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Michael Niziolek @michaelniziolek Source confirms that Indiana football is finalizing a deal with Tino Sunseri to come back as teams quarterbacks coach

Got a feeling Hoover committed to Cig and Shanny and the possibility of Whitmer going back to the pros was firmly out on the table with all the coaching openings there. Would be happy to see Tino back, but Whitmer gets to claim having coached the 2025 Heisman. That’s a big loss.

Gracie Bear’s dad approves.

Lou Moore Benson Baldwin Tino All guys who left and came back in one way or another. Cig doesn’t automatically close the door in these situations and keeps an open mind. That’s a good thing.

Couple post-game thoughts. We drew to within 2 in the closing minute or so but couldn't finish, on the road following the big W against UCLA and despite Dorn not being able to hit (gotta give some credit to USC's perimeter D, it's solid). Regardless of the result, we look like a legit team over the past 4 games. I have some cautious optimism going forward.

Would it change your mind if I noted that black uniforms are slimming for Tucker D? So that's a plus.

Incredible!

Haven't you heard? We just need somebody who "refuses to lose." Should be easy!

To be clear, you advocate firing the coach after one year because his team- built on shooting, winning games because of shooting, with a 3PFG% in the top 3rd of the conference- is shooting early shot clock 3’s (when the defense isn’t usually set) a couple steps away from the line? Can you document how many of these “turnovers” happen each game? I recall Tucker’s at the 8 min mark last night (on the rewatch he was wide open and in rhythm) but don’t recall too many recently. Lamar made one at the 10 min mark, that seemed to help. What an odd hill to die on…

Winnable game. If we can get somewhat hot. Lots of Indiana fans in the stadium.

Painter scouting this game and seeing a 9 ft guy on USC

Getting s***canned a few weeks into your first season as an OC (how at-fault Tino is for Dashaun Foster being a giant Dumb A is debatable) knocks you pretty far down the ladder. I think he’ll be hungry and working for Cig he really doesn’t have a choice.

Maybe 5,000 in attendance. and the announcers don’t realize their mics are already on, which could get spicy!

Instead of Miami getting extraordinarily excellent cornerback play from a guy named Ponds, they got this from a guy named Ponds:

By all accounts Whitmer is close with Zac Robinson (semi-likely to be the Bucs next head coach after 2026, which could easily lead to Whitmer as OC) who is a McVay disciple. How we even ended up with a guy like that as our QB coach is beyond me. We were extremely blessed to get a year of him. I have a feeling in 5 years we're going to be asking ourselves "remember when that dude was our QB coach? How did we manage that?" And again, that's no slight toward Tino.

Hey folks. My rarely random basketball post of the year. I'm not a fan of the black uniforms. We should never wear black. Ever.

IU has a chance tonight to win its 3rd straight Q1 game and 2nd straight road win. Playing in a tough conference can have a double edge sword. There are no nights off so not many get right games and losses can snowball however if you can string together some wins it usually against tourney quality teams so you resume gets a huge boost. Not many teams had a better week than IU. 2 Q1 wins with one being against a top 8 net team and a road win against a top 40 net team. The reason why IU shot up the projections was because there predictive metrics were already great since they took advantage of their non con Q4 games which started them out in a positive. Their SOS is top 35. All they were missing were the results against quality teams so their results based metrics were low. That change last week and now those metrics are trending up. Puzzle is still not complete with 9 or more pieces to go but last week was a big one for IU. Big stretch coming up. Fo me the Wisky game is the most important game left on the schedule. Win that one and they are in very good shape. Losses stink but here are their losses according to the NET 3, 10, 11, 17, 19, 28 and 84 ( 5 of those away from home)

"You'd be shocked at the school." Translation: It was Ponds. And it was Miami.

I really, really wish Tucker could be shooting the ball better. He's down to 38.5 fg and 32.8 3 pt percentage. Yikes. Howver, again last night he stuffed the non-scoring stat sheet: 6 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals. Props to him for continuing to battle really hard even though his scoring is kinda broken.

He gets four years. Only way it’s shorter is if he misses tourneys in year 1, 2, AND 3.

And there you have it... Cig welcomes Tino back. I was thinking of Dane Fife as an example this morning. IU hired him away from Whizzo. Then Fife became available again one year later, but Whizzo did not welcome him back. That said plenty to me. This speaks very well for Tino.

Every college basketball team loses games they should win every year except for the elite ones. We are not elite in year 1. We knew this already. A 6 point loss to USC splitting the LA trip doesn't compel me to fire this thread up again. Basically a third of the season left. Kenny Payne got 2 years at Louisville. DDV is nowhere near Kenny Payne bad. The portal and NIL help turn things around quicker these days. That doesn't mean it's an excuse to fire the coach every other year. We could absolutely still make the tournament this season. Some of you guys would've run coach K and Danny Hurley off before they ever did a thing at the high major level. I get it can be more fun to just be mad though.

USC sucks. we have sucked worse. And the refs have sucked even worse.

Imagine leaving for one year and it just so happened to be the 16-0 Natty Champs one... oooof. Luckily for Tino, we 'bout to run it back.

Collateral benefit: Dramatically raises the staff hair game.

I’d guess little to no impact on Hoover. Hoover still has Cig, Shannahan’s offense, Becker/Marsh, good OL and RB room and prior to Whitmer the braintrust put Rourke in the NFL and the 2 QB’s prior to him were league MVP’s. Lots to make Hoover feel good about his decision.

I've already started pre-gaming for this one.

IU= WR U.

Massive game for IU on Saturday. IU got the split on the LA trip. Now they have set themselves up to where if IU wins their remaining home games they will be in great shape and not need phase 3(conference tourney) to build the resume. Tourney quality team (lower seeded as of today)at home for a nice Q2 win. Lose and the path becomes more difficult

I'm a traditional unis type of guy and I love that Cig didn't mess with the standard IU football uniforms (with the caveat that the block "I" is truly the tradition in football I suppose). Still, DD messing around with black unis is a distraction from the traditional power that "was" Indiana basketball during the glory years. I see it similar to the IU Oval in football during the Antwaan days. Also, reminds me of Nebraska wearing the black unis and getting it handed to them by Tom Allen's Hoosiers in their own stadium. Stick to tradition and leave the ugly black to the Toiletmakers.

Agreed. I don't think Cig views Tino as an upgrade. I've said it before but if you listen to one of Fernando's interviews he talks about crediting Whitmer with bringing in a weekly process that Whitmer got from Herbert that was Drew Brees process. He and Alberto mentioned how helpful that was in growing this season. Tino had no ill will from Cig when he left. Tino developed several qbs for Cig at JMU and Roarke at IU. I am sure since Tino was available and he knows the processes/is proven, it was a no brainer. I personally believe Whitmer was a bit of an upgrade from Tino. That doesn't take away from Tino but I am sure there are things Whitmer has taken from the NFL that were fresh and beneficial that hopefully Cig can continue using with his QBs going forward.

I’m in the two years to be fairly certain on a coach camp. Sometimes there can be deceiving factors like TJD covering up deficiencies, but that doesn’t seem present this time around. I still think it can’t be ignored that CDD inherited a tire fire and had to hire a whole new staff and recruit a whole new team in six weeks. That is an abnormally difficult situation. Did he do it perfectly? No. But, what’s realistic for that situation? And there isn’t much to say except we’ll find out if that “excuse” has any merit, or if CDD just isn’t very good. Given what we spend on MBB, personally next year I’d like to be ranked all year with the team ceiling being getting beyond the first week of the tourney. And honestly, what I think doesn’t matter. IU will give him three to four years minimum regardless of what the message boards think. That’s why I often conclude we just have to hope it works, there is nothing we else we can do.

If Connerway hits both FTs we foul and have a chance to tie or win with a 3….if Arenas doesn’t have the game of his life we also win! I think this team has turned a corner, Wisconsin is a must win though!

We have a decent big man and this is a W.

Timeout called by USC because “the student” section needed a bathroom break.

Gotta win this if Mazzera can’t play.

CBM *shaking hands emoji* @Class of '66 Old Fart Can’t be taking such scary falls at that age

Rebounds, possessions and something like 5 more shots (plus refs) is why we’re down. We’re shooting better. More efficiently, but can’t win shooting so fewer shots unless you’re hitting all your 3’s and we’re around 33% (they do guard the 3 well). Maybe Dorn starts hitting 2nd half. But keep possession and at least shoot more to get the W

Palm Pilot Bailey at work tonight! Lol

Bailey’s dunk gets blocked and the crowd was almost loud enough to get shushed in a library.

Kid was special. Hopefully in 25 years he’s coming back as an honorary captain for a National Championship game

This is great energy from the guys. So proud. Would love to get a lead on this next possession

As Cig has said many times, “It’s a business decision.”

What section? Might have to join in. To the OP, such a big fan you didn't even get the date right. Have fun watching a game on Wednesday.

I know last season worked out but wouldn’t mind the first play of the game looking a little better

I’d love to see everything shifted up (including even the start of the season) so we get the semis on New Years and the title game the following week.