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I won't quit pointing out that Nate Tice, who knows more ball than 99.99999% of the population, had Fernando as his QB1 as far back as May. Enjoy him while he's here folks.

Definitely didn't take the easy road, but Marcelino has been named a captain of the Jets. That is awesome.

Ticket office transparency leaves a lot to be desired at Indiana. It’s a maddening system no matter what I’m doing through there, unless I’m actually on the phone with someone. The staff is usually superb in my experience.

No idea, I just put one in and hoped for the best for Marquette. I’d imagine it’s a pretty good idea for UL in Indy. That’ll be a pretty pricey ticket on the secondary market.

Really would like to know when they're going to distribute tickets for this one. Or...maybe they have and my request was denied lol.

I don’t think the stadium needs to expand all that much, if at all. The demand is not there for that. It needs to modernize in a very bad way, however, which we all know. They’re sticking “suites” in every somewhat empty corner of the place and while that’s an ok patch for now, that needs addressed sooner than almost anything now that the team-facing facilities are in a good place.

Got them booked through 2030. Not happenin’.

The Ball Coach is at Homefield’s new brick and mortar store shaking hands and kissing babies today. He will not lose the likability battle with this fanbase.

The architecture is awesome. Using sidewalk chalk to line the field however,

Ohhhhhh yeah

A national CFB writer dropping an assistant player personnel hiring seems noteworthy.

It’s absolutely the former, unfortunately.

I understand that from the perspective of needing to have Peacock, but if you’ve already got it…those were my favorite broadcasts last year for football and basketball. I’d much rather be there than BTN, unless “BIG. RED. CARPET.” guy is on the call.

Nice. The floor was getting pretty yellow recently.

There's only 1 sold out game on the schedule. I can buy 4 for Wisconsin right now, from IU, for $280. And weather niceness is subjective, but I sat on the surface of the sun watching IU pound Charlotte last year on the same weekend that we play Illinois this year. Not a business expert by any means, but I think making IUFB accessible in the non-con pays better gains long term than trying to squeeze every cent you can out of tickets.

100%, which is why $60+ get-in price to guaranteed 30+ point wins is obnoxious. In my opinion, it doesn't come off as acting like a big time program, it comes off as ignorant. And it's not the first time. My season tickets are bought and paid for, so I'm not affected, but I wouldn't be dropping $240 before I even leave the driveway to take my family of 4 to watch us beat a G5 by 40.

Yep. This is obnoxious. Add in getting rid of youth tickets (I'd understand if they got rid of them just for B1G season, to be fair) and it's pretty easy to see why sales are where they are. Pack the stadium by any means necessary for the non-cons and the conference season will take care of itself. Some of the ticket office/admin decisions have been head-scratching and really frustrating the last couple of years.

Got an email that there’s extra season tickets up for grabs. Main level and balcony, on sale Thursday.

2025 Indiana is preseason ranked, has legitimate expectations, a reloaded roster, and the attention of everyone that isn't simply looking for clicks. 2024 Indiana was almost universally picked bottom three (two? one?) in the Big Ten, was coming off a trainwreck couple of seasons not to mention a century+ of suck, a new coach talking a bunch of s**t and getting laughed at for it, and a roster full of overlooked G5 guys. And then went out and busted everybody's ass with the only exceptions being the two teams that played for the title. There will never be another 2024 Indiana.

25% reduction of officials stands out to me. That is a significant number.

Wow. Purdue's offense must have been very good last season. Can you confirm?

Hey can you help me out with this screenshot? Under the school names, there are two numbers separated by a hyphen. Purdue's starts with 1 followed by a 10 and then under Indiana, it's 10 followed by 1. Why are they backwards?

I’ve seen resale tickets up as far back as May. No idea if they’re legit or not. I would assume the tickets for the schools will go live/be distributed around the same time. Still don’t have an answer on that.

Woof. At least they’ll have a hypothetical win against Indiana!