Richard Johnson

Something that I say on the season preview every year is that some team that you're sure is going to make it isn't.

This year, there were two or three of those, Penn State, Clemson, and Texas.

Who knows?

That could be Notre Dame too.

I do not know what the immediate future holds for either of these teams, but I think you have to be pretty bullish on both of them.

I think I would be maybe in the near term slightly more bullish on Miami, mainly because I think Darian Mensah is better than Josh Hoover.

who's going to be their quarterback at Indiana next year?

I don't.

You don't think that?

No, I don't.

I guess reasonable folks could just... I'm looking at what Mensah did with...

a less than stellar supporting cast at Duke this year and feeling like, anyway, we can talk about it.

Do you want us to just do the 2026 Big 12 preview?

Absolutely, because the James Madison transition time is over.

Indiana, because of Cignetti's general evaluation prowess, but also very specifically the JMU continuity, was able to find transfer portal clearance rack situations that returned great value.

And that's just, I don't know if that's a replicable trick even for him.

Right.

Oh yeah.

And by the way, it did look to me on TV.

Like it was like a 55 or 60% Indiana crowd.