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Indiana basketball recruiting: How 'The Movement' failed and lessons learned from them

'The Movement' came into Bloomington heralded as the recruiting class that would save IU. In the end, they were the ones needing saved.

It was a mid-spring day in 2011 when the sticker arrived. It seemed like a silly purchase at the time, and it still is, but my levels of excitement led to some irrational purchases.

I ripped open the envelope and out flew a small, rectangular sticker with two words on it.

"The Movement"

Indiana's basketball recruiting classed donned the nickname, seen as the recruiting class that would put Indiana on the map.