Author: Mike Schumann

The Daily Hoosier can confirm multiple Friday reports — Indiana and Curt Cignetti have once again reached new contract terms. The latest deal increases Cignetti’s average annual salary to $13.2 million per year, and appears to come as a result of a “Good Faith Market Review” clause in his prior deal that requires IU and Cignetti to negotiate new terms that keep him among the three-highest paid college football coaches each time Indiana makes the College Football Playoff semifinals. Based on recent reporting, only Georgia’s Kirby Smart and LSU’s Lane Kiffin have deals with an average salary at or in…

Former IU football safety Louis Moore’s college career is over.  He will be at the NFL Draft Combine next week. But somehow, his eligibility case involving the NCAA is ongoing. Last summer Moore filed suit against the NCAA after the organization deemed he had exhausted his college eligibility.  He got a temporary injunction in the courtroom, which allowed him to play the entire 2025 national championship season for Indiana. Since he no longer required court protection to play college football, last month Moore dismissed his own lawsuit against the NCAA. The NCAA filed an appeal related to the temporary injunction,…

The loss of Stephen Daley after the Big Ten Championship game was massive in the eyes of the IU football coaching staff. Immediately after the program’s first ever league championship game win, Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines had no reason to suspect anything was wrong with his star defensive end. After all, Haines had just seen Daley “I hugged Stephen Daley as soon as the game ended.  So I knew that the game was over, the clock said 00:00 and we were Big Ten champs,” Haines said on 103.7 The Buzz in Arkansas last week.  “So I remember that, and…

Whenever IU coach Curt Cignetti saw Michigan State wide receiver Nick Marsh, he came away impressed. That includes watching Michigan State film to prepare for the Spartans, and to prepare for other Big Ten teams. Oh, and on the field against Indiana too. Marsh scored touchdowns against Indiana in each of the last two seasons.  He had seven catches for 64 yards and a score in Bloomington this past season, and five catches for 78 yards and a score in 2024 in East Lansing. “I’ve seen Nick Marsh two years in a row, up close and personal,” Cignetti said last…

Although his brother was playing with the Hoosiers in 2024, Fernando Mendoza says he had never been to the state of Indiana before his official visit to IU. And while many believe Alberto Mendoza’s presence in Bloomington made his brother’s transfer from Cal to IU a lock, Fernando says it wasn’t that simple. “There’s a lot of other spots I was looking at seriously,” Fernando said on a Dallas radio interview this week. In fact, Fernando was uncomfortably close to becoming a Georgia Bulldog. “Really what it came down to was Indiana and Georgia,” Fernando said.  “Kirby (Smart), great recruiter,…

There was a time when a young Curt Cignetti felt the cards were stacked a bit against the have nots. Before the transfer portal, before NIL, programs like Alabama, Ohio State, and others could simply stack talent. Cignetti got an early taste of that as an assistant coach at Rice, dealing with the likes of Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas and others. “I was coaching the Southwest Conference. I was 23 years old. That was a premier conference back then,” Cignetti said on the Bison Drop podcast.  “I was with some teams that weren’t very good for a while. And I…

Safety Bryson Bonds is foregoing a potential additional season of eligibility to join the IU football staff as a special teams assistant. He shared the following post on his social media accounts Monday afternoon. Bonds suffered a season-ending injury on kickoff coverage in week one against Old Dominion.  He could have filed for a medical hardship waiver to return for the 2026 season. The longest-tenured safety on the roster in 2025, Bonds was with Indiana since 2020. Bonds played in 48 career games and had 43 career tackles. Most of his action has been on special teams, and he was…

With Selection Sunday now less than four weeks away, we are once again taking a weekly look at IU basketball’s chance to make the Big Dance. Indiana remains solidly in the NCAA Tournament after a 1-1 week in the Big Ten.  But they’ll need more wins to stay comfortably in the field. Once again, the NET rankings serve as the primary sorting tool for Division I men’s basketball, and they play an important role in establishing a team’s resume. The 2025-26 men’s basketball season marks the eighth year of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which replaced the RPI prior…

Indiana was reminded it’s a notch below the nation’s best on the road. The Hoosiers kept the margin within single digits throughout the entirety of the first half, and were down just five on multiple occasions in the final four minutes before the break.  But an 11-0 second half Illinois run gave the Illini a 54-36 lead with 12:33 left.  And that was all she wrote. Let’s take a deeper look at how Indiana lost 71-51 in Champaign with our latest edition of The Report Card. The Hoosiers (17-9, 8-7) will travel to Purdue on Friday. —————————————- OFFENSE (D) At…

No matter who IU had available on Sunday afternoon, No. 2 UCLA on the road was going to be a significant challenge. But when Big Ten leading scorer Shay Ciezki injured her ankle in the first quarter, a tall task became a mountain. Indiana lost 92-48 at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, dropping to 14-13 overall and 3-12 in the Big Ten. With Ciezki on the bench, UCLA (25-1) poured it on in the second quarter, outscoring Indiana 30-10 to put the game out of reach. IU shot just 31.3% from the field overall including 20% from three.  They added…