*Don Fischer; Legendary radio voice of Indiana Hoosiers Basketball

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It is the Spotlight Radio Network. Jack Eblin here with
my producer Boston Rob on a near perfect Tuesday afternoon,
seventy degrees, mostly sunny. Cannot complain about that here in

(00:51):
mid October. The only reason it wouldn't be perfect, Rob
is if you are a Toronto Blue Jays fan, or
or if you have to watch tape and try to
figure out how to beat the Indiana Hoosiers. And we
have a guy here who has watched the Hoosiers play
for many decades, and I smiled just when I think

(01:12):
about Don Fisher now calling these games. Don, how are you?
Congratulations to everyone in Hoosier Land.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Jack, thank you so much. We really appreciate it. And
obviously I have been doing it a long time, but
it's more fun right now than it's ever been.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, let's talk about the miracle man and when Kurt
Signetti was hired.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
What was the expectation.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I think no one really knew what the expectation was.
The guy comes into the building and gets introduced to
our basketball crowd. I think it was Maryland who we
played that night, and he said, I'm not used to losing.
I never had. I'm not going to now. He says,
Produce sucks, and so does Ohio State and Michigan. So

(02:07):
the place came down. It was just bedlam in there,
people laughing and loving every second of it, giving him
a big crowd noise, and of course he dropped the
microphone at that point and walked off. But ever since then,
people have become believers in what this guy preaches and
what he says and what he thinks he can do

(02:28):
and there's no reason not to, because what he did
last year was absolutely remarkable, and what he's done this
year so far is basically said exactly the same thing.
It's a remarkable turnaround for Indiana football.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
John.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
How many head coaches in Bloomington since you started calling
the games?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Can you count them?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Gosh? I can let me look and see if I
I mean, I literally know who they all are. Of course,
the first one was League, so he was there for
ten years. Then Sam Whitch for one. That's number two.
Then number three was Bill Mowry and he was the
best coach we had until we got Kurt Signetti and
he was cheer for many years. And then it was

(03:13):
Cam Cameron for five, and then it was Jerry DeNardo
for three. Then it was Kevin Wilson. Oh, I take
that back. It was Terry Heppner for two. He passed away,
as you know. So then after Terry it was Bill
Lynch he was there for four. Then it was Kevin Wilson,

(03:35):
and then after Kevin it was Tom Allen and now
we got Kurt Signetti. Is that nine?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's ten?

Speaker 4 (03:42):
Cam? Okay, that is ten?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
And I have thirteen Michigan State football coaches since I
started doing this in this racket and between.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Us, are you older than jacky? Are you older than me?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Turn in seventy three in December?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, Lord have mercy and mysol. I've turned. I just
turned seventy nine, so obviously I've got you by about
six years. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, well you sound like you're about forty nine. So
I can imagine that watching this team is going to
make anyone feel a little bit younger. And you know,
going back a week, I don't know what this week's stats.
I can't imagine it changed that much. Indiana and Texas
Tech were the only two schools in the country that

(04:31):
were top ten in offense and top ten in defense.
You know, it's not like you can look at the
tape and say, well, we can get them here. The
problem is you've got to get off the bus.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah, exactly. And I will tell you this Jack, and
I've said this since Kurt Signetti got here, that I
believe they'll win every ball game unless the other team
has better talent. And last year there were two teams
that did the last eight in Notre Dame in the playoffs,
and so far this year, nobody has better talent than Indiana.

(05:06):
At this point. But here's the other thing that's really weird.
At this point in the Big Ten season. Did you
think Ten State was going to lose three games in
a row and then fire their coach? And what about
all these other games? UCLA was zero and four, and
they beat Penn State and that started them on a
winning streak. So this has been a really weird year

(05:28):
in some respects.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
And Kurt Signetti is responsible in some way don for
the heat or the firings here, because fans and administrations
are looking at what's happening in Bloomington and said, hey,
wait a minute, how come that can't happen here. Someone
told me the other day, you know what the school
should do is just go and pay whatever it takes

(05:53):
to get Kurt Signetti to leave Indiana. I said, first
of all, why do you think he would want the
demotion to come to your school. Second of all, Indiana
right now is in a position to match whatever a
school would offer him. And I think he's got as
good a situation as anyone. It's not like he's being

(06:14):
compared to Nick Saban. You know there's some good coaches
on that list you mentioned. I have the utmost respect
for Bill Mallory and a few of the others. But
to come in there now, you know you're probably talking
about the pantheon with Bob Knight.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
As far as the love you'd feel in Blimington.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Well there's no question, I mean, and that's the only
comparison you can make in that regard, because what Kurt
Signetti has done in a year and a half here
is just like I said before, remarkable. But the thing
that and everybody, of course, after Franklin was fired, everybody's
all of a sudden panicking that Kurt Signette's going to

(06:54):
leave and go back to Pennsylvania where he grew up.
And I don't know that that's going to be the case.
And I think you're right, why would you want to leave,
as he said last year after the season was over with,
Why would I want to leave an emerging power? So
at this point we will see what happens, but it

(07:15):
doesn't he seems more prophetic than just about any coach
I've ever been around.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, yeah, well, you know, he did a great job
wherever he's been, and terrific at James Madison. But when
he got there, you know, he was kind of a
novelty and people said, well, this is cute. Let's see
what happens when he starts getting pounded instead he's been
doing pounding. Why did you know, don that this was

(07:40):
going to be different.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
I knew it when well, I knew it was going
to be different when he had his introduction to the media,
when he was first hired, because of the things that
he said, the things that he talked about, his philosophy, belief,
his belief of less his more, and I've talked about
practice time and that kind of stuff and how much

(08:04):
you know a time he gives off to his assistant coaches.
All the things he talked about and many respects were
old school type things, but they were done in a
way that didn't think make you think necessarily of old school.
It was more just common sense type stuff. You know,

(08:24):
less is more, never get too high, never get too low,
one play at a time, stacked days on top of
one another, when you're practicing all the little things that
you know, a lot of it sounds like coach speak,
and yet he carries it to the level that's different
than I think almost any coach I've ever been around,
because he lives what he preaches. I mean, that's the

(08:48):
way he goes about his stuff. And the first thing
he looks at from a player standpoint is the character
of the kid. That's the first thing he looks at,
and then, of course, from a transfer portal perspective, look
with the character first. But then he looks to see
how much experience they've had playing at that level. And
I think because he's gotten a lot of guys that

(09:09):
have played one or two years or three years as starters,
or at least guys that played a ton of minutes
and a ton of plays, he gets those guys that
have the experience, and then all they have to do
is adapt to his style of play and his philosophy.
And if he gets a character kid, that kid's going

(09:30):
to buy him right away because they see what's happening
on the field.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
If I had told you that Fernando Mendoza could win
the Heisman Trophy and be a number one overall draft pick,
would you suggest that I get a sobriety test?

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, not necessarily, because I got to watch a lot
of springball this year, Jack, which I did last year too.
I wanted to see what this guy did from a
coaching standpoint and practice and the sideline and all those
kinds of things. But I knew Fernando had He has
the pure physical talent to be that kind of guy.

(10:07):
But I didn't know how he would handle decision making
on the field. Could he adapt to the philosophy that
Kurtzignet he preaches and he's done all of that. The
one thing that he did at California that was a
negative he got chased around the field for like forty
seven different times in sacks. He got sacked forty seven

(10:29):
different times at California last year. And when he came
to practice the first three or four practices, I saw
that he was working out there with the quarterbacks and
with the other players. I saw happy feet, and I thought, well,
that's the one thing they're going to have to get
out of him, because obviously Indiana, we think has got
a better offensive line than California had. But he still

(10:52):
looked like he had happy feet. And by the time
spring practice was over with and they only you can
take you can have fifteen spring practices. Here's another of
the lesser, more thinking process. He had thirteen. You know,
he said we're going to have thirteen practices in both
years he's been here, they have practiced no more than
thirteen times in the spring, but their practices are so

(11:14):
efficient in that hour and fifteen minutes that they practice,
there's no lost time. And everybody's got a job to
do and they do it. And the coaches that he
hires and a lot of these guys have been with
him for a long time, and that's part of the
transition from JMU and why it was so successful, because
he had guys who have been there with Signetti, who

(11:37):
knew exactly what he wanted, and then he got a
bunch of those JMU players to come with him, and man,
the transition was almost without any kind of a problem
because he had so many guys that could tell you
and help you go through the process.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
We talk about a seamless shift.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
How many assistant coaches and how many players did he bring.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
He brought with him six assistant coaches, including both the
offensive and defensive coordinators and the quarterbacks coach. He retained
Bob Bostad, who was at Wisconsin as you know for
many years and was a great offensive line coach, and
Bob was already here. He was the only coach that

(12:21):
he kept because Bostad was hired by Tom Allen two
years before or a year before Sig got here, and
bos Dad has done a remarkable job of building the
offensive line. But he had six of his guys from
JMU that were here. Bosdad became the seventh or at
least the seventh man in my mind, on the roster.
And then he got a couple of guys that had

(12:42):
not been with him previously, but he knew them, knew
who they were, and he did the same thing with
those coaches. He found out about their character and what
kind of guys they were, and how good at coaches
they were. And that's why I hired him, because he
researches things unbelievably well.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
And how many players I know that he has guys
who certainly knew his system and culture.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
I think he had thirteen players from JM you last year,
and this year I think he's got six left. Those
guys have helped immensely in that turnaround of the two years.
And then of course the guys who were there last year,
they've all bought into what he sells. So you're not
you're not dealing with a with a with a team
that's got a bunch of new faces and they're not really.

(13:27):
They're not helping each other out there. They're helping each
other all the time, especially the guys who have been
under Signetti for at least a year and maybe three
or four years. So you've got you've got guys that
are really helping with that leadership role and understanding the
philosophy that Signetti preaches.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
We are talking with the great Don Fisher. He is
on the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame Mount Rushmore.
I think you talk about Vince Scully, and there are
a few names, but Don's is certainly in the top
of that discussion. Don, when you think about when Signetti said.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Google me, how many people you think have googled him?

Speaker 1 (14:12):
And should he have some sort of an advertising deals value.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't think that he signed anything with anybody, but
everybody talks about what he said, you know, I win
Google me and that kind of thing. So yeah, I
mean he could. He probably could sell it if he
wanted to wear patented, if he wanted to, I guess.
But the fact of the matter is he used that
last year, and he was a little bit more full
of the hyper Bowl last year than he has been

(14:40):
this year. He's been a lot more serious this year,
because I think he feels like I've got a team
capable of doing something special here and we're not going
to screw that up with a bunch of commentary by
me that people take off on and decide that, you know,
this guy's a bravado guy. And but Eddie Ate. All

(15:01):
I can tell you Jack is I love this guy.
I think he's a great coach. I think he's one
of the greatest coaches I've ever been around. And I
put him in the Night category and the Bill Mallory category,
at least from a standpoint of what they know football
basketball wise. He's just such a good football coach and
he just knows the game. He loves absolutely the whole

(15:25):
time in his life. I think he's cared about anything
but football. I asked him maybe. I took him to
lunch one time last year before the season never started,
and I asked him about if you play golf or
anything like that, and he says, I used to play golf,
but he says I don't play anymore. I kind of
hurt my back and he said, I really don't want
to play golf anymore. He says, I just like looking
at film and I've never seen anybody that watches more

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film than him, but he watches it for a lot
of different reasons. The character issue, how guys react to
big plays on the field, what kind of you know,
what a kid they actually are, that kind of thing,
and that experience factor, as I talked about earlier, that
is such an important part if you're going to get
a guy out of the transfer portal. So, but he's

(16:11):
just so smart in the way he goes about his business.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
It's funny you say that, don I remember talking to
Saban when he became a head coach and he was
beyond driven at that point, and I said, hey, what
do you do to lighten up? And he said, yeah,
I watched special teams.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
You know, that's that's kind of his idea. You're right,
I mean in that's Signetti. I mean, that's Signetti too.
And here's the other thing you need to know. And
I know you probably know this, but Kurt Signetti was
under his last assistant's coaching job, and he was an
assistant coach I think for twenty six or twenty seven
years before he got his first head coaching position, and

(16:52):
Nick Saban was his last job as an assistant in
the first four years of Alabama's under Nick Saban, Saban
hired him, and he said he learned more from Nick
Saban how to run a program and how to set
up a program than anybody'd ever been around. And he
was under some great coaches, Johnny Major's and Chuck Amato

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and guys like that, and through his years as an assistant,
and so he learned from a lot of really good people,
but he said Saban was the best at understanding how
to run a program. And he's utilized when he learned
in that regard from Nick Saban throughout these years.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
So if he doesn't golf, does he like music, does
he watch movies? What does he do away from the
football building?

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Nothing? And I'm saying that because I've asked him that question,
and he says, I look at film. I look at
film of football games, games that we're going to play,
people that we're going to play. I look at film
on players. I'm always looking at film. And I'm telling
you he does. I mean, if you were if his

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coaches have left for the evening or something like that,
and he feels like he needs to look at something
he's on, he's looking at video. I mean, he's doing
it all the time. I don't think he does it
at home very much anymore. I think most of the
time it's at the office. But when he goes home,
I think he relaxes a little bit in that old
chair that everybody talks about, a recliner that his wife

(18:26):
won't that he won't let his wife throw out because
he's had it for like thirty some years now, I guess.
And he just he's a unique individual. But football is
his life. I mean, that's basically all he cares about.
And of course he goes on vacations with his wife.
He's got a wonderful wife named Minette, and she is
just she's a treat in herself, just a really wonderful lady.

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And he's got three kids, I think, two daughters and
a son. The two girls are brilliant. They're both women
that are in the metadical profession or will be in
the medical profession out of college and so on. And
his son, I guess, has been successful too, And I
think he's a grandfather. He's got one of his daughters
I think has has two children. I think that's right,

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and the other one I think is married now too,
and that'll probably pop another one out of there at
some point here in the near future.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Don you would be in the unique position to answer
this question, what would Bob Knight say about Kurt Signatti?
And if they came to a battle and they disagreed
about something, how much would you pay to watch it?

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, I can tell you this, I'm not sure who
would win it simply because and I'm talking about an argument.
Now we're not talking about a physical conversation, but I
think it would be they would probably come to some
agreement in the sense of what they were talking about,
because I don't think either one would give in on

(20:03):
his thinking process, if you know what I'm saying, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Does he have a political philosophy? We know that Bob
Knight did. Some other coaches have. There's a little militaristic
attitude with some coaches. Has he talked about that and
events outside of sports.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
I've not heard him ever talk about politics. I've essentially
never heard him talk about anything but football. And I'm
just telling you he's a one track pony in that regard.
I just I mean, I'm not afraid to ask the question.
In fact, I may do so on a next talk
show I'm going to say that Jack Ebling asked me
to ask you please do what your political affiliation is,

(20:50):
and he probably will go none of your business.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, I would think that any candidate in the state
of Indiana right now would die for that endorsement.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Oh my goodness, you know they would. If you're a
political if you're the political persuasion, that guy would. Right now,
he'd buy into anything Chatching if he wanted a million
dollars from If Signetti wanted a million dollars from the guy,
the guy'd probably give it to him.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Right right, right, don I've been a state chair for
the Heisman Trophy for forty years and a guy who
I had the utmost respect for someone you knew very well.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's the let Bob hammil.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
But when you think about what Indiana has done, you've
come on this show and talked about where it was
historically the lowest of the low in terms of the.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Power five, Power four Now programs.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
People around the country are looking at this and saying,
where's our Signetti.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
I guess there's only one of them, right well, as
far as I know, I haven't seen anybody else ever
do this this quickly and if it goes the way
A lot of people believe it's going to go here
for the rest of the year. I don't think we'll
ever have seen anything like this ever before, a team

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that went out and did what they did last year,
make a college football playoff and then maybe rise to
number one in the rankings and then a Big Ten
championship and then maybe the College football I mean, you know,
you could look at it and you could say, until
they get to the college football playoff, they should probably

(22:32):
went out. And I'm not saying that they will or should.
I'm simply saying it's a possibility. I mean, and nobody
at Indiana's ever thought.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
That in the past ever, Right, Right, Well, you look
at the two losses you mentioned, and they were the
teams that played for the national title last year.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Right.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
I haven't lost the right game yet. I do not
have an AP vote this year. We cycle on and
off that, but if I did, I would vote for
Indiana number one in the nation. I think that the
performance against Illinois not just a sixty three to ten
went over a ninth ranked team, but three hundred and
twelve to two in rushing and then going on the road,

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and I've been spit on at Austin Stadium, so I
know what that venue is like, and I can tell
you that a win there by double digits is one
of the most impressive things you can do in college football.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
I can't argue, I mean, I can't argue that at all.
And this team has been remarkable. I questioned whether they
would be as good as last year's team at the
very beginning because they just didn't know. I didn't know
how good Fernando Mendez was going to be. I didn't
know if our running backs were going to be as
good as they were last year because he lost all

(23:51):
the starting running backs from a year ago. Are the
guys that shared most of the reps last season, those
guys were all gone. Still has three, i think two
of the best receivers that were on the roster last year.
But he's got three or four other guys that are
very capable. But he's lose used less of those people

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at this point in the season because he's gone with
his primary three. But facts, the wide receivers, the quarterback,
and here's the other thing, Jack, this is a really
good offensive line. It's a very good offensive line. It's
better than it was a year ago. And if you
looked at Indiana last year and who they played and

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when they got beat, it was the offensive line that
didn't perform up to expectations or are hoped for expectations.
They just weren't as good as this group. So they've
got the experience, they've got belief, they've got confidence, and
they still have a chip on their shoulder because of
all the people that continue to doubt them. And of

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course that Oregon probably took away a lot of those doubts.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
All right, don a bigger surprise that Michigan lost two
and a half times as many games last year and
might again this year. As Kurt Signetti has since he
found the state of Indiana or that right now, if
you look at this, you know you have schools that

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would be lined up to try to hire him. And
he's making over eight million dollars right now, right. I mean,
I think a lot of fans there have given a
choice of watching IU football or Indiana basketball, might pick football.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
And I didn't think I would ever say that.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Well, I know right now that if you were here
last year, our fan base became Indiana football fans as
much for Indiana football as Indiana basketball sliding down the tubes.
If you know what I'm saying. There's no question that
football right now is number one at IU. And I

(26:05):
say that only because basketball hasn't started yet. But we
haven't heard the conversation about basketball starting this year because
we have a new coach and I think he's going
to be dynamite. I really liked Darren DeVries a lot.
I went with them to Puerto Rico and watched them
play down there against the Serbian team that could play
in the Big Ten, and they beat them twice. In

(26:28):
those matchups down there, they beat a Puerto Rican team
as well, but there wasn't very good. But the Serbian
team that they played was long and tall and athletic,
and they had some really good players in that team,
including the draft choice for the Milwaukee Bucks. It was
on that Serbian team, and Indiana gotten behind in both
ball games down there against that team and came back

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and won both of them. Beat them badly. In the
first time, after being down twenty three in the first half,
they got it to thirteen at halftime won that ball
game going away by twenty one. And then the second
time they played them, they got down twenty at halftime
fifty to thirty, and they came back from that game
shipped away, got to the end with a minute and

(27:12):
a half left, made every play at the end of
the game, and won by one. So this team is
brand new. There's not a single player other than two
walk Ons on the team that was there last year.
So you've got two walk ons and now you've got
thirteen other new faces on this team. I think you've
only got three freshmen. One is a true freshman from Indiana.

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Kid's name is Trent Sisley, and he's really a good player.
And they've got two others at Aristic, a kid from
Serbia and a kid from Bosnia. And the Bosnian kid
is a project right now. I don't think he'll play
a lot this year. But they've got a bunch of
new faces. And these kids are really good basketball players,
almost all of them, but at a lesser level, except

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for Tucker DeVries, who was with his dad at West
Virginia last year, but then he got hurt early in
the season and didn't play the rest of the campaign.
So that's why he's got a year left. And so
Indiana's got a bunch of new faces. But I'm telling
you they play really hard, and they play tough, and
they are have mentally. They have mentally shown me that

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they are capable of going out and competing with just
about anybody. Now, they're not going to beat everybody, and
I don't think they'll contend for a Big Ten championship,
but I wouldn't doubt that they'll finish in the top
five or six teams in the Big Ten alfter the
season's over with.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Indiana is the only team that in the Big Ten
that pete Michigan stayed in present center last year when
the Spartans went seventeen and three, and you'll appreciate this done.
I was at the elevator on my way down to
the field to the interview area last Saturday and someone
said November three, thinking like, is there an election? What

(28:53):
am I missing here? He said, nope, that's the first
basketball game. So that's kind of the way it used
to be at IU, I.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Think, and that's true.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You're right, Michigan State's going to show up and they
hope that they have a team left to play Michigan
the following week. Don thanks so much for joining us,
really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Have fun this weekend and.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
The rest of the year, Jack, I appreciate you having
me and I'm sorry. I'm so giddy right now.

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Matt.

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