Comments on: Q & A: North Central’s D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera

By: hoosierodi

hoosierodi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:58:36 +0000

I came all the way from Atlanta to see Hoosier Hysteria. I also went to the first practice. I am only 15 and will be in the same class as DSR. Maybe I could be a manager, but I saw him at practice along with other recruits and he seemed to be the most entertained with the practice watching everything closely and clapping after good plays. I think IU has a good chance to get'em

By: BGleas

BGleas — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:36:18 +0000

I gotta fix that avatar, thanks for heads up on that in the other thread Alex!

By: BGleas

BGleas — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:35:04 +0000

Definitely agree with you on this Jerry. There's no reason IU can't have supremely talented teams and high character, good citizens that play hard. It's all about picking the right guys.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:23:54 +0000

Thanks for passing that along. Added the link to the Crean audio to the Twitter feed.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:22:47 +0000

I've watched both of them a couple times. DSR is a lot more advanced physically. He's excellent at getting into the lane and getting to the line and can also knock it down from outside.

Patterson is more of a slasher at this point and needs to work on his outside shot, but is extremely athletic.

By: GFDave

GFDave — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:05:31 +0000

Have you seen DSR in person? How would you compare him to Patterson? Strengths? Weaknesses?

By: GFDave

GFDave — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:35:22 +0000

Two really good Dakich interviews today: Fisch and Crean. Crean alludes to the Morgan visit and also has interesting comments about Lynch and IU football:

http://www.1070thefan.com/dakich/podcast.aspx

By: GFDave

GFDave — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:37:03 +0000

Gotcha

By: tberry

tberry — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:29:33 +0000

"IU is still pretty high up there with the rest of the schools.“

Doesn't sound like anyone is pulling away but no one is falling behind either. Nice general answer that doesn't hurt anyone.

Hope IU is really ahead but who knows.?

By: JerryCT

JerryCT — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:15:01 +0000

I keep praying that TC can create a “DUKE” type “brand”……ie good students, citizens and winning teams plus championships. Most important to me is to be proud of the team. I hope TC's standards never allow us to recruit bad attitudes no matter how many championships it costs.

Yesterday UCONN's best DB on the football team was murdered at a dance on campus. This is the kind of stuff I hope never to hear about at IU.