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- 0:00[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the College Football Report.
- 0:06[SPEAKER_01]: We have Tipton Tribune, an L. Wood Colleter Sports Editor, an I.U.
- 0:10[SPEAKER_01]: grad Michelle Garmin, and her reaction to Miami's win and the festival, Indiana's win and the Peach Bowl, and the showdown for the National Championship next Monday.
- 0:25[SPEAKER_01]: And it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
- 0:30[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get to the podcast, everybody, we're gonna have tons of coverage of the National Championship Game.
- 0:36[SPEAKER_01]: We have the IU Report on Tuesday morning, first thing, probably even Monday night.
- 0:43[SPEAKER_01]: We'll have the College Football Report with Eric and Ryan Robinson previewing the National Championship Game.
- 0:50[SPEAKER_01]: And we will have the National Championship Game preview from an IU perspective on the IU Report with Grant Shouse and my Cutsal.
- 1:05[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back, college football fans to the Central Indian sports report for a special edition of the college football report.
- 1:13[SPEAKER_01]: I have Michelle Garmin with me.
- 1:14[SPEAKER_01]: And Michelle, the sports editor at the tips and tribune and L would call leader, is an IU gradant.
- 1:22[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm just going to turn over the floor to her.
- 1:24[SPEAKER_01]: Michelle, I'm sure you have a ton to say.
- 1:27[SPEAKER_00]: I will touch on the first in my final game real quick, the Miami and Ole Miss game first I want to give real quick kudos to coach Golding and his Scotch state coaching staff and his players because they could have not gotten as far as they did they could have
- 1:49[SPEAKER_00]: been down when the playoffs started and then they could have really been down after falling behind to Georgia and then especially to the way Miami came out and kind of dominated them early on Thursday night, but they fought back and made it a game.
- 2:04[SPEAKER_00]: The reason I thought Miami would win that game is because of the four teams in the
- 2:10[SPEAKER_00]: semifinals, Mississippi had by far the worst defense.
- 2:14[SPEAKER_00]: And you get to, you get to this stage defensively, you need to be pretty stout.
- 2:20[SPEAKER_00]: So Miami, I will say this.
- 2:23[SPEAKER_00]: I told somebody today, they pose probably the biggest dual threat that I you will have seen in their last three games.
- 2:37[SPEAKER_00]: they'd be Oregon, but the three, the one thing those three teams did not have, really all season was a style, reliable running game led by a really good run.
- 2:48[SPEAKER_00]: And Miami definitely has that year ago, Oregon's was depleted backfield.
- 2:54[SPEAKER_00]: So, but Miami has that.
- 2:59[SPEAKER_00]: And they have a good offensive line, and they also have who I think is one of the best receivers in college football.
- 3:07[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably the best freshman receiver this year in Tony and they have two of the best receivers in the country.
- 3:14[SPEAKER_00]: This Tony kid is just he does so much.
- 3:17[SPEAKER_00]: Tony is a lot like Cooper for I.
- 3:20[SPEAKER_00]: He run deep on the outside and put him in the slot and run bubble screens and things to him and his speed.
- 3:26[SPEAKER_00]: He can just and he's hard to bring down.
- 3:29[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, they do have, they had two good receivers.
- 3:31[SPEAKER_00]: Here's where I, you has the advantage of, because I, you have, I don't want, they have a nice running back tandem that has just gotten better week by week, by week.
- 3:42[SPEAKER_00]: They also had a really good offensive line that is, I'll say.
- 3:48[SPEAKER_01]: Michelle, they have a good everything.
- 3:50[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, thank you.
- 3:51[SPEAKER_00]: And good every, and you don't want, they have the best quarterback in college football.
- 3:56[SPEAKER_00]: what for Hando Mendoza has done and those two play off his eight touchdown passes to five in completion.
- 4:04[SPEAKER_01]: Insane.
- 4:06[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't say, yes, and he's the only quarterback to have six games where he's had as many touchdowns come passes as incompletions.
- 4:16[SPEAKER_00]: And one of those were the even the other is he's had more touchdowns than incompletions.
- 4:20[SPEAKER_00]: It's his, his, the way he studies foam and the way he breaks teams down and I don't, I'm not going to compare talent or anything like that, but I'm going to compare his preparation
- 4:34[SPEAKER_00]: And diligence to studying opposition to a patent manning and kind of like Tom Brady film junkies, they want to know when they step out there and you line up in a defense and you switch, they want to know what you're in they want to be able to process it quickly and make the cry right adjustment or the right read when they go to throw the ball.
- 4:54[SPEAKER_00]: And they're you don't see a lot of quarterbacks at the college level.
- 5:00[SPEAKER_00]: that are that cerebral.
- 5:02[SPEAKER_00]: He's also a big body.
- 5:03[SPEAKER_00]: He's six foot five and he's faster than what you think.
- 5:06[SPEAKER_00]: He's quicker than what you think and he does have really great touch, but I think his best asset is he's so cerebral.
- 5:17[SPEAKER_01]: You knew else was that a really good postseason
- 5:21[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but here's, here's the thing, I don't think you rattle for Nendomendosa, but Carson Beck, you rap.
- 5:28[SPEAKER_00]: He is, as many years as he's play, he has still showed this year.
- 5:32[SPEAKER_00]: He showed it a little bit, I guess Mississippi's defense just wasn't good enough to keep him rattle, but if you, you can rattle Carson Beck, and they didn't do it.
- 5:44[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I was really surprised.
- 5:46[SPEAKER_00]: That,
- 5:47[SPEAKER_00]: I thought Ohio State and Miami could be, could be closed just because Ohio State did not have the same type of running game they had last year, but I expected Ohio State's defense to get after back a little bit more.
- 6:02[SPEAKER_00]: was not really impressed.
- 6:03[SPEAKER_00]: I saw this on Twitter the other day and somebody said they just think I, you breaks wills and I'm like, I'm maybe losing that broke Ohio State's will a little bit.
- 6:12[SPEAKER_00]: I'm because in the way they did it, it's one thing for Ohio State a year ago to lose its four straight game to Michigan.
- 6:21[SPEAKER_00]: You're a rival and then to turn around and bounce back.
- 6:24[SPEAKER_00]: Well, one of the reasons they got a bounce back was
- 6:27[SPEAKER_00]: Because in the first round, I got a home playoff game.
- 6:30[SPEAKER_00]: I can say an overrated Tennessee ball team that they just dismantled, that just, and then you had Oregon who they wanted to avenge, because that was a close game.
- 6:37[SPEAKER_00]: They lost out at Austin during the regular season.
- 6:41[SPEAKER_00]: I think Indiana literally stunned Ohio State in by winning the big ten championship.
- 6:48[SPEAKER_00]: They stunned them, because I really do believe Ohio State, though they were going to come out there and maybe not quite beat Indiana's bad as they did a year ago.
- 6:56[SPEAKER_00]: but they were going to beat them, and they were going to beat them, but a couple of touchdowns.
- 7:01[SPEAKER_00]: I think they were shocked by Indiana's physicality and speed and something else that the Hoosiers have done.
- 7:12[SPEAKER_00]: It's a big ten, you know, of course it was an indie, but the way they've been dominating these stadiums.
- 7:19[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they have turned these stadiums into Memorial Central,
- 7:26[SPEAKER_00]: And the crowd just keeps getting larger and louder and pro I you and I won't tell you.
- 7:33[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care that Miami that's that game is in Miami and they're hosting it.
- 7:39[SPEAKER_01]: I know people I you fans that bought tickets for the National Champion to it a couple months ago, it'll be 50 50 at worst for I you in that stadium, even though it's in my
- 8:00[SPEAKER_01]: Michelle, watching that game yesterday, a lot of things impressed me about IU.
- 8:04[SPEAKER_01]: I think the thing that impressed me the most was how fast they are to the ball.
- 8:09[SPEAKER_01]: That defense, just so fast to the ball.
- 8:13[SPEAKER_01]: And the every time the ball was on the ground, it was like 11 red helmets diving for the ball.
- 8:20[SPEAKER_00]: And how about this?
- 8:20[SPEAKER_00]: And even the ball when it was on the ground, when Oregon put it on the ground.
- 8:24[SPEAKER_00]: But how about when Mendoza fumbled
- 8:30[SPEAKER_00]: They don't, they don't, they don't take arrest.
- 8:34[SPEAKER_00]: They don't, they run down the field.
- 8:36[SPEAKER_00]: They want to be, they just, they are.
- 8:39[SPEAKER_00]: And I know Ponds at what a great pick six, what a great way to start the game.
- 8:44[SPEAKER_00]: But really, you know what, the play, the, the really the start of the game was Byron Baldwin's hit.
- 8:50[SPEAKER_00]: Because you, you could hear that hit on that opening kickoff.
- 8:55[SPEAKER_00]: And he just leveled the Oregon player.
- 8:59[SPEAKER_00]: Get here that and then ponds with the pig six and I know Oregon came back but when when I you answered that drive with a that touchdown and then those it was so calm and four for four and making all of the you know right plays and different things.
- 9:16[SPEAKER_00]: People laugh but I think the injuries that I used to stain kind of during that and have had to overcome during the season.
- 9:24[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it helped him.
- 9:25[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, people are in state barely beat Penn State.
- 9:28[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
- 9:28[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I just sure I didn't not play that game.
- 9:31[SPEAKER_00]: Do Revans did not play that game.
- 9:33[SPEAKER_00]: Khalil Benson was hurt that game.
- 9:36[SPEAKER_00]: Roya was playing on a guinea pig ankle that day.
- 9:39[SPEAKER_01]: Michelle is great as Fernando Mendoza was yesterday.
- 9:43[SPEAKER_01]: He would have been very good, not great.
- 9:47[SPEAKER_01]: If not for his receivers, just making every play possible.
- 9:51[SPEAKER_00]: They're great, but you know, when you can put the ball in your receivers, no, where the ball is going to come.
- 9:56[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, a lot of it lies just to wrap nose where to expect that football back shoulder throws different things.
- 10:03[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, but his receivers are incredible Charlie Becker's added a new dimension on Indiana is got three.
- 10:10[SPEAKER_00]: You know, okay, my name is got two four.
- 10:13[SPEAKER_00]: New illegitimate receivers, you have to cover for his good Williams.
- 10:20[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and for if you're include Williams, and the tight in, oh, Calstty is pretty good himself.
- 10:26[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he is.
- 10:28[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, it's it's hard to cover them because, you know, you play zone.
- 10:34[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, they're going to find a gap.
- 10:36[SPEAKER_00]: Um, or if you play zone, Mendoza is going to squirm his way through a hole and he's going to run and get the first down.
- 10:44[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in his so good, and I don't know, Greg, that I especially in this day and age, where they limit content, then amount of contact you can have a practices now, different things, so many day or whatever, I use the best tackling team.
- 10:59[SPEAKER_00]: I have seen in crazy how good they are a decade or two so good.
- 11:04[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, are the most sure tackling the Michelle this team is so fundamentally sound more than any team I've ever seen.
- 11:11[SPEAKER_01]: They're disciplined, they're fundamentally sound, they make all the right plays they're thinking ahead.
- 11:18[SPEAKER_01]: The coaching job that this staff has done has been the best I've ever seen.
- 11:25[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and there's no complacency.
- 11:27[SPEAKER_00]: When people were talking about all those days off, the rust and
- 11:33[SPEAKER_00]: You know, of course, every bi-team was losing and then I, you goes and then win the rub, because they don't only win at the Rose Bowl, I guess I'll be able to, they whipped Alabama in the first app.
- 11:41[SPEAKER_00]: Great.
- 11:42[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you listen to that halftime interview with Kellon DeBours, and it was walking all the field of halftime.
- 11:49[SPEAKER_00]: I was talking to my sister and I said, I think calendar board is crying and about ready to break down in tears.
- 11:54[SPEAKER_00]: It's half time and you're ready to cry.
- 11:56[SPEAKER_00]: You can hear it in the noise.
- 11:58[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you pick a field roll down 24 to nothing.
- 12:01[SPEAKER_01]: That's the sign that you have, you don't think you have any chance to win this game.
- 12:05[SPEAKER_01]: There's a point on the board to avoid embarrassment.
- 12:08[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, that field will keep in the second half, because I use only up 17 to Yeah, yeah, so, but he was I mean, just the way he that fourth time decision.
- 12:18[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he was, well, that was on me.
- 12:20[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, yeah, it wasn't on you.
- 12:21[SPEAKER_00]: You were an idiot.
- 12:23[SPEAKER_00]: You really one thing you don't want to do is you don't want to take you see it off at him doing all that But funky stuff on that fourth and one and, you know, and it's all in
- 12:34[SPEAKER_00]: was just kind of ticked.
- 12:36[SPEAKER_00]: So you're like, they're so disciplined, they weren't going to jump.
- 12:41[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't.
- 12:42[SPEAKER_00]: They're just, this team is just so disciplined.
- 12:46[SPEAKER_00]: If they have an off-site call,
- 12:49[SPEAKER_00]: And with the off size penalties that I've seen call against that is because they lined up in the neutrals of not because they jumped, you know, jumped or like they just didn't look down the ball, you know, it's been somebody on the end, it hasn't looked down to make sure that they're, you know, not too far or too close.
- 13:07[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're so solid.
- 13:08[SPEAKER_00]: So they are so fundamentally sound and they are.
- 13:12[SPEAKER_00]: They're so fun to watch.
- 13:13[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't really tell you.
- 13:15[SPEAKER_00]: And I know Mike Hutsl has touched on this.
- 13:19[SPEAKER_00]: The young fans, you can enjoy it.
- 13:21[SPEAKER_00]: But unless you have not, unless you are really in your 40 or over, you can't really appreciate exactly an each decking past 40 you get as far as a long time.
- 13:35[SPEAKER_00]: You think?
- 13:36[SPEAKER_00]: you really can't truly know exactly what the season and what Sig the job to Sig is done has meant to the old time fan base.
- 13:52[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, Michelle, I want to say this very carefully because
- 13:57[SPEAKER_01]: The four or five times in my life, time that people have talked about 18 being the best of all time, they've eventually lost in the championship game.
- 14:06[SPEAKER_01]: So let's not go there.
- 14:08[SPEAKER_01]: All I'm gonna say is this.
- 14:11[SPEAKER_01]: November 25th, 2023, IU loses to a bad Purdue team.
- 14:16[SPEAKER_01]: 18 months later, we're talking about a team and putting them into college football historically.
- 14:24[SPEAKER_01]: insane.
- 14:25[SPEAKER_01]: There's never been anything like this.
- 14:28[SPEAKER_00]: No, there hasn't.
- 14:30[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, it's, it's, part of it's, it's all, it's a combination of a lot of things.
- 14:37[SPEAKER_00]: It's the new college football.
- 14:39[SPEAKER_00]: And I, you, and Coach Sig is mastered it.
- 14:43[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's that question.
- 14:44[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I
- 14:44[SPEAKER_00]: they have not, they don't hire, they don't have the general manager.
- 14:48[SPEAKER_00]: Most of these power four teams now, Congress teams, they have general managers to go into the portal and find guys.
- 14:54[SPEAKER_00]: So they're not looking at, Sig brings, he doesn't himself, he brings a man, they're his office, you know, and he's the one and decides it.
- 15:04[SPEAKER_00]: And his evaluation of talent or really not,
- 15:10[SPEAKER_00]: I won't say he finds talented players, but what he evaluates is their intangibles.
- 15:17[SPEAKER_00]: He's a great at evaluating their desire to be coached, their willingness to work really hard and, you know, just stay focused, he's wonderful, and then he and his staff are great
- 15:34[SPEAKER_00]: developers.
- 15:35[SPEAKER_00]: And he's very rigid and methodical.
- 15:39[SPEAKER_00]: I love it when, you know, you see him and he talks about, you know, he's an hour and 20 to an hour and usually no longer than an hour and 45 minute guy practice his coaches.
- 15:48[SPEAKER_00]: They start every day at 730 and his motto is his thing to them is when your work is done, I want you to go home and I want you living in your office and I'm not and he doesn't watch the parking lot.
- 15:59[SPEAKER_00]: That is one of the reasons I can tell you.
- 16:01[SPEAKER_00]: I really believe that Bryant Haines has turned down.
- 16:05[SPEAKER_00]: Grand, and he got a pay raise, but he could still make about five, four or five million more to be a head coach, but if he's a head coach, he doesn't, if he's done, if his job's done at five, he doesn't get to go home and be the family man.
- 16:17[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a young child.
- 16:18[SPEAKER_00]: He likes being a family man and coach said once his staff to be family man, he wants his players to focus.
- 16:26[SPEAKER_00]: And I think he's great.
- 16:27[SPEAKER_00]: I think he, I think these guys go on to be really good just professionally because they're
- 16:34[SPEAKER_00]: but it's your time, making the most getting quality reps, quality development in a short amount of time.
- 16:44[SPEAKER_00]: It's quality over quantity.
- 16:46[SPEAKER_00]: It's production over potential.
- 16:48[SPEAKER_00]: And it's amazing.
- 16:50[SPEAKER_00]: And he's just he and that staff and what they've done.
- 16:53[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's right when he was right when he said after the Rose Bowl, be a hell of, it'll be a hell of a movie.
- 17:00[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 17:01[SPEAKER_01]: Michelle 40 years later,
- 17:06[SPEAKER_00]: I know I would have never ever dreamed I'd be would be a football school, but I'm going to tell you this, because I always hope just to be a perennial ball, but 500, that's what goes balls.
- 17:20[SPEAKER_00]: But I will say it is a little bit different.
- 17:24[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say, I enjoy being a football right now, being a football powerhouse, more than anything.
- 17:31[SPEAKER_00]: And it's different and it is great.
- 17:34[SPEAKER_00]: Football does a lot for a university.
- 17:37[SPEAKER_00]: I understand why schools want to invest and pour money into their football programs because the trickle effect one, you can get more fans in a football stadium than you can a basketball arena.
- 17:52[SPEAKER_00]: know, it's just a tremendous, it's just us tremendous things.
- 17:57[SPEAKER_00]: So it's fun.
- 17:59[SPEAKER_00]: I would have never dreamed it.
- 18:00[SPEAKER_00]: I'm enjoying it.
- 18:01[SPEAKER_00]: I'm loving it.
- 18:03[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know how long it'll last.
- 18:05[SPEAKER_00]: Here's my thing.
- 18:06[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to expect us to make the college well play off every year, but I will expect as long as it's there, I would expect it to be somewhere around 75% or better because I think that man,
- 18:21[SPEAKER_00]: won't want anything less than the college football playoff or competing for the national champion Jim when he said Indiana the next emerging super power and college football he believed it that's his goal you can tell now that's his goal all you have to do is look at this year to see that's his goal and not only that his players believe it's definitely wouldn't
- 18:47[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
- 18:47[SPEAKER_00]: He's, he's really good.
- 18:49[SPEAKER_00]: He's good at halftime and post game interviews himself.
- 18:52[SPEAKER_00]: I think he and Fernando have been so entertaining this year.
- 18:55[SPEAKER_00]: I feel truly, truly blessed that the Mendoza family chose Indiana.
- 19:04[SPEAKER_00]: And I say that Alberto came first.
- 19:06[SPEAKER_00]: He read shirt and he's a red shirt freshman and Fernando came.
- 19:09[SPEAKER_00]: I, I feel truly, and I think the whole Indiana fan base and community feels truly blessed.
- 19:15[SPEAKER_00]: to have the Mendoza family and Fernando, because you can not, you can not ask for a better representative of your university, of your team, the community.
- 19:29[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a well-spoken young man and
- 19:36[SPEAKER_00]: As if you were a parent, he's the, if you had a daughter, he's the kind of young man, you would, you hope your daughter brings home, but I can't think of a better role model.
- 19:45[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, if I had a young athlete or football player, hey, I'll get you a friend for Nando Mendoza jersey.
- 19:52[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to look at this guy on and off the field, because I'm telling you, he's, he's special.
- 20:00[SPEAKER_01]: Last thing Michelle.
- 20:02[SPEAKER_01]: On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are you for next Monday night and what are your expectations?
- 20:08[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, on a scale of 1 to 10, it's a 10, excited for you.
- 20:12[SPEAKER_00]: by wind by windy of this week my nervousness will start up and by next Monday I on the scale of one to ten.
- 20:18[SPEAKER_00]: It will be a ten as how nervous I am.
- 20:21[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really get nervous.
- 20:23[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you more, but I'll tell you what, I've been nervous in the end of the university's last three college.
- 20:30[SPEAKER_00]: I've been for the game.
- 20:33[SPEAKER_00]: I will tell you this about a lottery ticket tonight.
- 20:35[SPEAKER_00]: If I win a lottery ticket, I will I'm gonna spend some money and I'm gonna go and watch the national championship.
- 20:44[SPEAKER_00]: I have only I guess if I could get the lottery money that fast, but my expectations for next money night are I I think you're gonna see um I think you're gonna see two
- 20:56[SPEAKER_00]: 200 teams, two well coach teams.
- 20:59[SPEAKER_00]: Miami's gonna give Indiana a little, could give them a little bit of trouble early because they have two outstanding defensive ends, past rushers, so they're gonna have to make sure they give Fernando time, you know, to throw or not put them in a situation where they possible turn over, they're gonna have to take care of the football.
- 21:21[SPEAKER_00]: uh, Nianna's defense.
- 21:22[SPEAKER_00]: They'll be interesting.
- 21:24[SPEAKER_00]: I think Bryant Haines is one of the best making adjustments throughout.
- 21:28[SPEAKER_00]: I think sometimes it can take a position or two for them to really nail down.
- 21:34[SPEAKER_00]: keep it.
- 21:34[SPEAKER_00]: That will be making sure Miami doesn't go out to like a 14-0 lead, you know, that you take two possessions of they score and everything.
- 21:44[SPEAKER_00]: But I expect, I expect I need to be dialed in, focused, and maybe nerves a little bit.
- 21:55[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about how good I use in everything else.
- 21:58[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about one more thing that makes this team so special.
- 22:00[SPEAKER_00]: They are so connected.
- 22:03[SPEAKER_00]: They truly are a brotherhood.
- 22:05[SPEAKER_00]: All you had to do to notice that was to see how many of them on their own dime and granted it is to deny your money.
- 22:10[SPEAKER_00]: But flew out to celebrate with Mendoza, winning one of the highest men.
- 22:15[SPEAKER_00]: All you have to do is listen to them and host game interviews and really all you have to do is to watch them on the field.
- 22:26[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they celebrate with each other.
- 22:28[SPEAKER_00]: They truly are connected and don't want to let their brothers down.
- 22:53[SPEAKER_01]: Central Indian Sports Report is a product of ITG media and I love Susie.