I watched Scott play his senior year against a junior All-Star who eventually made the Indiana All-Star team as a senior, so he was/is very talented too. Still, this kid (Persons from Kokomo) owned him. OWNED him. If I recall, I think Persons got a D-1 scholly, but to low major Northern Kentucky. Scott got so frustrated that he started a fight with another kid on the team, got T’d up in the closing minutes, and then started arguing with his coach on the sideline when the coach removed him from the game.

Needless to say, I was not impressed at all with him. I thought his brother played better, but wasn’t as athletic.

HAHAHa If pigs had wings they could fly too…………..

I think Smotherman and Stephens would get minutes, but I still don’t think either would start. Scott would ride pine at IU.

I was refering to the three “promising” sophomores. I don’t think any of them would start, and maybe only one or two would be rotational players. Hammons would start…provided that he would work, which I’m not sure he would.

Since only one upvote can be given per comment, without going to more trouble than I’m willing to go to, please consider this my way of officially getting my other 99 upvotes your comment deserves counted. I’ve been around large numbers of both and had to deal with large numbers of both and PeeU people may be abrasive at times but the pUKe fans are like showering with 32 grit sandpaper and no water. I’d still be typing tomorrow at this time if I was to list all the reasons why this is true. Let’s just say that I hate them so vehemently because………

I tend to agree with you. 6 wins seems about right for them. I think Basil Smotherman is a good role player and I think Kendall Stephens is capable of doing good things. Scott and Davis have never done much for me. Dakich talked a lot about how “tough” Bryson Scott was…he might be really tough but he didn’t look like anything close to a good basketball player last season. AJ Hammons is, as you say, “great in bursts”. They are going to be relying quite a bit on PJ Thompson to play some point guard for them and I thought he was good, not great, in high school. Dakota Mathias was regarded as a good shooter and they have high hopes for Vince Edwards and Isaac Haas (don’t think either one is ready to help them much this season). I think they will flirt with .500 overall, get a few great games from Hammons to surprise a couple of teams and probably wind up out of the basement but not much higher (5-7 B1G wins).

You can backtrack if you want, but I have re-read your post and my reading comprehension was just fine the first time around.

Never assume a target does not move, lol. Nice lesson.

I’ve lived on both ends of the state and can honestly say nothing is worse than UK fans. Purdue fans have just as much contempt for us, but since they have no shot at ever winning a title, they don’t bother me at all.

Like many who post on here, I’ve watched more than a couple ball games and listened to a few post game interviews/press conferences. However, my recall isn’t as good as yours, because I am unable to cite specific poster’s comments such as you did w/hoosierfan33. Kudos. When CTC said that he’d have booed himself last year, I guess that some consider that to be taking responsibility for the way the team played last year. While I don’t think it’s necessary for him to hang himself on a cross every time IU loses a game, there were occasions (like Purdue) when he could have accepted some responsibility for the outcome but didn’t.
I’m not particularly concerned with what Kevin Wilson, Teri Moren, Todd Yeagley or any other IU coach does or doesn’t do…the focus is usually on the basketball program here…js

Same reason CTC sux @ in-game coaching, lack of skill/talent! One needs great minds for great outcomes . . . 🙂

“This train is bound for glory, this train.” LOL.

One of the top items on my Bucket List is to drive the “karma bus”. I’m happy to say that there is no plan to drive by your house just yet :)…

Don’t wear the Wally Wabash lol.

If he ever made his way to Bloomington, I’d manage to overlook the Dannie connection

Grampy just admit you were being sarcastic and apologize, lol. It will get you good karma!

I watched Basil Smotherman a couple times last year on the BTN and the young man’s got game. Don’t be surprised to see him have at least as good a year as Troy, but I wouldn’t trade our #5 for their #5.
Watching Hammons play reminds me of Andrae Patterson who incurred the wrath of one RMK for habitually taking plays “off” because he seemed to believe that he’d “done enough” on the other end of the court. I think AP never really understood how much better he could have been had he done the work. Ditto Hammons.

Well I used to live close to Purdon’t country and it was pretty bad. Lots of people I went to school with were Purdon’t fans. They have tons of bandwagon fans that obvious had no idea about anything. So since you don’t live around West Lafayette, you have no real way to get a complete understanding of dealing with Purdue fans on a daily basis.

Milla…..wow your still not excited about our off season!? Really…..Seriously??? Let’s see we got rid of a player that either went to the NBA or players who only cared about themselves and we picked up a McDonald’s American with JBJ and a very good player with Robert Johnson and 4 pretty good decent players who can play and shoot! I again liked our off season more then any season CTC has orchestrated!