Joining us now in the Express Pro Tire and Auto Guestline, he is with the Indianapolis Star.

I'm talking, of course, about our friend, Zach.

Osterman, who joins us to talk about the ranked Indiana Hoosiers and not his Atlanta Braves.

Zach, how are you?

Hey, how are we doing?

I'll tell you what.

We're doing well, and Indiana is obviously doing better.

Let's begin with this and this is

going to have nothing to do with the performance they had against Maryland or what we now see

against Northwestern. I want to start with this question and maybe it's cart before horse. Maybe

people get mad at me. I don't know. But I found it interesting that in particular like when we had

Don Fisher on and just people I've talked to in Bloomington,

that they're already, once Indiana got out to the 4-0 start, was kind of this preemptive caution of making sure that Indiana was doing what is necessary to let Kurt Signetti know that this is where he wants to be and that the fans want him here

because it's almost like Indiana has this paranoia that the other shoe's about to drop

and they're going to have a good year and this guy's going to get plucked away. Am I hallucinating that?

No, I mean, I don't think so, but I think, you know, number one, obviously, I think coaching contracts probably mean less than they ever have.

And that goes both ways.

Look at some of the, you know, the buyout spending, particularly in my beloved SEC.

You know, and I think that the other part of this is the landscape is shifting so much now that, for example,

you know,

could you lure a

big 10 coach to a big 12 program?

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