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Which magazine/web site provides the best B1G football preview (most insightful, best analysis)? I need to prep for the season and don’t want a source that just mails it in when they examine the teams in the bottom half of the conference.

"Absolutely. Absolutely," Woodson said. "That man set the stage for a lot of the players today. For me, a lot of the players before me. Bill Russell was the s***. I don't care how you cut it"

No school like old school.

Here’s a good-ern - topped off the movie great.

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Shamelessly stealing this idea from the Assembly Call episode posted this week, but I thought it was interesting; especially to see what people's expectations are for the freshmen and Tamar. Here's mine:

1 TJD
2 XJ
3 Race
4 Tamar
5 JHS (hoping by season's end, that's our starting lineup, although I expect CMW, with as loyal as he was to experienced guys last year to start Kopp at first)
6 Malik R
7 Miller Kopp (if he becomes the knock down shooter I expected, his value might rise if the guys above him aren't hitting 3s)
8 Galloway (not a stat stuffer but his energy and effort make us better)
9 Geronimo (no one has an opportunity to push themselves much higher, imo)
10 Banks (great reports so far, are there enough minutes to get him on the floor?)
11 Leal (good teammate and it won't surprise me to see him make plays critical to a win or 2 along the way, but I don't see many minutes for him)
12 LD (may see minutes w foul trouble or injury. Think his opp is next year)
13 Gunn (sounds like a bright future, but I usually don't expect much out of freshmen and he seems the most likely not to see much action to me, and still a bright future. Loaded team!)

I think most of their guys were similar. One guy had Trey at 3, which is hard for me to see given his injury and lack of scoring, but he does usually help us when on the floor)

this thread should die quick, as neither party or their puppets will like the message.

everything the CORPORATE media has told us about the current inflation, and current gas prices, is complete and total bunk.

first off, let's check actual reality on how business "prices" in the first place, and what pressures are present or are absent that go into that.

business, especially corporations, charge as much as they can get away with, without sufficient price demand curve loss of market share, and/or loss of volume on discretionary purchases, eventually forcing the issue downward.

with gas, not enough of gas consumption is discretionary for gas providers to see loss of volume as much of a downward force.

and gas is monopoly priced, as is oil, it's base ingredient, so there is no real "competitive" market based competitive force downward pressure, other than maybe at the retail level where we're only talking a few cents per gallon.

political forces that keep gas prices down, were usurped by blaming covid and the war.


in the 70s the price jump in gas was driven by the middle east cutting off our supply.

even at outrageous prices for the time, there were shortages of gas at the pump and long lines.

there are no shortages today. none.

anybody have trouble finding gas for sale, or rationing? NO!

and there isn't even the tiniest drop in the supply of oil.

Russia is still pumping and selling as much or more oil today as before the war, they just are selling it to different buyers.

and for every barrel of Russian oil said other buyers are buying, that's one less barrel they are buying from the middle east or South America or other sources.

just as much oil is on the market today as ever.. just some shifting in who gets what where.

oil is high because the industry, a monopoly cartel to begin with, drove up the price, with the help of the corporate media.

and Biden and the oil owned US senate, are doing nothing to pressure the Saudis or the rest of the cartel, to lower them. (like threatening SA to stop being their protectors, or selling them weapons or parts.)

or threaten US companies with a windfall tax that eats up 100% of their added gains.

or breaking up the oligopoly.

or nationalizing US oil. (which should have been done long ago).

gas in the US today is priced as it is, because they can, and there are no pressures, competitive, economic, or governmental, stopping them.

even with the monopoly manipulated, and media driven and enabled, high price of oil, we've all seen that when oil was last at $118 a barrel, US gas was $3.25 gal.

everything over that is just war and pandemic profiteering.




as for car prices, that's just lack of supply driven, because we offshored chip production to China and elsewhere.

real estate. monopoly priced, and not a discretionary purchase.

on top of that, Wall St and hedge funds are now buying up real estate, and paying cash funded by the Fed, so individuals can't compete on price.

as are small investors, as real estate is more valuable as a rental, or after flipping gentrification.


meat prices? pork, beef, and poultry, are all effective monopolies now.

they are charging what they are because no one is stopping them, or threatening their monopoly/monopsony price control.

air lines? mass consolidation has made them effectively monopoly controlled.

drugs and healthcare, monopolies.


this inflation is zero percent money supply driven, or supply/shortage driven other than cars, and no one has yet even proven the M1 money supply, (the money that circulates in the everyday economy Joe Buyer lives in), is anymore today than pre pandemic.

yes, the govt gave out money because of the pandemic.. but much of what they gave out went to corps, not individuals, (and a lot claimed to go to individuals never got there), and while the propaganda media cites any and all govt money to individuals, it never gives the other half of the story which is all the lost private based income from the pandemic to individuals.

just because Uncle Mark made out better during the pandemic, a good portion of the population didn't, and until you factor in all the lost economy based income from the pandemic, and it's velocity effect, and not just include any govt handouts, you can't really say the M1 money supply is any greater than pre pandemic.

that said, regardless if the M1 money supply is slightly more, (which we know not), in competitive markets rather than a monopolistic ones, it doesn't matter as to pricing and is irrelevant to the debate.

anyone who gets their inflation or economy information from corporate media, or corporate owned think tanks and economists, including corporate owned academics, need consider taking the source of that pure BS propaganda info into consideration, and who's paying for that story.

anyone telling you this inflation isn't monopoly driven, and lack of regulatory and anti trust driven, is just wrong out of ignorance, or just lying their asses off. (as is the case with the corporate media's and corporate owned academics and think tanks propaganda total BS).

This could be a rough one, but let’s try and dig into this.

Let’s say civilization formed knowing what we know now. Heliocentric solar system, age of the earth, dinosaurs, size of the universe, microbes, germ theory of disease, plate tectonics and associated earthquakes, volcanos, and tsunamis, how hurricanes and tornadoes form, that epilepsy is caused by brain issues and not demonic possession, antibiotics, vaccines, solar eclipses, lightning/thunder are large scale static electricityetc (add your own).

If we knew all of that from the beginning, would there be a broad conception of a god(s) (regardless of which one(s) someone subscribed to)?

The concept is that so many of the early things ascribed to god(s) were natural phenomena we didn’t understand. As the gaps have closed it seems that the concept of god(s) to have substantially changed. But I’m curious what others think.

Just when you think the far Right can't get any more demented, they invite Orban to Texas as the special guest for the latest reiteration of CPAC...

I'm sure that this is basically returning the favor of the previous meeting in Budapest where Orban welcomed the American PACsters as heroes and celebrated their common dreams. So the invitation was likely issued months ago. And as the video points out, pro-Orban Hungarian groups likely put $$ in the pocket of Schlapp and other CPAC organizers to get Viktor on the bill...

But you'd think that in light of Orban's recent blatantly racist screed which even one of his own long time advisors resigned in protest over and characterized as "pure Nazi text worthy of Goebbels", Schlapp's bunch would have at least expressed some level of uncomfortableness. Instead, the crowd welcomed him with open arms and cheered enthusiastically culminating in a standing ovation... Interestingly, Orban met with his bosom buddy Trump at the Saudi Golf course Trump owns in NJ, a few days before moving on to Dallas...

This guy epitomizes the (white) Christian Nationalist movement, and basically occupies the role the US far Right assigned to Putin prior to Ukraine. I know why he's popular with some on this board, but I wonder what the appeal is to Republicans that say they are opposed to authoritarianism and value Democracy? He's been the dictator of Hungary for 12 yrs...

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The first eight games of the season do they need to win 6 before the bye week heading into November. Your thoughts on this yes or no. Keep in mind the Purdue game you never know.

I saw an article about HFG and the summer class signing. There was talk about Sydney Parish's tik tok and Insta numbers. I'm always trying to figure out the reasons behind things. I'm not a tik tok guy, but I can peruse instagram.

No wonder she's doing so well with followers. Go Hoosiers!

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Story here on Indiana’s mission to turn the tide on defense.

A busy month of July has come to a close and there is quite a bit of reaction to the important trio of visits that Indiana hosted for class of 2023 prospects last week.

We will start with 2023 wing Jamie Kaiser. Kaiser was the first of the three prospects to visit Indiana last week and it was a very good visit. So good, that it basically moved the decision to either Maryland or Indiana.

Kaiser took an unofficial visit on Thursday to Maryland and sources told TheHoosier.com that while no commitment was made official, it seems Kaiser to Maryland is the indication post visit. Sources said an announcement should come 'within the week' but could be sooner.

Heading into this week Kaiser was much more inclined to make a decision sooner rather than later. His dad was okay with waiting and preferred that. It appears that Kaiser Jr. will be the one who has the final say on when he will decide, however.

I don't expect this to be Indiana at this point and unless there is some shift and Indiana gets Kaiser to hold off and visit again in the fall, Maryland should be the answer.

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As for 2023 top-50 forward Arrinten Page from Wheeler (Ga.) -- Indiana continues to sit in a very good spot. Sources indicated this week that Indiana 'checked all of the boxes' it needed to on the visit.

TheHoosier spoke with Wheeler assistant coach Rich McCray who was on Page's official visit to Indiana.

McCray regarding the visit: "The visit was great. Staff is top notch. I felt I don’t think it could have been a better visit. He was able to see everything he needed to see while on IU’s campus. The style of play compliments Arrinten’s game."

McCray on key's to Page's recruitment: "In no particular order: Development, Style of play, and if he will come right in and play/start right away"

Page has taken visits to Cincinnati, Missouri, USC and has another one planned to Miami (Fla.) later this month.

One source told me they think Indiana sits at the top for Page.

More on Page's visit:


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The final visit was 2023 four-star guard DeShawn Harris-Smith. While initial talk was Indiana did a very good job on this visit and won over his mom -- which was key -- it seems Indiana may be still trailing the likes of Xavier, Villanova and Maryland to an extent.

Indiana offered DHS in the first live session of July and got him to visit two weeks later. That in itself shows you the connections and ability to relay a message to a recruit. Unfortunately, Indiana just wasn't on the radar at all before mid-June and the fact that DHS didn't really know much about Indiana coming into the visit, there was going to have to be a lot of ground to make up. I want to reiterate, there was ground that Indiana made up, just doesn't sound like enough.

Harris-Smith's mom told TheHoosier this week that they still feel very comfortable with the five schools he has taken visits to. There had been some talk about a potential decision that could come in early August, with his birthday being next week, but she said that would be a bit of a surprise at the moment If a decision was made by then.

I don't expect Indiana to be the school here, but if this continues to drag out, there could be more down the line for IU.

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With the 2024 class, top-30 wing Liam McNeeley confirmed with TheHoosier.com yesterday that he has his Indiana official visit locked in for Sept. 23-25.

Indiana had at least one member of its staff at every one of McNeeley's games during the final live period of July.

"Coach Walsh and coach Woodson are talking to me the most," McNeeley said. "Coach Woodson, he's been in the NBA longer than I've been alive. So he knows a lot about basketball and I'm trying to get to the NBA.

McNeeley has a strong impression of Indiana already and the history that comes with the basketball program.

“I mean Indiana is a great basketball state," McNeeley said. "There is a lot of basketball history in the state of Indiana so it’s just a great accomplishment and it means a lot.”

TheHoosier.com was able to see McNeeley multiple times this summer and at Peach Jam to end July. Here are our scouting notes from Peach Jam:

McNeeley is such a good offensive player with and without the ball and a lot of that comes from his high IQ. Whether he is scoring or making plays for his teammates, he does so with such ease and fluidness that is's so repeatable. His ability to get into the lane at will is so impressive and when he does, he is very difficult to stop because he always has two or three potential plays to make. Scoring wise, McNeeley is a tremendous shooter and does so off of the dribble or catch. He has good size and a release that makes it difficult for many defenders to disrupt his shot. When he's attacking the rim, his frame allows him to draw and take the contact and finish at ease inside the paint. While he is listed as a small forward, McNeeley is very much the focal point of the offense and plays very much on the ball.

Peach Jam game-by-game results:

Game one: 12 points (4-of-10 FG / 1-of-4 3pt / 3-of-4 FT), 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 turnover, 29 minutes

Game two: 14 points (4-of-16 FG / 1-of-4 3pt / 5-of-7 FT), 14 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 turnovers, 27 minutes

Game three: 28 points (10-of-15 FG / 3-of-5 3pt / 5-of-6 FT), 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 turnovers, 28 minutes

Game four: 14 points (5-of-12 FG / 1-of-3 3pt / 3-of-5 FT), 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 turnover, 27 minutes

Game five: 20 points (6-of-11 FG / 2-of-4 3pt / 6-of-6 FT), 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 turnovers, 28 mintues

Game six: 10 points (5-of-11 FG / 0-of-2 3pt / 0-of-0 FT), 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 turnovers, 27 minutes

Game seven: 20 points (8-of-14 FG / 2-of-5 3pt / 2-of-3 FT), 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 26 minutes

Game eight: 25 points (10-of-18 FG / 2-of-3 3pt / 3-of-5 FT), 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 28 mintues

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Indiana hosted two class of 2025 visitors this week. Aug. 1 was the first day that rising sophomores could visit unofficially to schools. Indiana hosted 2025 Fishers (Ind.) guard Jalen Haralson on Aug. 1 and then 2025 Heritage Hills (Ind.) forward Trent Sisley on Aug. 2. Both prospects visited Purdue on the other day. Trent Sisley also visited Ohio State on Aug. 3.

Both players will have numerous offers by the time its ready to make a decision and with a decision a ways away, Indiana still has to do a lot. But, both visits went about as good as they could have gone if not better. It was a very strong start.

Indiana has prioritized both players. More than what other programs typically do for class of 2025 prospects at this stage. Indiana went 4-deep to multiple games of theirs at Peach Jam in July. That is sending a message.

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More on Sisley's visit:


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With summer workouts done, here is what I was able to gather about some standouts:

Forward Trayce Jackson-Davis
Forward Malik Reneau
Forward Kaleb Banks
Guard Tamar Bates
Guard CJ Gunn
Guard Jalen Hood-Schifino

That is just some. But guys like Gunn and Banks were two that stood out more than what was expected.

In his visit photo shoot ,he looks bored. Not a good sign.

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@outside shooter how scared should I be?

Hoosiers have made the final 5 for 4-star DeShawn Harris-Smith, a 6'5" G/W out of Paul VI in Northern Virginia, whose final 5 consists of: Penn State, Xavier, Maryland, Villanova, and Indiana. You can read up on Harris-Smith's game in this very thorough breakdown: Player Evaluation.

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This is embarrassing.

I expect IU‘s defense will play hard for him. Wilt’s former bosses expect him to be a HC. He’ll be calling plays soon enough.

https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/s...ve-coordinator-is-like-tom-allen/10039114002/

It seems Cam Jones has bought in … he expects IU’s defense to attack with swagger … and dictate to opposing offenses on 3rd down.

https://indiana.rivals.com/news/iu-...-with-edge-and-swagger-absent-from-a-year-ago

On Saturday, June 23, 2018, Maxine Waters was quoted as saying, seen on video saying, and admitted saying:

"If you see anybody from that [Trump] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Yeah, she "walked it back." Yeah, the left rationalized it. Yeah, the right touted it as a call to violence.

I view it as a vote whore polarizing everyone, probably by unthinking accident ("you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere") with no regard for or understanding of the consequences - at best.

A few days later, an article was published that I read and bookmarked for later consumption. Now is the time. (I have a friend who is now being threatened by righties about abortion.)

I won't name the publication - to deny the Coolerites the usual response of refusing to consider "the idea" by simply bashing the source. Those who want to can google and try and find it - to see if they can/should not oppose/support the ideas, while irony hovers everywhere.


The article asked how exactly did Waters think her comments would work out? (My answer - she didn't think at all.). Would righties follows suit and get aggressive in public toward lefties? Would security and/or law enforcement end up causing both sides unintended/unanticipated harms? Would use of aggressive public confrontations change minds or policies on either side?

I did an independent study in undergrad on "mob violence" - mostly because of Kent State. It was from a psychology perspective, but any study of mob violence necessarily confronts politics and social issues - its where "mobs" are born for most instances. It suffices to say that - for the most part - humans become the lowest common behavior denominator when a mob goes violent. They commit harms. - even to their own side - out of panic, out of rage, out of unintended consequences. ("We thought we might get a medal for picking up the garbage, or get yelled at. Instead we were arrested.")

The author discussed a LOT of then-recent individual events.
Protesters showing up at Trump campaign stops, and Trump saying "if they disrupt us, just beat the crap out them" (paraphrasing.)
Lefties getting hurt in a melee when righties were being protested.
The guy shooting up the GOP softball practice.
A black guy in a MAGA hat getting rousted in a restaurant.
Joe Wilson shouting "you lie" at Obama.
Airplane incidents.
Disrupted Broadway shows.

In general, the author opined that - for the most part -angry mobs and angry individuals are not really all that good historically at deterring a particular unwanted behavior. Instead, the purpose and/or effect is instilling fear and giving a lot of other people an excuse to act out = all of them all the time justifying their acts with claims that (paraphrasing) “I’m not harassing or assaulting another human being, I’m standing up for good causes! human rights! doing the "right" thing.”

Generally, the author stated that harassment of public figures on the right would only lead to harassment of public figures on the left. Biblically, "An eye for an eye = a blind world."

The question was posed whether we still settle our differences through debate/discourse/the ballot box/the courtroom — or by stirring up an angry crowd and implying (or maybe more than implying) a threat of physical violence against the political opposition.

As typical nowadays, the article linked another, which was discussing media and movies, and said:

"For all the problems I have with modern journalism, journalism itself is incredibly important. Or at least it should be. And you won’t find many people who love movies more than I do or are a bigger supporter of the pursuit of truth. That last part, the pursuit of truth, permeates everything else. Without it, nothing has meaning, nothing matters. If the truth is Play-Doh, it can be molded and bastardized to fit whatever the holder of it wants it to. . . .

The United States, or any other free people, needs access to accurate, truthful information. Without it we’re serfs making decisions based on lies told by those in power. When you make decisions based on lies, you are under the control of those feeding you the lies. . . .

The American people have never been more misinformed by the media, but they’ve also never had more access to more information. The house of cards that is the mainstream media will either fall or be forced to change completely. Until that happens, it’s up to you not only be informed but to inform others."

So non-violence and love-speech and truth ...

If you could go back and lovingly slap some sense into Maxine - would ya?
Should Trump have toned it down?
Should we?

Pondering in the heat ...

Interesting fact: One of the 5 players in state tournament history to be the "Final 4 Scoring Leader" 2 years in a row (and the only one of the 5 that DIDN'T win a state championship) played for this team.