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Articles on the Staes commitment. https://hoosierhuddle.com/hoosier-blog/tennessee-transfer-tight-end-holden-staes-chooses-iu-for-final-season/2025/1/9?fbclid=IwY2xjawHtKfdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUIKcVn5LuBgYYizuWHw0echD0lKCBl4dNhN74AfQJ-XM5dqX_isiaKtIQ_aem_Z1vF93d477zUYdG8xxVMvQ https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-football-lands-commitment-from-tennessee-transfer-te-holden-staes/

Just needs top 50ish result to make the 68 team tournament.

I looked him up. Nice offer list. I hope we can beat out "Quarterback U" Purdue. Lol https://247sports.com/player/brodie-mcwhorter-46134947/

https://hoosierhuddle.com/hoosier-blog/hoosiers-2025-offensive-portal-haul-and-projected-impact/2025/1/9?fbclid=IwY2xjawHs6JVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ6JQgx2MFs5alB5XoKBPmUbsKxcg-ZW6NpOJKf3wp4924K_MWGAaChvRA_aem_iX0ir7qR6gQVNFIZ3NqWXA

$3 comes out to less than $10 with fees. So for that ticket they're charging 300+%. More for the fees than the ticket itself.

They had 30 with 5 to go. They must've lit up the bench warmers, scoring 30% of their points in the last 5 minutes. lol

We can remove Rick Barnes from the list.

It's funny. He says, "We love college football. We love stories." IU would've been a great story if that was the case. What you said plus the new coach brought in a bunch of players in from lower level schools. This is at the school which is traditionally bad. Instead the story they decided on was to crap on IU.

Herbstreit getting called out. It's a week old but just showed up in my google news feed. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6030482/2024/12/31/alabama-michigan-playoff-indiana-smu-herbstreit/

He's intentionally misrepresenting what the discussion was. He's now talking about the semi-finals and acting like that was what was being discussed before. It wasn't. It was about who should or shouldn't have even made it into the CFP. Strawman argument by him. Also, he is trying to pretend like they wouldn't take Alabama over one of these schools? Really, we're supposed to believe that? Alabama isn't a big enough brand? Yeah, right. ESPN would take 'Bama over, say, Penn State in a heartbeat. He just has to pretend like they wouldn't since their previous whining backfired so spectacularly after the Tide lost yet another game but to say that they wouldn't love for Alabama to be in one of these games is disingenuous. Who was talking about Auburn in the CFP discussion? No one. They didn't even qualify for a bowl game.

Hopefully it starts going from being in the mix to winning these recruitments. Nice list there.

I noticed that they were going after a bunch of our transfers too.

If that happens and he returns, it'll probably be like last year with radio silence from the AD. No announcement, no statement of support, nothing.

What's the last number on those? Overall/Conference/?

Nothing trollish about those posts at all. I wonder why some think you're a troll. /s

When was the last time a high-major coach kept coaching in the last 2 years of his contract? I don't recall any but I don't follow other schools' coaching situations that closely. I highly doubt it's very often as they'll get extended before that. So those that think he'll be back should ask themselves whether he's done enough to get an extension. I'd think that barely getting into the tournament when the preseason expectations were competing for a B1G title and S16+ wouldn't warrant one. Or will IU be one of the few schools that lets its coach get close to the end of his contract, knowing that it hurts recruiting - it would hurt portal recruiting as well as HS.

The 4 games before IU their percentages from 3: 32.4, 21.4, 22.2, 26.7 So yes, you are correct, they haven't been shooting well recently although I'd say it's 3 games instead of 4 since they hit 11 3s against Coppin State. However, their FT percentages in those games were 75.0, 93.3, 84.6, 80.0 so maybe those were more a credit to defenses than just bad shooting nights. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/penn-state/men/2025-gamelogs.html

The expectations were quite high entering the season, as I stated. Barely making the tournament followed by the customary blowout would be yet another underperforming season. Would the big spenders really be happy with that return? Doubtful. Dolson didn't appear to be behind him after last season. This season won't change his mind. He'll have more pull after the season his football hire just had. He might be able to get Whitten on his side. Buckner will be in the last few months of his term, i.e. a lame duck. I just don't see him having much power to prevent the AD from doing his job. Fan attendance at home games has been noticeably down. When the team has their yearly losing streak, it'll get worse. Fewer fans in the seats means less money, which is what they care about in the end.. 3-1 so far and probably 4-1 after the next game but the conference schedule to this point has been weak. This team isn't well coached so it'll go off the tracks when the competition gets better. A win at a neutral site against Penn State doesn't change that.

That's what you think? Glad you said it because we were all unsure of where you stand since you post the same thing only 20 times a day. The expectation even from the cult was to compete for a B1G title and a 2nd weekend in the NCAAT. What, other than just being a negative person, makes you think that 10-10 gets him another year?

He struggled this year and by the bowl game was splinting snaps with another player. https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/sports/college/football/2025/01/04/alabama-football-starter-5-star-recruit-makes-transfer-portal-decision-elijah-pritchett/76822094007/

I think next year is the first year with 105 roster spots and 105 scholarships.

Rev share cap is $20.5M. So no.

Looks like he was a 3* recruit out of HS but didn't play a single game in 2 years at ODU.

People were surprised when he pulled out of the Shrine Bowl because it was thought he would go pro. USC thought he was going to be there next year after that. Then he entered the portal. 2nd team All-B1G. it would be great to land him but there will be lots of competition.