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The needle mover.

Thanks for this. Missed that one completely and that’s pretty close to a must watch.

Yeah, we all love Cubes, but he shanked this one about as badly as it can be done.

Form Cig and where the current players can see it? I'm expecting something like this:

For all of the myopic nonsense SEC fans constantly spout the 1 thing that’s certainly true is the depth of conference stuff. There is no SEC school that this is happening to.

Cig was on McAfee today. Mentioned the 3 RBs on there too, but also mentioned the two elite WRs, Tyler Morris, "and some young guys". Not the rosiest outlook for Shazz based on that.

A solid interview by our own Rhett Lewis. Cig has standard coach-speak reactions throughout, with a few notable specific takes: Once again, Blake Smythe is the one freshman that is called out as overachieving, by name. Cig REALLY likes our RBs. Cig says both lines will be clear team strengths. No surprise, but that = seriously winning football. Says Josh Hoover is ready and that his best skill may be his accuracy. It's Barker and Schott at tight end ... for now. Says Gibbs showed a lot but has a hamstring issue. All in all, it's a remarkably blunt and optimistic assessment of how Cig feels about his team.

Top 5 TE out of Westfield, IN 247 On3 ESPN Scheduled visit for the O$U game 10/17

11-1 Not loving going to Ann Arbor coming off the at Nebraska/OSU back to back. That 1 feels rough. But what a surreal thing to even contemplate, “So disappointing we didn’t beat Nebraska/OSU/UM back to back to back.”

It’s a pretty well written amicus brief. The NCAA’s threats of penalties and sanctions against people complying with a court order is laughable. The NCAA itself is a complete mess. I’ll hold out hope it is forced to go away at some point

Great news. I really thought the oline gelling towards the end of the year was the key to success. They struggled a little in Cigs first year at times and started a little slow last year. Him building a dominate oline and just running the ball down teams’ throats should be scary for the rest of college football!

Football in general is just way more popular of a sport than college basketball. Even if the programs were in comparable standing, I think football interest would exceed basketball. Then add in the fact that people under the age of 30 have never experienced a stable IU basketball program, and it’s not surprise at all.

Kid is really good and only getting better and bigger. Took a slant 80 yards against Carmel Friday, out running their whole secondary which includes the highly regarded safety Drake Coellner. Dad played for the Colts- Justin Snow. Justin played at Baylor. Wouldn’t be surprised if the big Texas schools are heavily considered. He’s basically been offered by every top program though. Would be great to keep him local!

Top 25 Edge out of Buford, GA 247 On3

This is going to be a mess. I have a feeling we are going to see either LSU exit the SEC or pro athletes this season

Site volume is higher than ever but it’s currently driven by football. College basketball at IU simply doesn’t have the interest it did, even as recently as five years ago. I just checked another board that hasn’t had a post about IU hoops for about a week; even at the slowest season we’ve got multiple people a day discussing IU hoops. FWIW, when IU bball took the Peru trip this summer the board was hopping for hoops.

knocking off last year’s champs!!

Thanks everyone for joining and drafting. Good luck to all! I'll be updating this thread weekly (that is my goal at least, but if not as often as I can) with results. Lets kick this thing off right!

I’m not so sure about that. It’s the college equivalent of Baal and Satan going head to head. No?

As alternate uniforms go, I really liked the IU black unis.

The thing about arm pits is that most people have 2. Indiana does as well.

I like the transfer players giving perspective. They seem to really like the intentional shorter practices. I listened to the media interviews of the players yesterday and either carter or jones mentioned that one thing that is sometimes hard for incoming players is understanding that you have to go full out 100% of practice because it's short. Tyrique talked about the heat and pushing through in those tough short practices. Great article. Cig has a well-oiled machine running at IU.

Rutger isn’t just bad, their trenches look 4A high school-ish. Woof.

UMass was 0-12 last season. They are 30 point underdogs tonight at Rutger. At the end of the first quarter, the score is 7-7. And UMass is in Rugers territory and driving.

Now that is some C lass

****, you could have bought authentic, game worn jerseys for peanuts back in the day. No one cared about the football program except for sickos or masochists.

Last year I was trying to be reasonable and only wanted a bowl win. Instead I got a Big Ten Championship, a win over Ohio State, a Rose Bowl win, and a National Championship. All in my lifetime at once. **** it, imma be greedy; 16-0.

He’s a weapons-grade s**tbird who cares about nobody except himself, and that includes his own family. When most coaches are trying to find some semblance of sanity or equilibrium, he’s happy driving the whole thing to the bottom for his own gain. Good for the SEC.

Basketball only hung on through its mediocrity because football was so bad. Good…nay Great!…Football will push mediocre basketball right off the stage. Even in Indiana. I’m mid 40’s and barely remember our last basketball title. I was the same age as these college kids for OUR LAST FINAL FOUR. There’s literally nothing anchoring anyone under 30 to IU basketball over football. I’m happy for the students though. It’s cool to have a big thing on campus that everyone is into.

Good for the SEC. Lane is a cancer to CFB.

Wait, there are other sites out there besides BTB?

Yea. I don’t know why he jumped in on this one… he is a bit of a know it all sometimes. It was entertaining though.

There is definitely more interest in football than basketball right now. Ask any current student and they'll tell you their experience is that IU is a football school and basketball is largely an afterthought. That would of course change with commensurate winning. It's the offseason so of course not much to discuss. I think it's safe to say the board is most active around coach hiring / firings and game days. I would bet that excluding coach hiring / firing, IU basketball discussion online has been steadily declining over the past 10 years. Definitely in comparison to football.

Sunday at 1:00, the IU women (2-2-1) will be in Athens, OH to play Ohio U. (2-1). Televised on ESPN+. Live Stats

Thanks for hosting this- I'm excited to play in the league. May your teams be healthier than Mo Creek.

Are Pope-mobile's allowed on sidelines? I don't envy any security or police that have to deal with that.

I'm not sure things are so bad drastic measures are needed. College sports have always had drama. Right now the legal cases are annoying, inconsistent, and messy. But TV ratings and attendance are great. Once the season starts it's awesome. While some players don't take classes, most do and almost all players interact with the students and campus. Also athletic depts have hardly any effect on the rest of the school. Even the poorly run ADs with deficits aren't any sort of material issue to the broader school financial picture. I worry about the implications of decoupling the revenue sports. If the fans feel their players are not college students like they were... they will lose interest quickly. And "college" teams owned by the usual type of pro sports owners/investors sounds unappealing to me as they will push things to be more NBA/NFL-like, which I really don't want. I think we're eventually (five or more years out) going to see players become employees of the conferences with some sort of collective bargaining. But who knows.

Terre Haute is well known to have a problem with smells, while West Lafayette has a natural odor coming from that place.

Will it be visible from a certain town with an awful stench?

-Marsh goes top-7 in the draft and the only WR taken above him is Jeremiah Smith. I’ll one-up Old Friend and say Carter Smith (as a guard), Becker, and Tobi get us to at least 4 first rounders. -Hoover is within ~25 yards of Fernando’s rushing total from 2025 at the end of the season. -Beebe leads the RB room in carries/yards, Turbo is close behind, and Khobie once again is 3rd. 2 of the 3 return for 27-28. -We score more points per game (41.6) and give up fewer (11.7) than 2025. -Not measurable, but Byron Baldwin is impossible to leave off the field and will be considered the most talented player on the roster going into 27-28. Similarly, Jacob Savage gets put on the Rolijah Hardy trajectory and Davion Chandler primes himself for a JR-year breakout. -Last but not least…we meet Miami again in Vegas and blow them out to repeat.

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IUFB's fanbase can be spoke of the exact same way.