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I find that to be encouraging. If true, a ~25% increase over this season. I get your logic on Tucker. The chatter I heard is he got paid like the top-20 portal player he was, and it sounded like he got a lot. Something like $2.5M+, I'm not sure on the exact number. But, that just further supports how expensive it was to build a whole new roster from scratch. I'm still more in the camp our primary issues is not money, but spending it. Hopefully with our whole staff in place and a small core of a team, we do better in the portal this year. As @Asha’man noted with that Duke guard, in reality the portal has already started with agents beginning to shop their clients. We should be much more a part of this process than we were last year. Fingers crossed.

Prediction markets still have us as a 80-85% chance to make it. I get it feels worse than that with some of these recent score lines and individual player trends. Personally I’ve got plenty of concerns. But, the odds are what they are, and I’m glad they’re optimistic.

Well said. On a worry scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most worried, I'm at about a 7. I think he's a decent X's and O's coach, but... - His press conferences do worry me. He seems uncomfortable and unsure, and some excuses I've heard I don't like. He's a quiet and reserved type of guy, which is normally okay, but not sure that works as a head coach. Is this the sort of coach about to go on a tear in the portal and inspire our NIL donors? Not sure. He landed Lamar and some decent HS kids, which makes me feel a little better. The 3rd party stories I hear about him are good. But... I dunno... - On top of the roster construction issues, which I can mostly understand given the the situation he inherited, I haven't seen much exciting player dev. I thought it might be Dorn, but apparently not. Trent has kinda tailed off. Just not a lot I can look at and say wow he is getting a lot from these guys or this guy was a great scouting job. - I'm not sure about Drew Adams, or Kenny honestly - I don't feel like our program has much of an identity yet He's got a big four games coming up. We all know what needs to happen the rest of this season and in the portal. It may work out and we're a solid top-20/25 team next year, but I can't deny something feels off. Hopefully it's just misplaced angst, that's possible.

Ha. Regardless of if you do, rest assured everyone in their little round arena will be thinking about it, and maybe 122-3 as well.

Yes, but with that lovely collegiate gothic limestone architecture of the north endzone (not Wisconsin's 1970's office building look). I'm hoping we get some Memorial Stadium renovation announcements in the coming months, but I've got no idea what the timeline is.

New contract for Cig. His contract had a clause that said when he makes the CFP semis, there is a good faith renegotiation of his contract so that he is a top three paid coach. Worth it!

IMO, this is a sensationalist headline. The NCAA is flailing because they keep losing in court. When a judge issues an injunction saying a player is eligible, the player is eligible. Good detail is here: https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/the-louis-moore-eligibility-case-is-still-ongoing-in-the-courts/ Personally my concern level here is about zero.

That Helms banner has been up there for decades. Exactly when they put it up I don’t know. It’s pathetic that’s for sure — no one takes it seriously.

I’ll pile on why not. Yea, it's a tough hole to dig out of. No conference wins in two years. They need a better roster, but they have bottom quarter of the conference payroll, and even worse they have to pay a premium to players to go there because as you astutely observed, "what decent player wants to go there???" And the last kick in the shin is the pressure IU puts on them that Brass Cannon noted, which probably forces them into more coach buyouts that use up even more of their money. If there is a 4-H benefactor, they haven't find that person yet. Maybe they can auction off some of their moon rocks. I wonder what the B1G is going to do with them in the 2030's... I wonder... As for this game, we're probably gonna lose, but at least we split this year. The most important thing for IUBB right now is our last four games and especially whatever we do in the portal which will setup up next season. And lastly, the fact of the matter is the CFB Champion is king of college sports. And that is us. We won everything in the biggest sport. No matter what we're at top of the college sports mountain for about nine months.

What I am saying is I’m sure we promised him a certain amount for his roster when he took the job, and I’m pretty sure Scott is honoring that and will continue to. That number seems to be about $10M. What I’m saying is if he wants more he’s got to convince people. Not exactly easy, but it can be done, and if he can, our roster budget could increase pretty quickly. And I know Scott does all he can to help. We’ll just have to see what happens. I’m a bit worried, but I just have to hope CDD figures it out.

We’ve got plenty of money. The big question is if CDD can shake it loose.

One of the big problems with Godfather Part III was no Tom Hagen!

Pretty strong hint.

Correct, the naming rights deal happened in August '25 and this is for the period ended June 30, 2025. Another way to look at this: FY22 we were 11th out of 14 teams in the conference FY25 (latest reported) we're middle of the conference FY26 I think we've got a good shot to be top third of the conference IU has seriously leveled up. Financial performance of the athletic dept can be boring, but as we know it's very important and this is great news.

This is FYE June 2025, so it only includes the 2024 football season. I can't read the article, but the AI summary seems to provide the details. This is a big revenue jump. $183M revenue for 2025, up ~$10M from 2024, but in reality it's more like up ~$35M from 2024 because 2024 revenue included a one-time loan from the university to the athletic dept. that's ~$25M more than usual. Bottom line is this is a 20% or so revenue increase. The power of football. $10M surplus is great. I'd think our athletic dept revenue is going to be up quite a bit again this upcoming fiscal year (which will have 2025 football). As far as I can tell, nice work IU (Scott).

One month anniversary. :-)

Another visit scheduled with a kid who has offers from all sort of big programs. He's a DL, and he won't be a 3* for long. Our 2027 high school class could be something pretty darn good...

Let’s spice up this aging debate: Where would you rank Mike Davis among Woody and CAM? Just kidding. No need to torture ourselves.

And we pulled our starters at the end of the 3rd. Wild. Yesterday stunk, but if we want to cope, Illinois would by far prefer to beat us in football vs bball.

Thamel reports “the basis for the for cause firing is language in his contract that references any activity that brings “public disrepute, embarrassment, ridicule” to Kansas State.” This is referencing his recent presser comments. Ha. Good luck arguing he met the standard for cause here… (no way)

It was a tough decision, but Mike decided to retire… for 65 days before he joined The Kings.

There are also era differences. Archie could never buy players. Imagine Woody without NIL and he has to recruit pre-NIL style. Holy crap I can’t imagine how bad we would have been. And if Woody doesn’t inherit TJD… his first year probably looks more like his actual third year. But, at end of the day they both stink so whoever someone thinks is worse I won’t argue much.

Coach I think we saw your top team in ‘12-13!

Give him one more game suspended for this haircut.

Man, it sure was. They were kind of ahead of their time with the 3 pt shooting and versatile bigs. Plus we had so much toughness with Cov who was bulldog, Dane who was a junkyard dawg, and of course AJ. That was a blast even though we came up just short.