Joining us now, he is the director of basketball operations for Purdue, Elliot Bloom,

on the Java House Peel and Port guest line.

Elliot, I'm going to begin with that in terms of just the scheduling.

You know, I realize that these schedules, how far out are the schedules done?

When you guys, you know, you look right now, for example,

whether it be playing an Auburn or playing

a Marquette, that would have been agreed upon how long ago?

It kind of depends.

Some of a, like right now, I'm working on next year's schedule as we speak.

So trying to get non-conference stuff lined up and figure all that stuff out.

You know, some stuff gets done in advance. Like if you're going to play a home-and-home with a high

major big-time team, you know, that could be a couple years in advance. It just depends. Some stuff

is last minute, you know, we've had situations before. Like last

year we went down to Birmingham and played Auburn, which then they agreed to come back

to Indy this year. That was pretty late in the process. So that was like kind of at the start

of the season last year, like this time of year into I think even in November, December, where we were

saying the previous year we were talking about, no, right, do we go down to Birmingham?

Do we do it late like that?

There was a game we played up in Canada a couple years ago.

We played Alabama up there and took Zaki-Ey back to Toronto, and I was trying to get that done over the May, even I think in the beginning of June until we finally got that done for that coming season.

So it just depends.

When you factor that stuff in, a couple of questions about it, because I do find it interesting.

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