DChoosier

Not to mention he said we “lucked out” even though we ended the season beating OSU, Bama, Oregon and Miami. Correction: we did not beat Alabama, we ripped out their soul.

What a great get!! I was very afraid our in-state rivals in West Laffy would swoop in and land Sales but Cig prevailed !!

I agree that the late signees are likely to stick but……a little concerned about anyone that goes from unknown/unranked to a 4 star after they commit. Would assume a certain percentage of them would be open to 4* money offers they did not previously receive. We shall see.

I have ZERO idea if Kent Sterling has good sources but he stated he heard the Sales package exceeds $7,000,000 over a three year period. If so….thats absolutely crazy but thank you to whomever ponied up.

Sudfeld played in a total of 6 NFL games, completed a career total of 25 passes, for 188 yards, with 1 TD and 1 INT while earning $12,000,000. 12 million without getting your bell rung multiple times!! Backup QB might be one of the best gigs out there.

I’ll save you some time by predicting they mention Cuban over and over.

Never say never with Cig but I think it’s beyond a longshot to pry a Texas native from a Texas program , TT, that pays a TON of money to DL’s. I’d be interested to know if we are still sniffing around the Indiana 4 star OL player, Caleb Johnson, that committed to MSU. I assume he received a healthy bag but wonder if he will be open to listening to IU once he sees MSU get off to another crappy start. In recruiting terms the December signing day is a long ways away.

The three months in which Gunner was a commitment was a special time. Gunner will always be one of my favorite Hoosiers.

I heard him say that in an interview. One would think that the current market is not sustainable but who knows?? It all depends on how much the market is willing to spend and at this point it isn’t slowing down.

I agree that getting guys into the NFL will be of great help. No doubt. That being said…..it kind of cracks me up when Georgia/OSU/Oregon etc get a ton of credit for “developing” first/second round picks that were the first or second highest rated recruits at their position coming out of high school. They are great developers of talent because they can get the best high school players in the country into the NFL ?? Cig has helped get zero to low three star guys in the league. I would think/hope that resonates with recruits.

What has he done that makes you worried about his expectations and maturity level ??

This article also states that Cig likes to split the NIL $$ pot 45% portal players, 45% returning players and 10% high school players. If he is adhering to that ratio again this year it sort of backs-up losing some of the higher rated recruits due to larger bags. 10% spread among the current 16 recruits probably doesn’t leave a ton for the remaining targets (wouldn’t be surprised if an exception is made to at least make us competitive for Sales). Whatever….Cig has proven his method works.

I think we have money but not unlimited money. We have had a number of highly ranked guys on campus that ultimately went somewhere else allegedly somewhat (if not completely) due to the bag. The most recent being the 4 star OL Indiana kid that went to MSU of all places.

On a podcast Cig hinted we were around 25-27mm. OSU, Oregon and Texas were all allegedly in the 40mm range. I absolutely think we could get outbid and/or decide against giving a freshman x percentage of our total “payroll”.

He loved it there. It’s criminal the Cubs didn’t retain him.