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13 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

Rewatching the 4th quarter right now lol

The 1 minute and 40 some odd second mark is when I paced and thought I was going to burn a hole in the carpet of the stairs.

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9 minutes ago, OliviaPope40 said:

The 1 minute and 40 some odd second mark is when I paced and thought I was going to burn a hole in the carpet of the stairs.

Yeah my guts were twisted the whole 4th quarter.  Sooo stressed. 
 

I’m not sure we are even giving the coaching staff their due for how well they outcoached Miami. 
 

We had 3 timeouts in the second half 

1st - 4th and 5 completion to Becker 

2nd - That kid not good enough for Miamis dive 

3rd - The other kid not good enough for Miami picking off Beck 

 

3 Second half timeout and we came out with essentially the best case scenario on each play. Miami had the same time to talk to their players and couldn’t get it done. 

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8 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Yeah my guts were twisted the whole 4th quarter.  Sooo stressed. 
 

I’m not sure we are even giving the coaching staff their due for how well they outcoached Miami. 
 

We had 3 timeouts in the second half 

1st - 4th and 5 completion to Becker 

2nd - That kid not good enough for Miamis dive 

3rd - The other kid not good enough for Miami picking off Beck 

 

3 Second half timeout and we came out with essentially the best case scenario on each play. Miami had the same time to talk to their players and couldn’t get it done. 

The pass to Charlie B was insane the run for the touchdown was even more insane gave me goosebumps and possibly a heart attack.

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On 1/24/2026 at 1:19 PM, IU5355 said:

Mark Cuban may be very very wealthy.... but he doesn't have 39 million to just give out like candy lol. 

While I understand your point, 39 million is indeed candy compared to 6 billion. I always have to remind myself (because I've become somewhat desensitized to the word) just how much a billion is yet alone 6, which is what the internets say Mark Cuban's net worth is as of 2026. Who knows what his net worth really is but he's definitely worth billions, with an s. And being the business man the yinzer is you know if he were to fork over something like this for one player he ain't doing it alone. I can only imagine what type of "zoom call" that would be with folks like Todd Wagner and Carl Cook on the call. LOL!


Also, 16-0

Posted
1 hour ago, Lebowski said:

While I understand your point, 39 million is indeed candy compared to 6 billion. I always have to remind myself (because I've become somewhat desensitized to the word) just how much a billion is yet alone 6, which is what the internets say Mark Cuban's net worth is as of 2026. Who knows what his net worth really is but he's definitely worth billions, with an s. And being the business man the yinzer is you know if he were to fork over something like this for one player he ain't doing it alone. I can only imagine what type of "zoom call" that would be with folks like Todd Wagner and Carl Cook on the call. LOL!


Also, 16-0

Ya…most people have no idea how much a billion is. If Cuban had a billion sitting in one of those nice savings accounts that get 3% interest right now, he’d get $30,000,000 in interest every year.  For doing nothing.  And he’d still have $5B more in whatever assets that provide him a lot more growth than some savings account.  
 

It’s literally nothing to these guys the money they are throwing around. The reason you likely don’t see more of it is because there’s literally no financial return. Just emotional. But the dollar amounts themselves are trivial to multi billionaires. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Lebowski said:

While I understand your point, 39 million is indeed candy compared to 6 billion. I always have to remind myself (because I've become somewhat desensitized to the word) just how much a billion is yet alone 6, which is what the internets say Mark Cuban's net worth is as of 2026. Who knows what his net worth really is but he's definitely worth billions, with an s. And being the business man the yinzer is you know if he were to fork over something like this for one player he ain't doing it alone. I can only imagine what type of "zoom call" that would be with folks like Todd Wagner and Carl Cook on the call. LOL!


Also, 16-0

 

14 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Ya…most people have no idea how much a billion is. If Cuban had a billion sitting in one of those nice savings accounts that get 3% interest right now, he’d get $30,000,000 in interest every year.  For doing nothing.  And he’d still have $5B more in whatever assets that provide him a lot more growth than some savings account.  
 

It’s literally nothing to these guys the money they are throwing around. The reason you likely don’t see more of it is because there’s literally no financial return. Just emotional. But the dollar amounts themselves are trivial to multi billionaires. 

To add to this, $39M is only 0.65% of $6B. To put it in terms that us not rich people can understand, it's like someone asking you for $0.65 if you have $100.

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21 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Ya…most people have no idea how much a billion is. If Cuban had a billion sitting in one of those nice savings accounts that get 3% interest right now, he’d get $30,000,000 in interest every year.  For doing nothing.  And he’d still have $5B more in whatever assets that provide him a lot more growth than some savings account.  
 

It’s literally nothing to these guys the money they are throwing around. The reason you likely don’t see more of it is because there’s literally no financial return. Just emotional. But the dollar amounts themselves are trivial to multi billionaires. 

Yeah, we've gotten so desensitized to billionaires, we don't even notice that their wealth constantly increases faster than they can spend it down. $39m is 3.9% of $1b or the equivalent of $3900 for someone worth $100k. Less than a nosebleed ticket to the championship.

Also, I disagree, there is potential financial return, it's just indirect. How much more often have you heard about Cuban lately than you usually do? Guys like him turn publicity into dollars.

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12 minutes ago, MartintheMopMan said:

Yeah, we've gotten so desensitized to billionaires, we don't even notice that their wealth constantly increases faster than they can spend it down. $39m is 3.9% of $1b or the equivalent of $3900 for someone worth $100k. Less than a nosebleed ticket to the championship.

Also, I disagree, there is potential financial return, it's just indirect. How much more often have you heard about Cuban lately than you usually do? Guys like him turn publicity into dollars.

Yep. For Cuban it’s the experience too. 
 

He donates a rounding error of his personal worth and he gets to be part of the team.  Down on the sidelines. He gets to point to Josh Hoover everytime he scores a TD to Nick Marsh and tell all his buddies he made that happen. 
 

He gets exposure and to have a blast.  

Posted
4 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Yep. For Cuban it’s the experience too. 
 

He donates a rounding error of his personal worth and he gets to be part of the team.  Down on the sidelines. He gets to point to Josh Hoover everytime he scores a TD to Nick Marsh and tell all his buddies he made that happen. 
 

He gets exposure and to have a blast.  

Absolutely, the sentimental value is through the roof. I would do the same in a heartbeat. The access to the team and Cig, bragging rights, and a million little perks we don't even think of. Like, insane memorabilia too. You think they'd say no if Cuban('s assistant) asked for something like Mendoza's Dive helmet (with personalized signature, of course) or jersey? He could get all sorts of stuff that would just be cycled back into the system otherwise and give it to clients/associates/partners. And that's just the first thing my limited mind can think of.

Hell, if I had even a fraction of his wealth, I can't even tell you how much I would give the team to have a candid promise-never-to-repeat-it conversation with Cig. 

Posted
23 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

6:00 tonight (Monday) on BTN --  IU vs Miami and then at 7:00 Saturday's celebration.

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Don't if I could watch a second time. Watching it live was stressful enough. Didn't see the celebration. 

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Who could have imagined that Indiana would have beat Miami without a rushing TD from Hemby, Black or Martin, and without a pass reception TD from Sarrat, Cooper, Becker, or Williams and no passes for TDs from Mendoza.  That is crazy, man I love this team.  Another wild stat I saw today was TE Nowakowski lined up as a fullback twice this year, with two carries for a total of two yards resulting in two TDs.  You can't get any more efficient than that. 

Posted

Have had the Indiana celebration games on all afternoon. Rewatched the championship last night and will likely do it tonight as well.

Posted
2 minutes ago, Trish said:

Have had the Indiana celebration games on all afternoon. Rewatched the championship last night and will likely do it tonight as well.

I’m gonna rewatch the Penn state game tonight in its entirety. It and Illinois were the only games I missed live. 

Posted
4 hours ago, go iu bb said:

To add to this, $39M is only 0.65% of $6B. To put it in terms that us not rich people can understand, it's like someone asking you for $0.65 if you have $100.

Such a better way to explain it. LOL! 

Also, 16-0.

Posted
34 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Saw some Barstool guys say before the season IU had 150 to 1 odds to win the title. That's the same as Utah State winning one in basketball, for perspective. Will never get tired of celebrating this team.

It still doesn’t feel real. I also miss the days of commutative DVDs slash movies at the end of a season. 
 

I don’t wanna wait for the Hollywood movie 

Posted
5 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

It still doesn’t feel real. I also miss the days of commutative DVDs slash movies at the end of a season. 
 

I don’t wanna wait for the Hollywood movie 

I read an article that David Anspaugh and Angelo Pizzo said it would be more suited for a documentary. They said for them to do a movie enough time would have to pass for that to happen for historical significance. 

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