They're having a whole pile of fun down in Bloomington, In., these days, trying to figure out how IU football has gone from worst to first in just two short years, and if maybe it's all just a dream brought on by too many giant pork tenderloins from the Edinburgh Diner 50 miles to the north and east.
If it's a dream, don't wake 'em up. And if it's not ... well, here's a sign of some very new times in the kingdom of Hoosiers football:
The head coach is getting the full Secret Service treatment.
According to a very reliable source in B-town, there's now a university police car stationed at the turnoff to head coach Curt Cignetti's home, and more university police stationed outside the residence. They've been stationed there, my source has learned, since before the Hoosiers departed for the Rose Bowl.
Now, this suggests one of three things: Either it's standard procedure and always has been; or Coach Cig has gotten a threat or two from some deranged Ohio State or Alabama fans; or the uniforms are there to keep equally deranged IU fans from knocking on Coach's door and expressing their appreciation.
If it's the second, my source noted, it indicates just how seismically the worm has turned in Bloomington.
"An IU football coach getting death threats," he said, chuckling. "I guess that means we've arrived."
Indeed.
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