1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,279 Speaker 1: It's Monday, it's twelve thirty. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 2: It's fish. Fernando puts the man behind him that is black. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 2: Here's the snap. Handoff goes to Kaelon fights his way. 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: Through it, and he breaks the tackle. 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 3: Niko radicch on for the extra point prize on its 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 3: way and through the upright. 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: So then Diana continues to pour it on. 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: Here and they now lead at thirty one to three over. 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: The Crimson time. 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 4: What are you thinking now, Paul find Bob the Voice 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 4: of the Hoosiers, Don Fisher, joining Query in company on 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 4: ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan. 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: He has done this before. 14 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 3: In terms of calling a national championship game for Indiana. 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 3: He did it in nineteen seventy six, eighty one and 16 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 3: eighty seven again in two thousand and two. But now 17 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: on the football side of things. The Voice of the Hoosiers, 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 3: Don Fisher, joins us on the Java House Peel and 19 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 3: poor guest line. Don, it is at an awfully nice 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: day to be an Indiana Hoosier. 21 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no doubt about that, Jake Special, There's no question. 22 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 4: Although my location as we currently speak, is in a 23 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 4: hallway of which at one end is a female's restroom 24 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 4: and the other end is a male's restroom. But it's 25 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 4: the only place I could find. It was quiet in 26 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 4: this hotel. 27 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 3: I'll bet you know what, don Here's the thing. The 28 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 3: population in Indiana somewhere around seven and a half million something. 29 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 3: I'm guesstimating off the top of my head seven point 30 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 3: three million, of which are within a twenty mile vicinity 31 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: of you right now. 32 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: Correct. 33 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 2: I would bet money on it. 34 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: Hey, let's get to this. Don you know. 35 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 3: I was just talking in the open about this and 36 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: this team, and I say team. It's interesting that in 37 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 3: the year that Indiana for the first time would have 38 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 3: in their trophy case the award for the best individual 39 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: in a college football season, in the Heisman Trophy with Mendoza, 40 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 3: that it would come in a year that it is 41 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 3: my belief this is the greatest team in terms of collectiveness. 42 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: That's take anything away from other teams, but this is 43 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: just a remarkable team effort in terms of guys working 44 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: in unison with one another. Is it even a stronger 45 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 3: bond than it was, say, a year ago when Kurt 46 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 3: Signetti first got here. 47 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: I don't think there's any question about it. 48 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 4: You're still going through the growing pains of a first 49 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 4: year coach and first year players and transfer portal guys 50 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 4: that were blending in with the guys from the previous program, 51 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 4: those kinds of things. But you can tell the way 52 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 4: this team has played this year, how close they are 53 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 4: as a team, and how much each of these guys 54 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 4: really really enjoys and it feels like these other guys 55 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 4: are going to be friends for life with them. I 56 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 4: mean the yesterday they get through the walkthrough at a 57 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 4: different stadium, they. 58 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 2: Were literally out there. 59 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 4: After they get done, they wrap things up, and they 60 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 4: were all hugging one another talking about the fact that 61 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 4: this is our last practice together. And it was amazing 62 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 4: and very emotional for these guys too. 63 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,399 Speaker 3: You know, Don and Holly Road that was there for ESPN, 64 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 3: she was like you, she was emotional in talking about 65 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 3: witnessing that right. And I think that there is a 66 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 3: great lesson that all of us can have. I mentioned 67 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 3: that earlier in seeing it's about coming together for a 68 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 3: common goal, and here they are one game away from 69 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: that goal. That's not to say that if they come 70 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 3: up short tonight that it was a failure. I don't 71 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 3: mean it that way, but you know, I'm curious of this. 72 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 3: A couple of things just in previewing this game. First off, 73 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 3: that is, you have been around this. Did they treat 74 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 3: this week in terms of, you know, there's so much 75 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 3: going on externally? 76 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: Did they treat it? 77 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 3: Did Kurt Signetti, from a scheduling standpoint or operative standpoint, 78 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 3: treat it any differently than the other weeks of the season. 79 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 2: No, they did not. 80 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 4: I mean it's treated a little bit differently simply because 81 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 4: the obligations that the coach and the players have from 82 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 4: the media, but from any other perspective, No, it was 83 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 4: treated exactly the way every other ballgame this year has 84 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 4: been treated right through these college football playoffs. And that's 85 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 4: one of the keys to why Kurt Signetti is such 86 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 4: a terrific coach and why he is so so valuable 87 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 4: in the sense of how he goes about treating his 88 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 4: players and the things that they do, because it's a 89 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 4: consistency thing. It's doing all the right stuff, trying to 90 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 4: keep the rat poison as he calls it, and the 91 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 4: warm and fuzzies all that stuff away from the program 92 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 4: as much as possible, which is almost impossible these days, 93 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 4: as you know, with social media and those kinds of things, 94 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 4: but they keep this the way he goes about it 95 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 4: is in such a tremendously consistent way. 96 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 2: Number One, and the. 97 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 4: Expectations are the expectations, and they are every single day 98 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 4: the same and without question. 99 00:04:58,600 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: Right now. 100 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 4: I think that's one of the the reasons that bond 101 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 4: of these players is such a huge one and one 102 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 4: of the reasons I think they'll win tonight because I 103 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 4: just think they are the best team I've ever been around. 104 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 4: And I'm talking about team now. I'm not talking about talent. 105 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 4: I'm talking about the individuals on this football team and 106 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 4: how they've blended together as a team. 107 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 3: Don What things Don Fisher is my guest Java House 108 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 3: Peel and poor guest line the voice of the Hoosiers. 109 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 3: In listening to court Signetti leading up to this game. 110 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 3: What things have caught your ear of things that he 111 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: has pointed out about Miami that are going to be 112 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 3: Indiana challenges. 113 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 4: Talks about the physicality of Miami, how they are, how 114 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 4: tough they are physically. From a defensive standpoint. He thinks 115 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 4: they've got a terrific offensive line. They've got very good 116 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 4: talent at skilled positions. Obviously, their quarterback Carson Beck has 117 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 4: been around forever, so he's concerned about this ball game 118 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 4: and in the sense of what they bring to the table. 119 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 4: And there's no question I think they played some of 120 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 4: the most physical football we've seen this year, aside from 121 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 4: the Iowahawk guys. They think they would be probably the 122 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: most physical team that Indiana will face. So it's going 123 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 4: to be very interesting to see how they handle this 124 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 4: ball game tonight, if Indiana can can put the same 125 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 4: kind of physicality back on them, because I think that's 126 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 4: one of Indiana's strengths too. I think this defense for 127 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 4: Indiana is a very physical, very aggressive one and the 128 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 4: job that Brian Hayes has done with this team from 129 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: a defensive standpoint has just been spectacular. So it's what 130 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 4: it is that nothing has changed, Jake from what we 131 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 4: talked about all season long in regard to how this 132 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 4: team is going to go about their business and how 133 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 4: they're going to play the game tonight. 134 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: Don let me wrap with this. 135 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 3: You know I mentioned earlier Indiana football has played one 136 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 3: and thirty eight games. Tonight will be the biggest in 137 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 3: school history. For you personally, two part question. The first 138 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,679 Speaker 3: is do you get nervous? 139 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 2: Generally speaking? 140 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 4: I don't get nervous in the sense of, you know, 141 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 4: doing the broadcast. No, I don't get nervous doing a 142 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 4: broadcast anymore. I'm past that point. I know exactly what 143 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 4: I'm doing, and I do things so much the same 144 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 4: way game in and game out. It's probably boring to 145 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 4: our audience in some respects because I don't change anything, 146 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 4: and I try not to change anything because I don't 147 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 4: want to screw it up if I do. So, all 148 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 4: I can tell you is I don't really get nervous 149 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 4: in that standpoint. I do get nervous from the standpoint 150 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 4: that I've been around Indiana for fifty three years and 151 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 4: I know what the expectations have been for the most part, 152 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 4: and we've been had our most expectations for some things to. 153 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 2: Go right for Indiana. They haven't. 154 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 4: But back with Kurt Signetti again this year, they've gone 155 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 4: right every single time. So all I can do is 156 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 4: I'll be a little bit nervous in that regard, but 157 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 4: I'm still believing that this guy is the best coach 158 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 4: I've ever been around, and without question think they're going 159 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 4: to win the national championship. 160 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 3: Now, don several people you know this. I know this, 161 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 3: but I know you know it as well. I know 162 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: what Don Fisher means to Indiana football, to Indiana basketball, 163 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 3: just to Indiana sports in general, and to the Indiana 164 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 3: sports landscape. For IU fans, Don Fisher is synonymous with 165 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 3: Indiana athletics for an entire era and generation of Indiana sports. 166 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 3: But what does this Indiana football team mean to Don Fisher? 167 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 4: All it means to me in the sense of what 168 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 4: we've seen this year and last year, is that we 169 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 4: finally have a program that has gotten to the level 170 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 4: of which we all hope for attainment at some point 171 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 4: in time during all these years we've been watching it. 172 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 4: So this team, without question has been the most successful 173 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,599 Speaker 4: and it's probably going to be my favorite team of 174 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 4: all time. 175 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: If they win? Will you cry? Please? You need to cry? 176 00:08:57,960 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: Can you cry on there? If they win? 177 00:08:59,679 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 4: Can you? 178 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 1: I mean you literally? It'll be representation of the entire state. 179 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: Can you? Can you get it done? 180 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: Well? 181 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,599 Speaker 4: Here's the thing, Jake, you continue to put these emotional 182 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 4: thoughts in my brain, and naturally, therefore I'm going to 183 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 4: blame you if I do play to that. 184 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: Listen, it's only natural. 185 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 3: That's my point now, Like it is, Look, I mean 186 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 3: kidding aside, flippancy aside. I think if you put true 187 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 3: Ceramon any of us, we just we didn't think until 188 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 3: maybe this time a year ago that this was even 189 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 3: ever going to be a possibility or something we'd see. 190 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 4: And here we are, right, yep, we are. We were 191 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 4: right there at the at the cusp of it all 192 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 4: happening here to this evening. And like I said, I mean, look, 193 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 4: I had tears coming down my eyes when we won 194 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,319 Speaker 4: a national championship in nineteen seventy six. So being emotional 195 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 4: at the end of the game is not new for me, 196 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 4: especially when you're in and I'll tell you the other 197 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 4: the other times that it's happened has been mostly in 198 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 4: basketball because of what you've watched and the kind of 199 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 4: perfection that Bob Knight brought up to the table as 200 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 4: far as the seventy six team and then even winning 201 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 4: two national championships in eighty one and eighty seven. But 202 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 4: we've never seen it like this in football. And the 203 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 4: last time I really had tears in my eyes from 204 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 4: a football perspective was in nineteen eighty seven when Indiana 205 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 4: beat Ohio State in Columbus and did it when nobody 206 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 4: thought it could happen. And they'd lost I think thirty 207 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 4: one and thirty two straight ball games to Ohio State, 208 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 4: and they beat them in Columbus that day, and they 209 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 4: carried Bill Bowery off the field and I was I 210 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 4: didn't I didn't cry, but I literally had tears running 211 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 4: down my cheeks. 212 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: I think that was thirty eight ten. 213 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 3: I could be wrong in the score, but the two 214 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 3: guys that were teary eyed at the end of that game, 215 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: Don Fisher and Earl Bruce, we know that much. 216 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: That much, we know right. 217 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 2: Mine were happy tears were not his were despair. They 218 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 2: had Ohio State history. 219 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 3: Remember I remember, Oh yeah, I remember it well, trust me, Don. 220 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: I can't wait for tonight and to hear the call 221 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: and listen. I hope you're able to soak it all 222 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: in and enjoy it. 223 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 3: I know, obviously you had to do basketball, and then 224 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: you know you've got to then get out of there 225 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 3: fairly quickly because you've got basketball tomorrow as well. So 226 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 3: it's going to be a busy, busy time. But I 227 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 3: think adrenaline is going to carry you through and probably 228 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 3: joy as well. 229 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: But we shall see. 230 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 3: But I certainly appreciate the time as always over the 231 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 3: course of the season. 232 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Jake, I appreciate it. 233 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 3: Bud John Fisher, the voice of the Indiana Hoosiers, who 234 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 3: will be on the call tonight