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And not a team that was bought like
OSU…more like great coaching
OSU…more like great coaching
Cignetti is hands down the best coach in the country. It starts there. His team just executes so well.
Coaching coaching coaching coaching coaching…
Ryan Day 3rd and 1 inside the 10 twice, throw a 10 yard pass both times … what a loser. Same loser who lost to Michigan 4x in a row. Cignetti runs the clock out, nothing cute. A winner.
Ryan Day 3rd and 1 inside the 10 twice, throw a 10 yard pass both times … what a loser. Same loser who lost to Michigan 4x in a row. Cignetti runs the clock out, nothing cute. A winner.
Cignetti is a great coach. Rutgers doesn’t have one. Theres the difference, very easy
Defending national champ and 2 seed this year. Loser is a bit much lol
Yes Cignetti is a really good to great coach and has a staff to match.
But Mendoza cost $2.6 million this year, we were lucky if we had $2.6 mil. for our entire roster.
But Mendoza cost $2.6 million this year, we were lucky if we had $2.6 mil. for our entire roster.
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Anyone still think they haven't passed Rutgers?
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We heard this story about Lance Leipold, who is currently 1-5. Pump the brakes. Brakes failed and Cignetti says hold my beer!
Great job by Indiana !
Incredible how much better the coaching is.
Incredible how much better the coaching is.
We used to own IU in football and basketball. LOL! Dark times indeed.Anyone still think they haven't passed Rutgers?
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We heard this story about Lance Leipold, who is currently 1-5. Pump the brakes. Brakes failed and Cignetti says hold my beer!
Are you kidding? Their quick turnaround was built on transfers and NIL.
All because of great coaching.
because we have Ash 2.0 and they have a coach that understand player evaluations and coaching to win
Silly post. That was Oct 6, 2024.Anyone still think they haven't passed Rutgers?
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We heard this story about Lance Leipold, who is currently 1-5. Pump the brakes. Brakes failed and Cignetti says hold my beer!
Even if Rutgers had the money to spend 2.6 million on Mendoza, he wouldn't have been this player here because IU has better coaches.
You mean that Mendoza would not run up to the line to change the play to a run up the middle better than Athan did?
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you mean like they will actually try to run a kick off back ? How innovative!
It’s called coaching…their entire team
Executed all year long…the entire team!!
with our offense I think cignetti would have had Rutgers in similar situation but our defense was prob not in in good shape for any coach
How did Cignetti get so many good players so fast ?
And that quarterback ?
Good coaches attract talent. Talented players want to play for a good coach.
I stopped being surprised at how good they were after I saw what they did to Illinois earlier in the year.
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I saw a couple of Indiana games this year. They had good players but more that they had playmakers. They channeled just enough opportunistic serendipity to keep the carpet ride going. They weren't crushing teams and sending players to the hospital like Ohio St in 2014. They were about to lose a game a few weeks back but a reaching receiver snatched a pass with toes right down on edge of a white line with seconds to go.
In my mind I saw tonight's game as magic vs the machine and the magic won with a squeak. Indiana made just enough timely plays to keep the spark going. Ohio FG kicker Jay Fielding was 6 of 6 inside the 30 this year when he lined-up for a 27 yard gimme.. An unexpected funky kick gave title to Hoosiers. Maybe Gene Hackman blew on the ball. I'm usually an OSU fan but its fun to see a wormhole open-up and let some new light into the musty chamber of top five football.
In my mind I saw tonight's game as magic vs the machine and the magic won with a squeak. Indiana made just enough timely plays to keep the spark going. Ohio FG kicker Jay Fielding was 6 of 6 inside the 30 this year when he lined-up for a 27 yard gimme.. An unexpected funky kick gave title to Hoosiers. Maybe Gene Hackman blew on the ball. I'm usually an OSU fan but its fun to see a wormhole open-up and let some new light into the musty chamber of top five football.
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The QB wasn’t that good before him. He develops players. He doesn’t have one 4 or 5 star player on the roster out of HS.
This is semi-pro football with little revenue sharing.
Serious question, if I won the powerball, is there any limit to how much I could donate to fund NIL and buy the roster?
could I just single-handedly fund the football team to the level of the juggernauts in college football?
Serious question, if I won the powerball, is there any limit to how much I could donate to fund NIL and buy the roster?
could I just single-handedly fund the football team to the level of the juggernauts in college football?
Yes. You would do so through the RNIL fund (corporate donation fund). Just have to provide adequate business justification that would withstand Clearinghouse scrutiny.
Mendoza was originally committed to Yale. Ended up at Cal. Bailed for a $2.6M payday and #1 ranking. Imagine if there was no transfer portal or NIL.
They execute because they are better players. Great players make great coaches. They are spending much more than RU on a roster.
Cignetti is a great coach, but if you think he won with only the players he inherited and recruited to Indiana in the last two years out of high school, you are the one with the cognitive functioning issues.
They stepped up their NIL game in a big way with his hire.
College athletics isn't any fair.
Never has been.
Is it"fair" that Rutgers get $50m(?) in media revenue to spend on athletics while UConn or Temple get a fraction?
Rutgers has the money to just waste $2.5m on failed defensive coordinators?
Amusing that the "fair" argument never comes up when every other aspect of college atheltics spending.
Sad but true. Let’s be real the student-athlete no longer exists. It’s all about the commercialization of college sports. Yet why are the fans supposed to pay for NIL? Are New England Patriots fans expected to buy tickets, merchandise, concessions, etc. plus write separate checks to pay the players?
New England Patriots fan don't pay extra "donations" for season tickets either.
Or write separate checks to pay for practice facilities or jet fuel.
"Report: New York Giants want to fire Daboll but dont have the money. Front office is looking to the fans to donate money to fund it."
Why are fans supposed to pay for NIL?
Because they are supposed to pay for every other expense of college atheltics.
Name an expense that fans are NOT supposed to pay?
Why is being asked to pay for Schiano's jet fuel somehow noble but paying for players the downfall of society?
If you have an issue with the "commercialization", that happened decades ago.
You forgot to add wasting 6 million on the failed/fraud head coach. That’s the elephant in the fish tank.
This is what people are missing here. The components to building a winning roster are evaluation, acquisition, and development. People are focusing on acquisition and ignoring the other two components.
Better players don't always execute. Particularly when they're poorly coached. LSU says hi.