I love the Hoosiers. Will cheer for them like crazy in the fall and always. But, at this point, I'm hoping some of you guys can tell me why I should be optimistic:

Coming off an historically bad season, we:

1) Appear to have become an "island of misfit toys" for players at critical positions...especially on offense
2) Have had a coaching carousel the likes of which I can't remember, but have retained the coach of the single worst unit on the team
3) Will have our head coach, who, frankly, has not proven he's the best game manager to begin with, doing our defensive play-calling. Our defensive coordinator, who won't be calling plays, has never been a defensive coordinator before and will be doing God-only-knows-what.

To me, if I take my personal love of the Hoosiers out of the equation, it sounds like we're headed for continued ineptitude on offense and chaos on defense.

Really, truly, please give me something to be optimistic about because last season "left a mark" to say the least. I WANT to be excited, but just can't figure out HOW to be.

TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 Jordan Hulls named Team & Recruiting Coordinator #iubb
🔥 More on NIL issues and inducements in college
🔥 A "culture of fear" inside #iuvb?
🔥 Rhett Lewis joins #iufb broadcast team as an analyst

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TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 Jordan Hulls named Team & Recruiting Coordinator #iubb
🔥 More on NIL issues and inducements in college
🔥 A "culture of fear" inside #iuvb?
🔥 Rhett Lewis joins #iufb broadcast team as an analyst

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This would be....interesting?

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I really hope - although it’s not practicable probably - that the lawyers who named the car owner as a defendant are disbarred.

in that video on the front page. I don't get why he didn't shoot more (err, at all!) from outside this past season. Not like they taught him to shoot in the last 2 months, and he looks comfortable. I've thought all along, he'll strike a deal with a team to draft him, in the first round I believe, and be gone. If he can shoot form the floor, especially out to 3 pt range, he'd be a steal there. I don't think he'll be back.

Kentucky was always going to be the team to beat if an offer was extended.

Took an unofficial to Indiana earlier this season. IU was serious for a bit but decided to go in a different direction with the 2022 class and that resulted in Malik Reneau.

So if anyone is interested, just passing along the national story about his commitment.

Per his Twitter. Won’t join his brother at IU
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recruiting coordinator

I got a text from a few people asking about if we should anticipate a player transferring because of the craze on peegs. I don't read that garbage, but got pulled in today. HOLY SHIT. I cannot believe how many stupid people. (actually never mind America never shocks me on its stupidity) are giving money to the clown hysterics. They are cryptic posting that it is possible that someone leaves. Could it be JG??? Could it be Tamar?? That Eric guy is a rich attention whore and I wish he would move to Japan. Way more money than the normal fan, yet he solicits the public to give to his fund, that has zero transparency. These guys are complete clowns.

You want to give money and have it go to a specific athlete? DM me. You want to give in general for the greater good? Give to Hoosiers for Good. Think about drinking bleach before empowering those clowns tho.

Assuming TJD is returning, which he may not, I hope CMW doesn’t have another year of the very same starting lineup from beginning to end. Knight always used competition in practice as a motivational tool, those that played best in practice would start the next game. I also hope he does not continue with the full platooning concept. Not everyone is ready for a rest or deserves to be benched at the same time. So, I would like to see rotations by positions that would look like this.
4-5 positions rotated with TJD, Race, Malik and Geronimo
2-3 positions rotated by Bates, Kopp, Galloway and Gunn
Point - X and JHS
Caleb and Logan would be additional backup for the 4-5
Leal would provide adequate depth for 1,2 and 3

Gordon Hartman is a badass

This guy sold his business to build a fun park for his daughter with special needs. In addition, park guests with special needs get free admission, and 1/3 of the employees have special needs.

Congrats to Jordy

The original urban cowboy! I'll never forget you letting me on your tour bus in McLeansboro Illinois three years ago! Rest easy!

Watched it again this morning.

Its relevant again.

Abortion. Leaks. Law.

“Now you know and I know that we can’t tell you what to print, or what not to. We hope you folks in the press will act responsibly, but when you don’t there ain’t a hell of a lot anybody can do about it. But we can’t have people go around leaking stuff for their own reasons. It aint legal. And worse than that, by God it ain’t right. I can’t stop you, but I can damn well stop them.”

To see if they were interested in the job, and that person is another Bloomington native and member of IU's last Final 4 team, Jared Jeffries. Seems like he'd be a good fit for the role, or at least has some related experience, since he was a former scout and Director of Player Personnel or the Denver Nuggets. And he played for Woody in New York.

Rivals and 247 Sports both have Indiana's 2022 recruiting class ranked 19th Nationally so far. The incoming Hoosier class has 19 commits and 7 transfers.

I'm not super high on the utility of these rankings (both individual and team) but at the same I think it's interesting enough to take a quick look.

Five recruits are rated four stars by both Rivals and 247:

Dasan McCullough (Edge), Trevell Mullen (CB), Omar Cooper (WR), Gi'Bran Payne (RB) and Dominick 'Nick' James (DL).

Rivals also lists DJ Moore (OL/IOL) and Venson Sneed (DE/DL) as four stars.

Rivals has seven four star players in this class and 247 and five. Running Back / Athlete Shaun Shivers is also listed as a four star transfer. So that's as many as eight four star guys in this class.

D. McCullough comes in as Indiana's highest rated prospect ever. He is ranked 5th in his class nationally at his position (Edge) and 58th nationally overall.

247 rates Trevell Mullen higher than Tiawan Mullen was coming out of high school and has him as the eighth highest rated recruit in program history.

Omar Cooper isn't listed by Indiana's media as part of national signing day because he is planning to wait until February to sign. Which of course means he could still potentially flip.

When you include transfers there is a crop of at least 18 three star guys. If the current coaching staff develop them properly there are likely some really good football players who can become key contributors down the line.

Rashard Fant, Coy Cronk, Nate Sudfeld, Tiawan Mullen, Tegray Scales, Michael Penix, Reese Taylor, Tevin Coleman, Shane Wynn, Matthew Bedford, Cam Jones, Peyton Hendershot, Stevie Scott, Peyton Ramsey, Nick Westbrook, Whop Philyor and Devine Redding were all three star recruits.

According to 247 Indiana has 18 all-time four star recruits. The jury is still out on several of them but to date I wouldn't say any of them have been home runs. And for some perspective Alabama has 19 four star recruits in their 22 Class (247).

DL - 6
RB - 4
DB - 4
LB - 4
WR - 3
OL - 3
TE - 2

The thing that jumps out at me here is only three offensive linemen. I'm not sure if they didn't land some of the guys they were focused on or if they just didn't focus on OL very much. Either way it seems we need some more help in this department.

FL - 9
OH - 5
IN - 3
TX - 2
AL - 2
AR - 1
CA - 1
LA - 1
NC - 1
NJ - 1

Continuing to hit Florida hard and I saw several from the Miami area.

So just when I thought it couldn’t get more crazy with liberal nuts it does.

My office staff is abuzz this afternoon that a locaschool has a girl who identifies as a furry (cat).

I going to have call my cousin the Superententant of the school to see if she’s going to require her teachers to pet the furry. 😂

The weather forecast tomorrow for Louisville is sunny with a high of 86 and minimal wind.

The Sunday games are over with and IU has moved ahead of Purdue for the 7th spot by percentage points with the Boilers losing to Iowa today. There are two games on Monday because of weather postponements with MD@Rutgers and MSU@PSU, but they won't affect the standings although both PSU and MSU are in that group that IU is in, trying get one of the final three spots in the B1G tournament. With their win today, PSU moves to 9-8 in 6th place ahead of IU, and PSU is right in the middle of 9 straight games against the bottom three teams in the standings in Minnesota, MSU, and OSU next weekend. IU needs to take care of business against the Gophers and hope that MSU can help out tomorrow against PSU, along with OSU next weekend. Actually, PSU will move into a tie with Michigan for 5th, if they win tomorrow. The Husker fans have to be pulling their hair out right now after the Huskers lost two of three to the Gophers in Minneapolis this weekend, which has a big impact on their hopes to make the B1G tournament. The Gophers had won just two conference games before the series with the Huskers. For once bigten.org was quick to update their standings after today's action: