MartintheMopMan

We've all consumed a lot of IUFB content about this team over the last year. Any really stick out? Player and coach interviews (from this year or before), highlights, stories, podcasts, or any other media welcomed! I just want a central thread to look at to find this stuff (and also for you to feed me great content because I'm a content monster). I'll start us off with some pre-success Fernando: If you haven't seen our adorable boy when he was an adorable boy yet, what are you even doing? I watched this Pac-12 (RIP) day in the life video of his a few times during playoffs because I always knew one of the underrated strengths about our team is how unshakable and dedicated Fernando is. Watching the Coach's Filmroom of the game last night my daughter and I talked about how you could see a difference between Fernando post-sack (and post-roughly-targeting-the-passer) and Beck post-sack. Fernando extracts the football lesson from the play then erases the rest while even just one sack gets inside of Beck's head the rest of the game. The mental portion that distinguishes a sack as worse than a run-for-loss just isn't there for Menzy. Anyway, you can feel that about him here: Now that I've stolen the easy ones, whatchugot?

And I think we can expect that Cig, of all people, is not going to stop someone from chasing their dreams of moving up in the coaching world. I would imagine him to be straightforward about what he thinks he can do for you to help you achieve those goals and the advantages of continuing to work with him and to respect the decision if you ultimately leave.

Still a local boy! And he plays basketball, of course. 31 points in the 2025 Brawl for the Ball Tournament Championship game. Not bad for someone balancing their body type between basketball player and O-lineman. Offers from Grand Valley State, Hillsdale, Bulter, Western and Eastern Illinois, U of Indy. Here is his hudl senior season highlight reel: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/18043629/6944ad1e8f48406fd6ad8811 (He's 69 (nice))

Keniford Pomegranate's numbers for the game:

But also, the answer is "when he was at Cal" based on the shirt.

I was curious about this too so I reverse image searched it and holy shirtballs everyone, I have terrible news:

Can't wait until we have the CCCC version of this quote, "There is no such thing as Santa Claus. You cannot wait for life to give you something for free. Keep your nose to the grindstone and create your own magic."

I always thought Santa and Indiana had a suspiciously similar color scheme.

Can you believe my wife vetoed my purchasing any memorabilia with good odds of smelling like sweat?

Yeah. No coincidence that Cig was there, of course. I mean, we all noticed the basketball team suddenly started improving once Cig no longer had to actively coach football. Everyone suddenly seems more disciplined with more hustle too. HMMMMMMMMMMMM I WONDER

The last 1.5 weeks have been very traumatic for little brother. . . DonaldGloverGood.gif

Isn't Rudy set 20 years before the release date?

Yeah, Pizzo was on Hoosier Hysterics and said it was too soon because we all just lived through the real events and everyone would focus on comparing the accuracy of a movie to the real thing instead of letting the filmmaker translate the story into art. He also told this story which I'm going to share here because I love it and I have been looking for it for weeks:

If Cig has taught us anything, neither is their recruiting ranking. But, my point is less about tracking how good he is at football and more about tracking how good he is outside of football. As in, if someone plays a coveted position and is impressive enough to scouts to garner a 4-star rating, but only getting offers from bottom-barrel P4 schools, then it suggests there is a problem the coaches/recruiter have seen that scouts haven't. I don't even mean that the other offers need to be coming from places like tOSU, but a real Big Ten team like Illinois or Iowa is a positive signal. For outsiders, following recruiting is like reading tea leaves through the fog. I'm just trying to piece together any little bits I can find. It's just not possible to have enough context to really judge how a player will turn out. Hell, watching the player on a particular team is barely enough context, I mean, look at Brenden Sorsby.

Any Young man CCCC wants, I want too.