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Blame my old eyes.

Younger Mendoza is 15 also...

Tommy John surgery has a long recovery period still I believe. 9 months to a year. If that is still the case Georgia needs a QB1 next year

Makes me feel better about how good Mendoza could be.

Love that snark comment about the SEC

Wonder where Tayven will be ranked and who is yet to enter. https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-football-transfer-portal-2025-tracker-10-best-available-quarterbacks-and-which-teams-are-in-the-mix-242297824/amp/

I value both actually. Just could not understand preferring an unproven mobile guy when we already had one in TJ. Granted he is gone now

He does not have much experience. Why gamble on him vs someone with more experience

I get that. Let me ask a different way. Before Jackson was in the portal, what makes Pribula more attractive than Jackson? Pribula has not proven anything really. Now if he is coming to compete great but some seemed to suggest he was their top portal guy.

Heard AH was pretty empty. True? I know it was not a marquee opponent and students are gone but interesting if that was the case. I watched a little bit and could hear the cheerleading much more than I recall in other games

What makes him (The PSU backup) a better or comparable portal QB to Mendoza or a MAC level QB who had a lot of success?

After watching today’s games, I feel a little better. Road games are tough. It seems our defense, despite a ton of missed tackles, deserved to be in the playoffs. Our offense had a great year but collectively the offense came up short in the big games. Halfway there.

Cig may need to consider adding some potential along with the performance when evaluating recruits. We need some playmakers. Other than crossing routes our receivers were completely covered tonight and could get no separation.

This could be bigger than getting your Covid year as an extra year. Apparently a federal judge in TN grants injunction that could allow JUCO athletes to still have 4 years of college years even if they played 2 years of JUCO ball https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43048561/vanderbilt-qb-diego-pavia-granted-injunction-allowing-extra-year-eligibility

If any of you have companies that might be interested in a corporate sponsorship, they are not that expensive. I had the unfortunate experience of managing that for my prior company during what had to be some of the poorest football and basketball periods and we never could get people to go. This is a few years old now but we only paid ~ $200k/year and got season football tix, about 15 bball games and some additional perks like giving out a game ball, doing a radio spot with Fischer, taking a group of customers to a basketball practice, coaches panel etc. Now that football is good, that is a value if the pricing is the same. We had floor seats for BBall and during football games we would get to go down on the field for part of the game. A similar sponsorship with the colts was about the same pricing but you got more promotional partnerships. If anyone has an interest I can connect you with the contacts.

not sure how these guys are but they have a video breakdown of Wheeler - Film Breakdown: Star DT Hosea Wheeler Hits the Transfer Portal From Western Kentucky!

I suspect this guy. looks like they can transfer before their junior year if in a service academy Army running back Kanye Udoh to enter NCAA transfer portal

Does he have a service commitment or can he transfer like other college kids

any idea how many rourke had in 2022/23? He seemed to be more mobile before the injury. I prefer a dual threat especially if their accuracy is near 70%

looking at those highlights you would think he would have a lot of rushing yards but Rourke had about twice as many in 2022 and again in 2023. Mendoza seems quicker and his accuracy near 70%. He seems like he could be a good fit but one that TJ might also be able to compete with for that role.

I wonder if he knows Todd Yeagley at all. Todd was probably at IU when Dusty was and could let him know what it was like going from one BT school to his dream school. Granted soccer is not as high profile as basketball.

76?

Remember (older folks) when we were kids and the Christmas catalogues started arriving by mail? This is kind of how I feel about this thread. Optimism (new for IU football fans), anticipation, hope. Good times.

Really? I assume as a DC? Does he call plays now?

What time is the playoff selection show. I thought it was later but someone at church said noon.