prodigal hoosier

You hit the nail on the head - these kids will never see the inside of a classroom so no need to tour Balantine, etc. Only need to know where the practice facility is as well as the bars and coed dorms/sororities.

https://247sports.com/college/xavier/article/xavier-musketeers-ryan-conwell-transfer-portal--247844064/ "Sources told Musketeer Report that Conwell is fielding offers ranging from $1.5 million to $2 million in compensation from other programs." 3rd team all-Big East is commanding a premium it seems.

Man, I can't believe we actually hired a no name coach from a military school with a career .671 record who never made the tournament and never did better than third in the NIT with 6 years as a coach! And he didn't even make any tournament in the year before we hired him! What a mistake of epic proportions that turned out to be....

I heard that Mendoza was asking at least $1.8M for his services. Anyone in the know confirm or deny?

Cignetti's foot has to be so tired from delivering so many @$$ kickings. On behalf of all Hoosier fans and all past incompetent administrations, I'm sorry you weren't hired 30 years ago. To Mr. Dolson: Just build the man a statue already. Also, a major pay raise has been earned along with staff increases. For those interested, here are his contract details: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/12/13/indiana-football-curt-cignetti-contract-27-million-iu-six-seasons/71911438007/

Dedicated IU Faithful: "Mr. Dolson, it's been a woefully long time since the basketball program has shown any semblance of a return to prominence; could you at least give us some minor reassurance regarding your plan to replace Archie Miller to make IU relevant again in light of all these conflicting 'insider sources,' player transfer portal entries and social media reports claiming to know what's going on?" Scott Dolson: "Well, you know, my plan has a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-you's... And uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man. Lotta strands in old Dolson's head. Luckily I'm adhering to a pretty strict, uh, coaching candidate regimen to keep my mind, you know, limber."

This was explained to me once by some long time Indiana residents: generally speaking, people in Louisville consider themselves as part of Indiana, just as people in Evansville consider themselves as part of Kentucky. And yes, that is meant as a left handed compliment to Evansvillians....

    I haven't watched Stone a great deal, but his numbers the same as TB's with one having a better FG% and the other having 2 more ppg (and a 1 game suspension!) Draft Xpress has Stone a mid round #1, just wondering what the difference is between him and TB, other than 10#'s and 1 inch, that makes one a 1st round pick and the other not.

I said previously I thought it was premature as his record is identical to Lynch's so far (plus 3 B10 teams went bowling this year at 5-7, so I assume we would've too although I don't know our APR offhand), but 4 years on top of his remaining two isn't too bad so long as the buyout isn't  expensive.  This next season is the make or break in my opinion: .500 teams feasting on cupcakes and losing in the postseason isn't acceptable - this isn't basketball after all.....   

How is he supposed to recruit if his contract doesn't even last until the recruits are IU-bound? IU football just made a bowl game. Let's keep this guy forever.[/quote]   I'm impatient I guess and have a low tolerance for sustained sub par performance (Thanks Coach Crean!). Other high profile programs have no problem hiring and firing coaches on the eve of bowl games, or even mid season, every year and seem to do just fine recruiting. I suppose I want us in the 100M olympic dash when we are still in JV level track as a program success wise, but we certainly shouldnt be chomping at the bit to extend at this very minute.

Seems premature to me. Another bowl game next year would warrant discussion of an extension. So far Wilson is Lynch 2.0: Lynch overall 19-30 .388, B10 6-26 .188, one bowl game appearance Wilson overall 20-40 .333, B10 8-32 .200, one bowl game appearance (and hopefully win)

My interpretation is that this, although possibly well founded, is more about the apparent appearance of impropriety vs. the actual disclosure of such. Think Percy Harvin here: is the success worth the possible headache?

Being polite, if you ever heard the man speak, it should've been a major clue

I will bite the proverbial bullet here. Curt "plays for the other team" and there may have been some inappropriate activity, not involving athletics mind you. His family dynamic is, um, dynamic, to say the least... Go ahead and shoot the messenger.

Pass the mustard please, crow is too dry for me to eat without something to put on it. Before BG got a new head coach I had this gamed penned as a loss. That changed when we fired Mallory, they lost their head guy and especially after their QB went down. Apparently none of those things mattered as much as I thought. I suspect the bye hurt a little as we had two weeks to keep focused which can be hard to do. It really looks like we need to open the wallet and pay for some actual coaches though. $300k for coordinators isnt getting it done in a power 5 conference. This is from last year and it shows we are starting to pay decent but look at the total staff budget column. We can't find another $850k to move us up above the average for the good schools? We probably spend close to that in fireworks for home games. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/salaries/ncaaf/assistant/ This has the feel of another rough season based on yesterday....

At cnnsi.com. if anything I'm more worried he will get poached if we have a good year or two. http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/08/05/coaches-hot-seat-will-muschamp-brady-hoke