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Has the Heacock speculation become anything more or less? At one point he was coming. The next he was an analyst. Now
FWIW, Lynn's defenses have never really caught on at USC. Is that Reilly though?
31 to Sparty, 34 to Ill, 34 to ND, 42 to Oregon....
Has the Heacock speculation become anything more or less? At one point he was coming. Then retiring. The next he was an analyst here. Now we're targeting Lynn again to run the defense. Maybe Lynn as DC and an old head in Heacock on his team? I really like the sound of that.
FWIW, Lynn's defenses have never really caught on at USC. Is that Reilly though?
31 to Sparty, 34 to Ill, 34 to ND, 42 to Oregon....
I believe Heacock is only coming on as an analyst as he soon heads into retirement . Lynn is an interesting target for the second year in a row, so I wonder if it is Kraft’s desire to have a letterman run that function. While he does not seem like an elite hire, other stats show he is a good coach. In the context of points given up per game (per AI) USC was 121st the year prior to his arrival, then 92nd his first year and 47th thus far this year. Not great results, but good results in terms of improvement. When he was at UCLA he improved their defense from 92nd to 14th. He’s definitely a good coach.
A better example is Iowa state. Cignetti is not coming here.
Iowa state won 69 games the last 10 years. 7-5 a season if we round up.
Which is exceptional given ISU's past. Absolutely remarkable. No resources, talent poor location AND he won., a lot. He identifies and develop players exceptionally well. One reason why he was coveted for HC jobs in both the NFL and college.
But apparently you have an axe to grind, so grind on.
What was Indiana's past? We are not getting Cignetti.
I am a realist. You round everything up which never happens.
LB coach for Ravens. Coached at AM, GTech, Duke and various places. From Pittsburgh area. Has DC experience.
Agree. I applaud his efforts in salvaging what was a nonexistent 2026 class. He has to, otherwise there could be a deep hole on the roster. As you said, the 2026 class does not have to be full of blue chips. However, going forward, the subsequent classes do need to have blue chips to keep up with the Joneses. Bama didn’t win all those titles with 3 stars. Neither did UGA or Ohio State. Their coaching wasn’t that much superior to everyone else that they could take anybody and make them national champs. As Joe used to say, it’s about the Jimmys and Joes. I trust that Campbell will do a great job. He’s a smart, successful guy.
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Indiana is lightning in a bottle. The run will end at some point with lesser talent. I don’t care how good of a coach Cignetti is.
I get that bashing Franklin every day on here is en vogue, but this is a bit of hyperbole. Franklin has had a fair share of first round picks at PSU. There have been plenty of all conference players also, like Barkley, Godwin, Gesicki, Warren, Olu, Vega, Abdul, Parsons, Chop, etc. Saying that they regressed here isn’t really accurate. Franklin pulled a lot of talent to PSU. Some excelled, some didn’t. That s true of all programs. Just because you didn’t like him doesn’t take away the accomplishments of the program and it’s players while he was the HC.
Agreed. Once this crop of players are done, IU will drop back into the middle of the B1G because IU won't be able to recruit the players necessary to keep this run going.
Cignetti is creating his own demise at IU. His arrogance will start to rub Hoosier fans the wrong way when they're no longer at the top.
Last year was the lightning in a bottle. This year they were pooh-poohed going into this year and now look. Everyone is begging on bended knee that they are not sustainable. Wait and see when they shift to a recruiting/transfer blend. Sorry, but they're here to stay
PSU should have hired Knight when he got canned at Indiana. That was their one chance to become relevant in bball.
Bobby Knight won championships and kept IU at the top of the B1G. Cignetti will not have the same kind of sustained success.
The core group he brought from JMU is still there. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a really good coach, but this probably isn’t sustainable at a school like Indiana.
They will continue to excel, they are committed to spending money and have the alumni to continue funding the program.
Excellent leader of men. Extremely intense in the locker room. Mostly feared by his players but respected by all. Questionable family man though with a history of domestic abuse. Very confrontational. Has experience in coaching and demands the most from his players. Hates to lose, REALLY hates to lose. Looks exactly like a young Robert DuVall. Would be an interesting but controversial choice
I am not in the business of predicting what will or will not happen at IU. What we have seen is a program (IU) comprised of unheralded players compete and win at the highest level of the sport. The success has been so glaring that everyone lined up to hire Cignetti, including PSU. The fact that he took JMU players and in year two beat Oregon and OSU speaks volumes on the the value of identifying and developing talent rather than star gaze. He took Mendoza from Cal and developed him to win the Heisman. That was the initial point. Indiana has doubled down on their gambit by again, in 2026, taking twenty two players comprised of only 4 4* and the remaining 3*. Will the gambit be successful? I do not know. What I do know is that talent evaluation and development is vastly more important to having really talented players that 1. You do not develop (stay stagnant or regressed) and 2. do not fit. Number two, was patently obvious this year at Penn State. For all the talent at some positions there were pieces that were missing or undeveloped (LB and DT) that led to the colossal flop that was PSU "national" aspirations. The singular inability of this program to identify, recruit and develop QBs and as a result draw high level WRs to PSU is the result of sub-optimal coaching, if not coaching malpractice.
So, I am very interested to see how Campbell, who is an excellent evaluator and developer of talent, does with more resources in a talent rich environment.
Your points are fair. I was painting with a broad brush with my comment.
But I do think it is also very fair to say he was not the best developer of talent without immediately being labeled a Franklin hater, don’t you? Identifier of talent? Without question, elite. We were usually the first to offer guys before their stock went into the stratosphere.
I’m not sure the talent was lacking at PSU this year. I think what we saw was a locker room divided and a coaching staff and team that weren’t on the same page at multiple levels.
James Franklin -- 24-15, .615 winning percentage at Vandy before PSU hired him. An 8-5 average season.
Franklin is not our coach anymore. F him. F his fanboys. And, F you.
There was talent, for sure, but it was not properly distributed. There were glaring holes on the roster, especially at LB and DT, that the coaching staff should have either prepared for or addressed through the portal. They failed to do so.