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The good thing is that UCLA won't be sneaking up on us and catching us off guard now. Gotta respect their streak, newfound motivation, and talent.

He's getting protection and his receivers are ridiculously wide open. Some of these completions there isn't an IU defender in the same area code as the receiver.

Well this is our letdown game. Easy to see why after such a big win.

If you're a defender and encounter no resistance running to the quarterback, the offense wants you to run toward the quarterback.

Feels like if we lose out on Thompson it will be similar to how Micah Shrewsberry landed Jalen Haralson. Tough for a 17 year old kid to say no when he's given 70% of a team's NIL and promised starter minutes from the get go. To someone born in 2008 IU is just another program that occasionally makes the tournament. Not enough to overcome all that cash and promised minutes.

Don't forget that he still has a lot of players from James Madison too.

Good work. On cue, Penn State fans on another board I frequent are already passing along information from a Penn State mod that says they have a "better shot than we thought" at Freeman.

Wouldn't it be glorious if we completed an undefeated regular season with another 66-0 beatdown in front of a heavily-shaded-crimson crowd in West Lafayette? I've already gone to sleep thinking about this possibility.

And also, why leave for program with a starved fanbase that will immediately expect you to win 10 games per year.

Pretty much all the PSU fans think they're getting Cignetti next year. L O L

So happy for everyone involved with IUFB right now. What a time to be a fan. It's crazy to think that when Tom Allen was fired I was just hoping we'd get a guy who would consistently get us to 6 or 7 wins a year. Just didn't want to be an automatic win for damn near 80% of the conference How quickly things can change.

Felt like Allmond was going to be our next commit too. Damn.

I'm sure he has no trouble maintaining eye contact when he's, well nevermind.

Yeah and it isn't close either. But don't tell the NBC booth that. Doing their best to cast this as an epic battle of two evenly matched heavyweights but come on, neither team looks all that impressive. 3-3 midway through the 3rd quarter. Maybe you're both a tad overrated.

I want 70!

My God this is fun.

If this is the 9th best team in the country then we are really freaking good.

Huge! Crowd needed a reason to blow the roof off and that was it.

Sweet! I always thought we'd get him but am no less ecstatic. Love that we got a guy McCollum wanted too haha.

On3 contributors seem to think it's between us and Michigan, and Jamie Shaw said he hears about us the most frequently in regard to Thompson. Staff clearly putting in work with him. He was the first player visited when Devries was hired. Went 3 deep for him last week I believe.

Apparently Purdue has already removed Ra-El from their roster.

Cignetti said a school offered a current player $1.5M to transfer during the spring window. My first thought was Tennessee offering Mendoza in the wake of Iamaleava fallout but I'm sure they'd have thrown more at him than that.

So do the Knicks make a run at Dan Hurley? It's the popular hot take on X the past 24 hours.

You called her a shill and cited her pushing Trump's agenda as the reason for being appointed to the BoT. Universities are supposed to be apolitical but let's be real, they have pushed one side's political agenda for decades. Sage is professional and very passionate about Indiana University. I'm glad she has chosen to take on this role.

She was fired from ESPN because of her politics. Aka she isn't a lefty. She's allowed to have opinions. Not sure that makes her a shill but sure go off since those opinions don't align with yours. I love Sage Steele. She's all about IU. We need more people like her.