You are a bit of a scold, aren't you?

Lighten up, Francis.

2nd – Just because a kid lists you on his list does not mean there is any real intent there. See Dom Ferguson, IU had no real intent of signing him although he listed them. If a kid also lists Cincinnati and South Carolina with IU, that tells me he is wishing more than holding.

3rd – Postman E (Eamonn) – I like your playing with words. It keeps someone with ADD like me interested. You have a unique take on things and I like the way you use quirky sayings and words I have to look up in the dictionary. I read the Dagger as part of my daily reading and I understand you have to entertain a national audience with the blog, not just IU fans, so I see where you were coming from. I am a fan of your work and I appreciate the quirks. The three of you together have founded my favorite blog and I appreciate that. However, you lend credibilty to those criticizing you by responding to them. I also thought that the comments were unneccesary (as explained in point 4), but they should not define you as a “journalist.”

4th – To those offering criticism to Eamonn, a blog is a space to offer opinions. It is designed to provide an outlet for one’s thoughts. There is no journalistic integrity required, nor is there any reason to worry about word choice, just the words you think best describe your thoughts on the particular matter. I would understand if you were an English professor or a journalism major and Eamonn was your subject of study or your professor, but I assuming you are not and he is not. Postman E’s only obligation is to get readers and encourage the advertisers to pay to have a spot on his blog so his employer can get more money. (my 2 cents on the matter)

2nd – Just because a kid lists you on his list does not mean there is any real intent there. See Dom Ferguson, IU had no real intent of signing him although he listed them. If a kid also lists Cincinnati and South Carolina with IU, that tells me he is wishing more than holding.

3rd – Postman E (Eamonn) – I like your playing with words. It keeps someone with ADD like me interested. You have a unique take on things and I like the way you use quirky sayings and words I have to look up in the dictionary. I read the Dagger as part of my daily reading and I understand you have to entertain a national audience with the blog, not just IU fans, so I see where you were coming from. I am a fan of your work and I appreciate the quirks. The three of you together have founded my favorite blog and I appreciate that. However, you lend credibilty to those criticizing you by responding to them. I also thought that the comments were unneccesary (as explained in point 4), but they should not define you as a “journalist.”

4th – To those offering criticism to Eamonn, a blog is a space to offer opinions. It is designed to provide an outlet for one's thoughts. There is no journalistic integrity required, nor is there any reason to worry about word choice, just the words you think best describe your thoughts on the particular matter. I would understand if you were an English professor or a journalism major and Eamonn was your subject of study or your professor, but I assuming you are not and he is not. Postman E's only obligation is to get readers and encourage the advertisers to pay to have a spot on his blog so his employer can get more money. (my 2 cents on the matter)

Of course, I'm projecting a lot considering we're coming off a 7-win season, but if you add Williams, Carlino and Ethrington to the '09 class, then I think we should be waiting to add the heavy hitter. With the scholarships so limited, I'd rather wait for Irving, Christmas, Gilrest etc. to take us to the next level.

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I really don't care that you helped found a blog. What credibility as a writer does that lend to you? Your words are all you have and yours, in this instance anyway, are exactly as I first described them. Good luck to you.

I went with abstract and nebulous because IU, sprawling, huge institution that it is, can sometimes seem to exist regardless of the people running it. If Knight chooses to view it that way, fine, but my point is that IU the school isn't responsible for how the story ended; Knight, and Myles Brand, and various other folks no longer employed there are. I promise I wasn't trying to be a poser. I probably just could have gone with “sprawling,” but sometimes I type very fast in order to get all my work done. It happens.

Relatively momentous was used because I believe a thing can have varying degrees of momentousness; my dog not crapping in the house today is momentous to me, but in the lifetime development of my dog — or the continued development and progress of the human race — only barely so. See what I mean here? “Relatively” is a way to provide context. Not everyone cares about IU basketball, you see.

And anyway why are you guys being so picky? Is not the point of the post itself more important than word choice, which as far as I know is marginally subjective? (Did I choose those two correctly?)

Also, um, GF Dave, I'm one of the founding three members of this here blog, and while my contributions this offseason have been nil I'll be writing The Morning After et. al. again starting in the fall. Until then, you won't have to deal with my poser ass. In the meantime, I'll be “working on my craft.”

Thanks for reading! Love y'all!

I would be really surprised if they pick up Mobley honestly. But if the other bigs bail they can't start from scratch and need to build other relationships now.

9 years, 19 years. May as well be 100.

On the recruiting thing I have to disagree, IU has the role players in place, we need the bonafide go-to players now. Guys like Watford and Creek have the potential to develop into stars, but we need the sure things to go with those two. Add in role players like Elston, Hulls, VJIII, Bawa and Capo and this will be a contending team in a year or two. Hopefully a few of those guys develop into more than role player, then we're really talking. But, every team needs legit stars to go with the role players, and IMO that's what we're missing now.