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The Green Dot could be handed down to a future All-American and we will still be taking a massive downgrade at that position. Unbelievable player and leader.

One more, the Green Dot.

On a championship team, Aiden Fisher has been the ultimate leader, the single best story of overcoming personal adversity, and the greatest example of a completely overlooked and undervalued talent that ended up making the greatest impact for every player on the greatest Hoosier team ever. He’s my single favorite player and Hoosier athlete in my 42 years of being hooked on Hoosier sports.

2023 - “Hey who are we playing today” 2026 - “Hey who are we playing 8 months from now”

Hes got Indiana on the Brain

Jared Kelly on Tyler Morris https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-iu-hoosiers-wide-receiver-tyler-morris-2026-season-acl-injury-omar-cooper-jr-272433224/

Only player to have a +28 Win differential season to season.

1 of those names looks familiar

Decision tomorrow at 1pm. All signs point Indiana.

So Dewey want him or not?

??? I think you mean "Fisch and Suhr will call every Indiana game from the bluetooth speaker next to my TV"

We've got 3 or 4 schollies left, I can't quite tell what the exact number is. I'd expect those get filled over the next few weeks. OL and DL depth I'd guess? Edit: also TE?

FWIW……According to Scout the offer list is much better than what we used to compete with. He has been offered by Florida State, Auburn, OSU, Colorado, MSU, West Va, UNC, Missouri, Boston College, Minny, etc. Also has mid-major offers from Toledo and Purdue.

I was going to wait until tomorrow afternoon but to hell with it. @Stuhoo I hope your realize you can't spell 'gloat' without G.O.A.T.

Yeah, Pizzo was on Hoosier Hysterics and said it was too soon because we all just lived through the real events and everyone would focus on comparing the accuracy of a movie to the real thing instead of letting the filmmaker translate the story into art. He also told this story which I'm going to share here because I love it and I have been looking for it for weeks:

Tell 'em, young fella! https://www.facebook.com/reel/1418757499910689

Add Radicic for ST

Great story about Stephen Daley. https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/from-0-12-to-national-champion-indianas-stephen-daley-trusted-his-gut-272009998/

Assuming we dont get any unexpected portal announcements, We are returning a significant amount of players who either started or majorly contributed to this year's National Championship team. OLINE Smith, evans, lynch, Ajani BACKS Martin WRs Becker DLINE Tucker, Landino, Ndukwe LBs Hardy Jones SECONDARY Ferrell Sharpe And a boatload of guys who stuck around and are going to fill depth spots.

I was 100% serious when I predicted 12-0 in the record prediction thread for the 2025 season. And for 2026, my prediction is, once again, 12-0. Great times!

Good, I don't have to freeze to death to see IU at Rutger 3 out of 4 weeks on the road with O$U the only home game is a stretch (even if one of them is Rutger)

Word on 247 is they plan to honor the UNDEFEATED AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IU FOOTBALL TEAM prior to the start of the game. For those who will be there make sure your butt is in your seat probably 15 min. before tipoff. For those dealing with Peacock probably won't see a thing but you never know.

Hummel on the call? TV on mute 9pm?! I’ll have to catch the box score in the morning

I will be EXTREMELY ENTHUSIASTIC if that happens!

This is the least amount of enthusiasm for our headline rival game I’ve seen. Hopefully we fire on all cylinders and pull the upset!!

Yeah, I mean you're really just along for the ride in football recruiting. Nothing about it is linear or black and white nor will it ever be. Offers can be offers and offers can be kinda offers. Everything is fluid. I don't think it's that weak of an offer list personally. You can always pull up a kid's Hudl and watch him there.

Ok, so I finally got around to understanding next year's CFB Playoff. Had the rules been set for the 2025 season, Miami and JMU don't make the CFP. Duke, Notre Dame and Tulane get in. Let that sink in folks. ND gets an automatic qualification if they finish in the top 12 of the CFP rankings. Both the B1G and SEC are making it worse in my opinion. They basically gave the middle finger to the G6 and its entire fanbase. This isn't good for the sport. Period. The SEC doesn't want to move to a 24 team playoff system and the Big Ten doesn't want to commit to a 16 team system without a guarantee to move to a 24 team system. Had this year been a 16 team system, the SEC would have had 7 teams in the playoffs. 7 teams. No wonder they don't want a 24 team system. For the good of the sport let's just adopt the 24 team FCS system and be done with it.

It would be nice to finally get a signature win. With their bigs, I just don't see it.

Any Young man CCCC wants, I want too.

The managers game doesn't count.

It still doesn’t feel real. I also miss the days of commutative DVDs slash movies at the end of a season. I don’t wanna wait for the Hollywood movie

Hopefully Jones is going to step into that position nicely. Hes spent a lot of time with Fisher for two years learning how to lead.

Overall, with respect to ND, I don't get why the P2, who control the playoff, are so accommodating to them. Especially with the recent agreed to provision ND is in the playoff if they're in the top-12 starting in 2026. ND is a big program, but looking at their TV ratings they're #10-15 in the country. CFB and the playoff doesn't need them. Why not make the CFP qualification tougher for ND and therefore easier for the P2 conference teams? I don't really get it. And yea, I guess the committee kinda jammed them in 2025, but still. As for our home/home coming up with them, I hope we keep it. A win is great and a loss wouldn't kill our season. But also there is some brewing bad blood with them due to their butthurtness over our recent improvement. The games would be massive and that would be fun.

It really depends on your trust in Cig. Fernando is a loss, for sure, he was a tough Heisman-quality QB. But I recall some similar questions last year where we knew Fernando was an upgrade from Rourke in skill and historical production, but were less sure how he would work out behind the scenes and his fit in the system. And that there were concerns about him after ODU. But, everything gelled and became pretty amazing. I don't know enough about Hoover to say if he comes from the same mold or not because I've been pretty focused on the outgoing team. I'll watch some interviews and tape and see how much I can see of what Cig sees. But, I know he is already better than Fernando in some areas. A little development and the right attitude and he could slot right in. Fernando was not some otherworldly talent, but his weaknesses could be covered by his strengths, scheme, fit with other players, intelligence, and discipline. If Cig thinks Hoover can develop in the same way, then I trust him. Moore and Fischer leave huge voids, but so did Wyatt, Daley, and Bonds during the season. But Cig trusted the guys he had on the roster to fill those voids and they did. Fischer has a unique role, but Cig knows that and knows he has to fill that space. Has he ever given me a reason to think he won't fill the space with someone nearly as good or even better? I understand being skeptical, I'm a very skeptical person, but Cig has constantly been shown to have a plan and to be able to execute it. If he's not worried, I'm not worried.

Farewell post from Waffle House. Mr. Backshoulder. He had so many huge catches for us. My favorite was probably the go-ahead score vs OSU.

Top 20 OT out of Kalamazoo, MI 247 On3

Makes sense. I want this documentary so bad. With all the storylines I think it has got to be like four or five one hour parts. There is so much to cover.

It's certainly good news, but please don't expect Karvala and Manhertz to jump right in and log 30 min/game. Their bodies simply aren't ready for that. Of the 3, Moody will be the most B1G physically ready.

Happy 26th birthday to Chad Baker-Mazara of USC. Lol

Reading that statement:

Holy **** look at the difference in his body. Stephen Daley (Indiana) would beat the absolute **** out of Stephen Daley (Kent State) even one-legged. (A little bit of that is him flexing in the second picture like before and after shots in infomercials, but not all)

Wonder if Khamenia enters the portal after the season and he’s a target for DDV. He was a top recruit, but supposedly (Duke board rumors) his parents weren’t enthused of him picking Duke because they knew he would be coming off the bench. Given the recruiting class coming in for Scheyer, he might still be limited in minutes if he stays.

I was returning home in the car with the family after attending a memorial for my uncle. My wife was nice enough to drive so I could watch the end of the game, but she regretted that decision after a broke the review mirror celebrating the catch.

Yep but if they did their job off the field as well as they did their job on the field they have taught the next gen of players

My system says we should cover the 4.5 pt spread 60% of the time it works every time