Ramped up to hear Coach Cig talk Hoosier football
Hubers tomorrow
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Yes, & why not as all signs point to winning at Indiana. My glass is half full
It is a time for optimism about IUFB. They made a commitment to improve the program by buying out coach Allen's contract. Then they did a search looking at how other "basketball" school developed winning football programs so IU could hire the right coach. The AD did a great job upgrading NIL, football assistant pay, etc. This season looks to be one that can be a good year for IUFB.
I'm not going to lie. As excited as I am to have CCC and the direction that I see IUFB heading, these types of events concern me just a bit. They're obviously very important and help to gain/keep traction with an important piece of our alumni & fans. However, I can just imagine CCC having to listen to some D-bag self important booster trying to big time him and seeing CCC just letting them have it. I wouldn't blame coach for doing it, but you just wonder if a situation were to happen, could it derail some momentum.
I've had the opportunity to talk to several coaches over the years who've been part of these types of events, and most talk about it and just laugh it off....I'm just not sure CCC is that type of dude.
I've had the opportunity to talk to several coaches over the years who've been part of these types of events, and most talk about it and just laugh it off....I'm just not sure CCC is that type of dude.
I'm also getting the impression the new IU President, now in her 3rd year is instrumental turning the page on the athletic department and leading the priority of IUFB through the changes needed to earn success. Or Dolson to his credit has done an exceptional marketing job giving her the view of the actions needed for the program to implement. Either way I'm confident the 2 of them are and will continue to work hand to glove managing the department. Nothing but good signs so far.
Could be beneficial to initiate and develop a Huber type event in northern Indiana. I can think of a half dozen venues that could help create a success. Also lots of $ up north not presently flowing to IU athletics could be pried loose with an appropriate event to launch more giving. Absolutely zero reason it will not work. NIL needs more cash every year, cause Life Savers ain't a nickle anymore.
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A long time til the first game, but I do have more hope than usual.
They finally came to the realization that to survive, they cannot use the old way of thinking. Like it or not, college football is the driver for everything now.
In our own conference, IU may be the only one with this self-imposed “basketball school” tag. While that’s great, the results certainly have not backed up the fervent support.
Very similar to Nebraska on the football side. Still trying to find that magical coach to match Osborne and his 3 National Championships.
In our own conference, IU may be the only one with this self-imposed “basketball school” tag. While that’s great, the results certainly have not backed up the fervent support.
Very similar to Nebraska on the football side. Still trying to find that magical coach to match Osborne and his 3 National Championships.
Would really like that to happen. Have lived up north all my life. I remember the times CBK would bring the Hoosiers to FTW for pre season practice/game.
Believe the last time was the '87 Championship team. Always drew a lot of fans.
Football can be the same.
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CCC has been around the block a few times. Pretty sure he can handle the boosters appropriately.
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Exactly. He doesn't need boosters to be up early, on a strict diet, following a brutal regimen. He just needs them to be willing to donate $ so that he can continue to be successful at what he does. Handling boosters as a coach is beneficial to CCC's ability to succeed so if he struggles in that area, he likely wouldn't have been very successful in the first place.
These are the things we worry about when we hire assistant coaches to be head coaches. We have a tenured vet at the helm.....he will just need to repeat, "Ohio State and Michigan sux, and so does Purdue." Then money will instinctively flock to IU like the salmon of Capistrano.
If Bob Knight could handle it, so can Cig
How does an AD “upgrade” NIL? Curious as to what his role is there
Quite simply by "getting in the ear" of the donor(s). The University President & AD are ardent, vocal supporters of Coach Cignetti.
Scott got enough FB NIL raised to attract Cig, and Cig recently said NIL has exceeded what was promised to him when he took the job. Good stuff.
Scott has done a great job with NIL and should probably get more praise than he does. He setup our collectives, which was good work since this was new territory for all schools. It’s hard to measure, but it seems like IU was among the leaders in getting NIL infrastructure up.
Now he is getting Cig more NIL than promised, and then of course on the bball side we are elite on NIL. Probably his Varsity Club experience paying off.
I heard he got more than double promised. What that number is I'm not sure.
Most of our coaches, as they are being driven through The Land That Time Forgot for the first time, to the even more rural Starlight Ridge, start to worry that IU has changed its mind and that they are being driven to the end of nowhere to be “hit” - and are incredibly happy to see Hubers.
What is it that gives you the impression Whitten is prioritizing football to a greater extent? All I remember hearing is someone claiming she attends our football games. Is that every home game to the bitter end? I think there probably needs to be something else “instrumentally turning the page on the athletic department” than game attendance.
FWIW, some of the facility have recently called for her resignation so her attention may have shifted this past season.
Ft Wayne car dealer, Tom Kelley, used to sponsor a big Mad Anthony alumni event every year there and it was a huge success. I had a few uncles from Ft Wayne who always went to it, including the away bball game with Notre Dame every other year. They said their town was strong for IU. Of course, that was back in Knight’s heyday, so I’m not sure how strong the support is today, the three having passed away…four including Knight.
There's always been a segment of the faculty who want to deemphasize sports. Probably why they don't like her.
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Murray Sperber comes immediately to mind.
The impression is from all the actions, in my view very positive, since and including buying Coach Allen out. All these actions weren't just spontaneous combustion. It was a plan that obviously included energizing a thin but hardened fan base. Otherwise she would have thumbed it down from the start so the vanilla status quo was protected.
Yes, I was tickled to death to see she is was making the embedded bureaucracy rightfully uncomfortable. Asking her to resign. In a pigs caboose. They're shooting BB's at a concrete wall.
FWIW: I live about 16 miles NE of FW. It is without a doubt IU HOOSIER country. That's why I believe a well funded, planned and organized Huber event up here would be welcome every year. We starve for Hoosier contact up here. I attended many of those Mad Anthony outings (alternated Fort Wayne CC every other year with Orchard Ridge Golf Club) using it to entertain business customers. In other words helped pay a small portion of it. Maybe know of or at least would recognize the name(s) of your Uncles. Steve Alford was the guest celebrity for 1987.
Whitten is shaking things up and I couldn't be more ecstatic about her making ripples.
Check out the scholastic ranking improvement of the university, including Kelley during her 3 years. Ya, you go GIRL!
These events are typically pretty well managed and fans get little opportunity for one-on-one exchange.
It is fun to have IU greats like AT there to mingle, give an autograph or ten, and to interview with Louisville area media.
I'm betting that Coach Cig will be a huge hit with us Southern Folk today and that he'll enjoy some Huber's viddles.
It is fun to have IU greats like AT there to mingle, give an autograph or ten, and to interview with Louisville area media.
I'm betting that Coach Cig will be a huge hit with us Southern Folk today and that he'll enjoy some Huber's viddles.
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She wouldn’t let the students camp in Dunn Meadow for their protest.
“Get off my lawn.”
Her unpopularity on campus is unrelated to sports. She's got much bigger problems than that.
I don’t know enough to have an opinion, but the calls for resignation started, at least unofficially, long before that.
Exactly, she wouldn't rollover for the anti-Israel protesters like most of her brethren around the country. The bureaucracy can't buffalo her and it pisses them off. She's got broad shoulders, a hardened chin and doesn't mind getting dirt under her fingernails. Just what IU needed. Best IU hire since RMK.
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Hundreds gather for IU faculty-led protest calling for Whitten, Shrivastav's resignations
“If I was president of IU, I’d be proud of these protesters,” a faculty member said. “Don’t you ever aim your war weapons at our students.”
www.heraldtimesonline.com
Just in case you want to understand more of the facts. Personally, I think the right to peacefully protest should be protected regardless of whether or not I agree with the protesters.
What she did was dirty and unamerican
She must have backed down because there were tents up in Dunn meadow this past weekend
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Protesting in Dunn Meadow is tradition. In addition there is a famous free speech case involving an IU student that made its way to the Supreme. Court. https://news.iu.edu/live/news/26481-historical-marker-honors-1973-supreme-court-free
In my era, we called them "green-baggers" as they walked around campus with green backpacks,
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You are entitled to your opinion as I am mine.
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Yup and in my opinion it is looney tunes to defend that
But she did roll over for Mitch Daniels in Purdue’s exit from the Indy campus. He got everything he wanted from that.
I have little trouble differentiating apples and oranges.
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