August 21, 2025 • 18 mins
We're just a little over one week until the Hoosiers' season-opener vs. Old Dominion, and we hear from head coach Curt Cignetti and look at some upcoming changes to the College Football Playoff system.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hi, you doing everybody. I'm Ken Bikoff and welcome to
the Peaks Podcast. We are getting so close to the
start of the twenty twenty five football season and just
incredibly exciting, just incredibly exciting for what's to come. And
it's just it's such a different feel from past years.
You know, last year when we talked about the Hoosiers,
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everything was wait and see. Kurt Signetti had said all
the right things during the off season and you know,
just sounded like he had his team in the right direction,
but by that same token, we had not seen them
in action. A year later, Indiana played in the college
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football playoffs had arguably its best season ever. You could
go ahead and you could talk about the undefeated season
back in nineteen forty five, But you know what, if
we have to dig back to a season in which
World War Two was just coming to an end, it's
probably safe to say that, you know, at least from
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a modern standpoint, it was the best season Indiana has had.
And you know, you talk about the Rose Bowl and
all that, you're still talking about something that was nearly
sixty years ago. So at least from a modern football standpoint,
this has been last year was special. Last year was
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unexpected and it was unique. Expectations are higher this year,
and that's fine. We've also been here before, and that
to me is I don't want to say the danger
of it, because I it's exciting and yet you can't
help But look at the twenty nineteen season. Let's say
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twenty nineteen season, Indianna wins eight games on the season
with Tom Allen. The next year is the COVID year.
Indiana goes six and two. Back to work in twenty
twenty one, you expect that Indiana could conceivably be good
and then they get housed by Iowa first game of
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the season and everything falls apart shortly thereafter. Hoosiers go
too and ten on the year. But this is different.
It's different because we've seen the kind of turnaround in action.
We've seen the talent level stay high, if not improve
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over last year. Indiana hasn't had to play a live
opponent yet, but boy, it is exciting because of what
we saw last year and what kind of potential this is.
It wasn't a perfect storm last year. It was a
game plan. It was plugging different guys in, it was
figuring out in a very short amount of time who
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was going to be the stars of the show, and
then just the turnaround was great. The program has stayed grounded,
it has stayed focused, and that has everything to do
with the coaching staff. We got a chance to hear
from Kurt Signetti earlier this week about the team moving
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more toward game preparation, with preparation for Old Dominion coming
up starting next week, where Fernando Mendoza, new quarterback is
at this point some other skill position improvement. So I
just want to go ahead and let you hear from
(03:47):
Seg himself and what he had to say, because you know, look, uh,
it's camp and it's great to hear hear what he
has to say. But the real excitement will come starting August.
So we still have some time with that talk a
little bit about some of the changes in college football
coming up out on the other side of SIG. But
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for the time being, here's Kurt Signetti meeting with the
media earlier this week to give an update from training camp.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
How you guys doing okay?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Rolling, uh, rolling right along here, making progress but never satisfied.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And that's sort of the theme right now. So uh,
let's open it up to questions.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
M h, Matt, I guess a couple of weeks and
a little less just and just kind of how do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You feel like you guys are.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, well, we're still in camp. We'll switch gears late
in the week. So, uh, our focus is getting the
offense defense, special teams in the situations that come up
during a football game, and proven players, creating depth competition
who's going to be.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
A one, who's going to be a two?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And developing players all the way around and improving our
practices making them more clean. So I see a lot
of improvement out there, but it's still not where it
needs to be. And even when it's close, you can
never be really satisfied if you want to be great.
So you know whoever's doing the best out there right now,
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and I don't know who that is consistently over camp.
I guarantee you one thing, he's not satisfied.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, now that you've had almost a full off season
with Fernando, who does he remind you of quarterbacks or
who is he most like to the quarterbacks you've coached
in the past, And where's he kind of taking the
biggest step forward kind of this fall?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, they're all different people, so they're all different and
he's got a skill set, and you guys can evaluate
his skill set during the course of the season. I'm
not going to give away any secrets. Of course, everybody's
watched his kel tape so they understand who he is.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know, he's a big, big.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Guy that's very mobile, got a quick whip, got good
lossy on the ball, and can really drive it. So
you know, he's done a nice job of learning the
offense and still not perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But nobody out there is you talked about.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I guess, in your words, your roster just never sort
of being satisfied. How have you seen, especially guys in
leadership positions, guys that have been around you and around
success for a while, really approach this year in terms
of just constantly pushing that ambition forward, constantly just sort
of setting that bar higher.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I think a lot of the guys that were
around here last year and enjoyed success, whether they were
with Indiana in twenty three or came with me from
James Madison or elsewhere, they're not satisfied. And they know
what the expectation level and the standard is and how
we do things, and uh, every year you got new leadership,
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and uh, you know, the best leaders lead through their actions,
not their words, and they lead daily and you got
to earn it every single day. So we got a
lot of good leader type guys on this football team.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You don't need uh to make chiefs. You have Chiefs
and Indians.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Uh, But I like the uh sort of potential uh
for this team to develop kind of the intangibles that
become important during the course of the season.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Daniel, you mentioned in the spring on EJ. It was
about not having lapses. You expected a huge year out
of him. Have you seen him, you know, have those
strides from spring, you know to now and just where
does he kind of rank inside that white out room?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, EJ's got a lot of talents, made plays matter,
keeping them on the field. Got off to a little
bit of a slow starting camp, but I've really seen
him pick it up, you know, probably since practice four
or five, become a lot more consistent.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So he can be a.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Playmaker, and uh, we're gonna needn be a playmaker.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
You've talked about not wanting to sustain success, but improve
upon it. How do you, guys gauge improving upon success?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How do you quantify that, But.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We don't really look at it that way. You know,
we don't look at a body of work from last
season and try every day to improve upon it. We
try to improve upon or yesterday's practice or the previous
drill in today's or the previous rep right, So you know,
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what we're really trying to do is improve our focus,
our concentration, our urgency, our communication, how we react, respond,
identify what's going on out there, technique, and then being
able to turn it off and play the next play,
rip off.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The rear view mirror, and do it from.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
First play practice to less play or a game also,
and then the more guys you get doing that, the
better you become as a team.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
When you guys are going offense versus defense, especially like
at faull CAP, how do you evaluate sort of, you know,
you want the defense perform well, but that you know
that might mean that the offense is a performing as well.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Then the opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, I always you know, I always tell the coaches
and they know it's not who wins a drill. You know,
are guys doing you know, what their coach to do,
and are they doing it right? And are they finishing
and doing it with effort. But all coaches are competitive
and they want to win the drill, they want to
win the rep. But the defense isn't going to win
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every rep, and the offense isn't going to win every rep.
And the players have to understand that too. And we're
a team and we're out there making each other better
and I think our guys do a good job of that.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Yeah, Kurt, it seems that Aidan is such a high
quality person as well as a player. Do you is
there an anecdote or something that you can think of
the really kind of stands out if you're talking to
Rather than saying he's, you know, high quality player, that's
something that he's done, I would just.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Say he's selfless and completely bought in to the football
team in terms of doing anything he can do to
make the football team better, whether it's leading through his actions,
the way he plays, picking up a teammate. You know,
he makes all the checks on defense, helping guys learn
the defense.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You know, he's a great teammate.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Heard a couple of special teams things for you. One
Nico told us last week that, you know, on field goals,
he feels comfortable right now at fifty five yards that
he could make it longer, but you know that he
feels comfortable fifty five. Where's your comfort level with his reigns?
Are you comfortable? I guess you know, unleashing him a
little more from longer distances this year than you did
last year and.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Find out during the season. That's the answer to that question. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And on punt return, Miles Price had a lot of
big moments for you there last year. Have you figured
you know, are you still kind of figuring out who's
going to step up there or who are you looking
at in the punt return?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah? I got a lot of confidence in Nico.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We've been blessed with our field goal kickers, blessed five, six,
seven years, and Nico is no exception.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
A lot of confidence in him. The punt return job.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We've been working two three guys, A little competition going
on there. We haven't really determined. Number one thing is
catch the football, make sure the ball is in our
possession at the end of the play, and then use
good judgment in terms of whether to play the hop
or inside the ten, and then being able to communicate
to the other players on short kicks, Peter calls things
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of that nature. You know, everything after that when he
catches the ball, what he can get us is a plus.
So Miles did a great job last season. I'm glad
he's doing well with Vikings. I see he's made some
big plays in the return game, and we'll see who
trots out there in the first game of the year.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Final week of fall camp would have been the biggest
challenges either you or this team have kind of overcome
as compared to maybe years prior that you haven't seen before.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I think the challenges for every team are usually the same,
and that's to improve as much as possible today and
to be consistent, to not be like that, to always
play up there.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
You did your second scrimmage on Saturday. What kind of
progress did you guys make, and any kind of standout
moments or stand out things you saw on film when
you kind of watched that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, second scrimmage is actually tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So there's seg You know, his normal sense, he is
who he is, and you know, I appreciate that. Again,
it's it's a confidence. It is a a belief in
what he's doing, and he has given nobody any reason
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to doubt that he's going to have his team ready
coming up. Now, there's an announcement that the College Football
Playoff Selection Committee will use different metrics to help evaluate
schedule strength and how teams perform against.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That that there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know, according to reports, a new added metric of
record strength will help the committee determine how teams performed
against their schedule, rewarding those that beat high quality opponents
while minimizing the penalty of losing to one. This is
all they're tinkering with things. I can't help but feel
that some of these changes aren't triggered by but certainly
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take into account the argument about Indiana being in the
College football Playoff last year. I'm not saying it's triggered.
It's not not saying it's Indiana caused this. What I'm
saying is that I know they're always trying to work
on a formula that's going to get the best teams
in the college football playoffs. And there are plenty of
people who thought Indiana had no damn business in it
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last year, and honestly, those people are wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Indiana.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know, they may have lost a Notre dame in
the College Football Playoff, but they put up a fight.
You can say well, they didn't rally until they had
an opportunity. And I get real frustrated with with some
of this stuff because it's because it said Indiana on
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their chest. That was the biggest issue that they that
people had with the College Football Playoff. Indiana lost to
Ohio State thirty eight to fifteen last year, and that
was the one regular season game that they dropped. And
yet if the shoe was on the other foot and
Ohio State was the only team that Indiana was the
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only team that beat Ohio State, nobody would have questioned
Ohio State on anything. Even if they played then in
the first round of the College Football Playoffs and got beat,
nobody would have battened an eye. And so again, I
don't think that Indiana triggered this, but that was certainly
part of the equation. And the bottom line is I
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will go into this season not worried about the College
Football Playoff. You know, that is a bridge you cross
when you get to it. One year was amazing. I
will continue to go into this year personally as somebody
who's been covering the team for twenty years, looking at
the six wins, that is the bare minimum of what
you want. So that's what you go in circling where
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this team can be. We will know in early October
how good the team can be, because by that time
they'll have five games down, they would will have played
Illinois and at Iowa. You'll have an idea of what
kind of team we're working with. But the bottom line
is based on what we saw last year, this will
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be every opportunity for this Hoosier team to be damn
good again, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it
all plays out. The Hoosiers will open the season obviously
August thirtieth, the two point thirty kickoff time at Memorial Stadium.
The Peak's post game Live will be held immediately after
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Looking forward to it will be in the parking lot.
I am narrowing down where I'm going to be for
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that that thing, and I'd love to have people stop
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be able to do all of that again. I will
be ready to announce where that is during game week,
but just kind of narrowing some things down, working at
working out some details. It's going to be exciting. Be
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This is an exciting time for IU football. This is
going to be something that is going to be very exciting.
So you know, we will see exactly exactly where this
team is, how they're different from last year, but we
won't know until next week. What's all the time we
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Speaker 6 (18:39):
Everybody,
Hi, you doing everybody. I'm Ken Bikoff and welcome to
the Peaks Podcast. We are getting so close to the
start of the twenty twenty five football season and just
incredibly exciting, just incredibly exciting for what's to come. And
it's just it's such a different feel from past years.
You know, last year when we talked about the Hoosiers,
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everything was wait and see. Kurt Signetti had said all
the right things during the off season and you know,
just sounded like he had his team in the right direction,
but by that same token, we had not seen them
in action. A year later, Indiana played in the college
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football playoffs had arguably its best season ever. You could
go ahead and you could talk about the undefeated season
back in nineteen forty five, But you know what, if
we have to dig back to a season in which
World War Two was just coming to an end, it's
probably safe to say that, you know, at least from
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a modern standpoint, it was the best season Indiana has had.
And you know, you talk about the Rose Bowl and
all that, you're still talking about something that was nearly
sixty years ago. So at least from a modern football standpoint,
this has been last year was special. Last year was
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unexpected and it was unique. Expectations are higher this year,
and that's fine. We've also been here before, and that
to me is I don't want to say the danger
of it, because I it's exciting and yet you can't
help But look at the twenty nineteen season. Let's say
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twenty nineteen season, Indianna wins eight games on the season
with Tom Allen. The next year is the COVID year.
Indiana goes six and two. Back to work in twenty
twenty one, you expect that Indiana could conceivably be good
and then they get housed by Iowa first game of
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the season and everything falls apart shortly thereafter. Hoosiers go
too and ten on the year. But this is different.
It's different because we've seen the kind of turnaround in action.
We've seen the talent level stay high, if not improve
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over last year. Indiana hasn't had to play a live
opponent yet, but boy, it is exciting because of what
we saw last year and what kind of potential this is.
It wasn't a perfect storm last year. It was a
game plan. It was plugging different guys in, it was
figuring out in a very short amount of time who
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was going to be the stars of the show, and
then just the turnaround was great. The program has stayed grounded,
it has stayed focused, and that has everything to do
with the coaching staff. We got a chance to hear
from Kurt Signetti earlier this week about the team moving
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more toward game preparation, with preparation for Old Dominion coming
up starting next week, where Fernando Mendoza, new quarterback is
at this point some other skill position improvement. So I
just want to go ahead and let you hear from
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Seg himself and what he had to say, because you know, look, uh,
it's camp and it's great to hear hear what he
has to say. But the real excitement will come starting August.
So we still have some time with that talk a
little bit about some of the changes in college football
coming up out on the other side of SIG. But
(04:08):
for the time being, here's Kurt Signetti meeting with the
media earlier this week to give an update from training camp.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
How you guys doing okay?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Rolling, uh, rolling right along here, making progress but never satisfied.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And that's sort of the theme right now. So uh,
let's open it up to questions.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
M h, Matt, I guess a couple of weeks and
a little less just and just kind of how do.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You feel like you guys are.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, well, we're still in camp. We'll switch gears late
in the week. So, uh, our focus is getting the
offense defense, special teams in the situations that come up
during a football game, and proven players, creating depth competition
who's going to be.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
A one, who's going to be a two?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And developing players all the way around and improving our
practices making them more clean. So I see a lot
of improvement out there, but it's still not where it
needs to be. And even when it's close, you can
never be really satisfied if you want to be great.
So you know whoever's doing the best out there right now,
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and I don't know who that is consistently over camp.
I guarantee you one thing, he's not satisfied.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yeah, now that you've had almost a full off season
with Fernando, who does he remind you of quarterbacks or
who is he most like to the quarterbacks you've coached
in the past, And where's he kind of taking the
biggest step forward kind of this fall?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, they're all different people, so they're all different and
he's got a skill set, and you guys can evaluate
his skill set during the course of the season. I'm
not going to give away any secrets. Of course, everybody's
watched his kel tape so they understand who he is.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know, he's a big, big.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Guy that's very mobile, got a quick whip, got good
lossy on the ball, and can really drive it. So
you know, he's done a nice job of learning the
offense and still not perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But nobody out there is you talked about.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I guess, in your words, your roster just never sort
of being satisfied. How have you seen, especially guys in
leadership positions, guys that have been around you and around
success for a while, really approach this year in terms
of just constantly pushing that ambition forward, constantly just sort
of setting that bar higher.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, I think a lot of the guys that were
around here last year and enjoyed success, whether they were
with Indiana in twenty three or came with me from
James Madison or elsewhere, they're not satisfied. And they know
what the expectation level and the standard is and how
we do things, and uh, every year you got new leadership,
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and uh, you know, the best leaders lead through their actions,
not their words, and they lead daily and you got
to earn it every single day. So we got a
lot of good leader type guys on this football team.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
You don't need uh to make chiefs. You have Chiefs
and Indians.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Uh, But I like the uh sort of potential uh
for this team to develop kind of the intangibles that
become important during the course of the season.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Daniel, you mentioned in the spring on EJ. It was
about not having lapses. You expected a huge year out
of him. Have you seen him, you know, have those
strides from spring, you know to now and just where
does he kind of rank inside that white out room?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well, EJ's got a lot of talents, made plays matter,
keeping them on the field. Got off to a little
bit of a slow starting camp, but I've really seen
him pick it up, you know, probably since practice four
or five, become a lot more consistent.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So he can be a.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Playmaker, and uh, we're gonna needn be a playmaker.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
You've talked about not wanting to sustain success, but improve
upon it. How do you, guys gauge improving upon success?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
How do you quantify that, But.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We don't really look at it that way. You know,
we don't look at a body of work from last
season and try every day to improve upon it. We
try to improve upon or yesterday's practice or the previous
drill in today's or the previous rep right, So you know,
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what we're really trying to do is improve our focus,
our concentration, our urgency, our communication, how we react, respond,
identify what's going on out there, technique, and then being
able to turn it off and play the next play,
rip off.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The rear view mirror, and do it from.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
First play practice to less play or a game also,
and then the more guys you get doing that, the
better you become as a team.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
When you guys are going offense versus defense, especially like
at faull CAP, how do you evaluate sort of, you know,
you want the defense perform well, but that you know
that might mean that the offense is a performing as well.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Then the opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, I always you know, I always tell the coaches
and they know it's not who wins a drill. You know,
are guys doing you know, what their coach to do,
and are they doing it right? And are they finishing
and doing it with effort. But all coaches are competitive
and they want to win the drill, they want to
win the rep. But the defense isn't going to win
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every rep, and the offense isn't going to win every rep.
And the players have to understand that too. And we're
a team and we're out there making each other better
and I think our guys do a good job of that.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Yeah, Kurt, it seems that Aidan is such a high
quality person as well as a player. Do you is
there an anecdote or something that you can think of
the really kind of stands out if you're talking to
Rather than saying he's, you know, high quality player, that's
something that he's done, I would just.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Say he's selfless and completely bought in to the football
team in terms of doing anything he can do to
make the football team better, whether it's leading through his actions,
the way he plays, picking up a teammate. You know,
he makes all the checks on defense, helping guys learn
the defense.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
You know, he's a great teammate.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Heard a couple of special teams things for you. One
Nico told us last week that, you know, on field goals,
he feels comfortable right now at fifty five yards that
he could make it longer, but you know that he
feels comfortable fifty five. Where's your comfort level with his reigns?
Are you comfortable? I guess you know, unleashing him a
little more from longer distances this year than you did
last year and.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Find out during the season. That's the answer to that question. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
And on punt return, Miles Price had a lot of
big moments for you there last year. Have you figured
you know, are you still kind of figuring out who's
going to step up there or who are you looking
at in the punt return?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah? I got a lot of confidence in Nico.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We've been blessed with our field goal kickers, blessed five, six,
seven years, and Nico is no exception.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
A lot of confidence in him. The punt return job.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We've been working two three guys, A little competition going
on there. We haven't really determined. Number one thing is
catch the football, make sure the ball is in our
possession at the end of the play, and then use
good judgment in terms of whether to play the hop
or inside the ten, and then being able to communicate
to the other players on short kicks, Peter calls things
(11:59):
of that nature. You know, everything after that when he
catches the ball, what he can get us is a plus.
So Miles did a great job last season. I'm glad
he's doing well with Vikings. I see he's made some
big plays in the return game, and we'll see who
trots out there in the first game of the year.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Final week of fall camp would have been the biggest
challenges either you or this team have kind of overcome
as compared to maybe years prior that you haven't seen before.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I think the challenges for every team are usually the same,
and that's to improve as much as possible today and
to be consistent, to not be like that, to always
play up there.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
You did your second scrimmage on Saturday. What kind of
progress did you guys make, and any kind of standout
moments or stand out things you saw on film when
you kind of watched that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, second scrimmage is actually tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So there's seg You know, his normal sense, he is
who he is, and you know, I appreciate that. Again,
it's it's a confidence. It is a a belief in
what he's doing, and he has given nobody any reason
(13:18):
to doubt that he's going to have his team ready
coming up. Now, there's an announcement that the College Football
Playoff Selection Committee will use different metrics to help evaluate
schedule strength and how teams perform against.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That that there.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You know, according to reports, a new added metric of
record strength will help the committee determine how teams performed
against their schedule, rewarding those that beat high quality opponents
while minimizing the penalty of losing to one. This is
all they're tinkering with things. I can't help but feel
that some of these changes aren't triggered by but certainly
(14:07):
take into account the argument about Indiana being in the
College football Playoff last year. I'm not saying it's triggered.
It's not not saying it's Indiana caused this. What I'm
saying is that I know they're always trying to work
on a formula that's going to get the best teams
in the college football playoffs. And there are plenty of
people who thought Indiana had no damn business in it
(14:27):
last year, and honestly, those people are wrong.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Indiana.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You know, they may have lost a Notre dame in
the College Football Playoff, but they put up a fight.
You can say well, they didn't rally until they had
an opportunity. And I get real frustrated with with some
of this stuff because it's because it said Indiana on
(14:54):
their chest. That was the biggest issue that they that
people had with the College Football Playoff. Indiana lost to
Ohio State thirty eight to fifteen last year, and that
was the one regular season game that they dropped. And
yet if the shoe was on the other foot and
Ohio State was the only team that Indiana was the
(15:18):
only team that beat Ohio State, nobody would have questioned
Ohio State on anything. Even if they played then in
the first round of the College Football Playoffs and got beat,
nobody would have battened an eye. And so again, I
don't think that Indiana triggered this, but that was certainly
part of the equation. And the bottom line is I
(15:40):
will go into this season not worried about the College
Football Playoff. You know, that is a bridge you cross
when you get to it. One year was amazing. I
will continue to go into this year personally as somebody
who's been covering the team for twenty years, looking at
the six wins, that is the bare minimum of what
you want. So that's what you go in circling where
(16:03):
this team can be. We will know in early October
how good the team can be, because by that time
they'll have five games down, they would will have played
Illinois and at Iowa. You'll have an idea of what
kind of team we're working with. But the bottom line
is based on what we saw last year, this will
(16:25):
be every opportunity for this Hoosier team to be damn
good again, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it
all plays out. The Hoosiers will open the season obviously
August thirtieth, the two point thirty kickoff time at Memorial Stadium.
The Peak's post game Live will be held immediately after
(16:50):
the game, or I should say not immediately after Fish
gets off the air. We will go live with on
YouTube with the Peaks Post Game Live and show the
only live call in show that that covers IU football.
Looking forward to it will be in the parking lot.
I am narrowing down where I'm going to be for
(17:11):
that that thing, and I'd love to have people stop
by and get on the mic and join me and
be able to do all of that again. I will
be ready to announce where that is during game week,
but just kind of narrowing some things down, working at
working out some details. It's going to be exciting. Be
(17:31):
sure to go to piague dot com for the fantastic
coverage from Jeff rab Johnson, Jared Kelly, and Matt Weaver
with IU football. Matt and Jared put together a great
preview podcast as well, so if you didn't get a
chance to listen to that, please do because it's fantastic.
(17:51):
This is an exciting time for IU football. This is
going to be something that is going to be very exciting.
So you know, we will see exactly exactly where this
team is, how they're different from last year, but we
won't know until next week. What's all the time we
(18:14):
have on the Peaks podcast this week, I want to
thank you for listening. I want to remind you to
visit peaks dot com for the very best and IU
football and basketball coverage are going to find anywhere nobody
covers who's recruiting better than Jeff rab John's, Matt Weaver,
Trevor Anderschach and Jared Kelly. So come be a part
of a thriving and exciting community at peaks dot com. Folks,
you are not going to be disappointed. Folks are out
of time, but for now aver Jeff, Matt Trevor and
(18:37):
Jared I'm ken Bikoff saying thanks for listening.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Everybody,
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