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Indiana Football Coach Sends Students Alpha Email With Simple Message
Curt Cignetti sent one of the best football guy emails you’ll ever see.
Cignetti and his Indiana Hoosiers are currently 4-0, and have a chance to start a season 5-0 for the first time in 57 years with a Saturday win over Maryland.
There’s been a significant vibe shift in Bloomington in Cignetti’s very short run as the team’s head coach. The Hoosiers used to be a punching bag in the Big Ten. Now, they’re off to one of the hottest starts in America, and Cignetti needs students to do one thing:
Put down the books and get to the game.
Indiana is off to an incredibly hot start under new head coach Curt Cignetti. (Photo by Jordon Kelly/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Curt Cignetti fires off awesome email to Indiana students.
Like any good leader, Cignetti needed to address the masses ahead of a critical game, and in the year 2024 on a college campus, an email blast is the way to get it done. He didn’t disappoint.
“When the clock hits zero and we’re 5-0, I want you to be there to celebrate a historic win with us. The tailgates can wait. The parties can wait. If you need to study, that can wait too. There are good things happening with IU Football, and you’re a big part of it,” Cignetti said, in part, in the email blasted out to students.
That’s right, folks. The Indiana football coach has given fans a pass from studying to get to Memorial Stadium to watch the matchup against the Terrapins.
You can read the full email below, and hit me with your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
Football. Guy. This is the exact kind of leader I want running my program. Studying? Folks, you have the rest of the school year to study.
This is the only opportunity Indiana might have to break a 57-year streak for a long time. Put the books down, get your Indiana gear on and get ready to rock and roll.
My only issue is with him saying tailgates can wait. Tailgates happen *BEFORE* kickoff. People need a nice buzz going before watching the Hoosiers and Terrapins take the field.
Close your laptop, find a tailgate, get things rolling, hit up the game and then celebrate afterward. It’s a very simple but very successful formula.
Indiana is currently 4-0. (Photo by Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
You can watch Indiana play Maryland at noon EDT on the Big Ten Network. Hit me with your predictions at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.
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BLOOMINGTON — Whatever he can.
That’s the answer. The question — one prompted by an urgency to add strength to his game — is what Vaughn Karvala, Indiana basketball’s athletic freshman wing, is doing to add weight. IU’s highest-ranked signee in the 2026 class, it’s not hard to envision a role for Karvala in Darian DeVries’ second season in Bloomington. The player himself knows that starts with meeting the physical demands of the college game.
Which starts with building onto to his 6-foot-7, 190-pound frame.
“The biggest thing for me is just putting on weight,” Karvala told reporters after practice Thursday. “That’s my biggest thing, getting stronger, trying to play with these guys that are three, four years older than me. I have to get stronger, I have to get faster, everything.”
A three-year letter winner at Oregon (Wisconsin) High School, Karvala spent his senior season at Bella Vista Prep in Arizona, bolstering a profile that saw him ranked No. 62 nationally per the 247Sports Composite.
Karvala averaged 26.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game in his final season with Oregon, shooting close to 42% from behind the 3-point line. He averaged another 14.7 points per game with Team Herro on the EYBL circuit.
He handed DeVries a major recruiting win last fall, when Karvala picked the Hoosiers over Xavier and Cal. Now, both at the rim and behind the arc, Karvala looks like a player who can contribute meaningfully in his first year in college.
“I know my athleticism catches the eye, but I can still shoot it,” Karvala said. “But another thing is just working on rebounding, trying to get extra possessions for us.”
Whether on the glass or elsewhere, embracing the physical challenge of college basketball has been an emphasis for Karvala since he arrived in Bloomington earlier this summer.
That manifests itself offensively, when he tries to push the ball downhill and leverage that athleticism to attack the rim. It shows up defensively, where Karvala said he’s comfortable guarding the two, the three and, matchup depending, the four.
It even plays out on the glass, battling bigs up to including 7-2 teammate Samet Yigitoglu, who Karvala described with a smile as “the biggest guy I’ve ever seen.”
“Physicality, 100%,” Karvala said, when asked where he’s challenging himself. “Just playing with all these guys that have 20, 30, 40 pounds on me.”
Which starts with the physical demand of more weight. Karvala said he’ll eat chicken, steak or “whatever we have in the locker room” that can help him in that effort. His focus, he said, is simply to “eat a lot, and work out every day.”
As that weight and strength begin to build, Karvala knows the next step — to mentally prepare for the rough-and-tumble nature of life on the floor in the Big Ten — is just as important. Preparing his body comes first. Challenging himself to toughen up once it’s required follows quickly after.
“Just getting fully there, mentally,” he said. “You’re going to have to push your body to get through this.”
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KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — It’s fair season and a new law uncorks adult beverage sales!
The new Indiana law will go into effect July 1st, making it legal to sell alcohol at county fairs.
The Kosciusko County Fair is set to kick off in just a few weeks and Indiana is officially allowing alcohol to be sold.
The law is bringing back something that’s not necessarily new to this fair.
Here’s what you need to know
The new law will go into effect on July 1st. It officially allows county fairs to apply for fee-free permits to sell alcohol.
Officials with the Kosciusko County Fair say they are participating this year. They are implementing the same guidelines they used when they sold alcohol just at grandstand events.
The difference now is, you can walk around the grounds with your drink. But strict guidelines will be in place for purchasing a drink.
“Actually, we’ve never had any issues. Because we card everybody, so we take that seriously. We also got the ID guides so we can identify the different types of IDs,” said Sheal Dirck, Treasurer of Kosciusko County Fair.
The Kosciusko County Fair already have guidelines in place, so this was an easy transition for the fair.
They will be the only vendors selling alcohol, which will make it easier to control distribution.
The sales will also bring in more revenue.
“Hopefully it allows to keep our ticket prices where they are because right now, insurance, utilities and everything else is going sky high and it’s hard to make ends meet,” said Dirck.
However, some fairs cannot participate because of the July 1st start date, like the Pulaski County Fair, which is going on right now. Pulaski County officials said it is on the agenda for next year. Whereas other fairs are choosing to sit this year out.
“We wanted not spend some time to, to see what that really means for us. It was not a decision we wanted to rush into. But we are happy for the option of it,” said Shelly Steury, GM of Elkhart County 4H Fairgrounds.
Leaders at the St. Joseph County and Elkhart County Fairs said neither of them are selling alcohol.
The Kosciusko County Fair is the only fair that will sell alcohol in our area this year.
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