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Same. I find the online fan battle to be stupid. I’ve blocked a ton of dumb IU accounts, usually they have titles like “Respectable Khobie Martin Enjoyer 15-0.” Barf. With blocks and mutes my timeline is squeaky clean with good content now.

Hmm… there is room to poke fun at IUBB right now unfortunately, but I’ve got to give this attempt a 1.5 out of 10. Ya see Chuck, the portal isn’t open right now, so this little joke doesn’t make any sense. And a good joke has to make sense. Classic Boilee lameness.

It's an interesting one. The market for these guys is red hot -- $1.5-2M or something like that for starter level talent? And not many are in the portal. I personally don't think it's money given how much our NIL is up and right now Cig can call anyone and get extra cash in about two minutes. I kinda suspect we may be going the retention/development route? Whatever we're doing, it's nice I don't need to worry with the staff. But yea, interesting...

I called it a non-story because no one CFB media mentioned it, notably the CFB sicko/nerd podcasts and YT channels who will talk about the most niche news in CFB. Right now it's a few posts on X and Reddit reacting to the picture. IMO, until there is any traction beyond that, I don't think there is much to a one-click download of FanDuel. We'll see, I can only guess...

It wouldn't be a Slick Rick hoops program without some ethical issues. Sorry, the article is paywalled, but if I had to guess their GM got a little wild with his expense account. And per some SJU folks there were other things too.

Are there any other rules we can speculate with no relevant evidence that Nick Marsh might have broke? This is a non-story.

Transfer from Troy. Kick off specialist. ND may be jealous?

Ha, in that case I am the irritating person. They were a 5 seed and I kinda discount them. But yes, fun and could score for sure. Our last fun season.

So good.

Yea. Honestly I don’t think we’ve consistently been in the national conversation since the early ‘90’s. Since then it’s just been ‘02 and ‘12-13 on the court. We weren’t really a threat in ‘16. We did get into the national spotlight with RMK’s exit, Kelvin’s fall, and all our coach search processes though!

This is some interesting sunshine pumping. Our resources are probably #15 in the country, but really a lot of programs are within a competitive range. Fanbase is big, but dormant. We’ve struggled for 30 years with endless bad hires and poor results. Coaches are not lining up to come here. Unfortunately, whatever the fix is, it is not an easy one.

Even worse he could have messaged his bookie.

Another nice TV rating involving IU. For comparisons sake, Miami-Ole Miss drew 15.8M on average with a 17.2M peak. Thursday is a little bit worse TV slot, but on the other hand that was a much closer game.

Turning Hard Rock into more or less a true neutral site is a helluva fan effort.

Everybody’s favorite didn’t do well in The Athletic’s fan survey on CFB commentators/analysts/personalities.

Yep. Cig is so obviously a CFB lifer, this NFL suggestion gave me zero pause. Plus like you noted Cig has made it very clear he’s staying here. He would be an interesting NFL coach. His special sauce of talent ID, development, etc. may not apply as much. The culture aspect may be tougher to implement too. But the scheme stuff would probably work. I dunno — we’ll never find out though, which is good.

Yea, for me once the weekend ended the magnitude of this game started to hit me and the old butterflies started building up. By gametime my heartrate will be sky high. Not that my opinion matters, but I've got zero issue with comparing this to '02. To each their own with IU athletics. But with CFB being 4-5x bigger than CBB, the story of this IUFB team vs. the surprise run of '02, in my view this game is quite a bit bigger. I'd say it's the biggest IU game ever... by kind of a lot. But, as a fan, this is all you can ask for. The better you get, the bigger the upside and bigger the downside! We've got a decent shot Monday, and that's amazing.

Presser for the title game. Notably, in addition to Leo’s post Kamara was good, Cig said no injuries coming out of the semifinal. ”We came out really good, and everyone who played in the last game will play in this game."

That's a big time retention. Awesome news.

Official with Shazz.

More smoke on Shazz. Also, he has a cool name.

One worth tracking because we are going after him and he’s a notably highly rated RB in the 2027 class.

Well, the kid who wasn’t offered and still “committed” to IU, has decommitted from IU. lol. Strange stunt to pull. https://www.ocala.com/story/sports/high-school/2026/01/11/james-bethea-decommits-from-indiana-football-as-vanguard-wr-reopens-recruitment/88130358007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=undefined&gca-ft=0&gca-ds=sophi

Haha. We're so in their heads and they're crashing out so hard. I'm tempted to jump into these X threads and speculate if IU has been working with Palantir.