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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!!! ;-)

Seven.

Check out Will Sheehey lol.

T-Cal knows a lot of our staff and players. Perhaps a hint in here.

These prices are steep. Not to be that guy and point out the obvious, but these are asking prices. I suppose it's not surprising to see opening asks quite high -- negotiating 101. We'll never know, but while I am sure these guys will get something pretty high, it probably won't be as high as their initial ask. I've seen quite a few reports over the years about how the actual agreed on number ends up being lower. Regardless, it ain't my job to figure this out. We've got a great big expensive staff at IU for that.

Here's a random podcast with a Heisman historian that came out yesterday. A few interesting nuggets in here.

Another little preview.

IMO, good points in these recent posts. My gut is the realistic best case coming out of this portal is a ~#30 KenPom team with no glaring construction issues. I doubt the talent will look like a sure thing due to the reasons Stu and sk pointed out. Just a prediction, maybe I'm wrong. I can't help but think this still all comes down to sharp scouting and player dev. A program either does this or they don't. If a program doesn't, no amount of money will save them. Like Kentucky. If program does, everything starts falling into place -- culture, identity, execution under pressure... all that good stuff our football program does. The thing that gives me the heebie jeebies is the lack of sharp scouting and player dev we saw last season. I've got to hope the root cause of like 80%+ of that was the hurried portal last year for all the reasons we've discussed (timeline, slow staff hires, etc.) and we couldn't tell who we wanted and we scrambled. Not sure I buy that explanation, but it's possible. We need our high school recruits and whoever we get in this portal to be strategic and targeted additions that fit what IU wants to be vs. something more like taking whoever looks the best on paper and praying it works. Kind of a no-duh I know. Ryan Carr should help. We're in a tough spot. We'll see if this staff can start smartly building a program in season two. We won't know for sure until they play games, but I'm really hoping for a decent looking portal haul that doesn't raise any serious red flags.

Message received Mason.

IU’s Pro Day will be on TV. April 1st.

Good summary of SP+ going into the year (Parker Fleming did the work). Pretty interesting how the B1G is top heavy and the SEC is stronger in the bottom half of the conference. Also, the #18 spot... :-)

Put me in the anyone but the B1G group. I sure as hell don’t like UM or Illinois. Arizona and UConn are much more out of sight out of mind for me.

“Who’s that kid from Greenville? Waylon something…”

Duke can enjoy that getting replayed 100,000 times over the next 25 years. Haha.

It’s pretty clear Quinn and Ferguson were behind everything Woody. Indy Star even wrote about it. Scott had to fight tooth and nail to get rid of Woody in year 4.

In reality it isn’t. CFB is king and drives 70-75% of athletic dept revenue and 100% of a school’s influence in college sports. That’s fine you’re bball first, people like what they like, but this is the reality of college athletics, even at IU.

So earlier you were all concerned about IU athletics as a whole. And now you say you would like to do the worst possible thing for IU athletics. Interesting.