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Cool, he doesn't agree with me. Sounds like we are likely to land at least one of the Top 40 kids he was looking at if internet chatter is accurate. The ball hasn't really even bounced on the season yet and our team is 100% different than it was last year. Teams are bringing in G League guys. Recruiting misses just don't hit like they used to. YMMV I guess.

I think unless it is a kid from Indiana, I don't know how much value you get out of kids outside the Top 40 anymore. They don't want to wait to develop, you might as well go portal at that point.

Indiana has to compete with more options than Iowa. Quite a bit of our alumni base is in Indianapolis and Chicago. You have a football program that got good and is cashing in, which means it is more expensive to support them. The Colts just got better. The Pacers went to the finals last year. You got Caitlin mania that is in Indy now. You still have the basketball program. Chicago has a bunch of professional teams as well. It is a much more competitive sports environment in Indiana and in the cities where we drop quite a bit of our alumni base.

Yeah that seems awfully suspect.

That is a stupid rule.

Secondary has just been f-ing awful. Cannot get off the damn field.

Love to see a 3 and out here and then step on their neck and break their will.

Did exactly what we needed to do around the half.

Massive hold. Dear lord.

Yes, punch it here and another to start the second and get some distance.

Their line is getting away with alot of holding.

They can't stop our offense, hopefully the D had some time to regroup on the sideline and we can get them off the field and put up some more points before half.

Let down game so far. Defense needs to get its head out of its @$$.

Beautiful. Never thought I would see the day.

Sounds like Leary got himself in trouble again.... https://bustednewspaper.com/indiana/leary-todd-christopher/20251009-085900/

Last night was "big time" football. If you had told me as a student when the school was handing out tickets to Freshman for free and we were winning 2 to 3 games a year that we would ever be a "big time" football program in my lifetime, I would have asked for some of what you were smoking. Amazing what a competent staff, commitment from the school, and the leveling of the pay to play playing field cand do for a program.

I think McCollum might be a better coach but I think he wouldn't have fit here either.

I think it is fair to wait for the results to be in. That being said, there were a bunch of teams last year that on paper didn't look super impressive coming out of portal season and by the end looked better than our highly thought of guys. Yes, some of that is coaching but I think some is attributable to the attitude those guys came with. We will have to see how it plays out.

https://x.com/DarrenHeitner/status/1917273709678616939 Anybody know who this guy represented? A few other people in the comments complimenting Indiana as well. Won't hurt to get a reputation with agents to be on the up and up with the athletes.

I think that some of the Woodson stuff is bleeding over for him. Woodson is gone but the athletic department folks are still there. I get the impression that they are locking out the rumor monger guys.

Taking a bench player from the national champs to likely also be a bench player on your team doesn't seem like much of an oof to me. You need role players and bench guys.

Somewhat off topic but I don't think that professional Euro players should have eligibility.

Pissy fans=hot seat. Here is my honest thoughts on next year. 22 wins and solidly in the tournament, which is enough for me. Not going to continue to argue with you all. This is all really just personal opinion. If you aren't in the tournament in two years your seat is warm with a not insignificant portion of the fans. If that happens, it becomes harder to do your job. We have seen it with the past two hires. Yes, every coach at Indiana gets at least 4 years but outside of Crean when the program was burned to the ground and you had to recruit freshman to build it, that tends to be the point where the natives get restless. They got restless with Crean in year 3. "Well fans need to realize we suck and lower expectations...." Respectfully, not happening until the Bob Knight era fans are no more. If things are not turned around by then, some of you all will get your wish on turning down the dial. Until then, market and spend like you are still a blue blood and people will have those expectations. I think we have a guy that should at the very least improve on the **** show this has been for 20+ years but I think some of you all are deluding yourselves if you think he could go two more years of missing the tournament unscathed. Woodson was a ******* Hoosier Hero who made the tournament two years in a row and was in trouble by the middle of year three. That is reality. "Well you want to fire him after one year." No, I don't. It just gets ******* tiresome to have to do this defensive song and dance whenever we talk expectations. My bar, and a bunch of other fans' bar is the tournament. That is the pass/fail line when grading the year.

Define hot seat. His team's Twitter people were starting to chatter like what happens with IU. That was the seat getting warmer. He was able to shut it down with the next few years results.

Hurley was on a hotter seat going into year 3.