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Ok, so in the last couple of weeks we as a fanbase have witnessed: 1) a Natty in football, 2) beating little brother in AH, and, 3) a double OT road win with half the team fouled out. Hey:

Best seat in the house.

Becker running it back per his IG. For those who were concerned.

No injury concern for Kamara heading into the game.

Barely posted the past few days because I was in Atlanta. Truly a bucket list experience. When Ponds picky-sixdied it felt like twenty jet planes were revving in 10X10 room. The crowd was insanely pro and all IU. If you take away the Oregon band members? 90-95% IU without a doubt. With an announced attendance of over 75,000, maybe the single largest IU crowd ever; home, road, or neutral. The Oregon people I met were super nice but they kinda didn’t have much of a choice. The IU fans were exceptionally nice to them even when they could have engaged. This semi-old IU fan stayed up past 2:00 am two nights in a row, drove 19 hours over 2.5 days, my voice is still trashed, my eyes ache, and it was one of the best entertainment and IU times of my life. With my 19 year old son and four of my absolutely best college buddies by my side. Never daunted. And sublime.

CTC weighs in. Very classy.

Honestly something about that blocked punt in the 2nd half caught my eye, there might be legs to this. It's almost like we KNEW Oregon was trying to punt on that play.

Good times. IU bball wins on the road and tomorrow I head to Atlanta to watch a game I never, ever dreamed I would see!!!!

Sidenote, I personally know the Brock Schott family and he’ll be a Hoosier very soon. Leo HS TE. Highly rated. I don’t think he’ll be our penciled in starter but he’s a big athletic kid that’s focused on be great. Will be cool having him on the team.

Coop's farewell ...

Giddy up!

Nick Saban’s takes have been dogs!t this entire season. And if the greatest, smartest, and most accomplished college football mind can’t tell his @$$ from his face when assessing IUFB under Cignetti, then there aren’t any pundits whose opinions are worth two cents (sans College Football with Sam, BuffedinPrime, and maybe Joel Klatt). I’ve already forgotten who won the championship 8 years ago. This team/season will be talked about for decades, maybe longer, because this was bigger than the game (to use a cliche). We just pantsed a billion dollar industry with a ballsier performance than Babe Ruth calling his own shot. They can hate us all they want, make up whatever excuses they want, etc. The fact remains that there isn’t a single coach in this sport’s history who could’ve done what Cignetti did. All these programs that have poured hundreds of millions into their teams, sold out 100k stadiums for decades, and then here comes little old Indiana winning a championship before many of them, and one that was purely settled on the field. We didn’t get a narrative bump to make the playoffs. We didn’t duck anyone on our path. We didn’t have any luck on our side or benefit from an opponent’s injury to a star player. We didn’t cheat. There were no questionable calls that went our way. We weren’t a bubble team that got hot at the end. And the real kicker is we did it with 0-3 star recruits, all while playing a longer season and more arduous schedule than any champion in history. This isn’t supposed to happen, but it also wasn’t a fluke. I think most casual CFB fans were behind us on this one. But the ones that weren’t, and probably for the reasons you stated, they can make all of the excuses they want to. Nothing like this will ever happen again in CFB, even if Cig wins another one here.

Natty and Natty Lite still feeling like a Champion today!! Go Hoosiers!!!!!

Not sorry if already posted, Indiana Football won a national championship before Purdue Basketball. Have an excellent Tuesday.

Everyone has their own motivations for career moves, but…anywhere that isn’t Indiana is a current downgrade by nearly every metric.

When your son DeAngelo does not get recruited by the local team, and you win a national championship over that team? I give you, Papa Ponds:

Lee Beebe has reportedly said he'll be back at IU and ready for fall camp.

Ferrell officially back next year

Also it may get lost in the OTs... but take a bow Reed Bailey. What a difference it makes when he plays like that.

I was there last night... few major takeaways: 1. First real Assembly Hall crowd of the season 2. Conor Enright player of the game. Outstanding defense, don't know how he still had the legs to make that late 3 3. We are still terrible at closing out games. Came very closing to choking that away. Late game execution needs to get way better

D-Rock is unbeaten against the Toiletmakers!!!

And? Then Carter Smith registers a direct Twitter kill shot on a Miami fan:

One more huge viewership number for the season.

SI isn't a big deal anymore but still:

I cried. I'm soft. 16-0

Some follow-up on the Fletcher incident with Tyrique per Niz: Indiana football defensive tackle Tyrique Tucker tried to congratulate Miami's running back Mark Fletcher Jr. with a hand shake after a 27-21 win in the CFP title game on Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium. Fletcher stunned Tucker with a sucker punch. "I was just trying to congratulate him on the game," Tucker told The Herald-Times. "He tried to sneak me, everybody kind of held me back. That was a cheap punch. Luckily, we got the win, I'm not really too worried about it. He's salty, he going home with the L." lol. You're damn right Tyrique.

Coffee tastes f****** fantastic. Gonna savor this special Natty roast, then go pop in on some clients that are big Boilee fans. I plan on going full obnoxious mode, don’t care if they become ex-clients as I’m retiring in the fall. And retiring a VERY happy man Champs!!!!!!

Jared Kelly - Indiana WR Tyler Morris will be back at IU next season and expects to be full go for spring camp, he tells me. Morris, a Michigan transfer, is coming off an ACL tear suffered last spring. He jumped back into practice the week before the Rose Bowl.

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.

Look at what my friend is doing for me. Isn’t this photo print awesome?

Some thoughts on Karvala after getting to see him up close for a couple of days. Makes a total of 6 games of his I’ve gotten to watch, 3 from HS last year, 1 travel ball game he played against Ethan Taylor last spring and the 2 EYBL scholastic games the last 2 days. This may go on for a while, but he is a really interesting prospect to me: 1) Physically, he is about as prototype a wing as it gets. He’s legitimately 6’7”, which I’d wondered about and while his frame is pretty narrow, he’s probably 185ish, I think he can probably get to 200-205 and that’ll play. He’s not long, but probably slightly plus, +2 or so maybe. Athletically, he’s top shelf. He can really run. He has easy movement and change of direction. And the vertical explosion is something. Probably pushing legit 40”. There was a play where they threw him an alley oop that only Wemby could have caught but Karvala’s fingertips were slightly above the top of the square and his head was at the rim. That was a woah moment. 2) We’ve run through his game before, and there wasn’t a lot I hadn’t seen. He’s a streaky shooter with some funk in his stroke that needs cleaning up that isn’t happening now. Makes his release a hair slow which with his twitch shouldn’t happen, The handle needs to tighten up notably. Right now at the HM level he’d be strictly a 3 bounce straight line driver. Not sure if that will get better or not. The defensive tools are great if he develops the mentality of a stopper. Not sure if he’s got that, but it’ll play. He’s miles better than a kid like Dorn. 3) The between the ears is gonna be the thing here. For a kid who has a legit NBA toolkit, Karvala’s confidence is a clean slate from game to game. If he makes a couple of early plays he revs up and he really pops. But if he doesn’t he becomes pretty content with just blending into the game. He’s not an alpha or instinctively a killer like Moody is. He needs a PG who understands the need to get him out of the box strong and his current PG is a shot hunting machine and doing him no good at all. And he’s just a bit of a different kid. During halftime warmups of a game they were losing yesterday he was singing along to Enter Sandman, which was playing overhead. Would think Cig would have ripped his head off. But he competed between the lines. He’s not uncompetitive, just…different. Summary: Karvala is crazy high variance, way more so than Moody or Branham. His range of outcome is anywhere from a 2 year guy who plays in The League to a 1 year and transfer out who doesn’t work out and damned near anything in between is reasonably possible. I’m down with taking the swing here because he’s gifted in a way that doesn’t grow on trees and he seems like a good kid, but anyone who watches him and confidently predicts an outcome is nuts. Fwiw

We really need to recognize President Whitten as an unsung hero in this saga because without her at the top and her support of athletics it probably never happens.

New strength guy in the boat. Appears he worked for Cig as the head S&C guy at Elon for a year.

Well an IU win would cap off a great day off from work. Got a little afternoon delight with the wife and now she’s making wings for the family for the game. If IU performs like I did today the game should over in the first 5 minutes

Eat your heart out guys Hopefully the screenshots aren't excessive. Just had to share them going through the 5 stages of grief.

Love coming to Assembly to watch our Hoosiers spank that PU a$$! Got to see Coach Cig and the trophy, what a day!

Absolutely gorgeous.

I love all of you on this board! Thanks to each and every one of you guys that have been here since day one. This is the kind of nights we can all dream of no matter what sport.

Class Act

Bang

Being older, stronger, and more experienced has been a big factor in our success this season. We didn't create the rules, we're just playing the game that was laid out. I love this