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Sportscenter is killin’ the dude. They showed that stupidity again, and then came back with the shot of Mendoza holding the Natty trophy on the field and they’re just pointing at it. That is hysterical.

IU beat Oregon last year ... twice, when Oregon was just as talented as they will be this year. Now Oregon lost both of their coordinators. Three other offensive staff members left with Stein to go to Kentucky. Oregon has tons of talent? Coaching is a integral factor when players look ultra-talented. Other teams are extremely talented and don't have to deal with new people scattered all over their coaching staff. And I don't want to hear about "payback" for last year. The time for payback for Oregon against IU was in the Peach Bowl. That was their pre-game locker room hype, and lasted only until superior coaching and preparation guided DeAngelo Ponds to jump the route on the game's first play. AFter that, Oregon wasn't thinking about payback, they were thinking "uh-oh, here we go again." I'll take the team that had enough talent last year, has just as much talent this year, and returns its entire coaching staff.

Nice start from Purdue’s new AD! Hahahaha what a bad line.

35 minute sit-down with Rece Davis in the film room. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm betting this is going to be real good.

New trophy case.

The Pudoo beat writer for Hammer & Rails had his story picked up by Yahoo.com. Is the story is from a Purdue persepective? Only if you consider being flattened by a bus driven by your closest media outlet as your perspective. This article is AWESOME: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/purdue-athletic-director-said-173016514.html#:~:text=Tommy McClelland was introduced as,in West Lafayette earlier today. Some select quotes from a great read: "I wasn't going to write a second thing today, or even this week, but when your brand new athletic director says something so galactically stupid at his own introductory press conference I just cannot help myself." "consider that INDIANA IS LITERALLY THE REIGNING NATIONAL CHAMPION IN THE BIGGEST COLLEGE SPORT OF ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "this pales in comparison not only currently with IU. Historically, Indiana has won eight times as many NCAA championships. They are a national power in both metric and standard football right now. They are bringing home a haul of Olympic medals in the swimming pool every 4 years. Their baseball team has played in the College World Series semi-recently. Their women's basketball program has been a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament more recently than we have even played in it. Their men's program still has a national cachet. Yes, Purdue men's basketball has done very well in recent seasons and is one of the premier programs in the second most populr college sport, but even then, the score is still 5-0 Indiana even with our recent national profile." "This is "Stick both feet in your mouth all the way up to the thighs" levels of a lack of self-awareness... In the last two years they have completed more "Greatest turnarounds in the history of not just this sport, but sports in general" than Purdue has won Big Ten football games."

Yall have barely seen yigi play with iu. I’d say better opinions can be formed after the exhibitions.

When USPS starts busting out this stuff is when we know the season is just starting to come over the horizon.

If that's how you feel ... this was fun:

Out of roster spots, huh?

Obviously the methane gas from the cow poop has already gotten to him.

LIAR!! He was looking down at his prepared remarks as he delivered that line. Made sure he delivered it just the way he wrote it. Can you imagine starting out your AD fundraising mission with an apology to each big money booster for having embarassed the university on your first day?

Ha, I think we’re gonna lose some game(s). Undefeated is so incredibly hard, which is what made ‘25 the most accomplished season ever by a team. If we can make the playoffs and avoid a first round road game… that would be amazing.

And Kellan Wyatt is officially returning to IU this season!

Goodman said the expectation should be for the team to be between 10-20 nationally all year. Top 3rd of the B10. Rob said he sees no reason IU can't finish as high as 4th in the B10 and said the roster could be capable to make a deep run, even to the F4. They agree it's a disaster if the team isn't nationally relevant in February.

Thinking about the embarrassment of riches if Wyatt comes back. Assuming he's recovered from his injury too, don't forget about how dynamic he is. Pretty sure he mostly played off the ball at Maryland. You can plug him in just about anywhere situationally on this defense. With all the options available to Haines (and Gracie Bear), that front is going to be fresh for 60 minutes and absolutely destroy offensive lines deep into games.

A hint from an old pal.

This Cignetti guy just might work out.

https://www.insidethehall.com/2026/08/09/report-iu-basketball-to-host-western-illinois-next-season/ Western Illinois coming to Bloomington Dec 6. Sure, they were 364 in KenPom last year, but records are meaningless when these 2 get together.

Yes, I’m that age as well. But I was at the game a couple years ago in Bloomington when Dylan Raiola spent most of pre-game warm-ups running his mouth to our student section presumably about he was going to show them who had the better football program. And then he certainly went out and did just that.

Those numbers are incorrect. The last figure should read 24 ounces, if you check Larry’s right hand. Ambidextrous, it seems.

A defensive lineman that requires double-teaming = linebacker sacks. Four defensive linemen (Mario, Tyrique, Tobi, Daley) that all merit a double team = incredible mismatches for guys like Mario or Kellan Wyatt, tons of sacks, linebackers that run untouched, and teams forced into max-protect, thereby making coverage that much easier.

Happy Birthday, Coach! No. 91

Genius

There's a reddit thread on the Wyatt news and an interesting back and forth with some OSU fans. One of them said Ryan Day went out and hired this OC specifically to modify the offense because of how badly IU and Miami's DLs were able to beat them. Says they'll be doing more Sayin under center making pre-snap reads and 2 TE sets since their shotgun read based offense got mauled by our speed and athleticism. Some are a little skeptical about their OL but most expect it to be much improved returning 4 starters who now have much more experience. No doubt that'll be a tough game, really glad it's at home. I like the odds of Haines confusing Sayin and our crowd being loud. That's going to be one of the best IU home game environments in any sport of the decade, at least. Probably since the turn of the century.

Getting Wyatt and Daley back is insane. We already had a front 7 widely considered top 10 in the country. We just may have the best now. Tucker, Landino, Daley, Wyatt, Hjelle, Obizer, Osunsanmi, Burnham, Ndukwe is just outrageous depth and talent. Jones and Hardy back with a lot of experience behind them and some talented young guys too. We will be among the best teams in the nation on both sides of the ball yet again.

I love that we continue to get the lack of respect as I think our staff absolutely excels in that underdog role. Come on, piss off our team. Come on.

When online sports gambling and stuff was legalized and spread, I originally thought okay it’s a free country and I enjoy it. But now I look at it… sports gambling is up like 10x or some huge number. 95-97% of people lose money over the longer run. Winning bettors usually are cut off. This is just hurting almost everyone financially and some people get addicted and ruined. I’m a “it’s a free country” type of person, but some things people just cannot handle. I think betting is okay, but as a society I think we were better off when there was some friction/difficulty to do so… like bets can only be placed in person at casinos and OTBs. This online sports gambling stuff is just a nasty net negative for many reasons.

Before getting hurt against ISU, Lee Beebe was on pace to be an 800+ yard rusher (regular season) and 1100+ yard rusher (postseason included) and is probably the 3rd-most talked about RB in that room coming into this year.

Which is why Cignetti at 13.2 million a year is a steal for the university

Here is a great article on the impact of being good at football for IU. AD donations doubled from $25M to $50M. Applications are up. All sorts of stuff. Football is the needle. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7492605/2026/08/05/indiana-football-college-football-valuations-national-title/

Halfway through the video and I couldn't be more excited for the season. Less than a month to go. Our football coach is a total savant. See a lot of people online doubting Josh Hoover... seeing Cig break down some of his tape instantly makes those doubts seem silly.

He played most of his senior season at IU with a completely chewed up ankle. Tried to gut it out but by the playoffs he was cooked. Kinda healthy now, eh?

This story really went mainstream on Friday. What a nightmare for Purdue. - Dan Patrick picked this story up and did a segment laughing at Purdue - Stephen A picked this up and did a rant. lol https://youtu.be/4djNzUG6Wik?si=qgrjOI30-eXkazOw - ESPN's morning shows did a segment - Rich Eisen did a segment - And all sorts of smaller media outlets talked about it - As noted above by AZ, their AD had to go on McAfee to do damage control. Think about that -- damage control for an AD's intro press conference. Haha. Just a chef's kiss from Purdue -- they can't help but try to puff their chests out when they should be focused on themselves and improving. It's pretty cool IU fans didn't even have to respond -- everyone else did it for us.

Pretty sure he had been notified before that game, fwiw.

It I were a PU fan (shudder) I’d rather have 10 straight bucket losses than my rival hiring Cig and somehow winning the CFB Natty in dominant fashion and garnering massive national attention.

Even if Indiana had not hired Curt Cignetti, I'm about 150% sure that Purdue would not have hired him. They're a bunch of mouth-breathing idiots, and they hire mouth-breathing idiots like Tommy McClelland who say stupid crap before they engage their feeble little brains.

So just for fun let's just go out on the limb and speculate that we would go 16-0 again this year or 32-0 over 2 seasons. The last IU team to go 32-0? Yup, our '75-'76 basketball team.

Alexis was a huge position of need and I love it. Plus he’s a double plus dude. Feeling pretty good about where we stand. I think Sherrill and Burton have to pop if we have a chance at elite results. I think we lack elite talent to a degree but we have a lot of pieces. I’ve always loved Moody and I think he will play way above his ranking. We’ve got 8 contributors not counting the freshman. Thats perfect. Backup PG is still a bit of concern but i think Moody might be more capable than many think. Theres 5-8 or so rosters out there that make me jealous but after that we on paper should be able to be in the fight. Getting myself pumped up.

He gets it at least

Bump.

What we did correctly and a lot of places screw up, though, is that he originally came very cheap and we have paid up once it became clear what he was. Whereas Michigan State gave the GDP of a Caribbean island nation to "Mel Tucker".

Fwiw, Stephen has a video up on his Instagram of him working out this summer. He is doing dynamic drills and moving at high intensity.