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Not as but they’d play well for that coach imo
I’ll be interested to see what they do next year. They’ll have to find another top transfer QB to sustain success
Same with Vanderbilt. It will probably be their success that pushes CFB to institute some kind of enforceable rules with NIL and transfer portal.
Finding a high octane QB through the portal seems to be child's play for Cignetti. Last year the MAC kid who played very well til he injured his hand, this year Mendoza has been top notch.
Next year? He'll find a Big Sky or sub major conference kid that does what Cignetti requires. He isn't gonna bring in a guy that he has to change his offense for, he shops around to find the guy who is able to run that system, and he brings him in.
Remove NIL too, and they wouldn’t be anywhere close to this success. I’d see them as performing well enough to finish in the area of 4/5th in the big ten it doesn’t take a lot to get over the hump to that spot.
It's about what a head coaches culture is, you teach toughness you have a tough team you coddle players and they get beat by those tough coached teams every time. Indiana is coached by a coach who demands tough minded players who perform just that at practice and on the field. I like Matt Rhule as a salesman for the program but I do question his toughness as a coach. As a head coach he seems to want to be friends with players more than a coach who demands their best for their own good. jmo.
It's not like CIgnetti went out and bought a high profile guy like Carson Beck, Dillon Gabriel or Michael Penix. He went into the bushes and found low profile guys that fit his system, plus, I presume he got them a helluva lot cheaper which allowed IND to sign maybe 1-2-3 more guys with some leftover money.
Mendoza is not even in the Top Ten of highest NIL QB's this year. Not 3-4 Million like a few. The number 10 guys gets $ 1.75 Million, that means Mendoza was purchased from the bargain bin.
They can't the courts will shoot this down immediately, unless they become employees and it is collectively bargained.
If the big wig universities like OSU, MU, Bama, UGA, LSU, etc. decided enough was enough, they could lobby to get something through congress.
James Madison was really good before the transfer portal. I wonder why?
Hard to say. Most of the time everybody thinks more money equal success, but Nebraska over the past decade has demonstrated that you can emulate the United States government and screw up everything with a lot of money.
My comment isn’t about the QB spot. It’s NIL period. Take it out and Indiana doesn’t recruit anyone much better than they have historically, at all positions.
I’ll bet Indiana fans are really sad to learn that Cignetti is only successful in the here and now, and might not have been as successful 20 years ago.
Really sucks to be them, I guess.
Really sucks to be them, I guess.
Not money. Not transfers. That helps
He has made them into a mentally tough team that executes.
It’s beautiful.
He has made them into a mentally tough team that executes.
It’s beautiful.
The transfer portal was a big help. He took all his best players from James Madison with him to Indiana and injected life into the program.
No, no, no! We are supposed to dismiss whatever Cignetti does and just thank God in Heaven that our coach is nicer.
Hoosiers putting a beatdown on a UCLA team whose season magically turned around when it started playing overrated teams.
Weren’t people saying the same thing about them last year?
Cignetti and his staff are wicked good. Getting mostly unheralded players and turning them into what they are is big time coaching.
I’d love for a guy like John Gruden to break down their film.
Is Indiana the only university allowed to use the portal?
if you took NIL 100% from every team , if you wanted to actually get the most out of yourself
you go to coaches who know what they are doing
Right??? Ha
20 years ago, Cigs would have been there for two seasons and bolted.
Now, he will stay there until he retires because he can win there.
They also don't buy into this "oh my gosh, the Big Ten is so tough with tough coaches and tough players, just keeping a game close is a big deal" attitude.
Like all the rest of these ***** coaches in this conference do.
Yeah. It's easier to win when your transfer QB is under consideration to be the first pick in the draft.
So you think Mendoza wound up at IND by accident? You realize he was not even in the Top Ten QB's in the country for NIL?
If Cignetti found 2 low profile QB's from low profile colleges, you don't think he'll find another one next year? I do.
Mendoza while not the top name QB available last year appeared to me to be the most talented. Physically he was a rung above Beck.
Watched an interview on Cignetti and he spent a lot of time early in his career scouting players. He credited that time with allowing him to decipher the right attitude and talent that would fit his mold. He’s obviously mastered what that formula is. I’m extremely impressed by him and honestly I think it’s awesome he’s getting this well-deserved payday this late in his career.
Cignetti had a recruiting pipeline that ran through Bama. His association there got him some dudes. My personal belief that his connection with their S&C staff may have something to do with crappy teams suddenly becoming physically dominant.
Mendoza is a scrub. He has a very limitedNFL future. But if you can be a game manager in college, that will work.
Yep. And they did. Mendoza is a stud.