(2026) Edge Ronelle Johnson to Indiana

[Lebowski]

Top 50 Edge out of Blue Springs, MO

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[Pagoda]

Took this 4* right out of Missouri.  Pretty awesome.

 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Young Mr. Moody is everywhere.

[CSP]

7th DL of the class.. assuming Gibbs is plays defense. 10th commit in the front 6 defensively.  

[rayl456]

11 minutes ago, CSP said:

7th DL of the class.. assuming Gibbs is plays defense. 10th commit in the front 6 defensively.  

Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’…keep them big dawgs rollin’…keep that defense rollin’

[Hoosierfan2017]

Man give Coach Cig every penny of NIL that IU has. Dude is going crazy. 

[Pagoda]

10 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Man give Coach Cig every penny of NIL that IU has. Dude is going crazy. 

Just my opinion but the #1 priority in the athletic dept right now should be getting Cig $8-10M more in NIL from where we are today.  Not an easy task at all, but it would be worth it.  I’m still hoping for a stadium/field sponsor, that should be a more appealing marketing opportunity now, or maybe getting another one of our mega donors more engaged.

CFB is king and CBB is awfully close to immaterial in the scheme of our athletic dept finances.  Everything IU sports depends on football, including the precious basketball program.  Not all, but some of our bball fans need to wake up to this economic reality in college sports. 

[rayl456]

29 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Just my opinion but the #1 priority in the athletic dept right now should be getting Cig $8-10M more in NIL from where we are today.  Not an easy task at all, but it would be worth it.  I’m still hoping for a stadium/field sponsor, that should be a more appealing marketing opportunity now, or maybe getting another one of our mega donors more engaged.

CFB is king and CBB is awfully close to immaterial in the scheme of our athletic dept finances.  Everything IU sports depends on football, including the precious basketball program.  Not all, but some of our bball fans need to wake up to this economic reality in college sports. 

Coach isn’t going to be here forever.  IU needs to take full advantage of what he brings to the university right now and the foreseeable future. “ Run the picket fence…and don’t get caught watching the paint dry.”

[Pagoda]

2 hours ago, rayl456 said:

Coach isn’t going to be here forever.  IU needs to take full advantage of what he brings to the university right now and the foreseeable future. “ Run the picket fence…and don’t get caught watching the paint dry.”

This is our chance to build the FB program up to something midpack or top 1/3 of the conference, which would change the financial profile of IU athletics with tens of millions more dollars of revenue per year.  We're still a smaller athetlic dept in the P2 and it's all down to football to change that.

Of course Cig and staff need to keep this up.  If they do, the permanence of the change in IUFB will hinge on if we can get the succession planning right when Cig steps down.  We'll want him to pick the next head coach and ideally we can keep him on as some sort of GM of Football or AD of Football -- some role where he is mentoring the next generation of IUFB coaches, raising money, etc. while working some comfortable hours.  Hopefully he is up for that someday.

[rayl456]

32 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

This is our chance to build the FB program up to something midpack or top 1/3 of the conference, which would change the financial profile of IU athletics with tens of millions more dollars of revenue per year.  We're still a smaller athetlic dept in the P2 and it's all down to football to change that.

Of course Cig and staff need to keep this up.  If they do, the permanence of the change in IUFB will hinge on if we can get the succession planning right when Cig steps down.  We'll want him to pick the next head coach and ideally we can keep him on as some sort of GM of Football or AD of Football -- some role where he is mentoring the next generation of IUFB coaches, raising money, etc. while working some comfortable hours.  Hopefully he is up for that someday.

100% agreement!   :)

[MemphisHoosier]

1 hour ago, Pagoda said:

This is our chance to build the FB program up to something midpack or top 1/3 of the conference, which would change the financial profile of IU athletics with tens of millions more dollars of revenue per year.  We're still a smaller athetlic dept in the P2 and it's all down to football to change that.

Of course Cig and staff need to keep this up.  If they do, the permanence of the change in IUFB will hinge on if we can get the succession planning right when Cig steps down.  We'll want him to pick the next head coach and ideally we can keep him on as some sort of GM of Football or AD of Football -- some role where he is mentoring the next generation of IUFB coaches, raising money, etc. while working some comfortable hours.  Hopefully he is up for that someday.

Maybe not a perfect analog, given recent results, but I could see a Barry Alvarez type transition for Cig at Indiana. But as a wise man once said, ‘gotta keep the main thing, the main thing,’ and have immediate success on the field.