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Tod McShay said on his pod " I have it on good authority, Coach Cig doesn't want to leave Indiana. He wants to shove the IU program up everybody's @$$ sideways". Thought that was pretty in-line with C

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lol -- Credit to this Minny fan for posting this and getting CFB twitter and LSU fans all fired up.  Ragebait as the kids call it!    

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This is an insightful article on roster cost, including an interview with Cig.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/the-race-to-keep-up-with-40-million-rosters-is-shaking-college-football/

It seems like our player payroll is $22-23M, with the big programs in the $35-40M range.  It's brutal competition out there.

This may seem discouraging, but we have made significant progress in my view.  I think our roster cost about $4.5M last season vs. the big programs in the $16-20M range, so we were 20-30% of the big program payrolls (makes last season's accomplishments even more amazing).  With rev share and some more NIL increases, this season we are probably 55-65% of the big programs, which is some pretty big improvement.  Hopefully Scott can keep finding more NIL for football... 

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19 hours ago, DChoosier said:

I agree that there are a lot of other variables but at first it appeared his motivation was to go from 2.4mm to the 4mm range. I’m guessing he or his advisors thought his market value would be in the Archie Manning range.

I get the difference in SoCal real estate but I doubt that was really a driver. For one thing if he feels he will be in the NFL he probably won’t be in SoCal very long. Also, if SoCal real estate was an interest he still could have made that investment while living and making 2.4mm in TN.

The net/net is that he ended  up at 1.5 instead of 2.4 but maybe it will still work out better for him. Who knows but in any case 1.5 isn’t a bad consolation prize for a college kid :)

No disagreement from me whatsoever. If I had to guess, his father bit off more than he could chew and then got taken down a peg or two with all the aftermath of 'market value' of his son. I was just making counterpoints to whether or not the transfer was successful. We'll see if this transfer works out for him in the long run. I do think he upgraded with his position coach (my biased opinion of course) and of the P4 schools interested, the location of the school played big factor with his choice. Also, he may not even get on the gridiron this season because from what I understand that QB room is pretty stacked. I could be wrong but I view UCLAFB much like IUFB. With the right resources and coaching it'll cause havoc in the conference and twist all the Herbstreits into a human pretzel. It's going to be interesting to see how they do this year with Coach Sunseri in the locker room now. 

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59 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

This is an insightful article on roster cost, including an interview with Cig.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/the-race-to-keep-up-with-40-million-rosters-is-shaking-college-football/

It seems like our player payroll is $22-23M, with the big programs in the $35-40M range.  It's brutal competition out there.

This may seem discouraging, but we have made significant progress in my view.  I think our roster cost about $4.5M last season vs. the big programs in the $16-20M range, so we were 20-30% of the big program payrolls (makes last season's accomplishments even more amazing).  With rev share and some more NIL increases, this season we are probably 55-65% of the big programs, which is some pretty big improvement.  Hopefully Scott can keep finding more NIL for football... 

Wow,

It wasn’t all that long ago when it was almost jaw dropping to hear OSU say they needed $20,000,000 for a competitive roster.

We have a way to go but it’s good to see the massive jump from 4.5mm to 23mm. Two years ago I would have laughed if someone told me IU football would have over 20mm. Crazy times !

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On 5/9/2025 at 3:15 PM, Pagoda said:

I’ve got to admit I am enjoying this slow motion train wreck.  I don't know how this ends, but it probably won’t be good.

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TBH, I'm not sure she's going to play much of a factor in how the UNC football program does under his tenure. She's a sideshow. In the end his tenure at UNC will probably be a wash.

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UCLA is quietly building a solid recruiting class. They also brought in Nico Iamaleava. We lost Jamier Johnson to them as well. I won't be surprised to see them make some noise this season especially with Coach Sunseri calling the plays. They have a favorable schedule. PSU and OSU are probably their toughest games they have this year.  They come to Bloomington Oct. 25 and I see that as a potential huge game for both schools. 

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3 hours ago, Lebowski said:

They (Adam Rittenberg) landed on btownbanners.com and saw my post in this thread. LOL!!

I checked out the thread this morning, and then was just doing some surfing on ESPNs website keeping an eye on the tennis match this morning when I saw that article.  I was wondering if they took the inspiration from that post.  LOL

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53 minutes ago, OGIUAndy said:

He didn't even mention Cig's UCLA trash talk: https://uclawire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ucla/football/2024/07/31/indiana-head-coach-curt-cignetti-starting-early-trash-talk-with-ucla-bruins/74620503007/

What a great article. An underrated part of it that shows just how poorly we were thought of going into last season?

"Before the game against UCLA on September 14th, the Hoosiers have two home games. Indiana should be favored to win both games as they host Florida International on August 31st and Western Illinois on September 6th."

Yes ... "should be" favored against FIU and WIU. Should have taken the Hoosiers against the spread in every damn game last year.

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