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Gotta entertain ourselves between the CFP and spring practice somehow.

Poor choice of words this month by Trilly. Anyway Izzo and Self do seem like the next up to retire. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

He was at the football game walking around with Leal and two guys wearing IL shirts. He was wearing an IU shirt though.

The Dude abides. I wasn't aware there was a basketball section on this thing. ;-)

He’s a Hoosier and a a fighting Illini. The strength coach or whatever knew what he was doing but I don’t have any feelings towards Goode on this one. It’s whatever. He played hard while he was here and wanted to be a Hoosier. I would have been happy to have him back.

With the ACC announcement of a 9-game conference schedule and a required P4 non-con game, I'd guess that we're days or weeks away from the Big Ten announcing a required P4 non-con as well.

Hope @Lebowski doesn't mind too much if I interrupt his football posting frenzy and slip a little something in about a bball commit. lol https://x.com/i/status/1970209707228065818

I’m sure Purdue will have no shortage of suitors. From the other conferences

Coach Cig is lying about his age.

Last year felt, in a way, like it was truly too good to be true... even understanding Cig is the real deal, a lot of our own fans expected a slight regression this year. Having a good football team is no longer just nice because it makes the wait for basketball fly by (that is true though)... IMO it's the new premiere sport at IU. And as long as Cig is here, that's unlikely to change even if IUBB starts winning IMO. I hope we do everything we can to retain his staff too, though I know some attrition should be expected. I'd be surprised if at his age, Cig jumps elsewhere when he already has it rolling here. Starting all over again with team building, meeting new VIPs ($$$), admins, etc. just doesn't seem appealing since he's already being very well compensated and in a good position to make the CFP regularly. I just hope we don't get complacent. If Cig says jump, Dolson and the rest of the AD should ask "how high?" Yep, I'd shut down the basketball program if it meant Cig lived forever as our HC too, lol

Hope Illinois beats USC to make our win look better. The added bonus is that it would make ND look worse if they lose to USC.

I've seen enough. I'm ready for a Cig statue outside the stadium

https://stockrisers.com/s/576/five-star-junior-jason-gardner-jr-gives-massive-update-on-recruitment

Please renew the Barrel, please renew the Barrel, please renew the Barrel....

I hope I’m wrong but PU doesn’t look as hapless as they have the past two years. I’m guessing there will be a “everything went right” game they will win. Needless to say that better not happen (it won’t) against us.

Can confirm. Taylor recently followed him on Instagram.

I love our coach. I am all in on DDV. He's gonna do great here. Excited to have Chase on board!

Prolly already has been

IU has the second largest alumni association and a butt-load of money to throw around. This financial windfall allows schools like us to jump the queue into relevancy. This isn’t a fluke. As long as we keep the locker room culture going and IU remains interested in being competitive then there’s no reason we can’t be ~top 6 in the conference on a near annual basis. The Big Ten should get four teams into the CFP most years. There’s no need to go to Florida or Auburn to be in the playoff conversation for Cig. Just like how it’s become harder for IU or Kentucky basketball to pull good coaches who don’t need us to win championships, the same can be said for most SEC programs going forward. The playing field is much more even, and they don’t seem to quite understand this yet.

With MANY MANY thanks to @Lebowski, it seems as though we can summarize the current state of IU football recruiting as "no longer competing with MAC teams for players." The dude abides, and so does IU Football recruiting.

Yup. Imagine that’s the one person who without even looking up from her iPad can just say, “No, Dear.”

If Manette Cignetti is happy, Curt is staying through retirement.

Van Pelt stepping right up to the line of putting IU in the B1G top tier.

Kyler Staley - Former Indiana center Langdon Hatton has signed a deal to join BC Jonava in Lithuania.