2. In state recruiting won't be as favorable as you think. Alford isn't exactly loved by the AAU coaches around IN. Ask Bloom.
I have never said such a thing. He just didn't get any traction with Indiana kids when he was in Iowa. I didn't care for Craig Neal, but that's mostly because of people who had worked with him in the NBA and in college who just didn't think he was a good person, regardless of what they thought of him as a coach.