NOMORENIT said:

let me start out by saying Marian looked like an average HS Team

Ballo- Love him so far. Fills the middle. Rebounds, plays D, hangs around the bucket.
Rice- Best player on the team. Lighting quick in transition and can shoot.
Tucker- Only played against Marian but unlike Mgbako, a true 5 Star. He can shoot outside and create his own shot.
Goode- Very confident in his shot. Great form. One thing....the ball hasn't gone in yet
Mgbako- Looks the same as last year. We will see if he improves.
Galloway- no comment, injured. He might not get minutes if Tucker keeps getting better
Cupps- Can't play passive this year. Rice will take all his minutes
Reneau- He's looked really good. Would love to see him develop a 10ft jumper.
Carlyle, James, Newton, Hatton- remains to be seen

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All opinions and I agree with many of them. I’m not as high on Ballo, but we shall see how he does against B1G competition. I hope he is a very good banger for us.

As for MM, he looks a lot better to me. Much better on D and looks more explosive. And he still has a nice touch. He might be our best player, but he has to pass MR and Rice.

I will hold judgement on Tucker. He played against HS kids against Marian. But looks very promising and he will have some struggles against good B1G comp, but if he adjusts, watch out.

Rice is super quick and a really good handle. If he can be a threat from deep, he might be our best player.

TG will be a great player for us, doing whatever is needed and I suspect his 3pt percentage will go up to the 40% range without having the pressure to score so much.

Goode finally broke the seal and I hope he can drain some serious deep shots for us. If not, he should ride a lot of pine.

Started from the bottom, now we here...

(problem is this guy is a UK fan and also become an outcast, but the song is fairly appropriate other than the swearing)

vesuvius13 said:

No need to worry about other teams as IU has to keep doing what they have all season.

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False, if Penn State wins, they and Oregon have weak remaining schedules and in a 3 way tie of undefeated teams, IU is 100% the team left out due to how far back we are. I've already done the math. We need OSU to give Penn State the loss and if IU beats OSU, we're in the B1G title game and I would think IU would be favored. Considering Oregon won by 1pt at home against OSU and in this scenario, IU would've won at the Shoe.

Marvin the Martian said:

Smerconish was talking about not turning singular irregularities into something more. He was quoting someone else, saying that we have voting locations that will average double the foot traffic of a Starbucks. These voting locations are one day popups. The workers are woefully underpaid.

Let me add undertrained. For decades I worked, we had a 2 hour training session, that was it. It had no role playing, no job shadowing, nothing. A person at the front lecturing. Your average Starbucks employee is better paid and much better trained.

There is a margin of error on election day. Do we think every Chick-fil-A balances every register to the penny every day? There will be precincts not balanced to the vote.

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When I voted the other day in Bloomington I had two people at each station to assist, as I made my way through. Presumably, they do this to check that it’s being done correctly. And frankly, it’s the same process as everyone goes through, so by repetition these workers should be well informed by processing hundreds each day. Also, it’s not rocket science if everything is setup and organized correctly from the start.

Gus Johnson just described OSU as "undermanned"...I almost threw up my lunch

dbmhoosier said:

Bush lied children died!!!

Same playbook every time. Hilarious to watch the left that for years called Bush and Cheney mass murderers now defending them.

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Hey! Hey!
LBJ!
How many kids did you kill today?

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snarlcakes said:

Your opinion doesn’t matter when it comes to conservatism.

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My opinion is more valid than yours. I’ve been a conservative for much longer. I also know that there isn’t a great deal of conservative about Trump and understand that being a conservative Republican does not require supporting Trump. Don’t get into this “you’re not conservative, you’re a Democrat” bullshit again. It’s very stupid and tiring.

IndyResident16 said:

3:30 CBS would be my guess

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That would sure beat the 7:30 start someone above forecast. If I'm watching on TV I don't much care. I absolutely hate attending games where there's been 8 hours of tailgating beforehand. Probably just me ...

Marvin the Martian said:

You always talk about the imminent civil war, true or false? Doesn't it sound like he just jumped the gun.

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False.

Like most of your gabble.

I've posted verifiable historical information regarding the two previous civil wars, and numerous times about my anticipation for criminal bad actors in current government employ being held accountable.

IUNCAAChamps2012 said:

I don’t think it matters. A 2 loss OSU with a win over IU would probably make it into the CFP over IU. A 2 loss PSU with a B1G championship loss likely makes it in over IU.

I think IU needs to win out to make it into the CFP. Unless the CFP rankings are much different, our #13 ranking makes it challenging to leapfrog folks without winning out. A loss to OSU would have a lot of ppl saying “I told you so” and probably drop IU back to #15 again.

The other outside shot is 4 B1G teams making it but that is probably a stretch

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Seeing what's out there in CFB this year the B1G should 100% get 4 teams in the playoff this year.

snarlcakes said:

@dbmhoosier even Marvelous Marv has been compromised and is setting up the narrative for the steal. Are we prepared for it on the ground?

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Marv is as incorruptible as Robespierre. If they got to him, it’s all over.

Big Red Crimson Buffalo said:

OSU should be up 21-10 right now. Terrible ball security by their QB on that run. That is what is keeping PSU in the game. And, somebody tell me how a back judge standing 3 feet from that OSU interception in the endzone could not see that?

The QB for OSU has made two critical errors or this would be a blowout.

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Yeah, OSU clearly looks like the better team today. I think IU looks much better than PSU too.

BA47591 said:

Hot take: Tucker is a better all around player than Mgbako. He looks more mature and more comfortable on the floor. Where I would call Mgbako a shooter I would call Tucker a scorer.

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neither are lock-down defenders. but I give a pass to motherTucker because he is a freshman. they need to get better in a hurry.
but in the right offense with them both on the floor at the 3 and 4 spots = very interesting

vesuvius13 said:

No need to worry about other teams as IU has to keep doing what they have all season.

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True, but I heard that PSU holds the tie breaker if IU and PSU both go 12-0.

It’s a very good point - which is why it’s a mistake to use absolute language in talking about elections.

There have always been and will always be occurrences of voter fraud. That does not mean that it’s rampant or that it’s affecting the outcomes of elections. But it’s also wrong to suggest it isn’t something we need reasonable safeguards against. It will always happen, but we can and should do things that make it hard to pull off while not making voting a laborious thing to do.

3:30 CBS would be my guess

LifelongIU77 said:

So what if a team wins the NC...and then loses their top 5 scorers from that team? Should they still be ranked #1?

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yes

Marvin the Martian said:

Smerconish was talking about not turning singular irregularities into something more. He was quoting someone else, saying that we have voting locations that will average double the foot traffic of a Starbucks. These voting locations are one day popups. The workers are woefully underpaid.

Let me add undertrained. For decades I worked, we had a 2 hour training session, that was it. It had no role playing, no job shadowing, nothing. A person at the front lecturing. Your average Starbucks employee is better paid and much better trained.

There is a margin of error on election day. Do we think every Chick-fil-A balances every register to the penny every day? There will be precincts not balanced to the vote.

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I listen to Smerconish most days on POTUS. Good guy and good show. Very even handed. Used to be a Republican and worked in Republican campaigns. He’s officially independent now, but he’s conservative IMO.

OSU should be up 21-10 right now. Terrible ball security by their QB on that run. That is what is keeping PSU in the game. And, somebody tell me how a back judge standing 3 feet from that OSU interception in the endzone could not see that?

The QB for OSU has made two critical errors or this would be a blowout.

IU controls their own destiny. All that matters today is to beat Sparty.

Rogan just dropped a podcast with Fetterzombie.