TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 #iubb will travel to Xavier for Gavitt Games
🔥 Hoosier Hysteria set for homecoming weekend
🔥 The aftermath of last week's NBA Draft
🔥 Indy Classic replaces Crossroads Classic

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Tidbits on Indiana target Yves Missi -- now a five-star -- and local talent Flory Bidunga, who all of you have opinions on -- and is now No. 6 in the class.

TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 #iubb will travel to Xavier for Gavitt Games
🔥 Hoosier Hysteria set for homecoming weekend
🔥 The aftermath of last week's NBA Draft
🔥 Indy Classic replaces Crossroads Classic

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but he thinks the supreme court made the right decision. then rambled on about how if women stayed home like Christ intended, he wouldn't have had to make such tough choices

Thomas unnecessarily suggested judicial activity and so became an activist judge himself.

No word yet whether Thomas is willing to reconsider the Long Dong Silver and pubic hair allegations which arose during his confirmation hearings.

6'9 Ace Bailey, 11th ranked player in the 2024 class, will visit IU in August. Sweet shooter, smooth, athletic and can handle the ball. Bailey is from Georgia.

Keegan and I are at Charlie Hughes at Carmel and Westfield HS.

Notable prospects include 2023 forward Xavier Booker, 2024 guard Jack Benter, 2024 wing Kanon Catchings, 2024 guard Micah Davis, 2024 wing KJ Windham, 2025 guard Jalen Haralson, 2025 forward Trent Sisley and more.

Good chance to get a look at some younger guys too.

Maybe IU needs a billionaire willing to buy IU their recruits

Collectives buying and funneling recruits to schools is exactly what NIL was for right?

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IU Coach Mike Woodson To Hold Two Basketball Camps This Summer

If you know the story of how Indiana basketball coach Mike Woodson began his journey with the Hoosier program, you know that it began with attending a summer camp that was put on by Hall of Fame Coach Bob Knight. The youngster from Indianapolis had a chance to make an impression for the first time with his long-time mentor and thus a near half-century relationship began.

“One of the biggest thrills of my life was winning a contest at Coach Knight’s camp and being given a t-shirt for doing so,” noted the Hoosiers second-year coach. “After that, there really wasn’t any other place that I wanted go to college and there wasn’t a coach who I wanted to play for more than Bob Knight.”

Woodson will now have the chance to run his own camps in the Summer of 2022, with Day Camps for boys in Grades 2 thru 9, June 13-16 and June 20-23. The camps encourage a love and appreciation for the game and will have a staff which will include Hoosier coaches, players, and student-managers.

“If we can inspire someone and change the direction of their life then I feel like we will have accomplished what we set out to do,” added Woodson.

The Day Camp will emphasize fundamental skill development. The daily schedule will include individual instruction, small group instruction, contest and competitions, and 5-on-5 scrimmages. This is your opportunity to experience Coach Woodson’s basketball program up close. The Day Camp will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Check in will begin on Monday at 8:15 a.m.

Day Camp I
June 13-16
Grades 2 thru 9 (Boys Only). Girls encouraged to sign up for Teri Moren Camp
$290
Cook Hall and Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall

Day Camp 2
June 20-23
Grades 2 thru 9 (Boys Only). Girls encouraged to sign up for Teri Moren Camp
$290
Cook Hall and Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall

To register click:
https://www.mikewoodsonbasketballcamps.com/

as currently is the case, how we formulate both bowl and playoff eligibility, totally screws up and perverts non conference scheduling options.

and in my opinion, also how starters are chosen, especially QB, and locked in to a point, in non real game conditions.

and the ability to take a look at more players, and give more players a chance for some game experience.

i would love to see a conference season only formula for both bowl game eligibility and playoff eligibility.

that would allow B10 and other conferences' schools far more flexibility in scheduling non con opponents, where fan enjoyment, attendance, and matchups, take precedent in scheduling, without having to make scheduling wins against schools fans don't want to see or pay to see, a top priority.

with just one added loss per season, or even one bad play leading to one added loss, usually killing off playoff eligibility, and often bowl eligibility, scheduling wins and avoiding scheduling possible losses, has totally perverted non con scheduling options for schools, making for a big downside for both schools and fans.

this would also allow schools to let QB battles, (and other positions to a lesser extent), to be fought out in real game situations in the non conf season, being that real game situations no longer exist much, if any, in practice to my knowledge.

and until the lights go on, and a real game environment exists against other big schools, imo you can't really judge how competing QBs will fair in a real game against a competitive school.

currently, the starting QB is picked in different conditions than games are played in.

in no tackling the QB in practice, i can theorize how that could possibly advantage the better passer over the better athlete, and take performance under high duress, out of the equation to an extent.

and under the current situation, once that starter is picked, absent total calamity, only an injury removes him, as coaches are terrified of one bad play leading to one extra loss knocking them out of bowl eligibility, or playoff eligibility.

would be great for fans and coaches and administrators alike, to be able to schedule the non conference season without having to worry about how said scheduling will impact bowl or playoff eligibility.

i'd think it would also benefit players and coaches, by allowing coaches to experiment more freely and look at more players during non conf season, without fearing one bad play leading to one extra loss, could sabotage a whole season.

Denver East High School won the Colorado state championship. It went on to win the national high school invitational tournament.

Denver University won the NCAA Hockey title.

The Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup.

Has there been a time when teams in the same city won national high school, college, and professional titles in the same sport in the same season?

I haven't read the concurrences or dissents yet, so I can't speak to that, but I want to bring up a point about Alito's opinion, because it lines up well with something I predicted in previous discussions about this case.

First, let me make something absolutely clear again, even though previous pleas have sometimes fallen on deaf ears. Nothing I'm about to say should be construed as either an endorsement or a critique of Alito's opinion. So far, I find his opinion well-reasoned and compelling, but that doesn't mean I agree with it. Once I get around to reading Roberts and the dissents, I suspect I will also be impressed with their arguments, but that doesn't mean I will agree with them. Sometimes, the beauty of the law in my eyes is the conflict between opposing arguments that both make sense, even though logic dictates that the correctness of one must necessarily imply the error of the other.

Having gotten that out of the way, I argued a couple of months ago that, while overturning Roe has been the primary focus of the anti-abortion movement, it wasn't the only one, and it certainly wasn't the endpoint. The endpoint is fetal personhood in the form of federally recognized 14th Amendment protections for the unborn. That's what they want, and they've already started the process of trying to put this theory into legislative language in various states. Eventually, this question will find itself before the court. So, I was immediately drawn to a seemingly small, interesting phrasing in Alito's opinion.

Roe mentions what it calls "potential life" or "the potentiality for life" a dozen times. In every case it is part of a formulation in which the state has an interest in potential life that might compete - and thus need to be balanced against - the woman's right to privacy. Casey mentions potential life many more times, but it follows Roe's formulation. Potential life is a valid state interest that might stand in conflict with a woman's valid interest in her right to privacy.

Alito departs from this formulation ever so slightly, technically misrepresenting Roe and Casey in doing so:


See the difference? Whereas in Roe and Casey, the state had an interest in potential life, which must be balanced against the interests of the woman. In Dobbs, the interest rests with the potential life itself, and it is the state's role to balance the interests of the woman against the interests of this potential life. In this reading, the only plausible understanding of the interest residing with the "potential life" is that the interest is that of the fetus.

Now, read at face value, Alito's opinion does what it says: returns the power to make these types of policy decisions regarding abortion to the states. But in doing so, it also grants the fetus an express interest in this balancing act. That grant is exactly the foot in the door needed to pursue federally protected fetal personhood. Alito's reasoning might not support such a change, but his small shift in phrasing here has given them a big weapon in the fight.

Not all heroes wear capes...or clothes.


A little light-hearted SFW fun for a brief respite from the all the debate happening here and a way to support the Ukrainian war effort. Which I'm sure you all want to do.

Do we want a federal government sufficiently empowered it can require all states to permit abortion, or a federal government sufficiently limited that it can’t prevent states from legalizing weed?

Aside from the obvious of TJD developing a jumper---or Race for that matter. WHo's the one guy(returning), who if he makes "the jump", catapults this team to a very high level? Or does IU need multiple guys to do so?

IMO, its Bates or Kopp. If one or both can become a serviceable, to good, consistent shooter, Indiana becomes a different team. A much, much different team.

and you want to know how long your trip will take you

by foot (cheapest), chariot, donkey (2nd cheapest), boat, or a combination. The Fastest journey from Roma to Londinium in January takes about 41.8 days. Donkey refueling time not included.

A man is flying in a hot-air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man below. He lowers the balloon farther and shouts, "Excuse me! Can you tell me where I am?"

The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot-air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."

"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."

The man below says, "You must be in management."

"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."






and a chick....

Those international adds are always fun… but it’s worked for teams like Michigan, Gonzaga (now Arizona) and others
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Indiana announces Hoosier Hysteria will take place on Homecoming Weekend this year -- set for Friday, October 7

The IU baseball web page has a live listing of summer ball participants. Of note they seem to be omitting players who have entered the portal. There are only 11 players listed but the list includes Ty Bothwell who finished the season on a positive note. Hopefully this indicates he plans to return. Left handers with live arms often attract MLB interest, at least on the free agent level. The Reese Sharp link does go to the Bourne Braves site in the Cape Cod League although the site lists the Cincinnati Steam as the team.


FWIW I did stumble into a record of a couple of innings work by Matt Cuzco with the Terre Haute Rex of the Prospect League. Matt is a pitcher from the Chicago area who is part of this year’s class. Perhaps he stopped in on his way to Bloomington for the summer.

Tony Siragusa dies at age 55