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CDD was more or less his usual self in the presser. But as we’ve noticed during the game he is irritated and it looks like he will handle this more internally vs via a public ripping. I prefer this style assuming it works. Unless a trend develops I won’t worry too much about tonight.

And there it is. Good summary from The Hoosier Huddle on the whole process: https://hoosierhuddle.com/2025/11/16/hoosiers-flip-2026-wide-receiver-lavar-keys-from-penn-state/

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/

Some updates after hosting a lot of recruits yesterday: Our high school recruiting momentum continues to tick up.

Looks like he just changed the announcement time to 5PM ET today. Folks continue to say we're in good shape here!

I’m all for some celebrating, but did Michigan win a title or beat Northwestern on a neutral field on a last second FG?

Go Iowa! (they will lose in heartbreak I’m sure though)

For those interested, here is Cig’s presser with the usual IU athletic dept crappy audio. Kamara had a “stinger” in his shoulder. Hopefully not too bad, fingers crossed!

Dusty's overall results have very good so far, and he's recruited quite well. It's possible that they don't have it all together right now, but they've toughed out some games regardless, credit to them, and they can still evolve and improve as a team and have a great year. I can't pretend to know. BUT! And I'm probably like a few others -- last year and this year I can't shake how close some of their easier games are, the odd trend of blown leads, and the lose play (turnovers). It kinda reminds me of one of our former coaches (Tom). I don't think Dusty is bad or anything like that. I am just wondering if he's just "good" and not "very good." We shall see.

Thanks for the intel. Notably, those three completions were for 8 total yards. And it took 15 attempts to get to 47 yards of rushing (may be some sacks in that number though). Last week was his first college game experience. While he's a wildcard without much game film to study, it's going to be a tall order for him today.

Pretty cool. Give ‘em a good show fellas.

One more post on this. This ended up being the second most watched game last weekend and viewership peaked at a massive 11M people for the Coop Catch. Most of the CFB world tuned in with the majority probably hoping for an upset. Instead they got an amazing drive and maybe the best catch of the year. I’m glad they saw it.

Rich Rod is pretty funny when he goes off on this generation with his annoyed Boomer energy. This is from his recent presser:

The site is up!

Eli lost me on this one. Late in the season like 25 teams have playoff hopes (including those who are likely in). To start the season I don't know, maybe 40 to 45 teams have playoff hopes. That's a lot of teams in the mix. And this is a cut throat competition at the end of the day. And I get this is probably just cope from getting eliminated, QB injury, etc.

The Penn State game was a big rating TV rating: 6M viewers. That's around the 25th most watched game so far this season. Doing some (very) rough math on our total regular season TV viewership: 2023: ~11M (pre-Cig) 2024: ~20M 2025: ~30M (estimating the last two games) What a difference. The post-season game ratings (including the conference championships) are huge. For example, IU-ND last year was 13.5M viewers. With our postseason picture still TBD, I'll hold off on speculating about that part of the TV ratings. Anyways, fantastic stuff for IUFB and IU.

Love it.

After.

We all know this, but LSU is fighting a losing battle and making things worse. Interesting comment below from an attorney specializing in college coach buyouts — LSU could be creating another problem here with the offset.

https://youtube.com/shorts/qvCslVLRYoI?si=iZpaDOk1aig4wmvJ Ha, this is good drama. Ya know LSU and Brian Kelly really deserve each other lol. Also, another not good look for coaches considering that job. They won't have much clarity on who they're working for given the interim AD, etc. and now there is risk of not getting paid a the buyout.

Another vote for Homefield. Started by an IU grad and they’ve got fantastic designs worth checking out: https://www.homefieldapparel.com/collections/quarter-zips And there are the Peter Millar ones: https://www.petermillar.com/c/game-day/mens-collegiate/big-ten/indiana

I know the weather was bad last weekend in Wisconsin, but their leading passer was their kicker with 24 yards on a fake! Their two very good defensive performances were in bad conditions. Fortunately, the weather looks decent for our game this week (knock on wood). Their defense may slow us down some, it's a solid unit, but they're gonna have to figure out something on offense to make this a game... The spread is nuts. Last year the PU game was -29.5. Depending how the line moves this could be our largest P4 spread ever if I had to guess. Doesn't really matter though. Anyways, it's nice to be back home and hopefully no injuries this weekend.

Definitely. I keep forgetting this -- but in addition to the great comeback, given his deep West Virginia connections (as a player and his dad coaching there), I suspect he hasn’t liked Pennsylvania State very much for many decades, making Saturday a little nicer.

I always liked Lenny. Definitely a bball legend.