1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty simple. I win Google my sentence. 2 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 2: We won the national championship at Indiana University. 3 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: It can be done. I'm so happy for our fans. 4 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: I can't words, can't describe it. The handle goes to 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: Noah Kowski. He dies his way to the end zone. 6 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 3: Touchsund On what. 7 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 4: Oh, that's duets picked up, TuS f Jones, tous up. 8 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: By and those are ready to take the staff. And 9 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: when he runs it, he runs it and he ties 10 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: for the end zone? Does he get it out? Touch Brittany, No, 11 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: that does. Fernando looks gonna. 12 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 4: Throw it down the field for Charlie Becker and does 13 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,759 Speaker 4: he make the catch? He made the catch Charlie Becker Again, 14 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 4: this guy is phenomenal. Beck looks, throws it down the 15 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 4: field and it is intercepted. 16 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: By Indiana one on a puy. 17 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 4: And it is Jabari Shark who cuts up with the 18 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 4: Beck and the wrecks. The richest story for Indiana football. 19 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 4: Comes the conclusion and they are the national champions of 20 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 4: two thousand and twenty six. 21 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: Lot of football team. Did I ever think something like 22 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: this was possible? Propably not. 23 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 4: But if you keep your nose down life and keep working, 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 4: anything is. 25 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: Posts them obsponsible my life sins in the great group 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: of guys. I love you guys. 27 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 4: Great dollard go one three one two three, whoo whoo who. 28 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: The Indiana Hoosier. 29 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 2: Are the twenty twenty five season and January of twenty 30 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: twenty six national champions in college football. The Indiana Hoosiers 31 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: are the national champions in college football. 32 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: And I will admit. 33 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: I grew up the biggest Indiana sports fan on the planet. 34 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 2: I grew up an obnoxious Indiana fan. I grew up 35 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 2: having people probably that got tired of hearing about Indiana 36 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 2: because of my vociferous and ubiquitous brag of Indiana athletics. 37 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 2: And last night, as I watched that game, it wasn't 38 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: even that I was emotional about it, because of the 39 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: fact that it's impossible to state what it's like to 40 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 2: see the impossible happen that you never even thought about, 41 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 2: because that possibility was never even on your conscience. And yes, 42 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 2: you know, I became a Clemson football fan over the 43 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 2: last twenty five years largely just because I assumed I 44 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: needed to find somewhere if I was going to be 45 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 2: a college football fan that was going to be able 46 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 2: to give me a team that allowed me to see 47 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: them win big games. And I got to thinking about 48 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 2: all of it last night. And I'll start simply by 49 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 2: saying this. For years, when it comes to Indiana football, 50 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 2: I thought everything was impossible when it came to Indiana football. 51 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 2: I thought it was impossible that they could win Marquee games. 52 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: I thought it was impossible that they could regularly be 53 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: a Bowl participant, and I thought it was possible that 54 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: Indiana would someday become the talk of the college football world. 55 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 2: And what I didn't consider was that there was a 56 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: coach and there were a group of players that realized 57 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 2: something that finally became an epiphany for me last night, 58 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 2: and that is that impossible is simply an apostrophe away 59 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 2: from saying I'm possible. 60 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: And Indiana football. 61 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 2: Found a coach and Kurt Signetti, an athletic director in 62 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,559 Speaker 2: Scott Dolson that found him a president in Pam Whitten 63 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: that facilitated for both that simply realized that Indiana was 64 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 2: just an apostrophe away from greatness, and that apostrophe simply 65 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: needed to be placed in a spot within the word 66 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 2: to say I'm possible. Anything that I believe I can 67 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 2: make happen. And that's what they did last night. And 68 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 2: as the game ended and the confetti was falling and 69 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: the celebration was on, and I'm watching friends of mine 70 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: that I grew up with that are sending videos and 71 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 2: are in Miami, and I'm watching the local news of 72 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: this joy and exultation and this incredible I wouldn't even 73 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 2: say weight off the shoulders of people, because for there 74 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: to be weight on the shoulders, there has to be 75 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 2: the pressure of an original belief. And still this incredulous 76 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 2: nature of all of it, this incredulous disbelief for everybody, 77 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 2: goes away and evaporates into thin air. And that's when 78 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: I was trying to think about what it was. I 79 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: was trying to put into words what it was that 80 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: I was seeing. I was trying to summarize in wordsmith 81 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 2: what it meant for a program that had been so 82 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 2: stuck in the doldrums and the basement of college football, 83 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 2: the laughing stock everyone's homecoming game. The only time that 84 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 2: they could get an aerial shot at Memorial Stadium was 85 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: when Ohios came to town. Because then you got at 86 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 2: least thirty thousand people wearing red. That's what it was 87 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 2: like for so long, and I thought about how when 88 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 2: you would go to Indiana football games as I did 89 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 2: as a kid, and aside from rolling down the hill 90 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 2: on the north end of Memorial Stadium, and aside from 91 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 2: the possibility of getting the plastic cups that had the 92 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: Indiana different per year athletic markings on it, for all 93 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 2: of those things, the only real highlight of going to 94 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 2: games was, at least when I was a kid, I 95 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 2: got to sing along with the fight song, and I 96 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 2: loved the fight song, and in that fight song one 97 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: of the first things that said Indiana, Oh, Indiana, Indiana 98 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: were all for you. And there was a part of 99 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 2: me going into the game last night that had this 100 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 2: little bit of cynicism, this little bit of almost a 101 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 2: jealousy perhaps, but like holding off a resentment over the 102 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 2: fact that I looked at it and I thought, you know, 103 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 2: I grew up wanting so badly as a kid to 104 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: go to Indiana and to represent Indiana and to be 105 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 2: able to have a job someday where I could talk 106 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 2: about and celebrate Indiana. And I don't just mean Indiana University, 107 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 2: I mean the state that I love. 108 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: I mean I bleed the Torch. 109 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 2: I've grown to the point where I love and I 110 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 2: appreciate what Purdue basketball does for people and what it 111 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: means in the way that they do things the right way. 112 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 2: And I understand and appreciate now that Notre Dame and 113 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 2: one of the great universities, one of the great sports 114 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 2: programs for football, is here within the boundaries of our state. 115 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: And I love that Larry Bird is from Indiana, and 116 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: Oscar Robertson went to high school in Indiana, and I 117 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: love all of those things. But I loved the university 118 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 2: because I loved that it was Indiana, and I love 119 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 2: that they sang about Indiana, Indiana, We're all for you. 120 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 2: I had this little resentment because I'm looking at Fernando Mendoza, 121 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 2: and I'm looking at D'Angelo Pond's and I'm looking at 122 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: Charlie Becker and all of these guys, and I'm saying, man, 123 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 2: they're living out the childhood dream I had of being 124 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 2: able to represent Indiana. But I wonder if they truly 125 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,119 Speaker 2: know what it means to be from Indiana. I wonder 126 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 2: if they truly truly grasp what it means to be 127 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 2: a Hoosier. And last night it dawned on me that 128 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 2: the joke the whole time was on me. They air 129 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 2: the entire time was on me, because what I realized 130 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: was in that fight song when they say Indiana were 131 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: all for you, what that truly means is it doesn't 132 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 2: matter where you're born, it doesn't matter where you're raised, 133 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 2: It matters that you carry with you the culture of Indiana. 134 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: And that group last night showed the culture of Indiana, 135 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 2: which was that was a group of players saying, it's 136 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 2: not about individually what we are. It's about the fact 137 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 2: that Indiana, Oh Indiana, We're. 138 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: All for us. We are all for us. 139 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 2: That entire team looked out for each other, That entire 140 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: team had each other's back, that entire team had a vision, 141 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 2: had a goal, had a mindset, had a mentality where 142 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 2: they overcame adversity when it was thrown their way, where 143 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 2: they found a way, and they dug deep, where they 144 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: represented themselves and their brothers and their teammates and their 145 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 2: common goal. And they hugged with one another at their 146 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 2: final practice and bemoaned the fact that they could never 147 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: again as a group and its entirety, be able to 148 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 2: practice together to chase the ultimate goal. 149 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: And the ultimate goal. 150 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 2: Happened in Indiana, Oh, Indiana were all for us, for 151 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: all of us and that group last night, like DoD 152 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 2: Fisher said, what a football team, What a football team 153 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 2: to display to the rest of the country what we've 154 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 2: known all along. We are Indian And whether you are 155 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 2: a fan of any other school in this state, what 156 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 2: happened last night at hard Rock Stadium in Miami was 157 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 2: a program that has been nothing but hard knock forever. 158 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 2: And yet what do we love about being Hoosiers? What 159 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 2: do we love about being from Indiana? What we love 160 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,959 Speaker 2: about being from Indiana is the fact that we collectively 161 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 2: know that we're pretty cool. We collectively know that the 162 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: joke's kind of on everybody else because we're a pretty 163 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 2: good place to live. And yes, we don't have the oceans, 164 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 2: we don't have the mountains, we don't have the skyscrapers 165 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 2: and the cool neighborhoods of New York City. We don't 166 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 2: have historic baseball stadiums in Major League Baseball, and some 167 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 2: of the things, all of the bells and whistles and 168 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 2: the luxury is that other places in this country have. 169 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: But what we have is the fact that we live 170 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 2: in the heartland of this country. And what does the 171 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 2: heartland mean. It means that we are the part of 172 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 2: this country that actually is the heartbeat of it. We 173 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: manufacture things, we grow food for people, and we take 174 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 2: care of each other and we look after each other. 175 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 2: And so we have had ingrained in all of us 176 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 2: when you grow up in this state, the mentality, the understanding, 177 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 2: the appreciation that we know we're pretty good people and 178 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 2: we feel a camaraderie with the others that live here 179 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 2: because they feel that same understanding. And last night that 180 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 2: football team did exactly that they represented Indiana, not just 181 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 2: the university, but the culture of who we are as 182 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: a people. And they did it by realizing that they 183 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 2: didn't have to pay attention to what Paul Feinbaum was 184 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 2: saying and what three quarters the panelist on game day 185 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: were saying, and all four of them were saying in 186 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 2: the pregame game show or pregame show, seven of the 187 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: eight last night on the network that was airing the 188 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 2: game picked the Miami Hurricanes. And the one that didn't 189 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,680 Speaker 2: is the guy that lives here. And yet none of 190 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: that mattered because Indiana football that turned hard Rock Stadium 191 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 2: into heps Rock stadium that brought sixty five percent of 192 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 2: the crowd and had it so loud that Carson Beck 193 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 2: couldn't hear his own snap count when Miami had a 194 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 2: chance to win that game. 195 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: And you knew, I knew, Nathaniel knew, Eddie knew. 196 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 2: Every single person watching that game knew the same damn thing. 197 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 2: There was zero chance Miami was going down and scoring 198 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 2: on that drive. None none, because Indiana believed in themselves 199 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 2: and they've done it all year where they've dug down 200 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 2: deep and they have come up and found a way 201 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 2: to win. And that's exactly what they did. And you 202 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 2: knew it was going to happen. You knew it was 203 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 2: going to happen. No disrespect to Miami, no disrespect to 204 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,439 Speaker 2: Carson Beck, who played a great game, and their players 205 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: in space and their defensive tenacity, all of which we 206 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: knew were going to be legitimate foes for Indiana. But 207 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 2: what you saw last night was not just a team 208 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 2: that went sixteen and zero, not just a team that 209 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: didn't lose a fumble in its final fifteen games of 210 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 2: the season, Not just a team that continued to not 211 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 2: make mistakes and wait until finally you made yours which 212 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 2: is exactly what we said was going to happen. It 213 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 2: was going to come down to somebody was going to 214 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 2: make a mistake, and Indiana waited until Miami made theirs, 215 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 2: and they took advantage of it, and that's what lifted 216 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 2: them to the win. But this is not a Fluke story. 217 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 2: This is not a Cinderella out of nowhere. This is 218 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 2: a team that eviscerated everyone in their path. 219 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: This was not. 220 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 2: North Carolina State in nineteen eighty three catching lightning in 221 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 2: a bottle. 222 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: This was not some team that gets red hot. 223 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: In the NFL playoffs and ekes their way in and 224 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 2: then every all bounces their way. In college basketball, you 225 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 2: have teams that can make a run because things fell 226 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 2: their way. Indiana in two thousand and two went to 227 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 2: the national championship game. In college basketball, you know what 228 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 2: we forget. What we forget is that USC, who was 229 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 2: a top four seed I think, got knocked out in 230 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 2: the first round by UNC Wilmington, and Indiana caught themselves 231 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: a break to get into the sweet sixteen and then 232 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 2: upset Duke. Indiana won the national championship in resounding fashion. 233 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty one, the largest point per game average 234 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 2: margin of victory until UNLV broke it in nineteen ninety. 235 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: In NCAA tournament history, they steam rolled the path. What 236 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: we forget that nineteen eighty one tournament, DePaul was the 237 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 2: number one seed in the number one team in the 238 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: country and they got upset by Saint Joseph, which cleared 239 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 2: the path for Indiana, who got to play those opening 240 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 2: games in Assembly Hall. 241 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: But this was not that. This was a team. 242 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: That beat Oregon soundly in Oregon, and by soundly, I 243 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 2: mean by Oregon standards, who's only lost like seven games 244 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 2: in three years or whatever. It is to control a 245 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 2: game where you felt like you made the plays down 246 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 2: the stretch and it was never in doubt, and it 247 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 2: was you know, the last couple of minutes of the game, 248 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 2: you're salting clockaway. That's controlling the game. And they did 249 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 2: that in Eugene. This was a team that found then 250 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 2: itself with its back against the wall against Iowa and 251 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 2: came up with that play to Elijah Surratt. 252 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: This was a team that found itself with the college 253 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: football world. 254 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 2: Reckoning saying, you know what, Indiana finally is being put 255 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: in its place by going into Happy Valley in a 256 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 2: raucous stadium that has a bunch of guys that lost 257 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 2: their coach in the middle of the season, and Indiana 258 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 2: still can't pull it out. And Fernando Mendoza and that 259 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 2: final drive got smacked in the mouth and knocked to 260 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 2: the ground and sacked, and everybody's going crazy and you're 261 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 2: saying to yourself. The rest of the country is saying, see, 262 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: it's finally midnight on Cinderella. But Indiana did what Indiana 263 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 2: does and they came up with a masterful play with 264 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: that touchdown from Omar Cooper, junior of Lawrence North High 265 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: School in Indianapolis, Indiana in the back of the end 266 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 2: zone and one of the most remarkable catches you're going 267 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: to see in Indiana had to play Ohio State in 268 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 2: the Big Ten title game, the Mighty Buckeyes. Julian saying, 269 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 2: should be the Heisman Trophy winner. Look what he did 270 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 2: against Penn State. Fernando Mendoza struggled against Penn State. This 271 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: is a no brainer. And they beat a state and 272 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 2: they did the impossible there's that word again, by actually 273 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 2: getting Ohio State fans to admit, you know, these guys 274 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: might actually be pretty good. And in the College Football Playoff. 275 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: In the college football Playoff, they turn around, they go 276 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 2: in and they eviscerate Alabama, Mighty Alabama. Then they go 277 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: in and they turn around and they beat Oregon soundly, 278 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: I mean soundly, and Miami. You're talking about blue bloods here, right. 279 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 2: You notice the theme Penn State, Ohio State, Miami. Oregon's 280 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 2: a more recent blue blood, but a blue blood nonetheless. 281 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 2: And yet Indiana walked through all of them. And instead 282 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 2: of talking about the Johnny cum Lately aspect of it, 283 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: now you look at it and say, they didn't just 284 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 2: show up at the party. They crashed their way through 285 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 2: the door. And they are the national champions. And today, 286 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: in the course of this show, over the course of 287 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 2: the show, today, what we're going to do is celebrate Indiana. 288 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 2: I mean, yes, I could have sat here last night 289 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 2: and lined up for you ten thousand writers and people, 290 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 2: and we've got the line out to folks like that. 291 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 2: But today this show should be about you. It should 292 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 2: be about Indiana fans, maybe even those of you that 293 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 2: weren't Indiana fans, that simply watched the game and realized 294 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 2: and had your imagination captured. Because, like I said, impossible 295 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 2: is only one apostrophe away from I'm possible. I am 296 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 2: possible to do what I thought I could never get done. 297 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 2: Because if you would have stopped a thousand people at 298 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 2: the Indianapolis five hundred in May of two years ago, 299 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: if you were to stop five hundred people at an 300 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 2: Indianapolis Indians game at any point, if you were to 301 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 2: stop two hundred and fifty people at a colts game 302 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 2: anytime of the last forty years, or for that matter, 303 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 2: if you were to stop anybody at the IHSAA basketball 304 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 2: State Championships anytime between Bobby Mylon's shot and now or 305 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 2: Bobby plump shot excuse me and now and the Mylon miracle, 306 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: and said what sports team in Indiana do you think 307 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 2: is the least likely to ever win a title? Almost 308 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 2: everyone would have said Indiana football. 309 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: You know. 310 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 2: My job, jmv's job, Kevin Bowen's job, James Boyd's job, 311 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 2: Jeff Rickards's job. Our job, all of us is to 312 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 2: try to put into words and illustrate and capture moments. 313 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: Our job is to discuss and analyze and opine on. 314 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:25,919 Speaker 1: Sports in general. 315 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 2: And sometimes things happen where I sit back and I say, 316 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 2: what exactly is it? 317 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: That I'm thinking. 318 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 2: And then I turn on the television and I turn 319 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 2: on the television and I'm watching the local news. And 320 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 2: this has taken off a television set, so it's not 321 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 2: the greatest audio known demand. But I'm watching the news 322 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 2: and I see Brian Jacobson. Brian Jacobson is a guy 323 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 2: that went to North Central High School and IU grew 324 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 2: up in the North side of Indianapolis, like all of 325 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 2: us in this town, just a who's your kid? Who's 326 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 2: your kid? Married to a who's your gal? And they 327 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: got who's your kids? It's like a Mellencamp song. And 328 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 2: he's down in Miami and WTHR is interviewing fans and 329 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,719 Speaker 2: they interview Brian Jacobson and he's holding his flag and 330 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 2: they ask him what this means. And this dude says, 331 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 2: in like five seconds the most perfect synopsis of what 332 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: exactly it was that unfolded before ol of our very 333 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 2: eyes last night. 334 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: I promise you he did. It's a sun. 335 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 2: It's surreal, but it's okay, it's surreal, but it's real. 336 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 2: That should be a T shirt, not unlike why Not Indiana, 337 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 2: which is exactly what Rees Davis said when he brought 338 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 2: Kurt Signetty up on stage. 339 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: Why not Indiana? First thing? 340 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 2: He said, trademark phrase, by the way, at least for 341 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: commercial print. But it's surreal, but it's real. It's surreal, 342 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 2: but it's real. The Indiana Hoosiers are the top of 343 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 2: the mountain in college football and forever. I don't care 344 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 2: what happens from here on out. I don't know that 345 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 2: they're going away anytime soon. Alberta Mendoz's in the transfer portal. 346 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 2: We can discuss that if you'd like, But forever and 347 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 2: a day more. When you discuss the twenty twenty five 348 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 2: college football season, yeah, sure. We could talk about how 349 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 2: Ohio State was thought to be the best and they 350 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 2: had the best receivers of football. Guess what, they ended 351 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 2: their year on a two game losing streak. That's what 352 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 2: I think about Ohio States here right. We could talk 353 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 2: about Notre Dame and how Notre Dame got snuffed and 354 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 2: they should have been in And it's ridiculous that Marcus 355 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,719 Speaker 2: Freeman's only chance of being around the college football Playoff 356 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: was being on the pregame show. That's what I think 357 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 2: about that, because Notre Dame had their chance and they 358 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 2: played two games that went into the College Football Playoff 359 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 2: to begin their year, and they lost both of them, 360 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 2: and Indiana forever now moving forward, we will discuss as 361 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 2: the greatest team in college football in twenty twenty five 362 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 2: and perhaps one of the. 363 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: Greatest of all time. 364 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 2: But we're gonna celebrate them today by letting you celebrate because, 365 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 2: like I said, the fight Song says, Indiana were all 366 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 2: for you, and that's exactly what this victory means for 367 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 2: all of you. 368 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: You don't have to have gone to Indiana. 369 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 2: You don't have to have ever stepped foot in Bloomington, 370 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 2: you don't have to even necessarily have lived in Indiana 371 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 2: to simply fall in love with the story. But we 372 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 2: talked about it yesterday. There are your parents that you 373 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 2: think about that weren't here or maybe that are and 374 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: we're touched by it. There's your uncle that got you 375 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 2: to be a fan, the kid next door to you 376 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 2: that you that you loved watching games with. There's somebody 377 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 2: that inspired you that you thought about. Your Bill Binner. 378 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: You're Bob Jenkins, your Turnbuckle Bill, your Garrison car. The 379 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 2: people that are die hard Indiana fans. And then there 380 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: are those that simply fell in love with it because 381 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 2: it was a group that said it's about us, and 382 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 2: that's who we're celebrating today. The telephone number is two 383 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 2: three nine ten seventy three one seven two three nine 384 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 2: one zero seven zero. 385 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: I know you had to have done it. 386 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 2: You watched the game, you were fired up, you were excited, 387 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 2: you were elated, you haven't slept, you're on your way back, 388 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 2: you're driving back. Whatever it might be. If you were 389 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: watching the game last night, if you were excited about it, 390 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 2: if you thought to yourself, I've got to get this 391 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 2: off my chest. I've got to celebrate. I've got to 392 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 2: tip the cap, i got to give a shout out 393 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 2: to I've we got to let people know when and 394 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 2: where it was that I thought this would never happen, 395 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 2: or win it, where it was win or where it 396 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 2: was that I thought this was a possibility. 397 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: For all of it. 398 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 2: I want to hear from you for all of it, 399 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 2: because Indiana, we're all for you. That group last night 400 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 2: was for all of us, and so to today is 401 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: the celebration, and that's exactly what we're gonna do. Eddie 402 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 2: Garrison put together a montage of some of the plays 403 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 2: we'll play that we have some of great Don Fisher 404 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 2: calls over the. 405 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: Course of time. We're going to play that as well. 406 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 2: But we're going to celebrate all of you that are 407 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 2: celebrating today, and we're going to do it on a Tuesday. 408 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 2: Indiana Championship edition of Querying Company. Here on ninety three 409 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 2: five and one oh seven to five of the Fan. 410 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,639 Speaker 1: This is Querry in Company on ninety three five and 411 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: one oh seven five. 412 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 2: The Fan, the Indiana Hoosiers, the National champions. You know, 413 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 2: there's a lot about it that you wonder where you 414 00:25:55,119 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 2: go from here. And I don't think Indiana's going away. 415 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 2: I mean it would be foolish to think that. I 416 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 2: do think that we could now see kind of this 417 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 2: many dynasty, if you will, And by that I mean 418 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 2: I don't mean Indiana Mini dynasty. I mean I think 419 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 2: you're going to have turn of rotation of teams Indiana 420 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,919 Speaker 2: for a couple of years. You know, Texas Tech is 421 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 2: loading up in the portal because they've got all kinds 422 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 2: of money, and I think you're going to have kind 423 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: of this cycle, if you will, of money coming through 424 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 2: from different programs. One team's going to load all in 425 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 2: one year than the next year, another team's going to 426 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 2: load all in and you're gonna get you know, Indiana 427 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 2: right now is cleaning up in the portal, and then 428 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: other teams will do so and you'll kind of have 429 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 2: a rotation. But as long as Kurt Signetti is in Bloomington, 430 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 2: and I don't see any reason at this point why 431 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 2: he wouldn't because yes, you know, there were people like 432 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: he could leave for Alabama, he could leave whatever. And 433 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 2: what did he say, We're building a superpower here and 434 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 2: it's here. They're not building it. It's built. This wasn't 435 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 2: out of nowhere. I mean I saw people saying like 436 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 2: comparing it to other things, and I'm thinking, no, it 437 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 2: this started last year, and I think that Indiana might 438 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 2: have kind of learned a little bit their lesson from 439 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 2: last year. In terms of the way that they played 440 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: against Notre Dame. They were a little conservative and for 441 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 2: the most part, you know, last night, you think about it, 442 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: they went they were not conservative on that. 443 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: That was a fourth and five. 444 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,959 Speaker 2: They go forward and they score, and for all intent 445 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 2: and purposes, that was game over. But I'll be honest 446 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 2: with you, when and I know Miami had a shot back, 447 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 2: I never I did not think that Miami was going 448 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: to go out and scool. I've watched plenty football games wrong, 449 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 2: like this team's gonna go on score. I did not 450 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: think that about Miami. I truly felt Indiana was going 451 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 2: to keep them out of the end zone because that's 452 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 2: what they've done all year, and Indiana has won games 453 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 2: by teams to make a mistake when they most need 454 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 2: the team to make a mistake, and it was perfectly 455 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 2: symbolic that that's how they won yesterday. Greg regsdraw is 456 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 2: in for JMV. My understanding is JMV circling somewhere over 457 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 2: Cincinnati and again. Don Fisher apparently also delayed on his 458 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 2: way back from Miami. But the crossover brought to you 459 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 2: by the good guys that love heating and air lovedash 460 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 2: HBAC dot com. The website three one seven three one 461 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 2: is the telephone number. And Rake, I know I saw 462 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 2: you earlier this morning. You're probably still in the same 463 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 2: disbelief as I correct. 464 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: Correct. 465 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 3: The line I keep coming back to is the UH 466 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 3: Live movie Hoosiers UH and Norman Dale asked about going 467 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 3: to the state finals, and it's kind of like me 468 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 3: and you going to the moon. Yep, that It was 469 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 3: never something I thought about. With IU football. The goal 470 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 3: was always hey, maybe you might look into a Rose 471 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 3: Bowl again at some point and time, and national championship 472 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 3: was never a thought, never a goal. Yet here we 473 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 3: are twenty five months after Kurt Signetti walked into assembly 474 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 3: hall and said produce sucks, but so does Ohio State 475 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 3: in Michigan, and twenty five months later, Indiana University owns 476 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 3: a national championship in football. 477 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: That's remarkable, insane. 478 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: And I think that you know he knew when he 479 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: said that that he had to. He walked in and 480 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 2: looked around and basically said, somebody's got to redo the 481 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 2: wallpapering in this place, right, And I think you know 482 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 2: he had mentioned, did Kurt Signetti that at one point 483 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 2: he gambled on himself when he left a high paying 484 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 2: job at Alabama to go become a head coach at 485 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,479 Speaker 2: a lesser spot. 486 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: He took a gamble on himself. 487 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 2: He gambled on himself again when he made that statement, 488 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 2: because he put the heat on himself. But he had 489 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 2: to let Indiana fans know, if I don't believe, then 490 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 2: no one's gonna believe. 491 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 3: There's different markers you can use to talk about this 492 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 3: wild turnaround in one of the greatest turnaround stories in 493 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 3: the history of North American sports. I could even shrink 494 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 3: that field even more. What Big Ten media days are 495 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 3: in July? Right, July of twenty twenty four, Indiana was 496 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 3: picked to finish seventeenth. 497 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: That's right in the Big Ten. 498 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 3: That's right, and their national champs eighteen months later, that's crazy. 499 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: Rake will carry you home. 500 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 2: He will be taking over here in just a couple 501 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 2: of minutes, and we will be back with you at 502 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 2: noon tomorrow. As always, I thank you for listening to 503 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 2: Query and Company, and I will set the professionalism aside. 504 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: Hoo Hoo's yours. We'll talk to you noon tomorrow.