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craigyv88

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    Coach Curt Cignetti to INDIANA

    The buzz around Ohio State is that Jim Knowles is likely headed to Duke. He coached there under Cutcliffe for 7 or 8 years so I wouldn't be surprised by that.
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    They Fired Tom Allen!

    Fair question, but even if so those two would be searching in rarified air for their next guy, similar to A&M. I doubt we would have any candidate overlap with them.
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    They Fired Tom Allen!

    If they can do a good job selling those two things I don't see why we can't make a solid hire. Being one of the only B1G/SEC openings represents an advantage to the degree we've probably never had previously and certainly didn't have the last time we went outside our own building to make a hire. It's still early in the carousel but currently the only B1G and SEC openings are IU, Miss St, and Texas A&M, and Miss St seems to have their guy and A&M is shopping in an entirely different district.
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    Coach Curt Cignetti to INDIANA

    I would love that. Plus I think Sorsby would be a pretty ideal QB for that spread midline option scheme.
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    Coach Curt Cignetti to INDIANA

    The only possible name I can think of would be Jake Dickert from Wash St. His current base salary is about $2.8 mil so IU could potentially offer a nice raise plus significant conference stability and TV revenue to invest in the program, compared to the zero conference stability his program currently has.
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    They Fired Tom Allen!

    Glad to hear a plan is in place and also that they're willing to pay that level of salary. For comparison Ryan Walters is getting $4 million at PU and only Ferentz, Fickell, Harbaugh, Franklin, and Day are in or above the $7-9 million category (Tucker was as well). Justin Frye is currently getting around $800k in his position at OSU so that would be a massive raise for him if that's the direction they go. Initially hearing $7-9 million makes me think more of Dan Mullen territory or another similar coach, however I doubt a guy like that is a plausible candidate for us.
  7. Tom Allen's Last Stand - 33 Poodoo - 30
  8. I felt the same. I used to not be a fan of his but he has definitely grown on me a bit. Also, not really related to his commentary, but I just realized a couple days ago his older brother was on our '81 title team. Played quite sparingly but he was there. Thought that was interesting.
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