Recent content by J C Higgins

Yes, Saban won a lot of championships but he won ALL of them with 4 and 5 star talent. Before LSU and Alabama he coached at Michigan State where he had talent commensurate with Cignetti's at IU and went 6-6, 6-5-1 and 7-5.

The best aren't recruited anymore. They're bought.

He had a lot of help from John Ruiz

It helps to have a QB of that caliber....... and opposing coaches praise their defense.... From "The Athletic" yesterday.. Excerpts: “The Athletic spoke to four coaches who have played Indiana this year and to a Power 4 defensive coordinator who studied the Hoosiers this month to learn more...

If a team played a meaningless game it isn't much of a team. And if a fan says it's a meaningless game he/she isn't much of a team supporter.

Might be the reason but testing, as infrequent and ineffective as it is, applied to all schools and I'm not aware of any study that showed they were using steroids more than any other team.

I don't think there's much difference in S&G coaches and I'll explain why. When Tom Osbourne was coach at Nebraska his teams were said to be the best trained and conditioned in college football. When Solich took over they didn't change S&G coaches but you never heard anything about Solich's...

This would be my guess also. I'll try to find out in the next couple of months. I do believe he may be an extraordinary talent because of the multiple ways he can be deployed but if he doesn't want to be here let him go.

Went to IU........his Dad went to tOSU

Yes, about Mendoza and tOSU out-coached. See roster talent ratings in other post

tOSU.....3 Indiana U....72 IU leading going into the fourth quarter. https://247sports.com/season/2025-football/collegeteamtalentcomposite/

Any $$ we MAY have given him should be returned. After reviewing all the posts on this thread about all is I see is conjecture as related to the events of the past 24 hours .........a lot of "ifs","buts", "mays" and "mights."

Yes, but just because a person graduated from a school and becomes a billionaire doesn't mean he or she will give any to the school and certainly not the athletic program. Like I said before if Harvard alums wanted to buy the best team in the country they probably could because of the massive...

Not sure what it means and certainly some numbers don't make sense with TAM paying about 1/4 what Oregon pays and about 1/2 of what UT pays. There may be 2 kinds of NIL payments. Just don't know. But this does confirm what some coaches have said....that is that Oregon pays the most...or at least...

This shows NIL per player for the highest paid rosters. According to this Oregon pays the most per player. I assume this means the average of every player on the roster...