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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.

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

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.

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.

Giddy up!

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.

lol -- Credit to this Minny fan for posting this and getting CFB twitter and LSU fans all fired up. Ragebait as the kids call it!

Personally I think Cooper is coming back. Tea leaves and an NIL bag proposed that I think he will grab.

As he should! Here's to DeAngelo Ponds, the best pound for pound football player in the history of IU, and maybe the best pound for pound football player in the history of college football.

Multiple reports - D’Angelo Ponds confirms his plan is to declare for the NFL Draft. He’s accepted a Senior Bowl invite.

Felt like the thread deserved a new title

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

Hey all, Many many posts from many posters (myself included) that are off-topic here. We have threads that cover both Nick Marsh and the NCAA's lack of enforcement capabilities. Let's please ASAP get this thread back on track -- IUFB Recruiting and Transfer Updates. Thanks

Bang

On3 and The Daily Hoosier both reporting S Amare Ferrell will return for the '26 season

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

Roman Hemby on freaking Good Morning America

Indiana won a title in football before Purdue won a basketball title... LoL

Fisch...and I quote "What do you think of that, Paul BaldTrollDumb@$$?"

As far as BFDs go, this is among the B’est of F’n Ds.