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My opinion is that bringing Tino back in any capacity would undermine Whitmer in his role as QB coach. Just no good reason to take that risk. Tino will land on his feet and Cig can be instrumental in helping him do just that. - but elsewhere.

Girls and chicken wings ... Honestly -- what else do you need!

IU or OSU battle. IU is the perceived leader as we near a decision

Closing in on decision time. IU is out front but we'll see how things shape up. There's real speculation if IU can get both Allmond and Thompson but IU wants both.

International man of mystery! Heeeeeeere’s Andre! Btw — I encourage you to go to the 1 minute mark for an excellent and very honest answer.

How about the point (paraphrasing), "we're beating up on Rutgers and these other lower tier programs, but this is something you should be proud of." I just sat there stunned after he said that.

Because he was getting a promotion and the opportunity to live in Southern California as a young newlywed making millions of dollars. Why expect sycophantic loyalty from coaches? He'd been with Cig since 2021 and by all accounts left on good terms. If Cig doesn't see it as Tino "didn't want to be part of the Cig movement" seems kind of silly for fans to, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose.

Not too concerned about defense this early. A common criticism of Dusty May's team last fall was that they couldn't guard their shadows. They ended the season with the #12 Kenpom D.

Procedure went well. Back home. Hoping it keeps things right for a long time.

IU most top 50 wins

Dittos, these guys are are better than 95% of CFB pods. They know ball, they know how to podcast, and they don't get emotional and biased. Two other things were nice to hear: 1) They said that was about as good as Kinnick gets in terms of atmosphere. There aren't many places harder to go than Kinnick. Great experience for our team. 2) They were more or less claiming a few moral victories: played us close, made Cig sweat, got Mendoza a bit uncomfortable. That put a big smile on my face -- it's been a very long time since someone took some moral victories in a loss against us.

Those guys are a great listen. They are obviously vey impressed with Cig but, like many of us, they were mystified with our 4th and 1 calls.

Hope @Stuhoo doesn't mind if someone else sneaks a post into this thread! Alex Bozich from yesterday's open practice - https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/09/30/takeaways-from-iu-basketballs-open-practice-and-player-observations/

A ton of assistants would make the move from position coach to OC. That being said…..a total OC tenure of only 4 games might be some sort of record.

I’m not sure if that’s an accurate representation.

I get the sentiment, but we don’t need two QB coaches nor can we afford it. Whitmer makes $800K plus bonuses so he can handle all the QB duties. I’d guess Tino will find an OC or QB coach co-OC job somewhere else. He’ll be fine, I’d guess most of his ~$1M/yr two year deal with UCLA will be paid out.

I have not seen anything yet. Only things I have observed on Ponds is he did warm ups at Iowa and his Dad is in a good mood on Twitter/X lol.

going to disagree with you there. strength training doesn't just increase muscle, but also tendon strength and bone density. The more likely factor is these kids have the same amount of milage on their bodies as nba vets from 20 years ago and the fact that kids are specializing in sports as early as 10 years old and not developing any sort of movement patterns outside of their sport, strengthening tendons in other directions.

Pretty nice gesture.

I don't have a problem using the hand motion from the guard spot but timing the snap differently from play to play would help. Coogan snapped it immediately every time and Iowa was getting off the ball way too quickly because of it.

Those guys are amazing if they expanded their coverage to more big ten teams they would develop such a following. Listening to them gush about our line really gives me hope for Oregon. Because legit they have a better line than anybody else we will play. And if we give Mendoza time he is dangerous.

we got a lot of guys out....hope to get the squad all healthy!

This list has Fernando at #4 in college football... https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46399256/ranking-every-power-4-quarterback-one-month-season

Mgbako was top 10 out of high school... before him I think Langford would be most recent? Might be forgetting someone

One thing that I've read needs some fixing for this game is our gosh darn dagnabbit silent count. I guess Iowa figured it out to some extent (we use a hand motion), which was a pretty big problem. I love this staff, but we've had this issue before, it shouldn't be an issue, and I never want to hear about silent count issues again. Also, per the presser Cig said they didn't let Fernando audible at Iowa due to crowd noise. I'm sure he knows best, it's just a little odd to me since Fernando is a very capable QB. Anyways, I'm not trying to second guess this fantastic coaching staff, I know 0.001% about football compared to them, I just find this stuff surprising. I'm sure the silent count issues are known and will be fixed going into Autzen.

Practice? Practice?!!?

100% agree

Why would you want a guy who didn’t want to be part of the Cig movement?

I’m always rooting for our squads and our individual players. I thought Lamendola was eventually going to be a fan favorite. Never panned out. Garzon had an edge. Unsure which players bonded with her. Pretty much a Trust in Moren situation at all times for me. She’s been knocked by some since the early days for transfers but she’s about culture and fit and that’s very important. Sent from my iPad using BtownBanners mobile app

Tino Sunseri was just fired. I wonder if Cignetti will bring him back

Daddy Ponds is awesome. That guy keeps every receipt.

The following is a series of tweets with quotes from CTM from Michael Nizieolek from an informal media day session. "We only have four returners, rest are new faces, it's been an exciting summer for us, we've gotten off to a fairly decent start from an official practice start..." she adds they are probably playing more kids than in the past "We have interesting pieces....we are more athletic than we were a year ago" "Yes, we got more athletic, but I think the jury is still out if we can be as efficient as we've become accustomed to from the outside" "Are they high character? Are they a winner?" characteristics she looks for from players on the recruiting trail, "we are excited about the '26 class we put together" "There's intention behind how we build our roster" Indiana women's basketball coach Teri Moren says her staff spoke with the football team about revenue-share and how they establish positional values/distribute money," "A year ago our locker room wasn't in great shape...." says its better now, "we are all in alignment with the goals, values and what the standards are" and Lenee Beaumont is really taking charge of that." Indiana women’s basketball will be sending Shay Ciezki and Lenée Beaumont to B1G Media Days next week.

The straw that is gonna stir the drink, Tayton Conerway:

I'd guess it works like this: B1G gets $2B now (~$110M per school). In exchange the investor gets some portion of future B1G media rights, sponsorships, licensing, etc. such that they get a return on their investment. Basically, more money for the conference now and less later. Is that a good deal? I have no idea, would depend on the all the deal specifics and what the next media deal looks like blah blah blah. One part of this I definitely like is this would extend the B1G grant of rights through 2046, which keeps the conference together for a long time and reduces the chances of the big football schools forming some "super league." Though personally I never thought that was likely. Whatever happens, the B1G is a good place to be. Fire up that stadium renovation Scott!

https://x.com/petethamel/status/1973490168582774829?s=46&t=Z5Zx0Nuv1avozlhwzbdycg

Spoken like a true young man. Those 2 things are probably the best part of college life.

Fingers crossed! I would really like to see this coaching staff land a massive recruit for 2026. If I’m not mistaken a top 10 HS recruit would be the first in a long while?

Sunseri let go by UCLA. Does Cignetti take him back in some way Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey at least you're getting an education out of it. In the youth sports grift, you get to see Billy's mommy or daddy cuffed and stuffed because blue's strike zone wasn't to their liking. Which...I suppose is its own form of education.

Sanders linked to Ark job Lol….talking about making something worse.

Agree and by now you know that the Kirkwood event is targeted at students while the Cream and Crimson scrimmage the next evening is the traditional Hoosier Hysteria replacement and more akin to the original Midnight Madness. Now those were the days! Cream and Crimson scrimmage is scheduled for this Friday at 7:00. Doors open at 5:30. https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2025/9/15/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-to-host-cream-crimson-scrimmage-presented-by-smithville

I don't think Purcell is reclassifying to next year...

I’ll get fired up and predict IU by 50 when we’re closer to game time, but for now I’m not too optimistic about this one and it’s entirely because of how Cig and Shanahan have treated tough away games back to their JMU days. Playing conservative and vanilla on offense will not work against Dan Lanning. I hope they break their tendency and come out guns blazing. (Hoosiers by 50, however)

Sounds like we got a fantastic player in Addy, her coach is going crazy with the superlatives— the Larry Bird of women’s bball…. Personally I like the “Bad Woman”. Best defender and passer in NJ (best in country per her coach) and a selfless win-first hard working star. Very much looking forward to seeing her play

Watching her on film I'm thinking she may be the best recruit we've ever landed and could be underrated. Super quick and has a nice crossover allowing he to get to the rim. Good length and instincts so she could be a menace on the defensive side.