IUFB Offseason Updates

[Stuhoo]

Bring Alabama or Georgia to Bloomington. Neither team will enjoy their visit.

[Josh]

We should definitely schedule a home/home with Florida

[Stuhoo]

17 minutes ago, Josh said:

We should definitely schedule a home/home with Florida

Because my kid goes to UF and that would be epic fun for my family!!

[Josh]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Because my kid goes to UF and that would be epic fun for my family!!

Oh this idea was selfish as hell for me lol.  See if your kid can pull some strings, I'll host the tailgate

[Stuhoo]

22 minutes ago, Josh said:

Oh this idea was selfish as hell for me lol.  See if your kid can pull some strings, I'll host the tailgate

Funny thing is… he’s a sophomore at UF and if Cig brought our guys to Gainesville he’d probably still root for the Hoosiers.

He’s like me; once you get an allegiance it’s for life.

[steubenhoosier]

If people are going to complain about ticket prices and not selling out the stadium, then they also shouldn’t be complaining as the program progresses and we can’t compete for recruits against the big time programs that fill 80,000-100,000 seat stadiums for every game 

[Stuhoo]

12 minutes ago, steubenhoosier said:

If people are going to complain about ticket prices and not selling out the stadium, then they also shouldn’t be complaining as the program progresses and we can’t compete for recruits against the big time programs that fill 80,000-100,000 seat stadiums for every game 

We need a bigger/expanded stadium.

[steubenhoosier]

6 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

We need a bigger/expanded stadium.

Yes we do 

[Pagoda]

We need more fan interest first.  Interest has grown a lot but our FB fanbase is still quite small.

Current ticket availability per Trevor Burch:

OD - 8,518 
Kenn St - 10,541 
ISU - 9,865 
Illinois - Sold Out
Mich St - 4,734 
UCLA - 4,741 
Wisc - 7,204 

I’d love enough fan interest to justify a larger stadium.  It could happen…

The thing I’d really like to see is enough corporate interest to justify suites.  Those can be nice revenue drivers.  Lucas Oil is sponsoring the field suites, so it’s starting to happen…

My guess is over the next five years we are going to complete redo the east and west stands which are 65 years old.  Hopefully IU nails the design.

Anyways, this is all good stuff.

[Hovadipo]

I don’t think the stadium needs to expand all that much, if at all. The demand is not there for that. It needs to modernize in a very bad way, however, which we all know. They’re sticking “suites” in every somewhat empty corner of the place and while that’s an ok patch for now, that needs addressed sooner than almost anything now that the team-facing facilities are in a good place. 

[DChoosier]

Warning to AD’s at Wake Forest, Purdue and Cal…..

If all the P4 leagues go to 9 conference games plus 1 P4 OOC matchup your phones will be ringing off the hook!!

[southsidehoosier]

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/with-successful-football-and-new-source-of-cash-iu-is-still-evaluating-the-future-of-memorial-stadium/

[CSP]

I still think you can add some seats and it function well. Probably more luxury seating, but for the life of me, Idk why you'd want to sit field level. 

Its an atrocious view. 

I think you could build some pretty awesome "penthouse" suits in above sections 111, 112-- as examples. 

Like all four corners could house a penthouse suite. Fill in seating around that. Maybe you add a couple thousand seats as a result.. nothing major. 

[cthomas]

The top teams in our conference have had generations of good/great teams. There are generations of fans who have enjoyed that success. We are new to the party and don't have the depth of those other teams yet. So in a sense, our support is shallow comparatively. Last year was awesome but a significant number of IU fans haven't completely bought in. Continued success will change that over time.

[CSP]

11 hours ago, cthomas said:

The top teams in our conference have had generations of good/great teams. There are generations of fans who have enjoyed that success. We are new to the party and don't have the depth of those other teams yet. So in a sense, our support is shallow comparatively. Last year was awesome but a significant number of IU fans haven't completely bought in. Continued success will change that over time.

Cignetti and school choice will grow football in our state, much like Peyton did. 

[Lebowski]

Game week!!!!

How tired are you hearing from your closest friends (some of them fans of IU sports) that IUFB was kind of a fluke last year and that this year will only be a 5 or 6 win season? This is the week where it all starts to finally shut all the naysayers up!

[Demo]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/mock-draft/
 

Uhhh….

[Stuhoo]

39 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/mock-draft/
 

Uhhh….

Holy mutha#*!%ing s*&t!!

Annnnddddd....

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-preseason-edition-includes-5-qbs-taken-in-first-round-including-a-big-surprise-at-no-1/

[Pagoda]

Louis’ battle against the NCAA continues.  He can play at least the first two games.

 

To the NCAA: 

[jermhoosierfan]

3 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Holy mutha#*!%ing s*&t!!

Annnnddddd....

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-preseason-edition-includes-5-qbs-taken-in-first-round-including-a-big-surprise-at-no-1/

That was an unexpected top pick.