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Paywall, but you get the gist of it. We made a good impression on a 4* RB from Georgia visiting for the Northwestern game. https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-hoosiers-football-georgia-rb-christian-schettini-has-indiana-at-the-top-after-visit-290619822/

These continue to be very high quality productions.

Regarding contracts for each: Shanahan can leave with 0% buyout if for a NFL role or CFB HC position Haines buyout is $3M. There's a % based buyout, but $3M is the total amount based on his salary Coach Cig has made comments in the past Shanahan's goal is to become a HC and I believe Haines has said he's happy where he's at. I'd say there's a good chance Haines is to follow Cig as HC here. Just one man's opinion.

Word is JuJu burned some bridges with IUFB back during his recruitment.

I occasionally have to drive directly by the Rutgers football stadium on my way to work. There are a bunch of pole banners with the block R logo across the street from the front entrance. At the start of the school year, somebody had flipped all the pole banners upside down and one of the houses down the street had a spray painted sign hanging out of their window that said: "RU IN DISTRESS End the football program!" If I weren't driving I would've snapped a pic. The pole banners were all fixed before the UMass game lol. Too bad Rutgers and Purdue don't play this year, they may have found a way for both teams to lose.

12 days til Butler scrimmage (day after football plays Nebraska) 19 days til UNC scrimmage (day after football plays Ohio St.)

Prioritizing your family life over a September exhibition game? It’s like I don’t even know you anymore.

I wonder what they’re going to do with euro deals. While I supper this generally and trust the B1G more than the NCAA, I wouldn’t want to be in front of a judge explaining why a 20 year old American that rode the bench in the G-league is ineligible but a 20 yr old foreign national who spent 5 years on a pro team in Europe is eligible.

Sam in the video. They appear confident of his result.

1) the Maryland job SUCKS. 2) I’m not sure how much Pat Forde saying “Maryland should try to go after those guys” really means.

There's chatter on social media that IUFB is one of the tops on the list.

There's a reason most successful teams have experienced QBs on the gridiron. That's not a knock on Julian. He'll get better. Maybe even end up at IUFB.

C'mon, plenty of room on the bandwagon!!! For years, we've legit been one of the worst teams in B1G, but now.....

Couple of pretty nice little interviews. Really like Samet referring to the B1G as “a big dude’s league.”

That’s the world of recruiting unless you have tons of advantages. We are imo recruiting him to be the projected starter and in that case that’s the pitch and the goal for top rated players. Although, nowadays being a college star is a pretty great gig and he might want to stay longer.

Yes. Even for the short period of time he was ineligible to play in games, he was still able to workout/practice with the team. Technically I think practice is about to start and before that it's all workouts. But, point is he's been with the team.

There will never be an adequate or responsive enough system to enforce the cap.

It's worth googling for the full picture. The TLDR is basically implementing 5 for 5 with a 1 time penalty free transfer among many other important provisions. 5% cap on agent fees, which is the best part IMO. Also some longer term academic (10 years assistance) and healthcare (5 years assistance) support resources. Some measures to make it harder for there to be backdoor NIL payments above the cap, which is sort of the primary point of contention with the bill. The NCAA, being a monopoly, would fail to make a bunch of rules because of antitrust laws (why we see so many lawsuits now). Normally there would be an exemption like how pro sports work and there would be collective bargaining. But for there to be a CBA, players would need to be employees and that's logistically not viable for a myriad of reasons. If the bill passes, they would not be considered employees and wouldn't be able to sue, unionize, etc. Direct payments would be hard capped at $50M annually. That'd be a 22% base revenue share. Leaving plenty of profit for the hangers on of the sport and partners like ESPN. Very different split from the pro leagues that CFB and CBB feed into as developmental leagues. Our development system is much different than the rest of the world, so the NCAA sometimes sounds incoherent because of their ideals of "amateurism" (not a real legal concept) and not counting grown up Euro basketball players as pros, for example. IMO no solution will make everyone happy. I tend to agree with skepticism about intervention from Congress making things appreciably better here. My hot take is that this bill passing + continued CTE research would lead to a significant decline in the amount of kids choosing to play football over a long time horizon. Lastly, important to note that it needs to pass the House which is a much different animal than the Senate. The House is also in recess until after the midterm elections in November, so IMO it's unlikely this passes in general. But it may have a shot in the lame duck session before the new Congress is sworn in. The bill will expire on Jan 3 2027 if it's not signed into law before then.

I just saw an interview from Barstool with a Senator about the bill from 8 days ago. He said they could just pass a bill that says 5 for 5 or x amount of transfers / x% for agent fees. An interviewer asked how that could work, because without the antitrust exemption, wouldn't there still be constant lawsuits? The Senator said the antitrust exemption isn't required for eligibility rules, what's in the bill from an antitrust perspective is to allow schools to have greater power in negotiations over TV contracts. Every single college football program could bind together and use their total leverage to get contracts from networks or streaming services. There's language in the bill that says if they negotiate that way, they have to have at least 1 local market where people get the game for free. In Texas there are 20 different local TV markets. So 1 would get it for free and they would sell the rights in the other 19 TV markets in Texas to Amazon, Netflix, etc. Says it will greatly increase their bargaining power for TV rights mostly at expense for fans having to pay more to watch games. He says this legislation would be the first step to Congress micromanaging college sports. There is a decent amount of political commentary in the interview so I'm not linking it here, but it's easy enough to find with the information in this post for those interested in a long form interview. It lasts about 30 minutes.

Another award for the Special Teams crew @Myles_price3 has been named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.

My point is that IU was in the exact same spot 2 years ago. Just because they suck now doesn't mean they suck next season. Especially with the current landscape in college football.

I don't know that they have the resources since the Kevin Plank well reportedly dried up. Kinda my whole point here. They do have a better natural recruiting ground, but other than that without proper support that job is horrendous. Especially for a first time head coach, to tie it back to the original post.

Top 20 RB out of Newnan, GA 247 On3 ESPN

Cig stated that Dolson and Whitten were a major part of the pitch that convinced him that IU was a sleeping giant. Maryland has the resources, the facilities, and the P4 stature to also be a sleeping giant, but only if they can show coaching candidates that they are willing to do what it takes to make it happen.

Prior to Cig, the IUFB job SUCKED.

Jamie Shaw with an update on Osaruyi's recruitment and we do get mentioned. Says he talks both to DDV and KJ and mentions Karvala was his teammate last year at Bella Vista. Paul Osaruyi official @OvertimeElite - Pro Day BAM Anthro Measurements 6’9½” in shoes, 6’8” barefoot 7’3” wingspan 219 pounds 9’1” standing reach 38 inch max vertical

The Maryland gig is indeed really tough. The IU gig was also really tough.

Maryland is a tough gig — some resources but around bottom 1/4 of the conference. Nice practice facility but their stadium/gameday is grim. Local recruiting ain’t easy with VT, UVA, and PSU right there. Woof. But, even the bottom of the B1G pays well and that job will be $6M+/year. They will need to pay someone to take the risk of that job…

The Maryland job has to be open first. Maybe one of these days Locksley will be fired for real instead of via fake tweet.

7'0" attends Monarch Academy in Kansas City.

Fair to assume these will be his next 3 offers.

Attends Monarch Academy in Kansas City for the upcoming season. Previously attended Legend HS in Parker CO. Played AAU for Utah Prospects on the EYBL circuit. 247 On3 MaxPrep AAU Stats Hudl

I liked "especially my free throws." Lol

Moving from Indiana Elite (3SSB) to Wildcat Select (3SSB) for next year's AAU season.

8 of his top 20 entering college at 23 or older.

I thought the same when he weeded out. Class 1a Montana high school basketball games at 4am

Example Academy @example_academy Thank you to the staffs from Indiana University, the University of Delaware and Chicago State University for stopping by to watch our open gym. We appreciate you all!

Looks like Julian Lewis is losing his starting spot at Colorado

Practice has officially started and you are correct that Sam has been involved with the team throughout this fiasco.

He missed the MSU game last year to injury. Generally just didn't play as well as he did in 2024 too though and got benched against Northwestern.

I don’t think it fixes anything. All it does is restrict things that some programs will ignore and just cheat.

Being on Peacock or NBCSN is the major felony in the situation. They are telling us they don't want anyone to watch the games.

Curious how many of the people in the stands on Saturday will be Hoosier fans.

The floodgates on offense are bound to explode soon. Each game has had several explosive passes barely miss, it's only a matter of time. + these players are used to dominating and they haven't so far. A neck will be stepped on very soon. Rutger or Nebraska are going to catch a right hook to jaw. Prediction: IU wins the next two games combined 63+ pts to less than 2 TDs. A ranked Nebraska is in deep deep trouble. "We don't just beat ranked teams, we...."

re-posting @RaceToTheTop's post on FB board here-- Confirmation that Alexis is currently eligible. https://www.insidethehall.com/2026/09/23/report-kellan-wyatt-stephen-daley-and-sam-alexis-currently-eligible-after-monroe-circuit-court-grants-preliminary-injunction/

The look on his face when he says that he is gonna call her. The kid is good.