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What tweaks would you make? Just curious.

I dunno, I think there is some value to making the tourney. It helps with the improvement narrative and removes something that needs explaining (we missed it because of XYZ excuses). That should make things easier with fans/donors in terms of NIL, and also selling recruits. I’m not saying making the tourney is a must and our future depends on it, just that it materially helps with the whole program building thing.

What about Mega SuperBet in Puerto Rico? An 81-80 barnburner! Perhaps the experience was more valuable than we could have imagined. (just kidding)

Yea. We live to fight another day, which is good. And double good we beat Wiscy, we owe them one and it's still not close to even. I don't feel much better about this team, but is what it is. On the sunshine pump side, is D-Rock an OT specialist? He had a good OT record prior to IU. Also, a nice crowd today. Our "toxic" fans were very good.

Despite him being out the line has moved from -4.5 to -3.5. I can help my IUBB PTSD — this feels like a classic IUBB letdown situation. Break the trend fellas! Looking at ticket demand we should have a good crowd today. Just go win by 10!

May as well I suppose.

Tyson officially announced. He looks like a S&C coach...

Another classic Fernando interview:

SIAP, there are some great pics here: https://experience.iu.edu/2025-cfp-national-championship?utm_medium=orsoc&utm_source_platform=iu-bloomington-x This one especially, wow.

Next time the state of Indiana loses one of these bets (hopefully with some non-IU team), I hope we send a box of these.

Confirming what many suspected. He’s not “solid” with TTU and we are recruiting him.

Wanna rep the B1G?! I think they’re gonna sell like 10 total lol. Funny shirt though.

We also shed the most losses record, Northwestern now has it, which is nice. That one was annoying. I’m sure there are some streaks out there that are interesting that we would like to break, but for me all the meaningful demons have been exorcised.

Good guess. Another data point is the Wisky DB (Xavier Lucas) Miami tampered with and got, of course sparking that still unresolved legal action. I’d bet the farm they tried to get Ponds. They’re a scummy bunch and it’s so satisfying to have beat them.

IUFB’s turnaround is giving other programs too much “hope” lol.

Here is an interview with Cig talking recruiting, our recent HS/portal class, and other miscellaneous stuff. Starts at 5:50 in. Nothing groundbreaking but a few interesting comments if you’re an IUFB sicko. Also here is a good write up. Notably TE is a bit of an unknown. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-football-notes-cignetti-says-tight-end-is-biggest-question-mark-on-2026-offense-right-now/#google_vignette

One more for ‘26. OL. Pref walk-on. Local. Had some nice mid major offers.

I can live with this sort of loss. We just didn't have it. I also heard a lot of guys had the flu on this trip. So, that's some rationalization to take or leave...

Interesting and impressive. Good for CBB!

We haven’t got many Cig podcast interviews post-National Championship. Here is a good one that just came out. 14:30 in it starts.

I’m in the two years to be fairly certain on a coach camp. Sometimes there can be deceiving factors like TJD covering up deficiencies, but that doesn’t seem present this time around. I still think it can’t be ignored that CDD inherited a tire fire and had to hire a whole new staff and recruit a whole new team in six weeks. That is an abnormally difficult situation. Did he do it perfectly? No. But, what’s realistic for that situation? And there isn’t much to say except we’ll find out if that “excuse” has any merit, or if CDD just isn’t very good. Given what we spend on MBB, personally next year I’d like to be ranked all year with the team ceiling being getting beyond the first week of the tourney. And honestly, what I think doesn’t matter. IU will give him three to four years minimum regardless of what the message boards think. That’s why I often conclude we just have to hope it works, there is nothing we else we can do.

Agree, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m sure he was happy Tino got the OC gig. But once someone leaves, they left, and it’s not always easy to bring them back.

Give me a break. It’s human nature sometimes. Does Tino really want to be a QB coach one might ask, etc.

Lou Moore Benson Baldwin Tino All guys who left and came back in one way or another. Cig doesn’t automatically close the door in these situations and keeps an open mind. That’s a good thing.

I’d love to see everything shifted up (including even the start of the season) so we get the semis on New Years and the title game the following week.