws it out. Which then actually gives ISU a decent chance to win in regulation because they're inbounding it under their own hoop.

Nebraska is decent this year. 15-5, 3-3 in the Big 12 but they lost by only 3 at Kansas and were competitive at Mizzou. No real good wins though until today. Pomeroy has them ranked 41 and had that as a 2 point win for A&M.

Did anyone complain about three students storming the court? I was just talking about Crean and thigh the lobby scene

Well he was but he mostly loved to rant about them and was banned from multiple Iowa boards. He also liked to post in the political threads here and post the Cubs lineups here early. This guy started posting when Rusch stopped, has never posted about Indiana despite being a fan, loves to rant about Iowa, seems to know a lot of details on and off the field, posts the same way in the political thread and gets the lineups in game threads early. If you want to talk Indiana football, we can. I just find no point in doing so. Since you say I say nothing about Indiana football, I'll chime in: They're probably going to be terrible like always especially with Chappell graduated/Doss gone to the NFL next year. The offensive line next year with McDonald, Pagan, Damisch, and Matte returning should improve but offensively they have nothing left besides Belcher. He should flourish next year but there won't be Tandon to help take the pressure off. I expect him to be heavily covered next year by everybody. I'm hoping for a pretty decent battle into camp between Roberson (Indiana's Mr. Football), Kiel and Wright-Baker for quarterback. I'm really not sure that Wilson would start a true freshmen over a sophomore, but Wright-Baker is nothing really impressive from what I've seen (more a runner than a passer). Both Wright-Baker and Roberson are dual-threat quarterbacks, and it'll be interesting with Oklahoma's style of football how it'll fit. I wonder if they'll lean towards Kiel since he's more of a pro-style quarterback, and that fits with Oklahoma's schemes. We're really going to miss Chappell for sure. I would also expect Nick Turner to possibly take and really battle the job from Darius Willis depending if Willis can get back to 100 percent from patellar injury. It probably won't really matter because Willis can't seem to get through a season without getting hurt. Up front defensively, I'm interested in seeing how Johnson plays as he seems to be the guy with Beckum the most in the backfield. Replogle isn't too bad upfront either. Other than that, the rest of the defense is pretty much garbage. They have Zack Shaw (4 star guy) coming in at linebacker, and that's about it there. The cupboard is pretty much empty like always. They should win 2-3 games next year (South Carolina State and maybe @ North Texas/Ball State). Conference-wise the only win is at home against Purdue and that's a long shot. Road schedule is hardest in conference - @ Iowa, Wisconsin, Mich. St, and Ohio St. Then why did you first just say that you were an Alford fan, then you changed it to an Indiana guy, then you edited again to delete? Where are the detectives who figured out RedFlash?

Possible but who the hell knows this early in the process. They desperately want a QB they can get behind as the future. I do too. If teams aren't as high on Gabbert as mock's are suggesting now, I think they'll do whatever they can to get to him. A couple months ago their radio guy said that the Vikings were really high on him and that was before McShay and others made him the consensus #2 QB.

Has this been posted or discussed yet?: You're Indiana. It's Crean's third year. Illinois was ranked 23rd. It was a home game. WTF?

Well he was but he mostly loved to rant about them and was banned from multiple Iowa boards. He also liked to post in the political threads here and post the Cubs lineups here early. This guy started posting when Rusch stopped, has never posted about Indiana despite being a fan, loves to rant about Iowa, seems to know a lot of details on and off the field, posts the same way in the political thread and gets the lineups in game threads early.

Yep, go Rudy

Plus Richmond probably only stays one more year right?