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re: BIPOLAR Alabama fans

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 5:47 pm to greygoose

The Bama wives might be in more danger tonight than they were last night now that reality has had time to set in.

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re: Indiana’s average roster age is 22.5. The Philadelphia Eagles is 24.3.

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 5:37 pm to RTRnFlorida

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That’s one. Did you not read the post or the article? They have more seniors than any CFb team in the playoff and more 6 year players than anyone in CFb.

I don't need to read an article to know it's a veteran-laden team. It was built the same way any other program could build their roster.

Does that somehow make what happened to your team easier to digest? Maybe Alabama should throw more money at the problem.

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re: Indiana’s average roster age is 22.5. The Philadelphia Eagles is 24.3.

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 5:24 pm to RTRnFlorida

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Which means unless they go to south Florida and recruit those guys again from the senior living facility, they are in a world of hurt next year. Thats not sustainable but it can win you a title one year or get close to it.

The current leading tackler was a 0-star recruit Cignetti brought in who played as a freshman last year.

Sorry it's still stinging a bit.

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re: Indiana’s average roster age is 22.5. The Philadelphia Eagles is 24.3.

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 5:12 pm to TexasWranglers

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You haven’t completed shite yet. At least make the natty before talking

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re: Indiana’s average roster age is 22.5. The Philadelphia Eagles is 24.3.

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 4:48 pm to LSUTigresFan

RB3 #21 Martin is a RS freshman that would start for a lot of other power teams, so there's youth on the roster.

#17 Ndukwe is a true sophomore filling the absence of the injured Staley... he was a key piece in the DL rotation multiple times throughout the season.

#21 Hardy is one of the leading tacklers in the country at LB and is a true sophomore.

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re: Indiana’s average roster age is 22.5. The Philadelphia Eagles is 24.3.

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 4:40 pm to cattus

There is a whole new wave of pissed-off upperclassmen at Mid-Majors Cignetti is bringing in for Round 3 whose mere presence on a roster would upset all the star-watching fans of 'legacy' programs.

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re: Ole Miss and Indiana are in the semis

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 4:17 pm to Drewbie

Keep thinking the AD is the problem (or the solution)... the people counting on you to keep missing the point appreciate it.

That's enough mind-numbing banter to remind myself why it's nothing but depressing coming in here - best of luck with the inevitable next AD who will no doubt be the change catalyst you're looking for. :cheers:

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re: Ole Miss and Indiana are in the semis

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 3:55 pm to Drewbie

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Long wasn't perfect, but he also illustrates just how bad Yurachek is. The Arkansas job was 100x more appealing under his tenure than it currently is under Yurachek. That is objectively true. That's why his hires were an NFL coach and a coach fresh off a Rose Bowl and Yurachek's have been a career OL coach and a coach we had no competition for that couldn't make the AAC title game a single time in 6 years.
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Jeff Long did not want to hire Petrino.
Yet he did and we won. A lot. See the difference between that and the Kiffin debacle? The point is it's not just poor lil' Yurachek for not having any support. He's just a bad AD even when compared to previous bad ADs. That's part of the reason why he has a lack of support. It's literally his job to gain it and he can't do it.

This is laughable and revisionist history... anyone who has ever competed in anything and paid attention to Arkansas athletics knows that Jeff Long was and is an utter piece of shite. I couldn't care less at this point about what someone thinks of Yurachek when they're trying to deflect away from the indictment that is Jeff Long.

Ask anyone close to the hires -
Petrino was not 'hired' by Jeff Long... he was the one bright idea in recent Arkansas booster history who was almost derailed from the beginning by Jeff Long... only to be derailed later.

Ask any Wisconsin booster who was responsible for UW's multiple Rose Bowl run... and they will uniformly say Barry Alvarez. Not fatBert.

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"I've got to tell you," said athletics director and longtime Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez, who groomed Bielema to be his replacement, "and I'm not saying this negatively because Bret did a good job for us, but I haven't had one person say, 'Well, it's too bad Bret left' or 'We were sorry to see Bret leave' or 'Couldn't you have paid the assistants more money to keep him?' Not one."

Everyone in Lawrence, KS also knows he's a worthless POS -
https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/03/03/lawsuit-airs-kansas-jeff-long-dirty-laundry-in-firing-david-beaty-hiring-les-miles

Sad to see the continual focus on symptoms rather than root cause.
I really came back on here this week just to talk much-deserved smack with Alabama fans as my son is an athlete at IU now, but I had to peek into the Arkansas forum because I grew up a fan... :rolleyes:

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re: Ole Miss and Indiana are in the semis

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 2:39 pm to Drewbie

If you think Jeff Long was a positive for Arkansas athletics, then yes... we can agree to disagree. Long was one of the worst people Arkansas could possibly give the athletic reigns to.

Jeff Long did not want to hire Petrino... he wanted someone capable of writing that piece of crap letter Bert sent him.

He was an abject loser more concerned with his own self-importance than that of the program he was responsible for.

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re: Ole Miss and Indiana are in the semis

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 1:43 pm to Drewbie

Again… pointing at the hire is worthless when the same problem is doing the hiring over and over…
Yurachek is just the latest in a long line, and he’s not exactly operating in an environment conducive to success.

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re: Biggest Portal story today

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 1:38 pm to TigerLunatik

Hoosierland Delight… sing it with me!

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Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 12:35 pm

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re: I’m not buying that Austin Mack wouldn’t have been a better Qb than Simpson

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 12:24 pm to JamalMurry27

I could hear the brain cells crying out for mercy as I was reading this.

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re: The future of Curt Cignetti

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 12:11 pm to BurgTiger

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That said, if he goes 16-0 I think there’s an insane booster somewhere who’d offer him $20mil to jump.

Then he would have to put up with the insane booster... he clearly does not readily tolerate bullshite... he barely tolerates the idiotic questions the media throws out before games.

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re: The future of Curt Cignetti

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 12:04 pm to theCAW

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but it was largely the same group of guys who were in his system for 2-3 years instead of 3-4 years now.

What’s he going to do when all
Those guys are out of eligibility?

Cignetti has been working on his 2028 team for two years now... do you think he just started doing this 3 years ago?

lol

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re: Indiana’s biggest remaining challenge: Beating a good team twice in the same season.

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 12:00 pm to WildcatMike

Cignetti is currently planning on having his players run stairs all day tomorrow for giving up 3 points to Alabama.

I think he'll have them good and angry by the time they get to hit an Oregon duck.

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re: The future of Curt Cignetti

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 11:45 am to Krampus

He's getting paid a ton of money.

There's a lot more IU money where that initial ton of money came from.

He doesn't get negatively compared to history every time there's an incomplete pass.

He doesn't have to deal with idiotic boosters who used to drink with Les Miles or play golf with Saban.

He takes pleasure in kicking your arse in a place where arse-kickings were previously received not dealt out.

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re: Ole Miss and Indiana are in the semis

Posted by Beached Tusky on 1/2/26 at 11:19 am to DaleDenton

Thinking Yurachek is the problem at Arkansas is like thinking the Somalis in MN are the problem up there.

The people making decisions in Arkansas athletics have been the root problem for decades… Nutt… firing apex Petrino… hiring Bert… all examples of pathetic ineptitude. A laughable soap opera.

Yurachek could likely do great things if he had great administration and money people committed to winning.

Scott Dolson is the same IU AD who was there before Cignetti… the IU money made a fundamental decision to build a winner.
Idiots in this fanbase would have ran Dolson off years ago.

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