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A Special IU Report with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell: A Hoosier Heisman (2.111.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: The winner of the 2025 Ice-Mintro fee is, Fernando Mendoza, Indiana Hershey's out of Ice-Mintro fee.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm out of loss of words.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, thank you, thank you everybody.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you everybody.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: First of all, I want to thank God for giving me the opportunity to chase a dream that once felt the world away.
• 0:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Staining here tonight, holding this home is bad boy, representing Indiana University still doesn't feel real.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you told me, as a kid in Miami, that would be here on stage holding this prestigious throne fee.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I probably would have laughed cry like I'm doing now, or both.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: because this moment, it's an honor, it's bigger than me.
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a product of a family, team, community, and a whole lot of people who believed in me long before anybody knew my name.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back, IE fans to a very, very, very special edition to the IE report tonight.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're reacting to,
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Indiana football for the first time ever has a high-zvent trophy winner Mike, and it's for Nando Mendoza their quarterback.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I gotta say nobody has shocked about this, I think we kind of knew going into the ceremony he was probably going to win, and after looking at the final result for it he absolutely smashed.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: does results.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, absolutely smoked him.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Really was the clear cut favorite I think from the jump out of the four candidates and it's just crazy that we're living in this time where you're seeing a guy on on this football team or with this program when arguably the most prestigious award in in sports.
• 1:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's really amazing.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, what a diet and what a person.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: to represent the university and be the first person to get this honor.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, just an absolutely amazing individual.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_04]: You see the things, not necessarily, his play is one thing.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_04]: He obviously is a great player.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: He had a great season, but the things he's doing off the field,
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's using NIO to raise money for MS, which we all know as mom is impacted by.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: But then as he's in New York, you saw pictures come out today, where he's taking families that are impacted by MS and small children and taking them on shopping sprees, partnering with the details.
• 2:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: Not necessarily even good, just making sure these kids have a enjoyable holiday.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_04]: and he's such a just a you know his speech was inspiring the bond that he has with obviously it's not only just his parents and his brother but with coach dignity and all the teammates if he saw the video of the way they reacted when he went into the media room after he won it's just a a special moment for what truly comes across as just a a really special kid people used just
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: phrase as an insult when they say it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, but like this seriously couldn't, this seriously couldn't have happened to a better person.
• 3:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like his character really reflects him in so many positive ways.
• 3:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's the type of character you really just don't see any more out of people.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Not even in sports, just in life.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, we obviously don't know him personally.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can tell you that I feel pretty confident and in thinking that I think what you see from him is very authentic.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's genuine.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's a genuine person.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, the speech, you know, addressing his mom is very inspiring.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would have been okay, honestly, if Julie and Stay and want it, I would have been fine if Jeremiah loved one
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: The fact that Diego Pavia was a candidate, you could have won this thing, is just almost sickening the thought of him winning it.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, obviously, you know, Fernando winning it is, is pretty incredible, um, and it's, it's amazing.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just, ending in as had two really good players in the past that were finalist for it, Anthony
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: And this Indiana team had a guy who was there.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: had a team who was good enough that they felt like he was worthy to win it and I said you guys to find a results were Fernando Mendoza had over 600 first place votes and Pavia finished second with only like 160 first place votes somewhere in that range.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean he absolutely blew the first place votes out of the water.
• 5:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was not unanimous but it was all I mean it was awfully darn close to
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: So he carried every region of the country, which was the surprising then to me, because I thought the deep state there in the south, the SEC network, was going to rally together, but he even carried the south, which I did not foresee.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_04]: I thought he was going to have some trouble with the Midwest, because it was him and three guys from the Midwest.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_04]: So I was truly worried that there was going to be a
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_04]: huge block of voters in the south, and then they were going to split the Midwest, but no, he dominated from all regions of the country.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I talked to a guy.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I talked to a guy on Friday night that I know who is an Oak Hill grad.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: who's like graduated in the 80s, he has a radio show down on Atlanta, covers the Atlanta Falcons, covers Georgia games on TV, sideline reporter, Stinges Rick Flatford, and this is a guy that has a reputation with.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Some of the biggest names in college football.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: A guy who he tells me he's really good friends with Nick Sabin.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Does Nick Sabin has a nice rapport with him.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: No's Lane Kiffin, Kirby's Sparrow, of course.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: New Kurt Signetti when he was at Alabama.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he told me last night that Ben Dozer was probably going to win.
• 6:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: he said he used to have a high-spin vote vote and this is a guy that is SBC through and through and he told me that Fernando Mendoza in the consensus feeling is that should win the high-spin properly pretty handedly.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it's probably the most deserving of the four that that gave me a little bit of a confidence going in that okay, this is a guy that's well respected and and at land at least in an SEC country and and follows it knows what he's talking about that that really that really gave me a little confidence that he was going to win it so that was pretty impressive.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad that Fernando is able to win it.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: hopefully you see the trend now of guys you know this this really what it does this is next thing i wanted to talk about my this really helps you in recruiting now for years now that you've had a guy that's won the heisman this is really going to help you recruiting here over the next few years yeah if you're if you're a quarterback and you're going into that portal right now why are you not looking at any and a first
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_04]: and made him a top 10 Heisman finalist, top 10 Heisman vote, getter and Curtis Rorg.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_04]: And this year, they take a good player.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_04]: People knew who Mendoza was at Cal.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_04]: He had some great moments out there.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_04]: They played really, really tough against Miami last year and what was a controversial win for the hurricanes.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: And when he went to the portal, people were after him, but he was not nearly considered the prize of the portal by any stretch.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: They took this goofy Miami kid from a six and six calty and went 13 and no and he won the Heisman in a landslide.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, you're absolutely your Heisman, you know, you're recruiting tape was was running for an hour there during that whole ceremony.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's like, look, here's what you got.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_04]: Here's what we can do if you come here and play and sign that he was right there in the front row, which is another feather in our cat.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and to see the guys that made the trip like Pat Cougan and Carter Smith and even Aiden Fisher, Charlie Becker, some of those got, I didn't feel I just sat there.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: He may have been there.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Right, right, I don't know what Calcy was there for them to be there and into witness that and don't get me wrong.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's that like, and again, it was the only team to bring guys from the team to support their guy like there were guys there from
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Notre Dame and Ohio State and Vanderbilt is just a cool moment for them to get to experience that and they and they make that experience really really good for these guys right you have.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Basically, two days of them taking you places and you do photoshoots with the trophy and do different media spots all this and and your busy and and to see some of the videos that we saw Mendoza and Julie and say in here's the thing is Julie and say it's probably gonna play another two or three years at Ohio State.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I would be shocked if say in one that thing next year or if you want it the year after
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Julian saying is probably walking away from that not to upset because I think he can get back there and I think he will get back there and win that award at some point.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: But Mendoza was by far the most deserving just in the way he's played and the way he carries himself.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that goes a long way for voters and I think he's smart enough to know that.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's why he kind of is the way it is, is that these people watch how you
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: These people watch how you conduct yourself.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: They watch how you act.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a big proponent that the way you carry yourself can kind of determine if you're going to win that award or not.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you say that though, but, I mean, Pavia wasn't exactly a, that's true.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: They used to be those two different person out.
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_04]: There was two different personalities.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Did you see his mom's reaction to when Mendoza was announced?
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: She looked pretty pissed off.
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: My fear was, and I don't know why I thought this is that if anyone other than Pavia wanted, like even if it was love or say, and not even for Nando, my fear was just that his family was gonna act like an idiot, like on national television,
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: that that that that was what I was I'm serious that thought ran through my head.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think everybody was kind of prepared for what happened.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think most people knew who was going to win.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: Probably it may have thought in the back was said there's a chance I could sneak in and win this thing but I think he was prepared for for what happened.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think he probably had to talk with his mom and his family and been like look.
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_04]: If I don't win this thing, I'm still being looked at by professional franchises.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: If you guys act a certain way, the lights are still on me.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's probably got representation that says, you got to make sure that this is,
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_04]: This is scaled down a little bit because look at what happened to should door last year.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_04]: Do I think Pavia is going to be an NFL player?
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: Most likely not.
• 12:12
  [SPEAKER_04]: Is he going to get drafted?
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think so.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's probably five eight.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's five eight.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_04]: There's no way he's six foot tall.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_04]: No, he's probably going to be a foul with that guy.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_04]: he's going to be a probably a CFL quarterback.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_04]: And that's not a knock on him.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_04]: He's obviously a great player.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_04]: He just physically doesn't have what it takes to play in the NFL.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's just going to be tough for him.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_04]: But he probably did have to have a talk and just be like, look, guys, people are still.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_04]: watching me to may or may not be interested in drafting me is like we the only thing we can do by actually in a certain way tonight is heard of so so right.
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think, like I said, I think everybody there, I mean, they obviously knew something because you could see that Fernando speech was written and in the teleprompter, if you looked in the window behind, he was reading the speech.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I think all four of them probably had a speech prepared either way.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they tell him to prepare a speech.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're probably right.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: But.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: The thing is it's kind of cool to see how the production stuff goes into it because guys believe or not, I don't know how you've done it, you know, Mike, but this was the first time I ever watched the highs in trophy ceremony.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've never watched it in my life before tonight, I've never cared enough, I've never had a player, you know, on my team that I wanted to win, I've always had to do a game.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: like broadcasts the game or we're be at a game a high school game the night of the high spent trophy and so you just kind of went on with your night got the notification of who won and actually that's what would have happened tonight but it got snowed out.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: We had snow megaed it up here this afternoon and central Indiana and it got snowed out.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I was able to stay home and watch it.
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was cool, everything kind of worked out.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: But here's the thing, and I've retweeted this.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember I sent this to you guys.
• 14:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: But...
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: I retweeted this Kurt Signetti addressed the Indiana people who were there and said, enjoy this.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is great for the basically this is great for the programs, great for Fernando and all that, but the party, the party's over on Tuesday and we get back to work and a player there, not for the, but another Indiana player chimed that and said, it ends Monday.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you get back to work and you get right for that Kyle's football playoff.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, we're going to talk more about that in the two or three weeks now leading up to the playoff.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: But these weeks here are going to get long and it's enough time for Indiana football to get healthy.
• 15:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm sure that's already been been in the works and just wanted to quickly mention about how.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: They just extended Bryant Haines the defensive coordinator and have now made him one of the highest paid coordinators in the country and that's also another big win for this program this week.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, three million a year now for your D decordinator.
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: For a program that not even a decade ago was paying two and a half million to their head coach is pretty confounding to hear that, but I don't know what you're talking about long weeks ahead.
• 15:41
  [SPEAKER_04]: We've got games that I'm super excited about against Chicago State and Sienna.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if you've listened to any other podcasts that may say we're not enthusiastic about that, but I am super excited about the basketball teams up coming small.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
• 15:57
  [SPEAKER_04]: And then you've got, you know, pop tart bowls where BYU's going to be playing somebody, not name Notre Dame.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_04]: So that's cool.
• 16:07
  [SPEAKER_04]: I think it's Georgia Tech.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: So we're going to get to see pastry sacrificed on national television again.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_04]: That's, I don't know who's not excited about that.
• 16:16
  [SPEAKER_04]: At the hell of a tradition.
• 16:19
  [SPEAKER_04]: It really is.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_04]: You deep fry a human
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: always wonder how they do that like they rarely put they've literally put him in a toaster like a life size toaster.
• 16:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: I want to say one last thing about Fernando because like in the in the world of
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_04]: everybody like who just passively watches college athletics now will say oh these guys don't care they're just playing for money nobody cares they don't it's whoever gives them the most money and and to some degree there's a little bit of truth to that and you're you hear people talk all the time about how they don't get connected to the community they don't really care where they're playing I can't remember any player in the
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_04]: has just captured the imagination and knelted themselves into the community of Bloomington and become synonymous with the program and obviously it has to do with the overall success.
• 17:24
  [SPEAKER_04]: The face of Indian football is going to be two people for a really, really long time.
• 17:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to be Kurt Signetti and it's going to be Fernando Mendoza.
• 17:34
  [SPEAKER_04]: It talk a lot about living out here in Louisville and the connection this community has with Lamar Jackson and now we play like Raven's games on television as an affiliate here in the Louisville area and I never quite understood it.
• 17:51
  [SPEAKER_04]: I was like, okay, great.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_04]: He played for you.
• 17:54
  [SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: But now I'm probably going to be watching Freaking Jets games or Browns games, or wherever the hell this goofy kid ends up, because he showed up for Bloomington for one year.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_04]: and turned the entire program on its head.
• 18:13
  [SPEAKER_04]: Whatever they started last year was cool.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_04]: He took it to a level that none of us ever thought it would be possible.
• 18:21
  [SPEAKER_04]: And he's done something that none of us ever thought we'd see, which is be a Heisman trophy winner for Indiana University.
• 18:30
  [SPEAKER_04]: This isn't just something that's going to resonate now.
• 18:32
  [SPEAKER_04]: It's going to resonate for decades.
• 18:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: If by options are Cleveland or New York Jets, that NIL money's looking awfully freaking good, so I'm saying.
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: Great and have one other question, Bory.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: If you're an institution that goes around calling yourselves the cradle of quarterbacks, don't you think you should have at least one
• 19:10
  [SPEAKER_04]: You would think somewhere along the way that would, that would happen, but just, just like a national title in 1932, they're claiming something that didn't actually happen.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: I got to give it to you, Mike, though, it's pretty good.
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just wanted to give a final thought here about Fernando.
• 19:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: it's funny where like at the beginning of the year again you kind of don't know your expectation quite yet with this team with Indiana you're optimistic but after they went 11 and 2 last year they lost to the two good teams they played on their schedule they had some pieces to fill they had to go get a new quarterback they had to you know find a new quarterback coach
• 20:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: when Chandler Whitner, you know, Chandler Whitmer replaced Tina senseiary, you know, they had more pieces to fill on this roster.
• 20:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: You have everybody telling you in the offseason that this was going to be a one-hit wonder.
• 20:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: How, you know, Indiana's going to go back down to reality and everything and you get to point in about July when you've had people telling you this since December, where like, you kind of fit there and you're like, man, maybe they're right, maybe
• 20:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: And at the beginning of the year when the highs of the odds get released and Indiana's quarterback for Nandosa is like one or has the one out of 100 chance or whatever has a one and 100 chance.
• 20:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think in okay, whatever, we'll see how the year goes and as the years as the year goes on and he gets better.
• 20:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I noticed it in the first game, Mike, you were at the old demanding game.
• 21:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: I noticed in the first game, you know, my dad sat there and he made a play, I think he's scrambled for a run or something like that and picked up a first down and we're a more kind of like he was not doing that against or sorry, Curtis Rork was not doing that last year.
• 21:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was not mobile like this.
• 21:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: You just kind of picked up on some things.
• 21:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're like, the quarterback play is definitely better this year.
• 21:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: You kind of notice a quick.
• 21:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: The first time I kind of realized what kind of a guy he was was after the yellow and away game and his post game interview in the yellow and away game, the quote he gave on when you disrespect my my O line, my running backs, my receivers.
• 21:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: We take that personally or something like that.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: And as time went on and the legends started to grow, I'm I'm starting to think of myself, man, maybe this guy is the
• 21:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: right credit to the staff at Indiana for developing him because I think a lot of people again they they underestimate because they don't know they don't watch they they really did not think that Mendoza was going to come in and be good they probably didn't think Curtis work was all that great last year and Mendoza's just taken that position here at Indiana to another level.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: and this really shows here.
• 22:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: Especially winning the highs when again, like we said, it's going to help recruiting.
• 22:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to help you next year.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you do have a new quarterback and from the looks of it, they Indiana will probably have a different guy under center next year and whether that's Alberto, Fernando's brother, whether it's Sam Levitt, who's getting in the portal at Arizona State or whoever,
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of or if it's that old Dominion quarterback.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hell, I would not be mad, there's just so many things that he did that are not going to be replicated.
• 23:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if he's the greatest player and in the history of this university because we, you know, you can make the argument that he's not even a top three player on his own team.
• 23:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's how stack this team is.
• 23:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm proud of him, I'm proud that he's representing the university and proud he's representing the town of Bloomington, the state of Indiana, and the program.
• 23:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: The program that we've loved even through the dog days, the crap years, the one and eleven years, the two and ten years.
• 23:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: This decade, I quite literally remember when they had to bring in Donovan McColley, a wide receiver to play quarterback against Ohio State.
• 23:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's how far this program's coming down.
• 23:51
  [SPEAKER_04]: He was recorded pretty highly as a quarterback though.
• 23:56
  [SPEAKER_04]: I knew it moved a lot receiver.
• 23:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: But now, dear four years later, to have your starting quarterback win the most prestigious award in college athletics, arguably in sports.
• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not that we're going to remember his fans.
• 24:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, I don't know how good history will be good to him.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: where people in like 10 or 15 years me and my buddy were talking about this tonight.
• 24:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: People in 10 or 15 years if he doesn't have the best NFL career are gonna be like, man, I can't lay for an animal and does a one-the-hiesman.
• 24:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully it's not forgettable for other people, but for us, we're gonna remember this for a long time.
• 24:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: and it quite literally couldn't have happened to a better kid, a better person, you know, a person of faith, a person who, you know, fights for others, wants to help other people, and really just wants to do it for the people around him and not really himself.
• 24:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, very proud to be an Indiana fan today, really, really happy for Fernando Mendoza, really deserving of this award, and it's one of the best stories in sports.
• 25:05
  [SPEAKER_04]: yeah you did on can't disagree with anything that you said that thanks guys it was awesome that was good
• 25:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to Mike and Grant, they'll be back on Sunday after noon to break down Indiana's lost to Kentucky, and we will have all kinds of play off talk next week.
• 25:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for listening.
• 25:46
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• 25:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG Media, and I love Susie.