IUFB Offseason Updates

[Lebowski]

ESPN has released its 2024 FPI ratings and projections. IUFB (-2.4) is setting last in the conference and 77th overall. 

Things FPI most likely doesn't factor and probably should if it doesn't. Coaching change past four year history and transfer portal replacements (starters on previous schools and history of school player transferred from). I could be wrong though the FPI system might actually factor that in.

I'm bringing this up because JMU (2.6) has a better FPI than IUFB at 51st and history of the previous seasons makes a difference in these ratings. Someone like Rourke is more than likely an upgrade over Sorsby. Especially if you look at the history between the two of them and should by all accounts add value to IUFB's FPI rating. IUFB's receiving core is also a major upgrade that most likely didn't get factored into the FPI equation. The history of defensive transfers is an upgrade in my opinion. IUFB overall is probably in better shape than it was last year but that will all be decided on the gridiron come this fall. Point being this FPI rating will change once the world sees just how much of a problem IUFB is going to be for whoever plays them. And I can't wait!

Everything you need to know about FPI here.

Posted this for receipts. 

[mamasa]

I am somewhat indifferent to Cig (I don't like arrogance or cockiness in general), but I'm absolutely putting all of my fandom, faith and hope into him! I was talking with a Purdue grad (well, it had to be more like grunting and using hand motions so they'd understand me with their limited IQ) and they were just so obnoxious about the past football (and basketball) results.  I just hope that we ride into a new era of respectableness 

[CSP]

21 minutes ago, mamasa said:

I am somewhat indifferent to Cig (I don't like arrogance or cockiness in general), but I'm absolutely putting all of my fandom, faith and hope into him! I was talking with a Purdue grad (well, it had to be more like grunting and using hand motions so they'd understand me with their limited IQ) and they were just so obnoxious about the past football (and basketball) results.  I just hope that we ride into a new era of respectableness 

I bet the players love his arrogance 

[Scotty R]

23 minutes ago, mamasa said:

I am somewhat indifferent to Cig (I don't like arrogance or cockiness in general), but I'm absolutely putting all of my fandom, faith and hope into him! I was talking with a Purdue grad (well, it had to be more like grunting and using hand motions so they'd understand me with their limited IQ) and they were just so obnoxious about the past football (and basketball) results.  I just hope that we ride into a new era of respectableness 

Name a successful coach who doesn't have some arrogance to them. At a place like IU football you have to be arrogant to get people to believe in you.

 

[Dave from Dayton]

32 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

Name a successful coach who doesn't have some arrogance to them. At a place like IU football you have to be arrogant to get people to believe in you.

 

The Wizard, John Wooden.  Norman Dale.  Seriously, yelling is only an issue if the coach is losing.  

[Lebowski]

Confidence and arrogance sometimes gets misunderstood. Someone's confidence might be viewed as arrogance or cockiness from someone else. Coach Cig is consistent with his message. It's about changing the mindset of doubt and trusting a process. It's about patience and faith.  It's about taking initiative, self-control, poise and ambition. This type of coaching dates back to John Wooden's Pyramid of Success. 

I compare his message more to a Vince Lombardi approach to be honest. 

[mamasa]

3 hours ago, Scotty R said:

Name a successful coach who doesn't have some arrogance to them. At a place like IU football you have to be arrogant to get people to believe in you.

 

That's fantastic, but I don't have to like them lol. I find it abrasive and annoying, but I have no problem putting a team over individual players or coaches. They're not here for a popularity contest, and I don't have to watch interviews or pressers w/ them.

[Lebowski]

3 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

Norman Dale. 

"Hickory's first road game of the season, a tough, physical battle where emotions are running high. Classic Norm. Instead of being the calming influence his team needs, he instigates a brawl by dressing down the referee, taunting the opposing coach and slapping -- yes, slapping -- the hand of a kid on the other team.
 

Remember, this is a coach with a history of assault, having punched one of his own players at Ithaca College and receiving a lifetime ban for it. Luckily for Dale, the Internet didn't exist in 1951, and only one person in town -- Myra Fleener -- knows how to look up information in a library."

If it wasn't for Chipwood coming in to save the day, Coach Dale ain't doin' poop. 

Just sayin.

[MemphisHoosier]

WR Derrick Bohler to Stephen F. Austin - leaves four remaining players in the portal (David Holloman, Bubba Jeffries, Orlando Greenlow, and Jared Casey)

[LamarCheeks]

Travares Daniels, 3-star linebacker from Fort Lauderdale, decommits 

https://x.com/TdanielsII/status/1800331694441898141

[IUc2016]

FYI - Single game tickets went on sale yesterday. I bought mine for the season opener against FIU.

Really excited to tailgate and watch the Cignetti opener. Pumped that this is a 3:30 kick

Get to 6!

[Stuhoo]

247 Ranks B1G skill position groups. Not too shabby! IUFB ranked #8 out of 18 teams:

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/longformarticle/big-ten-football-2024-power-rankings-identifying-leagues-most-talented-skill-positions-232757788/#2431658

[go iu bb]

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/indiana-hoosiers-football-named-underrated-2024-college-football-season

[Leo]

First look at the new jerseys

[Lebowski]

https://hoosierillustrated.com/indiana-football-news-indiana-player-qas-indiana-football-players-mike-katic-aiden-fisher-and-justice-ellison-from-big-ten-media-days/

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/rhett-lewis-will-not-continue-as-iu-football-color-analyst-in-2024/

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Buck back in booth

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2024/8/2/football-buck-back-to-broadcast-booth

[LIHoosier]

43 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Buck back in booth

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2024/8/2/football-buck-back-to-broadcast-booth

Now let's have that personality transplant so that Suhr the younger can have one too.

[Demo]

https://hoosierillustrated.com/despite-not-officially-naming-kurtis-rourke-as-the-starting-qb-for-iu-football-curt-cignetti-will-sleep-better-at-night-with-him-under-center/
 

Ok read. Nothing really new. It’s gonna be Roarke. We all know it’s gonna be Roarke. Cignetti’s comments on Jackson are probably more interesting. Even if the Lewis Hail Mary doesn’t happen, given how much they seem to like Cherry has Jackson as a Soph already been recruited over? Sure feels that way.

[Hovadipo]

9 hours ago, Demo said:

https://hoosierillustrated.com/despite-not-officially-naming-kurtis-rourke-as-the-starting-qb-for-iu-football-curt-cignetti-will-sleep-better-at-night-with-him-under-center/
 

Ok read. Nothing really new. It’s gonna be Roarke. We all know it’s gonna be Roarke. Cignetti’s comments on Jackson are probably more interesting. Even if the Lewis Hail Mary doesn’t happen, given how much they seem to like Cherry has Jackson as a Soph already been recruited over? Sure feels that way.

I think in no uncertain terms Cig has made it clear that he’s gonna play “his” guys (where applicable) come hell or high water based on his comments about the previous culture. Kinda goes in opposition of his “we want competition” mantra, but it also won’t be a thing in a year or two when the roster is all his guys. 

Based on the spring game and the spring game alone, I didn’t think it was that obvious that Rourke was the surefire guy but of course that’s maybe 2% of the full picture.