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Tank Ford. Now you might not have heard of him because he was created on Madden but let me tell you, he was a double stud. My point on not minding stud lineman is that we often get overly excited and talk ourselves into the greatness of just about any kid Cig lands. I was the same way with kids RMK brought in. Sometimes they turn into Calbert and sometimes they an important role player. But overall I really like the staff and am fine with them getting whoever they want. But if they can get Tank, I am telling you, he is awesome

It is not on my radar which is why I asked. Went to AI and got the scoop. The class is ranked around 6th and has a lot of key positions covered. It looks like Gigi could be an impact player right away, but we probably still some veteran portal players to be in the top third of the BigTen next year.

I don’t mind getting a prospect but am not opposed to some stud lineman

What. Michigan City is home of Scott Dolson and that Delray Brooks fella.

I was critical early because we did not seem to have toughness and grit, let alone enough talent to win much. Team has that toughness now. Wasn’t excited about how we executed down the stretch in regulation but they beat Purdue, smashed Rutgers on the road and beat a good UCLA team even though we had kids fouling out left and right. Not sure if it will last all season but we have the toughness now to overcome some of our shortcomings and that can be the fuel to make this a good season and show hope for what can be.

Regarding the excellent best ever class we have coming in, how many are in the class? What is it ranked vs others nationally and vs BigTen? Are these freshman expected to have an immediate impact such that we compete for a top quartile BigTen finish?

We kind of lucked into moving there in ‘98 when we moved back from the Chicago area. Kind of wanted a few other places before we started looking but we just kept finding Plainfield had what we wanted. The town really grew up well and is a great place, top 10 schools, great trails, close to the airport and Indy. Our sports teams haven’t done as well as our neighbor schools but the admins, coaches and parents help make things top notch. Pretty classic, kind of Plain Indiana town

We lived in Plainfield until recently and our kids went to PHS as well. Still follow oe keep track of the Quakers

Thought Noah was going to DePaul

I think the biggest potential loss is going from the chip on our shoulder, let me show you edge we ave had to being the team everyone is circling on their calendar. Urban mentioned something like this and after he won his first championship this change was huge. Cig is great and can probably still get them to play with an edge but it is easier when all of college football doubts you for most of 2 years.

I had thought Mendoza was sacked a ton too nut the chart suggests Hoover gets sacked more if I am reading correctly

He did not get at least one of his presumed initial targets. I also wonder if he wanted to bring the former Illini coach with him but he went elsewhere. I think the one assistant may have been at at TTech? Not getting these two also may have been why he missed on some guys. My thinking here is that if these 2 assistants came and brought people then the planned staff and roster may have been much different than what we got.

This is correct. A friends son was manager who could have come back, wanted to, but is not back. He was recognized as an all American manager even but they cleaned house up and down. It did seem a couple players explored getting an extra year from the ncaa and I guess they may have come back but both were unsuccessful in that.

Any idea if we have any upcoming visits from portal or even HS kids? I mean the staff hasn’t had anything to do for a few days now come on lol