The BANNY'S!!

[Stuhoo]

As part of an effort to make this very slow month slightly entertaining, I give you... The Banny's; an awards thread for the best in IU sports.

Feel free to chime in on awards, categories, nominees, and your choice for the winners:

1. Best IU BBall Player 2024-2025
   • Gallo
   • Leal
   • Reneau
   • Ballo
2. Best IU Football Player 2024
   • Rourke
   • Ponds
   • Fisher
   • Kamara
   • CJ West
   • Saraat
3. Best IU Women's BBall Player 2024-2025
   • Czieski
   • Garzon
   • Moore-McNeill
   • Parrish
4. Best IU Coach
   • Woody
   • Woody
   • Woody
   • Woody
   • cig
   • moren
   • yeagley
5. IU athlete most likely to succeed in the pros (who hasn't played there yet)
   • CJ West
   • Rourke
   • Tucker D
   • Garzon
   • Ponds
6. IU athlete best pro year
   • Lily King
   • Kelel Ware
   • OG Anunoby
   • Kyle Schwarber
7. Most Impactful Event
   • Woody gets fired
   • IUFB makes CFB Playoff
   • Devries is hired
   • Big Woods names burger after Reneau
   • IUFB beats Michigan
   • IUFB beats Nebraka by a million
   • IUFB beats Purdump by a zillion
8. Most entertaining IU-alum, current personality, or sports personality
   • Dakich
   • Woody
   • Mike Katic
   • Sage Steele
   • Cig
   • Lee Corso

Ready... GO!!

[AZ Hoosier]

1. Ballo
2. Kamara
3. Parrish
4. Cignetti
5. West
6. Schwarber
7. IU Makes CFB Playoffs
8. Most Entertaining: Corso
    Biggest @$$: Dakich

[Pagoda]

While not my winner for the category, I’d nominate for “7. Most Impactful Event”: IU cuts ties with the Hysterics

:-)

[Parakeet Jones]

1 Reneau

2 Rourke

3 Garzon

4 Cig

5 Ponds

6 OG

7 IU makes CFP

8 Cig

[jermhoosierfan]

37 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

While not my winner for the category, I’d nominate for “7. Most Impactful Event”: IU cuts ties with the Hysterics

:-)

In terms of information about the situation BTS on the BB team, this might be the winner.  There was just a lot of stuff from a lot of different places, but that episode confirmed a lot of it.

[Stuhoo]

1. Galloway
2. Rourke
3. Moore-McNeill 100%
4. Cigi-cigi-cigi
5. CJ West
6. Schwarber
7. IU Beats Purdump by a zillion
8. Katic

[jermhoosierfan]

1) Ballo

2) Rourke

3) Parrish

4) Cig

5) Ponds

6) Career: King  Year: Schwarber

7) IUFB Makes Playoff 

8) Corso (Legend)

[Demo]

1) Ballo

2) Ponds

3) CMM

4) C'mon

5) Ponds- That kid's just got somethin'

6) Schwarber

7) IUFB Playoff but in most year's any of those could have won. What a freaking year it's been.

8) Lee

[Stuhoo]

I almost forgot a really good additional category...  Best Play!!

Feel free to video-nominate your choice for best play. Mine is this one:

 

[LIHoosier]

Here's my play

 

[RaceToTheTop]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

1.  Ballo

2.  Rourke

3.  Garzon

4.  Cig

5.  Ponds

6.  Schwarber

7.  IUFB makes playoffs

8.  Lee Corso

[Pagoda]

Best Play nominee (and winner imo):

Struggling on offense with Rourke out vs Washington.  Ponds put the whole team on his back until we figured it out.

Roll out the Big.  Red.  Carpet.  Touchdown Indiana!

(zoom out to sold out crowd going wild with towels)

 

[68Hoosier]

1. Leal
2. Tie - Rourke & CJ West
3. Garzon
4. Cig
5. CJ West
6. Kyle Schwarber
7. IUFB makes CFB Playoff
8. Sage Steele

[LIHoosier]

1) Ballo
2) CJ West
3) Garzon
4)  P.S. I guess Looze and Johansen's nominations got lost in the mail
5) Ponds
6) Schwarber
7) Playoffs?!?
8) Corso: Lifetime Achievement Award

[ebridges24]

1. Ballo

2. Kamara

3. Moore-McNeill

4. CIg

5. Ponds

6. Lily

7. IUFB makes CFB Playoff

8. Cig

[OliviaPope40]

1. A tie between the first two

2. Rourke

3. Garazon

4. Cig

5. Ponds

6. Swarber

7. Football playoffs

8. Corso

[Hovadipo]

2 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Best Play nominee (and winner imo):

Struggling on offense with Rourke out vs Washington.  Ponds put the whole team on his back until we figured it out on offense.

Roll out the Big.  Red.  Carpet.  Touchdown Indiana!

(zoom out to sold out crowd going wild with towels)

 

This is the one. Getting home that evening and hearing that call watching back the highlights was a religious experience. 

[HoosierHoopster]

1. Ballo

2. don’t know

3. Moore - M

4. Moren - way way too early on Cig

5. Ponds

6. OG

7. Woody fired - how many fb events are you gonna list lol

8. Corso

 

[OKHOOSIER]

1 Ballo

2 Rourke

3 Parrish

4 Purdue Sucks

5 Ponds

6 this one is tough, but KW is my choice. schwarbs a close 2 

7 this is also tough because curb stomping Nebby really put us on the national radar, but I’ll go making the playoff because what in the actual F*** was that season

8 Layup Stu. Coach Corso