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Woah. Out of nowhere hire. Could work. Could not work. Not sure NBA guys are the answer in CBB, even in this era. We’ll see.

Nice to see Rabby quoting himself here. Quite the ego. But, he makes a good point. Thanks Jeff!

Some of the most egregious and shameless cronyism possible in the world of college sports. That IU contract was ~$15-16M more than Woody could have made as an NBA coach flame out relegated to being an assistant. That was what it was really about. And I suspect that $15-16M went to the wealth mgmt firm where Quinn is a figurehead partner. Anyways, I’m over it (thanks IUFB!), but I wanted to play the Fire Mike Woodson hits one more time.

The solution is sitting there whenever schools want to pay the cost. Collectively bargain with the players. If schools and players agree on the rules, it all becomes enforceable. Try to unilaterally impose rules on players — they’ll go to court and win. Collective bargaining will cost schools more money, so they try to avoid it. Maybe someday they’ll bite the bullet. By the way, the focus on players and not coaches who cost a fortune and abandon their teams to take jobs is bit annoying.

Thank you CFP X account.

Yea. I mean what's the TV value of eight additional games with crap to mid teams that can't make the field of 68? It's very little and not moving the needle on the NCAA tourney media rights deal. None of the teams they're adding have any chance to win the title, which at the end of the day is the sporting purpose of a tournament. This isn't the end of the world, but it is unnecessary. I didn't like going from 64 to 68, but I'll admit Dayton play-in works because Dayton is bball crazy and embraces the event. One more site will be added, finding another place like Dayton would help. Maybe Wichita or something I don't know. Anyways, thumbs down from me. Given enough time they'll probably expand even more. Bleh. I'm all for evolving and growing stuff almost all of the time, but it's also nice when people fight to protect things that are already optimized and work extremely well.

Boom! UNC finding out coaches who have programs rolling don't leave to restart at places they have no ties to. I guess that alleged call MJ made to Tommy didn't seal the deal... Billy D is now up to 70% odds on this news. He would obviously be a good hire, but he's been out of the college game for some time and his titles were almost 20 years ago. I don't think he forgot to coach college ball, just saying things are a little different vs. when he was doing well in college.

Daniel Ndukwe confirmed that Indiana Football will be unveiling new jerseys this season. It will be interesting to see what's different. I can't imagine anything too flashy with Cig's program.

Oh, I agree with you. My post was piggybacking off the point you made -- I think we're doing a pretty good job with MBB NIL given what's going on with FB and MBB's struggles. I didn't make it clear. My bad.

I’m only talking resources. I edited my post to be more clear.

I don’t get how our fans can be frustrated money wise. The IUFB roster is top-10 or close to it, which is insane, and IUBB is #10-15. We aren’t the biggest athletic dept and we have a 55K seat football stadium. What more do people want? This is enough. In fact it’s pretty damn good. Our issues are mostly with the bball coaches performance (scouting) not resources. Also, I think UK is inflating their numbers. Imo the biggest CBB spenders are mid-teens.

I don't follow much sports on X, but ND seems to be taking our natty the hardest. As in they're very butthurt. As we know, ND has been doing all they can to win another championship since their last one in 1988. Like, maximum institutional effort, and their fans identities include being THE football school in Indiana. To have IU of all teams go 16-0 +479 point diff champs while they decline the Pop-Tarts Bowl was an all time gut punch. It's so damn funny. One thing I'd really really like to happen for '26 is ND not winning it all. They have a very good looking team obviously that could go undefeated with a Heisman and all that. If they can't win it this season, they will not get much relief from what's happening in Bloomington.

Haha. This dude is truly a double edged sword.

I'd guess it's #10-15 in the country, with #7 to #20 all being within a few million of each other. We've just got to scout well and effectively pitch the guys we want to put this money to good use. If we can't do that, it's pointless to give this staff more money, we would pull a '25-26 Kentucky. And we don't have unlimited money at IU... If we can show some traction and make the tourney, the money will go up. Just like it did with football. Especially if we make a S16 or something.

If it's $12M that is pretty good -- up about 20% from last season. Especially for a program that's done diddly poo for a decade. If we can't put together a solid team with that much money we're toast no matter how much we spend.

Sweet. Raise some damn awareness of IUBB history! Also, undefeated national champs in the two major sports. There is only one (1).

Per the Hoosier Huddle, Kevontay Hugan is back on the active roster! In terms of what happened, the case is still no one knows. If I had to guess, the player accepted "the standard," or at least will try to. Hopefully it all works out...

We've had a pretty rough run for 25 years with sports at IU. Then we had the most accomplished CFB season of all time and one of the best stories in CFB history. Got to enjoy it when times are good and it's nice to see you and other fans are doing just that!

The exposure football has given us is nuts. Jon Hamm was paying attention.

$4M seems too high — that implies player values more or less doubled. $2M or so is my best guess. But that’s just a gut feeling I have no info aside from what the scarce bigs are asking ($3-4M).

Haha. I’ve noticed when Cig winks it tends to be a good sign…

The IUFB championship trophy tour is in South Bend today.

Ahhh IU is already falling behind this portal!!! ;-)