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Slices of Tuna: If only Notre Dame and Indiana could play each other ...

Curt Cignetti has some thoughts. Tony Rojas is ready to roll. And yes, that really is Colorado's newest linebacker's middle name.

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Aug 17, 2026
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Happy Last Non-Game Week Monday of the year.

1. Can we settle this in the postseason?

There’s usually a method to Curt Cignetti’s madness.

Whether it was demanding folks to Google him on his first signing day or predicting that Indiana would make the Big Ten title game in Year 1, the Hoosiers’ coach was strategically attempting to wake up a fan base that was on life support, as he would later say.

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When he joked last summer that Indiana was playing an “SEC schedule” with its lack of marquee nonconference opponents, well, he at least backed it up by winning it all in Year 2.

But Cignetti’s latest comments are a bit of a head-scratcher.

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