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Barry has a hard time mentioning us. Hey Barry: Good luck with the rebuild -- isn't that what you were supposed to do this year? With all these coach openings right now, I bet you wish you stayed at UNLV an extra year.

HELLO EVERYONE!!! HOW ABOUT LAST NIGHT???!!! LMAO. IU fans took over Ross-Ade, we were making more noise that PU fans, and the team smashed 'em. 12-0 season. Absolutely incredible. Evans is off the injury report and we've got another week to get healthy for some of the biggest games in the history of IU athletics. Go IU! ScreenRecording_11-29-2025 07-46-43_1.mov

Should we? just kidding

Riley getting into the spirit! “I’m a little bit new to it, but I hate Purdue” Nowakowski said when asked about the Bucket Game. He did have a great guide to the rivalry in fellow tight end James Bomba. “This guy has been here six years, raised down the street, and having him in my room, I just talked to him about it, just kind of really trying to listen and hear what he has to say. You know, he’s a guy where it really means a lot to him, right? He’s been born and raised in this rivalry” Nowakowski said." https://hoosierhuddle.com/2025/11/26/i-hate-purdue-riley-nowakowski/

New NBC interview with Cig. 17 min long. Good questions were asked. Great stuff as usual. I’d note two things: - He talks about how much he loves it here and how he views it as “ours” and something “we’ve created” and he couldn’t imagine leaving. - Cig says he was a RMK fan. What a guy…

I think you’re spot on. A pretty good source said their roster cost $14M in total this year, which obviously is quite low, especially in the admittedly very competitive SEC where schools are spending $30-40M on their rosters. People say bball and even baseball eats up NIL there. Tough. I’m kinda surprised Tyson and/or Jerrah Jones aren’t helping football more. Maybe they will…

Agree. This team showed potential for improved D last night, which is a very good sign. We did better than I thought we would, especially on PJ. And on the offensive side we know this team can be a little better than we were. We have a long way to go and tougher games coming, but through the first six games I'm not seeing any red flags and things look pretty good, which is about all I can ask for. It will be interesting to see how much CDD can get from this team. How consistent can we be? And if we defend better like last night AND click on offense... we can beat some very good teams.

Nice work juicing the metrics at the end of the game. Never a doubt overall though. Very good job tonight. Modern bball!

Good crowd, plenty of energy.

A lot of off the field positive stories with this team — here is one with Ponds. https://fox59.com/video/iu-football-player-hands-out-turkeys-hope-for-the-holidays/11284416

I didn’t know about her. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. A lot indeed.

A lot. Matt Weaver was just on a pod and he noted tampering is rampant. It makes sense given how players' agents can do all the dirty work (shopping players and fielding interest/offers). I think many schools are doing this. Of decent players who will see the field, they may not know their precise next spot, but I'd bet most (like 2/3 or more) have a short list of five or so schools who are interested by the time the hit the portal.

Line opens at IU -7.5. That’s on BetOnline, nothing on FanDuel, DK, etc. yet. Encouraging I suppose. Update: As of Tuesday morning, most of the books are have IU -9.5. Overall, bettors are more optimistic than our fanbase on this game. Update: As of mid-Tuesday morning, the line has moved to -10.5. Yeesh!

Well, Kevin Wilson's feelings towards Purdue have not changed.

Cig presser updates: Kamara and Sarratt will start vs. Purdue. "Will know more after today" on Evans. That was it on injury updates.

This sounds like another situation where the player spoke with the staff and it was a general mutual parting of ways. Or put differently, IU isn't upset they decommitted. I'm a little bit of a homer on this view, but I suspect we may be shifting to better prospects. This season has opened some new doors as Cig likes to say. To some these decommits/parting of ways may seem kinda harsh and cutthroat, but it's what the bigger programs do and just the nature of hyper-competitive CFB.

It's definitely not an exact science, but eyeballing the ticket map I think we'll have a pretty good crowd -- something like 15.5-16K, balconies half full type of thing, which isn't too bad. I'd guess people aren't working much this week making this an easier game to attend, which helps offset no students. I think the crowd will be looking for any reason to get into it, so if we play hard/smart and shoot reasonably well it should be a lively atmosphere. This will be the first more intense AH home crowd for all our news guys, and hopefully it's rocket fuel for them and not nerves. I'll also be Captain Obvious and note this is an important game. Key for our resume, but also it takes time to win back the our more casual fans who are wondering if the CDD era is different. Playing well and putting on a show here would be another key step in the right direction...

Just making a thread for him after his visit yesterday. @MemphisHoosier and @JSHoosier mentioned him in the 2025 IUFB thread. He's a 3* out of FL, committed to Colorado but we're trying to flip him. Sounds like Louisville is involved too right now. Per the below tweet we are “trending" for a potential flip. So, this might happen. Fingers crossed. https://247sports.com/player/dmontae-tims-46152658/

There could be another site issue -- the newest member is pretty scary!

Decommitted. Just happened so no word yet on why. Update: Sounds like both sides saw this as the best course of action. Not sure what changed since he committed. Maybe position (he’s an ATH) or projected PT… tbd.

Literally the first time in my life I was cheering for Duke in something.

For sure. Betting markets have shifted pretty hard to LSU since yesterday afternoon, but it’s still not a lock. Quite the saga! This makes me continue to really appreciate IU and Cig resolving our coach speculation situation in a matter of days with a revised contract and clear video message to the fans and broader CFB world (recruits). A chef’s kiss of institutional alignment here at IU!

Ha, this is so amateur from LSU. I’m no fan of Brian Kelly, but I’m not seeing how LSU has much of a case here.

You might say he’s Tuckered Out? /rimshot

He decommitted. Just happened, so no word yet on why. https://x.com/Rivals/status/1991631624174272650?s=20