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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

So much for all that stuff about studying who people are or he would have called you Miss Pope40. Disappointing

Plus Cig brought not only staff but several JMU guys over to establish his culture from day 1. If the team is not buying in to DD's plan that missing culture piece is big.

Any idea when the 2026 schedule gets released? Hoping to find a weekend where we can come back for a game.

I agree that they underestimated the amount of NIL needed to compete in the portal for basketball (I even wonder if we are set up as well as we think in football given Cigs comment about our NIL in one of the postgame interviews). Back to basketball, if they missed on the roster build for this year because they underestimated the portal NIL needs it would not explain why we missed on the HS effort we put in this summer. From all accounts (Brian Snow/Rabby) we had more coaches out recruiting during the summer than many other programs. Their takeaway was that other schools had largely passed on the 26/27 class because it was not as good and they were going to focus on the portal, which would leave us to clean up in the HS class. We did OK, but we did not clean up by any means and it seems we either failed to convince a kid this was the place to be or the money still lags behind. Granted, summer is not long after the spring portal season but to me it seemed like we may have realized we were not competitive in the portal so let's go grab some "cheap" HS kids and build that way. Then we miss there too. I have no idea if DD is a strong coach or a weak coach. I do think kids get steered places by agents, HS and AAU coaches and if we don't have the money and don't have the on court success I am not sure we are going to land difference makers. So, I fully expect Dolson to see that a buyout now may not be practical and will do his best fundraising job to try and get $ for both football and basketball. Hopefully that $ is out there.

Are you thinking we would not let him bring those assistants? I thought the assistants made the decision not to come.

We may not make a change and I predict Dolson will see that Bball needs a big cash infusion to help out but I remember something Cig said early that should apply too "No self-imposed limitations"

Well to be fair we have won a lot of championships recently. Big Ten, Heisman, Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl and the national championship. Probably hard for those shirt guys to keep up.

Haines “we will be bigger next year”Anyone come to mind that fits this?

If he was at $925k here and they are paying $1.2 and it seems Cig liked him, it seems like $$$ was not a factor. I cannot imagine we would have let him walk because we could not find $275k.

I vote USF since I live nearby

Cig made several comments in the post game crediting the strength coach which is interesting given he is leaving. No doubt he knew about it and it seemed we could bump up to keep him but he may have just wanted to be in TN.

I mean win or lose it already has been the greatest day in IU football history. But let’s make it even better.

Didn’t Alberto and Martin both say something this week that strongly indicates they will be back?

Makes me wonder if Khobie announcing he was coming back steered Frazier elsewhere

I am not sure about the 3 years. If next year is an improvement from this year then probably but if the same or worse then I don’t think year 3 is guaranteed. Personally I think Dolson finds a way to get a lot more NIL money for next year so that can buy DD and himself more time.

I wonder if he (Dolson) get caught up in the Cig success and thought DD was potentially the basketball version. I doubt he knew none of his primary staff or players would him. I bet he looked at the success he had when the Dolson was at their games and thought he seems to get it done which may be true but the having to completely rebuild the staff and roster made this an unnecessarily harder task. Now combine that with a middle of the pack NIL and a meh year 1 and he may not be able to overcome this, even if he is a good coach.

Is Bruce Pearl restricted at all by Auburn?

I know kids from the eastern part of the US that went to IU solely because they were basketball fans and wanted to experience it. Unfortunately they were there during some very lean years. So you would have to figure the impact of increased enrollment from basketball, however, football is more than doing this now. I doubt if we had a great basketball and football program it would have much of an impact vs a great football program and a meh basketball program. I do wonder if there is risk in losing donor money if the on court product is not much improved. I bet WVU fans are enjoying this.

Big red flag for me was that none of his WVU players or recruits wanted to follow him. The staff was very active in HS recruiting this cycle. Snow mentioned this a few times and noted that other schools seemed to be focusing on the portal vs HS and yet we did not have great results even when we gave more effort than other schools. No idea on who I would put as my top candidate but Bruce Pearl is available lol Recruiting is about selling a vision and momentum or a lot of cash. The first 2 are dying on the vine and the 3rd did not work for Woody.

He mentioned on another podcast that Miami or maybe Beck do something nearly every play that tip off if they will run or pass. He was going to show this on his show then delete it. Wonder what he noticed

They have moved up this afternoon. Some were in the $2800 range this morning and now the cheapest are $3500

Maybe I’m weird but this is one of my favorite additions. I quess I assumed we would get a QB but there have not been many linemen that seem like IU guys hit the portal yet and the better the line the better we move the ball.

The thing about linemen pay is that you don't just have to pay 1 of them or maybe a couple like with QB, WR maybe RB. You have double that with the linemen so if you say sure we can pay the newcomer $2M but the guys already in the fold are getting less then you probably have to bump them up too. I know we have a strong NIL pool of $ but I doubt we can get everyone we want or that $ will not be a limiting factor for some guys.