Former Indiana player Terry Tallen has donated millions of dollars to the Hoosiers' football program over the years, and is all-in with more money this year to Curt Cignetti's program. He joins us on the "Hoosier Roundtable Podcast,'' going behind the scenes on NIL and talking national title game.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Back in 1979, Terry Tallen was the captain of the first Indiana football team to win a bowl game. He's had a great business career in commercial real estate, and has donated several million dollars to the Hoosiers' football program in the past two decades.
He donated $2 million for the beautiful football complex at Memorial Stadium back in 2018, and he's made many more donations through the years, sponsoring scholarships and more. Now with the changes to NIL, he is one of several high-dollar donors who has helped fund the football program well enough to contend for a national title.
The Hoosiers will play Miami on Monday night for their first-ever crown. Tallen, who just made another sizable donation to Indiana this week, sat down with Roundtable Sports National Editor-in-Chief Tom Brew to talk all about the Hoosiers, the changing world of NIL, his former coach Lee Corso, how NIL works behind the scenes and so much more.
And, of course, we break down Monday night's championship game with Miami at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Here's the full podcast below: