IU stepped up and paid Ya. TJD was 100% gone until Woodson got hired.
You overestimate the impact of playing time in games on player development. Guys are mostly ready or not going into the season and undergo the most actual development in the offseason.
We already saw how Woody uses his playing time. You have to be largely "solid" defensively to play for Woody.
And I completely disagree. Look at guys like Branham and Ivey as freshmen. Started slow, but their coaches stuck with them.
I have very bad memories of wings lighting us up most games. We need to improve big time in defending the perimeter to really be an elite defensive team. Just look at teams like UNC and Houston as examples of where we can eventually go defensively.
I think we got lit up more by stretch 4s.
Go look at Branham’s stats compared to Bates through their first 10 games. Bates was better.
True. If he does get to as good as Galloway defensively though, he will be a lottery pick.
It won't be Galloway. He is a major contributor whether he comes off bench or starts. I believe Bates & Galloway will both be studs next year.
Galloway will never be a “stud”. You can’t go from an athletic scholarship to an academic scholarship and stay on the team.
Only 9 guys will play consistently, so why would they keep 14 “scholarship” players?
I really don’t want to lose Galloway. Indiana kid, dad is a coach, and he really loves IU. He’s not leaving unless he’s pushed, IMO.
Why not? That's absurd, do you think anybody is going to kick them off the team if they qualified for an academic scholarship and weren't taking up an athletic one? I think not, that's a huge benefit for the team and would be rewarded, not punished if they did that
Because it’s against NCAA rules to go from a scholarship player to an academic scholarship for this very reason?
So who is leaving in the event that TJD comes back and we land either Dennis or McNeil?
That doesn't make any sense as they are guaranteed their scholarship even if they are no longer on the team due to being out recruited etc, players bill of rights. It might be against the rules to split scholarship between both, but 99.999% sure that Woody could say we just don't want or need you and his scholarship would be guaranteed by the university if he's in good standing ... that's what the whole thing was about, to limit the impact of "Creaning" on athletes
I expect we will have our usual rash of injuries next year, like always, which leads to redistribution of minutes.
The players bill of rights guarantees them a scholarship. It does not guarantee them a spot on the team. A player can’t go from athletic scholarship to academic scholarship and stay on the team.
That's ridiculous, so if you have an academic scholarship, who the F says you can't then just be a walk on ... same difference. There's no way you couldn't do that. Hell, if I got interested in studying again and lost 30 years, I could probably do that as a grad student if I could make the team as a walk on. There's no way they'd deny a walk-on the ability to play if they wanted them to play and they're eligible
Read the damn rules. I didn’t make them up.
Not saying they would. They could. I was reading about teams doing this. It’s already happening.
They can’t get academic scholarships. They can get a NIL deal to pay their way, but they can’t get academic scholarships.
